Miracle dog survives gas chamber!

[Guest Anonymous]

'It's a miracle or divine intervention'

Thursday, August 7, 2003 Posted: 3:02 PM EDT (1902 GMT)


ST. LOUIS, Missouri (AP) -- Cast into a city gas chamber to be euthanized with other unwanted or unclaimed dogs, it appeared the roughly year-old Basenji mix had simply run out of luck -- and time.

But this canine had other ideas.

When the death chamber's door swung open Monday, the dog now dubbed Quentin -- for California's forbidding San Quentin State Prison -- stood very much alive, his tail and tongue wagging.

Animal-control supervisor Rosemary Ficken had never seen such a survivor, and she didn't have the nerve to slam the door shut again.

This 30-pound animal, she believed, beat the odds and should live on.

"She told me, 'Please, take him. I don't have the heart to put him back in there and re-gas him,"' said Randy Grim, founder and head of Stray Rescue of St. Louis, the charitable shelter that took in the dog before taking the animal's story public.

Quentin's ordeal was played and replayed Wednesday on local TV stations, drawing people looking to adopt him.

"To me, it's a miracle or divine intervention," Grim said. "I can't help but think he's here to serve a higher purpose. This case blew me away. This is amazing."

On Wednesday, Quentin was a little malnourished but "in very good condition," Grim said. He was being checked for heartworm and other maladies by a veterinarian.

"You can tell he's really digging it," Grim said. "He has a bed, love, food and water."


Quentin is now staying at Stray Rescue, an organization that plans to adopt the dog

[Daisysmom]

Whoops, that was me!

[Angelboddy]

Wow, this is here in Missouri. :o

Oh, she is such a gorgous pup. :D

[behle]

Quentin was on one of the morning news shows this weekend. He is a cool looking dog - great big bat ears. Calmly looking around while the rescue man was talking to the anchor. He said Quentin appears to be in good health aside from a bit of kennel cough.....NO WONDER he's got a cough after sucking in carbon monoxide!

When the shelter employee opened the gas chamber there he was, standing atop the other dogs wagging his tail! He was not ready to be an angel just yet!

Go Quentin! :B-fly: He deserves to live with a family who will give him a forever home!

Maybe his miracle will bring the horrors of gassing dogs to the forefront of people's minds in Missouri! We can only hope!

[Daisysmom]

Maybe te kennel cough is what saved him. Lungs were to full??? Maybe having breathing difficulties :roll:

[behle]

Could be! It pays to have a cold, I guess!

[mouseatthebusstop]

read it on HH earlier it is sad and amazing

[Guest Anonymous]

they actually gas dogs? and in numbers, its too similar to the concentration camps during WWII. we're sick when we do this to people, why would we allow this to happen to man's best friend?

[Rowie-the-Pooh]

docgray napisał(a):

they actually gas dogs? and in numbers, its too similar to the concentration camps during WWII. we're sick when we do this to people, why would we allow this to happen to man's best friend?

I agree docgray! Once I heard an audiogram of dogs in gas chambers, and I couldn't help but cry. When I told my mother she said "Remember, in WWII the very same thing happened to humans." SO WHAT?! It's happening to dogs now, and it's OK! :cry:


YAY QUENTIN! I'm sure he survived for a reason, the :lilangel: ! What an amazing story! I hope he finds a wonderful, loving, forever home! :D

[mjriggl2]

I am very veery happy to learn the survive of the dog... but, I am totally SHOCKED to also learn Gas Chamber is used to put down dogs in 2003 USA !!! Utterly BARBARIC !