The Humane Society of the United States May Be Useless Or Even Worse, Just A Cloaked Political Group

My friend Andy told me tonight that the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is not associated nor shares money with local Animal Shelters or Animal Societies. He also said that they may just be a front for PETA and other activist organizations that want us to stop eating animal products.

So I did what any questioning person does when they want to research a subject, head to the internet. Here are some articles of what I found.

From activistcash.com, I read the following. “HSUS is big, rich, and powerful, a “humane society” in name only. And while most local animal shelters are under-funded and unsung, HSUS has accumulated $113 million in assets and built a recognizable brand by capitalizing on the confusion its very name provokes. This misdirection results in an irony of which most animal lovers are unaware: HSUS raises enough money to finance animal shelters in every single state, with money to spare, yet it doesn’t operate a single one anywhere.”

Go to the website to read more. Reading this site and more shows something that I never would have imagined and obviously it outrages me. They may well have changed an organization’s mission legitimately but the idea of banking on the Society name or the past use of donations to continue to raise money is reasonably outrageous.

Corn-utopia.com has this on their site, “ The HSUS split away completely, dropping financial support of all the smaller state ‘Humane Society’ groups. But they did it quietly to leave everyone with the logical impression they were now just the national headquarters coordinating all ‘their local chapters’. “

From a post on topix.net, “Your local humane society is not a member organization of the Humane Society of the United States, although HSUS would like you to think they are. In fact, if your local HS wants direction or consulting services from HSUS, they will be charged for them.

HSUS is not a parent or umbrella organization for local Humane societies in general although some may align themselves with politically or philosophically.

The majority volunteers I have met from local humane organizations including local humane societies are often extremely resentful of funds essentially stolen from them by HSUS as people send money to HSUS under the very wrong belief that somehow their local society and it’s animals will be the beneficiaries while in actuality nothing is farther from the truth.”

It has been reported that the HSUS charges consultation fees between $4,000 and $20,000 instead of using donations to help.

The Animal Society Of Silicon Valley says, ” We receive no United Way or government funding – we are entirely privately funded.” Now I am slightly surprised after looking at a couple of local Humane Society websites that they don’t specifically say that the HSUS doesn’t help. It would seem prudent. Eventually the word could get out. (Update: I found a local chapter that does explain that HSUS doesn’t help out locally)

Here are a few more sites with very interesting articles.

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/headline/2879

FBI may be investigating the HSUS for it’s fundraising practices,

http://www.cooldoghalloffame.com/dogs/fbi-investigating-hsus-fundraising/509

As with most charities or help, I believe in helping locally first. Build your family, community and then bigger. With the deceptive nature of this organization I suggest you think twice before donating.

See, isn’t that worth being outraged?