Comments on: Humane Society Pledges $600,000 To Build Emergency Animal Shelter

By: The Lioness

The Lioness — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:38:19 +0000

And pretty extensive training, from what I understand.

~The Lioness

By: straybaby

straybaby — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:32:23 +0000

Claudia, they usually have pretty tight restrictions for who can work with animals in the prison programs.

By: Claudia

Claudia — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:57:47 +0000

Um, I don’t think I’d feel too good if prison inmates were looking after my lost pet. Murderers and abusers start out on animals and move to humans. How is it a good idea to put the fox in charge of the chicken coop?

By: trucorgi

trucorgi — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:58:37 +0000

Seems like a good idea on the surface.
I suspect that there is more to it than is being reported to the public. HSUS has probably struck a deal much like Noahâ€™s Wish did. http://www.catchannel.com/News.....ation.aspx It is estimated that HSUS raised over $30 million in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, promising to use the funds to rescue and reunite lost pets with their owners. Since March 2006, the Louisiana Attorney Generalâ€™s office has been investigating what happened to the majority of those funds.

It is interesting to note that HSUS has never built a shelter. In 1995 HSUS offered to build and run a shelter in DC. In exchange they wanted 3-5 acres of city land and tax-exempt status for all HSUS real estate holdings in the District of Columbia. The DC government offered a long-term lease, but that wasnâ€™t acceptable. HSUS refused to proceed unless it would own absolutely the land. The district declined.

So now when their back is against the wall being under investigation for fraudulent fundraising in Katrina, Rita and now Vick, we are supposed to believe that they are going to be in the business of building shelters. I donâ€™t happen to think that they are doing this for any other reason than Noahâ€™s Wish is doing it, to say out of jail. Will this be a no-kill shelter????

By: FrogDogZ

FrogDogZ — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:04:39 +0000

Oh, that’s such utter and total crap.

Are we really supposed to believe that the HSUS is doing this just out of the goodness of their hearts? I’m sure it has nothing at all to do with the investigations and pending lawsuits about the money HSUS raised in the name of the “Katrina Animals” - and yet didn’t bother spending on them.

Sort of the same way they ‘raised money’ to “help the Michael Vick case dogs”, and then lobbied ruthlessly to have the same dogs euthanized.

The HSUS are thieves and moral cowards, and their despicable actions are finally coming to light. I hope their donations dry up and blow away.