Mirror: Humane Society refuses legislative request to suspend euthanizing animals

 The Connecticut Humane Society has rejected a request by state lawmakers to stop euthanizing animals for non-health reasons until it answers their questions about how and when animals are destroyed.

At issue, according to the lawmakers, is who is administering the lethal dose of sodium pentobarbital, how it is administered and why so many animals are being euthanized under the auspices of 'behavioral' problems.

"We believe you have been given a great deal of misinformation," Christopher White, the society's president, wrote June 23 to Democratic Reps. Diana S. Urban of Stonington and Annie Hornish of Granby and Sen. Edith Prague of Columbia, calling its policies "responsible and appropriate."

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