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Josh's thing

Published on Aug 17, 2018

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Animal shelter freezing kittens to death

Slides by: Josh Bulger

In southern Indiana there has been reports of an animal shelter freezing alive kittens to death, as a alternative of euthanasia. An former employee at Spencer county animal shelter spoke with authorities after the animal control officer twice asked her to put injured but alive kittens in a plastic bag and then into a freezer to kill them.

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The slow freezing of animals is an unacceptable form of euthanasia, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals. The Spencer County Animal Control Board released a statement saying" the board acknowledges that the actions have occurred are fundamentally opposed".

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The dancing plague

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The illness known as the dancing plague of 1518 originated in the city of Strasbourg, then spread to parts of the Roman Empire. Victims of the illness where struck by a sudden and seemingly uncontrollable urge to dance. The first known victim was a women known as Frau Troffea. She stepped into the street and began to silently dance.

Frau Troffea kept up her dance for nearly a week. After that three-dozen other Strasbourgeois had joined her. By August, the dancing illness had claimed about 400 victims. The town had hired a band for the victims of the illness. It wasn’t long before the illness started to take its toll. Many dancers collapsed from sheer exhaustion. Some died from strokes and heart attacks. Theories have suggested the dancers had accidentally ingested ergot, a toxic mold that grows on moist rye and can produce spasms and hallucinations.

Work cited
https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-dancing-plague-of-1518
https://www.wthr.com/article/indiana-animal-shelter-accused-freezing-kitten...

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