"The claim that just because they don't directly fund your LOCAL shelter (which is what YOU should be doing), they don't help animals, is ludicrous. "

Fine, but why is 99% of HSUS advertising focusing on pictures of dogs and cats in shelters that tmoney given to such drives never ends up at?

I do not doubt that there are positive things that the HSUS is doing, so why not use THOSE things to raise your money? You KNOW why. Because people give money to help dogs and cats, so the HSUS pretends that is what they do, just long enough to cash the checks.

But my point is that even the Maricopa County AZ Humane Society does not receive funding, by donating to the HSUS. By continually putting local Humane Societies together with the HSUS, we are doing them a GREAT dis-service. Local Humane Societies are EXACTLY like any other local shelter, and most desreve our support.

AGAIN, the Maricopa County AZ Humane Society, is NOT RELATED IN ANY WAY to the HSUS. The first and most important thing we need to do is get this into people's minds. The HSUS in NOT an ubrella org that funds local Humane Societies.

This is part of the problem. Your local Humane Society has NOTHING to do with the HSUS. This is the big scam of HSUS. MOST local Humane Societies are GREAT organizations, which are struggling to stay alive because people think they are helping them by giving to the HSUS.