Flashback: Our Challenge to HSUS

It's an oft-repeated fact on this blog that HSUS gives less than one percent of its massive budget to hands-on pet shelters. Some months ago we challenged HSUS to increase this from 1 percent to 50 percent. It's been almost six months, and we're still waiting to hear from the "Humane Society" of the United States.

May 19 2010

The HumaneWatch 50 Percent Pledge

So here's the Pledge in a nutshell: As soon as HSUS CEO Wayne Pacelle commits to doing the right thing, I'm outta here.

You read that right. Hear me now, and believe me later, as Hans und Franz used to say. If the CEO of the Humane Society of the United States will make a commitment to start sending just 50 percent of HSUS's income to hands-on U.S. pet shelters, HumaneWatch will disappear for good.

We'll pull the plug. Yank the life-line. Cease and desist. Become an ex-blog.

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