Tag: animal shelters
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HumaneWatch is the Cat’s Meow – HSUS WTF, part 2
Several months ago I posted about the marvelous ad campaign that HumaneWatch had developed to inform society about the misperception of HSUS. Today, I’m thrilled to see those same ads take up residence in New York’s Time Square. HumaneWatch ad in New York’s Times Square Photo credit HumaneWatch That’s right – the billboard above is smack…
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HSUS Donates Goose Eggs
That means a big fat zero. In this infogram from HumaneWatch, you can see the breakdown of where the whopping 0.24% that HSUS spends on local animal shelters actually ends up. (In case you didn’t pick up on it, the word whopping was dripping with sarcasm). In 2011, HSUS spent 0.24% of of its total…
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HSUS acting in Kansas!
The Humane Society of the United States has partnered with Humane Kansas (the HSUS of Kansas) to introduce a bill into the Kansas House Transportation Committee to make an ‘I’m Pet Friendly’ license plate. Proceeds/profits from these license plates will be appropriated to Humane Kansas where the money will be used to “give a voice…
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Despite consumer protests, Yellow Tail follows through with HSUS Donation
If you checked on either my blog, Agropinion or Advocates for Agriculture, you would have seen the cry for action from agriculturalists. Yellow Tail wines pledged $100,000 to HSUS to help ‘save puppies and kittens’. Upon hearing this, agriculturalists from across the nation posted on Yellow Tail’s page their disgust with the decision and supposedly Yellow Tail was…
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HSUS = False Angels
Remember Michael Vick? The Falcons quarterback who was convicted of facilitating and participating in dog fighting in 2008? HSUS stepped in and “helped” take care of the dogs and find homes right? Wrong. A December 28, 2009 article in Sports Illustrated on the Vick dog case stated: “The Humane Society of the U.S., agreeing with PETA,…