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Comment from Holly Southcott
Time March 23, 2012 at 12:06 pm

we are a group of people in the finger lakes of ny fighting to keep a mass producing mill out of our area in Gorham NY. Billboards are up to promote our campaign. you can go to our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/groups/gorhampuppymill/ to see it.

Comment from Elizabeth
Time March 23, 2012 at 4:58 pm

9 Things You Didn’t Know About HSUS
1. The Humane Society of the United States scams Americans out of millions of dollars through manipulative and deceptive advertising. An analysis of HSUS’s TV fundraising appeals that ran between January 2009 and September 2011 determined that more than 85 percent of the animals shown were cats and dogs. However, HSUS doesn’t run a single pet shelter and only gives 1 percent of the money it raises to pet shelters, and it has spent millions on anti-farming and anti-hunting political campaigns.
2. HSUS receives poor charity-evaluation marks. CharityWatch (formerly the American Institute of Philanthropy) reissued HSUS’s “D” rating in December 2011, finding that HSUS spends as little as 49 percent of its budget on its programs. Additionally, the 2011 Animal People News Watchdog Report discovered that HSUS spends about 43 percent of its budget on overhead costs.
3. Six Members of Congress have called for a federal investigation of HSUS. In April 2011, six Congressmen wrote the IRS Inspector General showing concerns over HSUS’s attempts to influence public policy, which they believe has “brought into question [HSUS’s] tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status.”
4. HSUS regularly contributes more to its own pension plan than it does to pet shelters. An analysis of HSUS’s tax returns determined that HSUS funneled $16.3 million to its executive pension plan between 1998 and 2009—over $1 million more than HSUS gave to pet shelters during that period.
5. The pet sheltering community believes HSUS misleads Americans. According to a nationally representative poll of 400 animal shelters, rescues, and animal control agencies, 71 percent agree that “HSUS misleads people into thinking it is associated with local animal shelters.” Additionally, 79 percent agree that HSUS is “a good source of confusion for a lot of our donors.”
6. While it raises money with pictures of cats and dogs, HSUS has an anti-meat vegan agenda. Speaking to an animal rights conference in 2006, HSUS’s then vice president for farm animal issues stated that HSUS’s goal is to “get rid of the entire [animal agriculture] industry” and that “we don’t want any of these animals to be raised and killed.”
7. Given the massive size of its budget, HSUS does relatively little hands-on care for animals. While HSUS claims it provides direct care to more animals than any other animal protection group in the US, most of the “care” HSUS provides is in the form of spay-neuter assistance. In fact, local groups that operate on considerably slimmer budgets, such as the Houston SPCA, provide direct care to just as many or more animals than HSUS does.
8. HSUS’s CEO has said that convicted dogfighting kingpin Michael Vick “would do a good job as a pet owner.” Following Vick’s release from prison, HSUS has helped “rehabilitate” Michael Vick’s public image. Of course, a $50,000 “grant” from the Philadelphia Eagles didn’t hurt.
9. HSUS’s senior management includes a former spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), a criminal group designated as “terrorists” by the FBI. HSUS president Wayne Pacelle hired John “J.P.” Goodwin in 1997, the same year Goodwin described himself as “spokesperson for the ALF” while he fielded media calls in the wake of an ALF arson attack at a California meat processing plant. In 1997, when asked by reporters for a reaction to an ALF arson fire at a farmer’s feed co-op in Utah (which nearly killed a family sleeping on the premises), Goodwin replied, “We’re ecstatic.”
Want evidence? Vist: http://www.ConsumerFreedom.com * http://www.HumaneWatch.org * http://www.ActivistCash.com
Revised February 2012. Complete sources and documentation available upon request.__._,

Comment from Mary Anne Kowalski
Time March 23, 2012 at 7:12 pm

Boy, did the HSUS get this wrong.
According to a recent press release, the HSUS reviewed laws regulating commercial dog breeding facilities (wholesale), also known as “puppy mills,” and protecting consumers who purchase sick puppies to determine the best and worst state laws.
Amazingly, New York was ranked in the top ten, coming in at number 8 – even though its pet dealer law does not address commercial dog breeders.
According to the list included with the March 12, 2012 press release from HSUS, New York ranks in the top 10 of states regulating puppy mills:

Puppy Mill State Law Rankings – 2011
1. Virginia
2. Pennsylvania
3. Oregon
4. New Hampshire
5. Washington
6. Missouri*
7. Colorado
8. New York
This list, supposedly, was based on an analysis of the existing law. According to the release:
States were assigned points based on key elements either addressed or not addressed in their laws, including: mandatory licensure, criteria for coverage, frequency of inspections, caps on the number of dogs an operator can keep, the standards of care mandated for each dog, consumer protection provisions, and the severity of penalties for violations.
The NYS law was passed as a consumer protection bill. It was designed, not to protect animals, but to protect consumers and ONLY APPLIES TO RETAIL SALES. Wholesale breeders that supply pet stores and laboratories are exempt from the law.
It does not apply to commercial kennels, has no penalty for unlicensed operation, has no cap on the number of dogs, only inspects once a year, does not report care violations to local authorities and there are no penalty for violations, except minimal fines, most often imposed for failing to list the license number in their ads. It also has no provisions to address internet sales.
Everyone seems to know this, except HSUS, apparently.
Now the HSUS has provided breeders and their supporters with a terrific tool…..the HSUS seal of approval for the lack of protection in New York State Law.
What were they thinking???????
Please contact the HSUS and demand that they correct this misinformation and put the issue of commercial breeders and pet dealers on their agenda for their upcoming Humane Lobby Day in Albany. Here is the facebook page for upcoming events in NY: http://www.facebook.com/HSUSNewYork?sk=events&__adt=6.

Comment from MJ Moss
Time March 25, 2012 at 4:01 pm

A law that forbids the removal of a pup, unless declared necessary for health of pup or dam, from dam and littermates before age 10 weeks would shut most ‘mills’ down. They are in it only for profit–and the word ‘only’ is key. A good breeder, who does health tests, cares for dam and whelps at high level and has extensive checks on potential homes SHOULD make money.

Comment from MJ Moss
Time March 25, 2012 at 4:03 pm

HSUS and PETA are anti-animal welfare under the guise of ‘rights’. If animals have rights, they have the right to keep their own healthy organs–ban mandatory S/N it is bad for animals.