Macon may get rid of gas chamber for animals

The City of Macon is one step closer to getting rid of the gas chamber it uses to euthanize stray dogs and cats.
Just under 4-thousand animals are put down each year in Macon. The city is one of the last in the state to still use carbon monoxide. In 1990 the state banned this method of euthanasia, but Macon's shelter was grandfathered in. Now public officials are introducing a resolution to convert to the lethal injection process.
Nancy White is on the Macon City Council. She visited the animal shelter and calls it under funded and archaic.

"There were 17 of all different sized dogs, and then they just get this crane and lift it up and lower it into the cinder block chamber and they seal it off, and they turn on the carbon monoxide."

Opponents of the resolution worry about funding. Animal control will have to hire two new employees and spend 50-thousand additional dollars each year for the chemicals. However, the measure is expected to pass.