Humane Watch challenges HSUS to donate to shelters (blog)‏

Sent: May 20, 2010 3:24:52 PM


Humane Watch (blog)
Announcing the 50 Percent Pledge
MAY 19 2010
http://humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/announcing_the_50_percent_pledge/

Here's the Pledge in a nutshell: As soon as Wayne Pacelle commits to
doing the right thing, I'm outta here.

You read that right. Hear me now, and believe me later, as Hans und
Franz used to say. If the CEO of the Humane Society of the United
States will make a commitment to start sending just 50 percent of
HSUS's income to hands-on U.S. pet shelters, HumaneWatch will
disappear for good.

We'll pull the plug. Yank the life-line. Cease and desist. Become an ex-blog.

That's the challenge. That's my pledge. And it's non-negotiable.

HumaneWatch and its high-profile advertising are clearly getting under
Pacelle's skin. On Monday we were in The New York Times and The Wall
Street Journal. Yesterday it was Variety, the unofficial bible of
Hollywood. And today there's a full-page HumaneWatch ad in HSUS's
hometown paper, The Washington Post.

All the ads carry the same message: HSUS gives less than 1 percent of
Americans' donations to underfunded pet shelters.

Less than one percent. Egad. That has to be embarrassing. If I have to
put myself out of a job to turn it around, so be it. America's pet
shelters will reap countless millions of dollars, and our minor ad
expenditures will seem like the smartest investment since Microsoft
was $1 a share.

Go ahead, Wayne. Make me obsolete. I dare you. Commit to being a real
humane society, just half of the time. I'll fold up my laptop and bid
HumaneWatch adieu.

Today's press release about the 50% Pledge;


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For Immediate Release
May 19, 2010
Center for Consumer Freedom
For More Information, Contact:
Allison Miller 202.463.7112

Washington Post Ad Hits Humane Society of the United States for
Misallocating Donor Funds
Watchdog Will Shut Down Website if HSUS Gives Just 50 Percent of its
Income to Underfunded Pet Shelters

Washington, DC – A full-page ad in this morning’s Washington Post
highlights the failure of the Humane Society of the United States
(HSUS) to donate a significant portion of the public’s donations to
America’s underfunded dog and cat shelters. And the sponsor of the ad,
the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), is pledging to shut
down its popular HumaneWatch.org website if HSUS CEO Wayne Pacelle
donates just 50 percent of his group’s income to hands-on pet shelters
in the United States. In February, HumaneWatch exposed HSUS’s practice
of giving less than half of one percent of its budget to dog and cat
shelters.

HumaneWatch is a CCF watchdog website devoted to analyzing HSUS’s
activities. In just twelve weeks it has attracted more than a
half-million unique visitors, and collected more than 42,500 Facebook
friends. Messages similar to today’s Washington Post ad ran earlier
this week in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Variety.
CCF also plans to erect a HumaneWatch billboard next week in Times
Square.

In March, CCF commissioned Opinion Research Corporation to poll
Americans’ beliefs about HSUS. Seventy-one percent said they believe
HSUS is “an umbrella group that represents thousands of local humane
societies all across America.” (This is false. HSUS is not affiliated
with a single one.) Also in this poll, fifty-nine percent of Americans
falsely believed HSUS “contributes most of its money to local
organizations that care for dogs and cats.”

Today David Martosko, CCF’s Director of Research, said the HumaneWatch
website would “disappear tomorrow if HSUS lives up to the public’s
expectations by devoting at least 50 percent of its income to the care
of dogs and cats in hands-on pet shelters.”

Martosko added: “We’re not asking the impossible here. Just 50
percent. I realize HSUS has a huge payroll and gargantuan fundraising
expenses. But giving just half of its income to pet shelters, instead
of half of one percent, is the right thing to do. Especially when you
consider all the dogs and cats in HSUS’s television infomercials.”

Today’s Washington Post ad is available for download here.
http://humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/index.php/ads/

It reads:

“SURPRISED to hear the Humane Society of the United States shares less
than 1 percent of your donations with local pet shelters?

The Humane Society of the United States is NOT your local animal shelter.

Don’t be fooled, go to HumaneWatch.org

Keeping a watchful eye on the Humane Society of the United States”

For more information, visit HumaneWatch.org. To arrange an interview,
please call Allison Miller at 202.463.7112.
The Center for Consumer Freedom is a nonprofit watchdog organization
that informs the public about the activities of tax-exempt activist
groups. It is supported by American consumers, business organizations,
and foundations.

LOL, don't hold your breath.

Sure makes it obvious that H$U$ is subject to a lot of scrutiny that they don't like. Such complaints reveal just how everybody is starting to figure out how H$U$ is hate mongering fols so that they can make money for themselves and not the animal shelters.

The same thing as PETA.Just a way to make money off bleeding heart American's.

Excellent Post...Tom

Bleeding heart Americans will always give money to charities, I would rather see these charities do something to help the local shelters that truly are concerned with pets instead of using that money to take away our right to hunt and trap and raise livestock.

I'm not going to get excited about this, I mean if it happens, great. But honestly I don't think it will happen cause they love their money too much.

If you realy want to help a animal shelter drive to the nearest one and write them out a check.

The people who donate their money to these groups are deaf, dumb and blind sheep. Hmmm...... there's a bit of irony, they ARE what they want to abolish. Here's your sign!

Actually Peta & H$U$ have done a better job of selling a lie then animal lovers and animal users have of selling the truth.

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Interesting,I do not believe it would be possible to give that much.If they did it would end their ability to litigate and that is what they are all about.If they told the truth in their commercials they would not be able to raise 1/4 of what they do.

Common sense based people need to remember that there is a faction of society that wants to believe they are better, more self-righteous compassionate human beings than the rest of humanity. They want to believe cruel human beings exist so they can look at themselves as more evolved humans then the folks who H$U$ or PETA vilifies with their hate mongering propaganda.Believing PETA or H$U$ propaganda gives such self-righteous folk an opportunity to think of themselves as compassionate do-gooders. The same type of people tell us they eat meat but could never be cruel enough to kill any animal themselves.