Petland's Response to HSUS cited from Center for Consumer Freedom! LOL!

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Oh, this is rich! Petland has lowered themselves to citing the Center for Consumer "Freedom", a lobbying group for tobacco, fast food poison and alcohol that's sole mission is to attack and try to discredit any group (especially PeTA and PCRM) that publishes reports and facts on the damage these industries do to animals, the environment and our health. These accusations can't be backed up anywhere. The link to CCF is at the bottom. Fitting, for bottom feeders.

 

If you ever want to find out the status of a charity's use of funds, go to CharityNavigator.com and you can get all the details. Here's the link to HSUS there: Consistently 4 out of 4 stars. http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary & orgid=3848

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Petland responds to HSUS report At Petland, healthy, happy, well-socialized pets within our care are our number one priority as they have been for 41 years.

We do not support substandard breeding facilities and we provide each Petland store with “Humane Care Guidelines,” that were developed in conjunction with the U.S.D.A. to assist with breeder facility inspections as it pertains to pet selection.

Reports such as those posted on the HSUS web site surface every year around the holiday season in conjunction with their annual fundraising efforts. Unfortunately, we were not interviewed or consulted nor were we a part of any of the editing process. This is sensationalism at its best. HSUS has a history of publicizing false information in an effort to raise money. They do not operate a single pet shelter or pet adoption facility anywhere in the U.S. To the contrary, over the last 10 years, Petland has adopted out more than 270,000 homeless puppies and kittens nationwide.

Additional information to understand about HSUS:

 

During 2006, HSUS contributed only 4.2 percent of its budget to organizations that operate hands-on dog and cat shelters. In reality, HSUS is a wealthy animal-rights lobbying organization (the largest and richest) that agitates for the same goals as PETA and other radical groups.

HSUS raised money online with the false promise that it would “care for the dogs in the Michael Vick case.” The New York Times later reported HSUS wasn’t caring for Vick’s dogs at all. HSUS president Wayne Pacelle told the Times that his group recommended that government officials “put down” the dogs rather than try to adopt them out.

HSUS senior management team includes a former spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), a criminal group designated as “terrorists” by the FBI.

Less than 12% of money raised for HSUS by California telemarketers actually ends up in HSUS’s bank account. The rest is kept by professional fundraisers.

HSUS raised a reported $34 million in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, supposedly to help reunite lost pets with their owners. Little of that money was spent for its intended purpose. Public disclosures of the disposition of the $34 million in Katrina-related donations add up to less than $7 million.

source: consumerfreedom.com