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Now, I LOVE Best Friends. They have been my favorite rescue organization for years now. But what they've done over the latest attempt to get a law passed in NY to mandate shelters to work with rescues has really broken my heart.
http://petsalive.com/blog/2011/02/11/best-friends-turns-their-back-on-ny-again/
It sounds like they have sold their allegiance to their pocketbooks, rather than to the animals. To cite 'political suicide' as the reason to not support a law that has done great things in other states to save shelter animal lives is just shocking to me. They don't have enough money, that they have to toss NY animals under the bus? Really? Then they state support for identical laws in other states (that they don't have financial interests in)!
I am appalled and speechless. And very sad, because BF used to be my heroes. What is it about becoming large and rich that makes this 'welfare' groups forget the very values that created them in the first place?
And I am very sad for the shelter animals being helped by Pets Alive, who will be denied the help from BF now because PA's leadership has dared to disagree with them on their stance. I find it terrible that BF would hold innocent animals hostage in such a way, to try and force silence from others!
http://petsalive.com/blog/2011/02/11/best-friends-turns-their-back-on-ny-again/
It sounds like they have sold their allegiance to their pocketbooks, rather than to the animals. To cite 'political suicide' as the reason to not support a law that has done great things in other states to save shelter animal lives is just shocking to me. They don't have enough money, that they have to toss NY animals under the bus? Really? Then they state support for identical laws in other states (that they don't have financial interests in)!
I am appalled and speechless. And very sad, because BF used to be my heroes. What is it about becoming large and rich that makes this 'welfare' groups forget the very values that created them in the first place?
And I am very sad for the shelter animals being helped by Pets Alive, who will be denied the help from BF now because PA's leadership has dared to disagree with them on their stance. I find it terrible that BF would hold innocent animals hostage in such a way, to try and force silence from others!