Fwd: Don't send money to The Humane Society of the US,if you
want to help anim
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Linda Mercer/Purebred Cat Breed Rescue
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Jul 22, 2008 12:08 PDT
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From: Michelle Doneza <<mailto:mdon-@bellsouth.net>mdon-@bellsouth.net>
Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:39 AM
Subject: Fw: Don't send money to The Humane Society of the US,if you
want to help animals.
To: michelle doneza <<mailto:mdon-@bellsouth.net>mdon-@bellsouth.net>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 11:24 PM
Subject: Fw: Don't send money to The Humane Society of the US,if you
want to help animals.
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From: <mailto:rescuew-@optimum.net>rescuew-@optimum.net
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 8:32 PM
Subject: Fwd: Don't send money to The Humane Society of the US,if
you want to help animals.
All I can say is SICK. If this is true....ITS JUST SICK..............
HSUS is not a place to send your money.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
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The Real Wayne Pacelle Legacy
In a Los Angeles Times article, Wayne Pacelle, the head of the
Humane Society of the United States, is portrayed as a charismatic
champion of animal rights. While casually noting that he has some
detractors, this is nothing more than a flaccid attempt at balance.
Rather than dig deeper, rather than really look at whether there is
any merit to the concerns, his detractors are dismissed with
childish name calling. One, according to Pacelle, is a "pimp for the
industry." I am called "naïve, narrow minded and mean spirited."
A little digging, however, would have uncovered a treasure trove of
archeological proportions. There are a lot of skeletons in Wayne
Pacelle's closet, if the reporter had bothered to open the door.
In Louisiana, Wayne Pacelle's HSUS raised over $20 million to help
the animals impacted by Hurricane Katrina and only
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spent $4 million before packing up, money piling up in bank
accounts, and going home.
In Florida, Wayne Pacelle's HSUS had People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals give a presentation at its conference equating
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a movement to save the lives of animals in shelters with the mental
illness which leads to animal cruelty, despite the fact that PETA
slaughters over 90% of the animals they take in and dumped some of
the bodies in a supermarket trash bin .
In Virginia, Wayne Pacelle's HSUS raised money allegedly for the dog
victims of dogfighter Michael Vick (which they did not have custody
of) and then
<<http://nathanwinograd.blogspot.com/2008/02/saving-pit-bulls-from-hsus-peta-michael.html>http://nathanwinograd.blogspot.com/2008/02/saving-pit-bulls-from-hsus-peta-michael.html>
told the court overseeing the case to go ahead and kill the dogs.
(The court refused, they are now with rescue groups and in loving new homes.)
In Iowa, Wayne Pacelle's HSUS stated that they do not have a problem
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with the town choosing to kill cats.
In Washington, Wayne Pacelle's HSUS defended
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a shelter that allows animals to languish and unnecessarily puts them to death.
In Oregon, Wayne Pacelle's HSUS slammed No Kill and supported a
shelter which left all but six cat cages intentionally empty so that
staff did not have to clean the cages or work hard, killing the remainder.
Far from being universally loved as the article states, Wayne
Pacelle is a polarizing figure in the animal movement—a figure, who
by many accounts, is squandering HSUS' vast potential. As the entire
animal movement is moving in a vast wave of public support for No
Kill, Pacelle is stuck being a shill for shelters that k illl. That
is why rescue groups protest his annual award ceremony in Los
Angeles. That is why animal activists in San Bernardino County
called HSUS a "dinosaur." It is why those truly working to save
animals after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans called for a
criminal investigation into HSUS fundraising and (lack of) spending
on the animals who needed it. And it is why he is condemned by
animal lovers from coast to coast.
Wayne Pacelle represents the status quo—a status quo that oversees
the wholly unnecessary slaughter of five million dogs and cats a
year. And while he claims no one should criticize, that we should
work together, what he really means is that people who disagree with
the killing should not say so publicly.
And because I dare to question shelters whose staff mistreat,
neglect, and outright abuse animals and for demanding the removal of
shelter directors who would rather kill animals than save them (such
as working with rescue groups, starting a foster program, or
embracing any of the other programs of the No Kill Equation), I am
called "mean spirited."
To Wayne Pacelle, if you are critical, you are "naïve," "narrow
minded," and even "mean spirited." We do not need that kind of
divisiveness, he says. Except, of course, when he does it. When
Pacelle criticizes, when he calls people "pimps" or "mean-spirited,"
it is well—it is perfectly acceptable. Because in Pacelle's world,
the rules only appear to apply in one direction.
You would expect t hat the head of the nation's largest and
wealthiest animal protection group to acknowledge the fact that
there are communities which have ended the killing of healthy
animals in U.S. shelters. You would expect that he would acknowledge
and promote the model which has ended the killing of all but
hopelessly ill animals in others. Instead, he denies it and, through
HSUS, calls the killing of healthy animals in shelters "kind" and a
"necessity," and equates the movement to save those animals which No
Kill represents with animal abuse. And the only time he is vocal
about it is when he sells the lie that it doesn't exist or isn't possible.
You would expect that the head of the nation's largest and
wealthiest animal protection group would condemn shelter atrocities
like those
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occurring in Los Angeles shelters:
* The abuse of a dog which occurred when a staff member at Los
Angeles County's animal control shelter kicked a dog who is being
forcibly held upside down with a catch-all pole, hard wire noose
wrapped around his neck.
* Or when another at this same shelter dragged a dog with a broken back.
* Or even when another dragged two dogs across hot asphalt.
* Or when others allowed a dog to starve and die in a filthy kennel.
* Or allowed rabbits to go without water.
* Or a sick puppy to languish without any care.
* Or allowed 80%=2 0of cat cages to intentionally be kept empty
while the shelter kills 80% of all the cats it takes in.
But Pacelle does not condemn it.
He says nothing about it.
He does not fight it.
Given that we know have a formula for ending the killing and
examples of it working successfully in several communities, it is
our most pressing task to educate the animal loving public that they
should expect and must demand better from their local shelter. Once
this is accomplished, and the public and media are increasingly
armed with the facts and knowledge necessary to see through the
smokescreens HSUS puts up in defense of the status quo,
self-preservation will demand that HSUS—as the largest animal
protection organization in the nation—both embrace and champion an
end to shelter killing as vociferously as it currently defends the
status quo of killing.
When that finally happens, and new leadership at HSUS finally
redirects that agency's mission away from its current one—of
defending their colleagues who are responsible for the high kill
rates, abuse and neglect common in our nation's animal shelters—back
to its original purpose of protecting animals, only then will we be
able to fully comprehend, by way of comparison, how very badly HSUS
under Pacelle's leadership is failing in its duty to our nation's
companion animals.
And while Pacelle currently condemns those who point out these
realities and are working to reform our nation's shelters as
"mean-spirited,"20it is through his own work to undermine No Kill
that he himself is unwittingly writing the most uncomplimentary
words which will eventually memorialize his tenure at HSUS.
Far from the champion of the furry and winged as the Los Angeles
Times portrays, this is the real Wayne Pacelle, and this will be his
enduring legacy to the millions of animals needlessly being
slaughtered in shelters each year.
That is what I believe the Pacelle record shows. And I believe that
is how history will remember Wayne Pacelle. To use his own words, it
is tempting to call Wayne Pacelle nothing more than a "pimp for the
industry" of shelter killing. But truth be told, one simple
observation is more powerful than childish name calling. It is this:
As a defender of animal killing, as someone who stands side-by-side
with those responsible for slaughtering thousands of dogs and cats
annually, Wayne Pacelle has no place running the nation's largest
and wealthiest organization that claims to speak on behalf of
defenseless animals.
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If you want to help animals in disaster area's,then give to
local animal shelters in the area,as well as to rescues.This way
your money will help the animals.
Many animal shelters in flood area's & areas with lots of
foreclosures on houses are swamped with animals.
A small shelter in LA. is euthanizing 50 animals a day.
Please,tell all of your dog& cat friends,across the country to call
their local shelters to see how they can help.If any of you or your
friends can foster a dog or cat,then they & you can save a life
Our Corgi Rescue has had pleas to take in some Puppy Mill Corgi's
from a closing Mill in IA,as well as 2 other Mills in MO.At the
moment we can not afford the vet bills or have the foster homes to
help any more Corgi's in NM, untilwe can adopt those already on our
websight & Petfinder.com
If you think that you could be a foster home & pay your foster
Corgi's vet bill.Please Contact Meagan Or Marianne
Marianne Hastey
New Mexico Corgi Rescue
Santa Fe,NM.
505-466-9666
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PLEASE CHECK OUR SIGHT
"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains
unawakened". Anatole France
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"A wise man regards the life of his animals.."
Proverbs 12:10
"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by
the way it's animals are treated" ~~ Mahatma Ghandi
The more helpless the creature, the more entitled it is to
protection by man from the cruelty of man. -- Anon.
"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with
men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." -
Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher
"If you can't afford to fix your pet, you can't afford a pet"....Denise
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Linda Pollack Mercer, M.D.
President & Rescue Coordinator
Purebred Cat Breed Rescue (formerly known as CFA Purebred Rescue,
Inc), a 501c3 charity
Website: http://PurebredCats.org
Director, Operation Noble Foster, http://www.OperationNobleFoster.org
Director, NeuterSpay.org: http://neuterspay.org
Member, TICA Rescue Committee
The Persian Rescue Email list:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Persian_Rescue/ (Moderator)
The Rescue Siamese Email List:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/RescueSiamese (Moderator)
Hotline Phone (rescue emergencies only please): (888) 303-9454 [toll free]
Email: <res-@purebredcats.org>(@purebredcats.org)
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