Animal Rescue

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Everyday millions of generous people make donations to animal care facilities. With these donations come the hopes of saving our furry little friends, from a life cut short. Some animals are lucky enough to receive the proper shelter, medicines, food, and even surgeries. Though it has come to my attention that many organizations aren’t as forthcoming with the budget of there funds and aren’t providing these animals with the best care necessary. Instead they take advantage of people, playing on their sympathy to profit for themselves, depriving these animals of the badly needed services. As a future veterinarian and devote animal lover, I find it necessary to shed awareness of these fraudulent foundations.

The Humane Society of the United States one of the most advertised “non profit” organizations have a history of unaccounted funds. According to HSUS tax return ‘only 1% of its 132 millions donations were given to local pet shelters”, thus being said that the organization themselves don’t own any pet shelters. So where does this money go? In the year of 2016 2.8 million were spent on the company's employees pension plan, with millions more feeding large salaries, CEO Wayne Pacelle making over 400,000. If these donations are to help save these animals in need why is it that only a small portion of money is given for them? There is more money being spent on unnecessary things than it is for animal shelters, how is that fair?

Homeless animals often arrive at shelters in horrible conditions such as festering wounds, untreated allergies and heart worms which are just some afflictions requiring treatment. Due to time spent on the streets or from neglect. It is expensive for these animals to get treatments and medical procedures ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars. Quite frankly not all this money travels into the right hands and leads to the death of animals.

Have you ever thought about the sad animal commercials such as ASPCA or SPCA. These people actually spend more money for these commercials to be world wide than to actually use it for these animals.

Raising over $100 million a year from those weepy Sarah McLachlan commercials, the ASPCA spends little of that money on sheltering pets across America. Instead of supporting animal welfare, the ASPCA is quickly converting to the largest PETA-like animal “liberation” group in the United States