Comments on: HSUS Dog-Fight Raid Numbers Don’t Add Up

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:01:58 +0000

I recently became involved with a lovely red-nosed pit brought into a local pound as a stray. She acquired kennel cough which received absolutely no treatment at all, which developed into pneumonia. When a local animal welfare group was alerted, it was too late, even with emergency treatment. The next week I met a little min pin, rescued BEFORE he entered the same pound. The “adopter” was standing in the lobby of the pound, when a man siddled up to her and offered her the little dog, before it was turned over to the pound. Happy, outgoing, ownerless, as his human had joined the Army after losing her job. Initially the pound workers said the exchange of ownership could not take place, but then relented and said “take it outside” where the kind woman took custody of the dog, and preventing the many problems of becoming a pound dog. The moral of the story? Be there for the needy pets. Hang around the parking lots of pounds and see what is abandoned there. Put signs up on bulletin boards, in the paper, offering to rescue unwanted pets. You will receive an education. The pet overpopulation crisis is much worse than “they” are telling you. The ASPCA, HSUS, and Nathan’s No Kill ALL want the problem to continue as they ALL benefit from pet suffering. Pet suffering brings in the bucks!

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0000

I object to Ms. Barnett’s description of these raids as rescues. They will ONLY be rescues once the dogs are placed in homes. Given H$U$ usual treatment of confiscated dogs I very much doubt this will end up as a rescue but once again a mass slaughter.

By: ou812

ou812 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:27:35 +0000

It must be the newspaper and the gov reports got it wrong, HSUS would never distort the truth, lol.

By: SarahB

SarahB — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:32:01 +0000

Hi, I am an HSUS Employee and this is the statement from the HSUS;
With so many different organizations and local, state and federal agencies coming together for last week’s historic rescues there is understandably varying information on the details of the rescued. Raids began as early as 5 Am last Wednesday, and carried on into the early morning hours – therefore stories were updated into the next day. Stories on the Humane Society of Missouri and ASPCA websites reflect that seven or eight states were involved (HSMO has not included NE in their story, although dogs were rescued there as well) and approximately 450 dogs were rescued. These facts are also reflected on many news stories published throughout the country. There was absolutely no inflation of last week’s momentous rescues – unfortunately the cruel animal fighting industry is widespread enough to keep us all busy fighting it for some time to come.

By: YesBiscuit!

YesBiscuit! — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:13:32 +0000

Add to the discrepancies several different newspaper articles which have different numbers of dogs/states involved. Puzzling.

By: Our Pack

Our Pack — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:27:24 +0000

Here’s one of those “most aggressively trained Pit Bulls in the country” that used to belong to Michael Vick right here.
http://packrescue.blogspot.com/2009/07/surviving-cancer-gettng-through-muck.html#links

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