Didn’t it just feel great to wake up Tuesday am, get some coffee or tea and sit down to read the paper and find on page 9 of the New York Times a full page advertisement condemning the internal workings of HSUS. My first reaction was could AKC have done this? But I should have realized they were too busy directing the show career of Sadie than to concern itself with HSUS.
Fortunately though the Center for Consumer Freedom had the foresight to continue its long term tirade against HSUS with a most timely advertisement headed, “Shouldn’t The ‘Humane Society’ do better?” It then in two short sentences succeeded in both demolishing the alleged goals of that organization and in indicating the true motives of why HSUS campaigns so hard for funds – to bolster its employees pension plans! Claiming, “The dog-watchers need a watchdog,” hopefully they have awakened the American public to at least question what is really going on with HSUS. Of its 2008 budget which was just shy of 100 million dollars HSUS gave just $452,371 to hands-on pet shelters but made $2,532,167 in pension contributions to its employees. Indeed it is reported – not in this advert – that in fact there are at least 31 separate not-for-profit corporations owned by HSUS which pay certain chief employees less than $25,000 PER corporation. Thereby making the actual salaries look far less than they really are!!! And from what I hear that’s only the tip of the iceberg. The financial shenanigans of Wayne Pacelle and his fellow hoodlums on the Board at HSUS should not be permitted to continue without further investigation, that’s for sure.
In last week’s Editorial I wrote of the HSUS posting of Wayne Pacelle and the war he declared on all breeders in America by supporting so strongly the “Pedigree Dogs Exposed” program aired in the UK. In fact Pacelle asked for the Americans to react as violently as did many in the UK. I stressed how inaccurate his facts were and as to how both AKC and all the Parent Clubs should fight against him and HSUS. I further suggested using CHF as the spokesperson. Who better than CHF to speak for the health of the dog since they are at the forefront along with Morris Animal Animal foundation in doing just that and have been so doing with time and millions of donated dollars for years now. Which foundations as far as I know have never received one penny in support of a dogs health from HSUS despite its 100 million dollar budget!
And so it came as little surprise that Pacelle’s attack the day after Westminster was followed by an insidious Room for Debate Blog in the nytimes.com the very next day obviously in concert with the HSUS post of the day before. Headed by the title of Feeling Guilty About Your Purebred Dog the cabal of four writers, Mark Derr, Ted Kerasote, Stanley Coren and Francis Battista fell right in line in a well-planned attack upon breeders in the United States. Mark Derr and Francis Battista (she of the Best Friends Animal Society) have a history of attacking the purebred dog, mostly on anecdotal rather than factual evidence and with their two new colleagues, to me anyways, continued doing just that. Writing outlandish statements about the ill-effects of in-breeding, claiming health figures about Goldens with no basis in fact and generalizing to a fault without even acknowledging the advancements breeders and Parent clubs have made for the dogs in the last 30 years or so in the health area they presented arguments totally outdated and anachronistic as though they fit the problems of today’s canine society. And of course they continued the popular myth of the need to only rescue a shelter dog which is there due to the overbreeding of the breeder which of course anyone familiar with today’s figures knows how spurious that argument and logic is today. What truly helped save the day was the advert of February 23 and the organization which ran it--the Center for Consumer Freedom. What a wrench that threw into the machinations of Wayne Pacelle and his thugs of four in their so-called debate blog. •
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Fortunately though the Center for Consumer Freedom had the foresight to continue its long term tirade against HSUS with a most timely advertisement headed, “Shouldn’t The ‘Humane Society’ do better?” It then in two short sentences succeeded in both demolishing the alleged goals of that organization and in indicating the true motives of why HSUS campaigns so hard for funds – to bolster its employees pension plans! Claiming, “The dog-watchers need a watchdog,” hopefully they have awakened the American public to at least question what is really going on with HSUS. Of its 2008 budget which was just shy of 100 million dollars HSUS gave just $452,371 to hands-on pet shelters but made $2,532,167 in pension contributions to its employees. Indeed it is reported – not in this advert – that in fact there are at least 31 separate not-for-profit corporations owned by HSUS which pay certain chief employees less than $25,000 PER corporation. Thereby making the actual salaries look far less than they really are!!! And from what I hear that’s only the tip of the iceberg. The financial shenanigans of Wayne Pacelle and his fellow hoodlums on the Board at HSUS should not be permitted to continue without further investigation, that’s for sure.
In last week’s Editorial I wrote of the HSUS posting of Wayne Pacelle and the war he declared on all breeders in America by supporting so strongly the “Pedigree Dogs Exposed” program aired in the UK. In fact Pacelle asked for the Americans to react as violently as did many in the UK. I stressed how inaccurate his facts were and as to how both AKC and all the Parent Clubs should fight against him and HSUS. I further suggested using CHF as the spokesperson. Who better than CHF to speak for the health of the dog since they are at the forefront along with Morris Animal Animal foundation in doing just that and have been so doing with time and millions of donated dollars for years now. Which foundations as far as I know have never received one penny in support of a dogs health from HSUS despite its 100 million dollar budget!