VMD 511: Animal Welfare, Ethics and Jurisprudence (2+0)

EUTHANESIA WITH NON INHALANTS OR INJECTABLES

• Most of the agents in this entegory can be given i/v by intra-thoracic, intra-cardinc or intra-peritoneal.
• Barbiturates: Sud. Phenobarbitone solni (200 mg/ml) at a dose rate of 1 ml/kg b.wt can be used to euthaniasia the small animals.
• Chloral hydrate: Used to euthanize large animals at the dose rate of 2mg/10 kg b.wt.
• Strychnine: Produces violent muscular contraction and produces a painful death.
• Magnesium sulphate: Saturated solution of Mag.sulphate is an inexpensive method of euthanasia in both large and small animals.
• Potassium chloride: Sat.solution of potassium chloride can e used for euthanizing the animals.