HENRY COUNTY, Ky. -- A Henry County magistrate says their animal shelter's days are numbered.

Wayne Gunnell says he has enough votes to shut the pound down, NewsChannel 32 reported.

Gunnell has requested special meeting of the Henry County Fiscal Court where he'll make a motion to close the shelter.

Gunnell said he was outraged at the secret videotape of the shelter manager, Ted Chisolm, shooting the dogs.

NewsChannel 32 has obtained documents showing that Chisolm was certified in chemical euthanasia two years ago.

Gunnell said he believed lethal injections were being conducted at the shelter.

The county judge said Thursday that shootings would not continue at the pound, but Gunnell said he has four of seven votes to shut it down entirely, and send the dogs to another county.

The following is a transcript of John Boel's report, shown exactly the way it appeared on NewsChannel 32 at 6 p.m., July 17, 2002.

Anchorwoman: The Henry County animal shelter is empty tonight, and for the first time in a while, it's not because all the animals were just shot to death.

John Boel: The county judge opened up the dog shelter today to animal lovers after deciding last night to stop shooting the animals ... because of the fallout from hidden camera videotape.

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Mike Crow, Animal Lover: She's scared. She has a hard time believing that, but she got lucky today.

Boel: These dogs are lucky because they are getting a death row reprieve from a one-man firing squad.

If it weren't for this man, these dogs would be shot in the head this Sunday.

Mike Crow literally lurked in the bushes ... took pictures ... and sent them to an animal rights group, which put them on the Internet.

His tapes show animal shelter manager Ted Chisolm dragging dogs from their filthy pens, and shooting them -- some dogs more than once. Several of the dogs were clearly still alive after being shot ... trying to get up ... wagging their tails.

Crow: I'm gonna embarrass the county and state of Kentucky until something's done about this. This is immoral and dogs deserve better than this."

Boel: In a show of force, outraged animal lovers showed up at last night's fiscal court meeting and intimidated county officials into ordering a stop to the shooting ... and vowing to put a committee together to try to come up with a better way ... and the county judge allows instant, free adoptions.

Victoria King, Animal Rescue Alliance: This shelter could be workable if we got a caring caretaker and the Humane Society was here to oversee care of the animals.

Julie Norton, Animal Care Society: I think we've accomplished something today, but i don't think the war's over.

Cristi Durbin, Concerned Resident: I believe we live in the 20th century. We don't shoot our animals to dispose of them when we can't find homes.

Boel: In the end, all 14 dogs are loaded and taken away.

It's a scene similar to November 1995, when our Target 32 investigation prompted our viewers to donate $30,000, so the animals could be rescued and brought back to Louisville for adoption or humane euthanasia.

But that effort ran out of money. And as we reported last year, Ted Chisolm went back to gunshot euthanasia.

Boel: I just came to get your side of the story. Chisolm: No comment. No Comment.

Boel: Ted Chisolm has no comment on these developments..

The dogs have plenty to say, and we can assume they're happy to accept this canine clemency.

Shooting dogs is legal in Kentucky, but it is also not a humane euthanasia method, according to the A.V.M.A.

It's a practice that has been debated for years in the Legislature.