Your recent ad certainly grabbed my attention.  But before I spread the word, I really need to know more about where the remaining 97% of the US Humane Society’s $99.7 million 2008 budget went (i.e., other than the 0.5% money that went to “hands-on pet shelters” and 2.5% to pension contributions). 

Also can you talk a bit more about what other kinds of shelters there are other than “hands-on”? Maybe also define “hands-on”?

Thanks very much.

Thank you,Thank you,Thank you!!
I just read about you in my latest Walking Horse Report. The USDA/HSUS has really made an example of the Walking Horse industry and it is such a relief to see someone watching over the HSUS. If you read about the Walking Horse industry, make sure it is NOT from the USDA/HSUS, they do not report the truth and report on actions from the 1940’s. The public is not aware of this, they only see what the USDA/HSUS want them to see. When they are finished putting all of the Walking Horse trainers and owners out of business, they will just go onto the very next breed to reak havoc on that industry. Their goal is to have all animals free, walking the earth with no one to take care of them. Can you imagine the over population and shrines going up to “worship” God’s creation, that we are to govern over? I am sure I will get comments about this, but if you are not directly involved in the Walking horse industry, you are most likely misinformed.
whlady

‘Hands on” means shelters which actually house and treat animals with the hope and intention of putting them up for adoption to the general public.

Pretty soon someone will pop up and indignantly inform us that H$U$ has five (5) sanctuaries, and it’s not true that they don’t own or run any animal shelters. But sanctuaries are places where animals enter never to be returned to a life at home. They go there and stay until they die. Though this is appropriate for some animals, it is not a ‘hands on’ shelter. This is an organization which could afford to build and fund at least one shelter in every state in the Union, but which has owned a horse sanctuary which has accepted no new equine residents for years. If they have begun accepting new residents recently, it’s because they have been pressured into it by those who keep pointing out the sham of having it and keeping the doors shut.

H$U$ spends most of its war chest on legislation which pretends to protect animals from abuse - as they define abuse - but which really restricts the ability of people to own, breed and use animals. Unless you have read the text of animal oriented laws in their entirety, you have no idea what they say; many of them do the exact opposite of what the title of the proposed law claims. Agricultural laws they support on the basis they will eliminate factory faming, or factory practices, for instance,  target individual farmers, not factory farms. Often there are no factory meat producers at all in the states where such laws are proposed, but once the law has passed it can be refined to eliminate the small, traditional farms. A lot of people support these laws even knowing there are no factory farms in their state, because they think they will block future factory farming efforts. Though that may be true, such laws are easy to change to make all animal agriculture difficult to the point of impossibility.

And about animal abuse and definitions of same. I have never lived in a place in North America (and I’ve lived in a good many) where there weren’t laws against animal abuse. It was not unusual in years past for them not to be well enforced, but the laws on the books were mostly adequate and fair. There has been no need for new laws. There is also no need to redefine the term, but H$U$  has succeeded in redefining a good many traditional and useful husbandry practices as abusive, in the mind of the public if not yet in law. Their long term goal is to redefine the term ‘animal ownership’ to mean ‘animal abuse’, and they are moving briskly along the path to that goal.

I hope that’s helpful.

Allen - I can answer to a part of that, though I don’t have the figures…. ADVERTISING on network and cable TV.

In the Chicago market alone, History International airs at least 8 - 10 spots for them between 8 pm and 2 am, nearly every night of the week.

Sue