First Dog Bo Stars in iPhone App to Benefit Humane Society

The H$U$ is NOT a friend to animals, but rather an opportunist organization that USES animals to PUNISH animal *owners*, ANIMAL RIGHTS is NOT ANIMAL WELFARE or ANIMAL PROTECTION! The H$U$ is ANIMALS RIGHTS (operating under the deceitful guise of “animal protection” and “animal welfare”), making obscene amounts of money from donations of the naive and gullible, who don’t understand the difference!

There is fast approaching NO EXCUSE to say “I didn’t know about them”! It is UNCONSCIONABLE for the “animal rights” INDUSTRY LEADER to be getting 20% off animal-related sales. PLEASE–there are plenty of web sites out there now that EXPOSE the immoral and anti-societal H$U$.

One of the best books on this subject is Wesley Smith’s “A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement.”

This is ridiculous! The HSUS does not need anymore money to fight people pet ownership rights! They do nothing to save or rescue animals. That is up to the local shelters! The big corporate lobbying machine of HSUS keeps all the funds that they raise and gives nothing to local humane societies. Their only focus is to take away our rights to own pets. I agree with the person above that they are all about “Animal Rights” not ANIMAL WELFARE!!! There is a huge difference, people!

What a shame. Just shows that the White House is not paying any attention to reality still.
HSUS spends less than 1% of its income on ‘helping animals’.
Its being investigated as a fraudulent charity.
Considering that Bo came from a top breeder, well socialized, trained, and very well bred – just the sort of person that HSUS tries to put ‘out of business’ using that dog to promote funding an anti animal group like HSUS just ads insult to injury!
Doesn’t anyone in our current government think about anything beyond who gives them cash under the table to buy their votes?

The HSUS isn’t affiliated with local animal shelters, but that certainly doesn’t mean our organization sits on the sidelines when it comes to animal rescue or care. We operate several wildlife rehab centers and animal sanctuaries, assist shelters with large-scale cruelty cases (e.g. puppy mills, dogfighting, animal hoarding), promote pet ownership and especially the adoption of homeless animals, and tackle lots of issues that extend beyond dogs and cats (factory farming, poaching of wildlife, lab animal welfare, etc). This is all spelled out on our website, http://www.humanesociety.org.

Our organization has no problem with reputable breeders; see http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/puppy_mills/tips/finding_good_dog_breeder.html. For more about our puppy mill campaign and how it evolved, check out http://www.petconnection.com/blog/stephanie-shain-of-hsus/.

HSUS may do some good, but I don’t trust them…
Anyone thinking about supporting this orginazation (by purchase or donation) might do well to read up a bit… say do a Google search ‘Katrina HSUS’ or ‘HSUS truth’ read both sides of the story and make up your own mind.
-A

This is to Hillary, a member of the HSUS. I would like to know just where all your money goes. It most certainly does ‘not’ go to taking care of animals in shelters across the country. What about the new “Birth Control” pill? HSUS has control of this. Once this is on the market, no owner of an intact animal will have 100% assurance that this pill hasn’t been slipped to their animal in a public venue. It has been tried on various wildlife herds/packs over the last few years.

How about this one that happened on 12 January:

The Tax Fraud Office of the IRS in Fresno, CA has now received over 2,000
individually addressed letters from concerned citizens in at least 48
different states. Each letter asked the IRS to audit and investigate the
alleged excessive and under-reported lobbying activities of the HSUS.
Significantly, more than 1,100 of these letters were documented – - sent by
certified mail. This has created a 2,000 pound GORILLA that cannot be
ignored, and this GORILLA is asking the IRS to audit the HSUS!

Let us not forget that HSUS has stock in 38 food-related companies…38! That’s a whole lot of stock in my own humble opinion. And HSUS professes to be a non-profit organization. Hmmmm…owning stock doesn’t sound like ‘non-profit’ to me. By now, is anyone wondering just ‘where’ the dividends go? I’d sure like to know. The above was published on the 15th of January this year in Nation’s Restaurant News.

I think that this should be mentioned as well; the issuance in mid-April of a stamp: A new stamp is coming out the end of April called “Animal Rescue: Adopt A Shelter Pet Stamp” featuring shelter dogs and cats. The purpose of the stamp is to raise awareness to the millions of dogs and cats in shelters across the U.S. To launch the stamp Ellen DeGeneres is giving one million meals to shelters when people buy the stamps. The cost is the same as a regular stamp – 44 cents.

Money from these stamps is going to HSUS. (wow, what a surprise!)
Ellen has not been shy about her support of HSUS.
Money given there will not go to animals in shelters. HSUS’s 2008 tax returns revealed that less than 1/2 of 1 percent of their budget funds a traditional (dog/cat) shelter. (less than 1/2 of 1 percent…)

Let us give this next one some thought: “The IRS Offices in Washington DC, Ogden, UT, Fresno, CA and Dallas, TX, as well as the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of the Treasury, have now cumulatively received over 900 pages of
documents that include extracts from the Tax Returns of the Humane
Society of the U.S. (HSUS); lobby registration documents maintained
by the U.S. Congress and at least 36 different State Governments;
documents downloaded from the HSUS Website; and copies of Emails
sent by the HSUS to its members and “network of volunteers.” All
of these documents are chronicled in a 25-Page Summary that has been
provided to the above Five Offices. The Title of this Summary is “
119 Incriminating Examples of Excessive, Prohibited and Under-Reported
Lobbying by the Humane Society of the United States (A Public Charity) – -
One of the Most Prolific, If Not The Most Prolific, Lobbying Organizations
in the U.S.”

I’m exceedingly interested in reading a response from you on the above-mentioned.

I have seen the following, and suggest that you might want to take a look at it:

http://humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/what_ i_learned_ at_the_dog_ show/

If you like, I can certainly forward every article referenced here. And now HSUS has the utter audacity to gather President Obama into its folds. There is truly no shame to the length that the HSUS will go, is there?

Hi Chesapeakelady – The HSUS has helped with the development of a contraceptive for certain populations of wildlife (I believe this includes deer and wild horses), but I have no idea what you’re referring to when you write, “Once this is on the market, no owner of an intact animal will have 100% assurance that this pill hasn’t been slipped to their animal in a public venue.”

The stock that HSUS has purchased in various food-related companies is tied to our factory farming campaign, which seeks to improve the lives of intensively confined animals like laying hens and pregnant sows. We’re certainly not the first nonprofit to pursue shareholder advocacy as a way to reform corporate policies, and I’m sure we won’t be the last.

The Adopt A Shelter Pet stamp is designed to raise public awareness about homeless animals. The HSUS receives no money from the sale of these stamps.

The “HumaneWatch” website is hosted by the Center for Consumer Freedom, a corporate front group that’s been widely discredited. Sourcewatch.org and citizensforethics.org are two websites that provide additional information about the CCF, which was started with a grant from tobacco giant Phillip Morris.

As a final note, I’ll say again that the HSUS isn’t affiliated with local animal shelters, nor do we claim to be. It shouldn’t be surprising that most of our budget goes to fund broader animal protection programs and campaigns. Feel free to confirm this by checking our website, annual reports, etc.

Another load of money for HSUS to take away your right to own animals and eat meat. Stupid people do stupid things and this is one of them. Give to your local shelters not to the mafia.

Hillary,

Why not be honest for a change? Why not explain exactly what factory farming is, what with 97% of farms in this country being family owned? Why not explain your leaders comment “… One generation and out.. . .” so the masses can better understand your agenda?

Why not explain to the public that they face more unknowns when adopting an animal from a shelter than they do from purchasing from a breeder or a store?

The only attempt to discredit humanewatch.org is coming from HSUS and its president Wayne Pacelle, and those are mostly ad hominem attacks on Rich Berman?

Tell us how much money you raised with the advertising campaign based on a dog you called “Faye”, whose real name was “Fay” that was purported to go for her care. Then tell us how much money was actually given to cover the expenses for Fay before she died? Why not tell us of the public stink that was made before HSUS even deigned to give any money for her care?

Perhaps, as you are answering those questions, you might want to tell us about the RICO suit filed against you, some of your subsidiaries, partners, and others by Feld Entertainment. You may also want to expound on the investigation that appears to be in the offing by the IRS that may end your tax deductible status as a 501(c)3 corporation?

@Lynne – Our factory farming campaign focuses on the conditions that animals are raised under, plain and simple. The “One generation and out” quote by Wayne Pacelle refers to heirloom breeds of livestock; you can find the context for this comment at http://hsus.typepad.com/wayne/2007/07/desperate-disto.html.

Adopters definitely face some unknowns when adopting homeless animals, although many shelters gather detailed information about owner-surrendered animals. But pet stores offer very little transparency or info about the breeding facilities they use.

I’ll keep this comment short because your mind is already made up, but for anyone with questions about the HSUS, visit our website (humanesociety.org) and look us up on CharityNavigator.org.