Hamptons pet owners, did you know that 31 States still use a gas chamber method of euthanasia on canines?!!  We were shocked, saddened, and disgusted when we found out.. Outraged animal lovers have joined Animal Aid USA and the Sheraton Atlantic City to help support the elimination of this inhumane practice through the doggie event of the season!

Animal Aid USA and the Sheraton Atlantic City invites the public to join four heroic rescue dogs at the Sheraton’s Convention Center Hotel July 10 to celebrate the wedding event of the summer. Bride “Amazing Grace,” a gentle mixed breed pooch who made national news in 2006 after surviving a horrendous near death experience in a Hinesville, Georgia animal control facility’s gas chamber, will “wed” groom Daniel, a beagle mix out of Alabama who managed to escape the same fate in October, 2011 (wedding party pictured below).

Both pooches have served as tail-wagging, face-licking, human-cuddling advocates for banning the gas chamber as an animal euthanasia device, still used in 31 states. The nuptials and reception are being held to honor Grace, and in doing so focus attention on the tens of thousands of homeless and abandoned pets she represents. Hosted by Animal Aid USA founders Prince Lorenzo Borghese and Karen Talbot, who also founded the Making of Miracle Stories (M.O.M.S) rescue, to raise awareness of the cruelty of death by gas chamber, and Cesar’s Way Magazine, the evening’s matrimony will include rescue dog-turned-YouTube-phenom Clark (“The maple kind, yeah?”) G. standing in as “best man,” and Clark’s sister Layla, also a rescue dog, as “maid of honor.”

Both canine couples will be dressed in couture wedding attire from Manhattan-based Hec-lin Designs for Dogs (see a Hec-lin design above). Doggie Fashion Designer Roberto Negrin, known for his elegant gowns and distinctive attire scaled to fit the four-legged set, has created award-winning ensembles for some of Manhattan’s most fashion-forward pups. His Hec-lin Designs line is a favorite among New York City dog owners, as well as an enthusiastic press who are happy to cover Negrin’s high fashion pooch events.

The public is invited and everyone is encouraged to bring their dogs along, as hors d’oeuvres for pooches and people will be served. Borghese and Talbot are hoping to collect plenty of signatures on a petition addressed to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, condemning the use of gas chambers for euthanizing homeless and abandoned animals in 31 states.

“This is at the heart of what we’re trying to accomplish with the ‘Amazing Grace Caravan,’” Borghese tells KDH. “We’re leaving on Thursday (July 12), and making our presence known across six states to raise awareness of the cruelty that death by gas chamber inflicts on these innocent animals.”

Everyone is welcome to participate in the Amazing Grace Caravan as well, which leaves from Folsom, New Jersey and travels through Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina before arriving in Liberty County, Georgia. Grace will be met by Liberty County Animal Control Officer Linda Cordry who discovered Grace still breathing after enduring a cycle in the Liberty County facility’s gas chamber, which killed the six other dogs that went in with her.

Borghese will be driving the Amazing Grace Caravan bus (above), accompanied by Talbot, Grace, Grace’s owner Phil Draughon and Davis Cosey, a member of the Georgia Department of Agriculture‘s Companion Animal Advisory Board and an animal rights crusader who was instrumental in the December, 2010 passage of Grace’s Law in the Georgia General Assembly. Grace’s Law bans the use of gas chambers to euthanize animals in Georgia shelters. To add emphasis to the caravan’s public service message, Cosey has donated an actual gas chamber like the one Grace was subjected to, and like those still in use in 31 states. Daily stops are scheduled to raise awareness for animal advocacy, spay and neuter programs, and animal adoption as well.

To make a donation please go to the Animal Aid “Paint That Bus” web page. To find out more about Grace’s amazing story and how Animal Aid USA is working to make the planet safer for all animals, visit AnimalAidUSA.org.