I received this same mailing.  It’s open, but I’ll send it your way next week.  It even came it those complimentary return address labels.  I might not use them now that I know who they’re from!

I also received one of those letter and it went right in the wood burning stove! So sorry now I did not keep it to send to you.

Since my friends know that I am rabid about fraudulent fund-raising, not to mention use of the name “Humane Society,” many people bring solicitations to my attention.  The latest one is a mailing that is arriving here in Utah from “Humane Society Legislative Fund”, the lobbying arm of H$U$.

I can just imagine how much this mail campaign is taking out of the mouths of the starving horses it purports to be helping.  The mailing arrives in a full color envelope with a beautiful paint horse that covers the entire back of the envelope.  The envelope front has a mare and foal as fat and sassy as any raised in a show barn.  The envelope announces “Your Free Gift is Enclosed”.  When you open the envelope, that same beautiful (and well-fed and probably very expensive paint horse) is on a slick shining 4"x 8” sticker that says “A HORSE IS MEANT TO RUN FREE . . . STOP THE SLAUGHTER.”  I wonder if anyone at H$U$ knows where the horses in the Americas came from.

However, the next free gift includes an URGENT legislative appeal reply form with pre-printed letters in the name of the person to whom the letter is mailed—ready for you to sign and mail to each of your senators and congressmen.  THEN behind those letters are pre-printed address labels and a note paid with beautiful and expensive horses.  Of course, no one at H$U$ wants the public to see REAL wild horses starving because the purpose of this entire mailing is to get the public to “URGE” your legislative representatives to pass the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (S.727).

It is Cruelty to leave wild or abandoned horses to starve to death on the public lands because of the ban on horse slaughter.  Senate Bill 727 will cause more horses to suffer and be abandoned.  H$U$ does very little to help horses and its own limited facility is a disgrace and a mere shame for fund-raising purposes.

Now what to do with those mailings? Instead of just mailing them to HumaneWatch, we are going to print down pictures of the very real starving horses on our deserts and mailing the pictures with those pre-printed letters to our Congressmen—only modified to make it clear that we don’t appreciate this garbage, or the starving horses that H$U$ is creating! Then we are encouraging everyone to send a donation to The United Organizations of the Horse or to HumaneWatch/CCF to continue to expose the fraud.

I read the materials on horses on HumaneWatch, but I am not seeing any figures on how much H$U$ spends annually on HANDS-ON horse help. Are you aware of any such information? I would like to include that information with this “reverse” political mailing if it exists.

Joane Pappas White
Lady J Land & Livestock
Price, Utah