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If you back a wild animal into a corner, you run the risk that it will lash out. That’s also the result when an animal rights group is exposed for misleading Americans and scamming them out of millions of dollars that could have helped pet shelters.
Nowhere in the recent ad hominem attack piece written by the Humane Society of the United States against my organization, the Center for Consumer Freedom, will you find the group rebutting this simple fact<span style="font-size: 23pt">: <span style="font-weight: bold">Less than 1 percent of HSUS’s budget is donated to local pet shelters or humane societies to help them care for animals.</span></span>
Don’t take my word for it. The director of the Newark-based Associated Humane Societies told News 12 that her group receives “not one penny. We receive nothing from (HSUS). And the amount of money they get nationally and don't share with needy shelters like ours is a shame.”
<span style="font-weight: bold">The Humane Society of the United States collected $131 million in 2010, but could apparently only spare $500 to help New Jersey’s animal shelters. It’s likely that HSUS raised hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars from the Garden State. Yet almost none of it was given back to the community.
HSUS responds that it “never says” that it gives to local shelters. But knowing people are confused, they also never set the record straight.</span>
<span style="font-weight: bold">According to a recent national poll, 71 percent of Americans incorrectly believe that HSUS is an umbrella for the nation’s local pet shelters. Nearly six in 10 Americans think that HSUS shares most of its money with pet shelters.</span>
HSUS is well aware of this widespread confusion. HSUS could make it explicitly clear in its fundraising appeals that it is not affiliated with local humane societies, that it doesn’t run a single pet shelter, and that it gives almost no money to local shelters.
But HSUS doesn’t. In fact, its fundraising helps perpetuate the confusion among Americans.
A review of HSUS’s TV appeals reveals that more than 90 percent of the animals depicted are dogs and cats. HSUS’s fundraising mailers are chock full of pets and have included lines such as “Your renewed membership helps The HSUS assist local shelters” and rhetoric about “sav[ing] these innocent puppies and kittens and find[ing] them good, loving homes.”
It’s no surprise that Americans mistakenly believe that the Humane Society of the United States is a pet-sheltering group. In fact, my organization regularly hears from HSUS donors who are shocked to learn the truth about HSUS — that the group focuses more on attacking farmers who raise chickens and pigs rather than helping abused and abandoned cats and dogs.
Even more cynically, HSUS cites pet euthanasia statistics in its ads. Three to four million cats and dogs are put down in shelters every year. HSUS even acknowledges that shelters may be putting down more animals in these hard economic times.
And yet, HSUS is apparently all too happy to cite these statistics knowing that 99 percent of the money it raises won’t go to grants that help pet shelters care for more animals and keep them alive.
Here’s another inconvenient truth: When HSUS sucks up all these doggie dollars from local communities, the donations are used in ways that donors likely have no clue about.
Since 2004, HSUS has pumped $14 million into executives’ retirement pensions. And they have tucked $32 million away in hedge funds, where the money can’t help any animals.
Maybe pet shelters and homeless dogs and cats need a “We are the 99 percent” campaign.
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If you back a wild animal into a corner, you run the risk that it will lash out. That’s also the result when an animal rights group is exposed for misleading Americans and scamming them out of millions of dollars that could have helped pet shelters.
Nowhere in the recent ad hominem attack piece written by the Humane Society of the United States against my organization, the Center for Consumer Freedom, will you find the group rebutting this simple fact<span style="font-size: 23pt">: <span style="font-weight: bold">Less than 1 percent of HSUS’s budget is donated to local pet shelters or humane societies to help them care for animals.</span></span>
Don’t take my word for it. The director of the Newark-based Associated Humane Societies told News 12 that her group receives “not one penny. We receive nothing from (HSUS). And the amount of money they get nationally and don't share with needy shelters like ours is a shame.”
<span style="font-weight: bold">The Humane Society of the United States collected $131 million in 2010, but could apparently only spare $500 to help New Jersey’s animal shelters. It’s likely that HSUS raised hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars from the Garden State. Yet almost none of it was given back to the community.
HSUS responds that it “never says” that it gives to local shelters. But knowing people are confused, they also never set the record straight.</span>
<span style="font-weight: bold">According to a recent national poll, 71 percent of Americans incorrectly believe that HSUS is an umbrella for the nation’s local pet shelters. Nearly six in 10 Americans think that HSUS shares most of its money with pet shelters.</span>
HSUS is well aware of this widespread confusion. HSUS could make it explicitly clear in its fundraising appeals that it is not affiliated with local humane societies, that it doesn’t run a single pet shelter, and that it gives almost no money to local shelters.
But HSUS doesn’t. In fact, its fundraising helps perpetuate the confusion among Americans.
A review of HSUS’s TV appeals reveals that more than 90 percent of the animals depicted are dogs and cats. HSUS’s fundraising mailers are chock full of pets and have included lines such as “Your renewed membership helps The HSUS assist local shelters” and rhetoric about “sav[ing] these innocent puppies and kittens and find[ing] them good, loving homes.”
It’s no surprise that Americans mistakenly believe that the Humane Society of the United States is a pet-sheltering group. In fact, my organization regularly hears from HSUS donors who are shocked to learn the truth about HSUS — that the group focuses more on attacking farmers who raise chickens and pigs rather than helping abused and abandoned cats and dogs.
Even more cynically, HSUS cites pet euthanasia statistics in its ads. Three to four million cats and dogs are put down in shelters every year. HSUS even acknowledges that shelters may be putting down more animals in these hard economic times.
And yet, HSUS is apparently all too happy to cite these statistics knowing that 99 percent of the money it raises won’t go to grants that help pet shelters care for more animals and keep them alive.
Here’s another inconvenient truth: When HSUS sucks up all these doggie dollars from local communities, the donations are used in ways that donors likely have no clue about.
Since 2004, HSUS has pumped $14 million into executives’ retirement pensions. And they have tucked $32 million away in hedge funds, where the money can’t help any animals.
Maybe pet shelters and homeless dogs and cats need a “We are the 99 percent” campaign.
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