Monday, February 25, 2013

BEST FIENDS PIMPING DANGEROUS PETS IN THEIR VERSION OF NO KILL

It is so hard to justify the pimping of pets that can be the only ones in a household. Are these households on desert islands? Any pet has to be able to function in society or it should not be allowed in society. Shit happens as they say. The gardener leaves the gate open, an earthquake takes down walls and opens doors, the pet runs out the door. Then what happens when this animal aggressive (and there is a thin line between animal aggression and people aggression) pet does get out? They will kill someone's pet, maybe attack a child since children are seen differently from adults by canines.

This is immoral and irresponsible. Then again, we are talking about Best Fiends, aren't we.

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/animal-rights/best-friends-good-deed-or-irresponsible-actions

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

Best Friends has been doing nothing but helping breeders and dog fighters breed more and torture more since they figured out that shilling for breeder financial interests would give them more triple figure salaries and free houses than actual animal welfare.

They are operating under false pretenses.

All they do is help dog fighters promote their dogs more and breed more, and put more burden on the rescuers.

They actually admit they are PROMOTING dogs for the breeders, not helping the dogs.

But management at Best Friends is living rich and happy so they don't care

Anonymous said...

Best Friends says it is ok for them to sell a violent dog to "save its life" and that it is ok for that dog to kill YOUR cats and dogs.

That is killing, Best Friends Animal Society.

You are advocating killing.

Anonymous said...

Remember before they took the Vick pit bulls because they got $100,000 per Vick dog to spend on their big salaries, they refused to take a group of abused Utah pit bulls from their own state that a local rescuer was trying to save?

I think that is on your blog somewhere. It was a news article.

Best Friends sanctuary told her no and to get lost.

She had to go to another state to get someone to help with the dogs.

Best Friends has multi millions that just sits in the bank or gets spent on giant management salaries and perks. They don't even run spaying programs. They don't even take local pets in their neighborhood.

They turn pit bulls away every day because they know it will cost them more to separately warehouse aggressive dogs. They want the peons to do it and let everybody elses pets get killed.


Best Friends Animal Society turned their back on rescue in their own state.

They they got involved with a group of pit bull breeders, some of whom ended up being connected to dog fighters, to get the Vick pit bulls and the big pile of money.

Volunteers and caregivers at Best Friends reported that Best Friends wasn't even spending the money on properly taking care of the Vick pit bulls, and they killed at least one of them, and that's not counting the sanctuary dog they let the Vick pit bulls kill.

Meanwhile Best Friends gets rid of over 500 dogs at the sanctuary that they got money donated to them to care for life, and started instead promoting pit bull breeding and selling and helping to create a pit bull fad that gets more breeders breeding them and more abandoned pit bulls. It also gets more pit bulls put in inappropriate homes where other dogs and cats, and horses, are getting killed in record numbers by pit bulls because the pit bulls are sold to people who can't handle them.

Best Friends also commits consumer fraud and tells people pit bulls are like labs, instead of the fact that pit bulls need special care and handling, and other animals get killed and pay the price for Best Friend lies.

Best Friends has turned Kanab Utah into a sewer.

Anonymous said...

Think of how many pets could get spayed with the money Best Friends is spending on plane tickets to ship aggressive dogs out to kill other pets.

Anonymous said...

Remember before they took the Vick pit bulls because they got $100,000 per Vick dog to spend on their big salaries, they refused to take a group of abused Utah pit bulls from their own state that a local rescuer was trying to save?

I think that is on your blog somewhere. It was a news article.

Best Friends sanctuary told her no and to get lost.

She had to go to another state to get someone to help with the dogs.

Best Friends has multi millions that just sits in the bank or gets spent on giant management salaries and perks. They don't even run spaying programs. They don't even take local pets in their neighborhood.

They turn pit bulls away every day because they know it will cost them more to separately warehouse aggressive dogs. They want the peons to do it and let everybody elses pets get killed.


Best Friends Animal Society turned their back on rescue in their own state.

They they got involved with a group of pit bull breeders, some of whom ended up being connected to dog fighters, to get the Vick pit bulls and the big pile of money.

Volunteers and caregivers at Best Friends reported that Best Friends wasn't even spending the money on properly taking care of the Vick pit bulls, and they killed at least one of them, and that's not counting the sanctuary dog they let the Vick pit bulls kill.

Meanwhile Best Friends gets rid of over 500 dogs at the sanctuary that they got money donated to them to care for life, and started instead promoting pit bull breeding and selling and helping to create a pit bull fad that gets more breeders breeding them and more abandoned pit bulls. It also gets more pit bulls put in inappropriate homes where other dogs and cats, and horses, are getting killed in record numbers by pit bulls because the pit bulls are sold to people who can't handle them.

Best Friends also commits consumer fraud and tells people pit bulls are like labs, instead of the fact that pit bulls need special care and handling, and other animals get killed and pay the price for Best Friend lies.

Best Friends has turned Kanab Utah into a sewer.

Anonymous said...

The pit bulls they are selling are NOT from their "sanctuary.
They don't take pit bulls in their sanctuary, despite their millions.

They took over a taxpayer funded animal shelter in Los Angeles and are stealing from LA people and they are lying and claiming they are No Kill, but they aren't. They are hoarding and warehousing, and now they want to ship these dogs off to try to cover up the fact that their No Kill is failing.

It is taxpayers paying for all this. Best Friends is keeping their money to split among all their big money management and lobbiers.

Anonymous said...

A bit off topic but it is good to see your "Opposing View" articles are now being picked up by a major Facebook Page called "I Hate Dog Breeders". It has almost as many likes as Mr. Winograds page! Good to see your work being shared in a wider forum! Maybe at some point you would want to reference them to this page also!

Anonymous said...

I have personally seen animals being adopted out after having been returned multipe time for biting. Once maybe I could understand. The trick. Rename it and make up an excuse. My favorite was this cat only bites (three owners) because it is declawed and we all know declawed cas tend to bite. I have been around awhile so I guess you learn something new everyday! Hmmm.

HonestyHelps said...

Thanks, Anon: 57. Wasn't that the page that Whino tried to say made a threat on his dog? Said it was up for eleven days but didn't bother to take a screen shot of it and no one else saw it. I'll try to put the fb page on the reading list, haven't done fb yet on it.

HonestyHelps said...

Anon, it worked. Thanks

Anonymous said...

Yep, that is the one and they have a "good memory" of it too lol and never let him forget! They have a number of administrators (some of them pretty fiesty) so it runs all the time. Many good (bad) stories on "No Kill" with alot of your stuff and (I forgot his name, the hound guy) referenced. A number of peoples eyes have been opened to the association Mr. W. has with the breeders. What I like is it has over 15,000 likes in less than a year so the stuff gets a broad distribution. Broader than Opposing Views based on the feedback from most posts I would guess. Oh just remembered Randy Decarlo the hound guy Maybe mispelled. Would like to see them have more access to your information as they have the network in place.

Anonymous said...

Also, on the "I Hate Dog Breeders" Facebook page. It is only a few thousand likes short of Mr. Winograds page even though it has been up for a shorter period of time and while I know it is just a Facebook thing, it would not break my heart to see them surpass his number.

HonestyHelps said...

Anon:24 I do have a concern. That is some of those folks not caring for some of my stances such as the pit bull issue. I stand for BSL and of course, they call me a pit bull hater. That is far from the truth.

I strongly, adamantly believe that BSL can help pit bulls. But this will be a bone of contention on that facebook page because they are mostly rescuers. And they think that BSL causes good pits to die, which it doesn't but they only hear the crap about it. I do hope this doesn't present problems.

Anonymous said...

Yep, I can somewhat appreciate your BSL concern as you are right some lean the other way based on what I have seen. There is also mixed feeling on the PETA, HSUS issue although most side with not bashing them like our friend and are beginning to see the connection. They have appeared supportive of PETA which I believes supports BSL and they get some kickback on that but it varies. Does not seem like BSL is their primary issue however. The breeders are. They have a number of administrators too and some are not on the same page "except" where it relates to Mr. W. That said I would hope that some of your views on pet over population and what no kill shelters in many cases really are and Mr. Winograd's breeder connection could be shared there as they already have simply because you have more good data and would hate for the BSL issue to limit that distribution. The fact they lean to being a rescue I think is what gives them credibility with the masses and their big numbers (likes) as they strike a cord there with the exact same audience Mr. W tries to seduce. If you and I knock Mr. W we get some traction but maybe seen as shelter based. If another rescue knocks him traction big time! I guess could just do the Opposing Views" articles and let them pick what they want. They are obviously reading it and selectively picking up your and Randy's stories and I have not seen any concern on their part towards BSL as it relates to you and frankly have not seen them take a stance on it. I guess for me the biggest battle because the thing doing the most damage is the "No Pet Over Population Issue" and what no kill shelters are in most cases and they are pretty near 100% in agreement on that. They appear focused on breeding in direct conflit with Mr. W's stance on pet over population and breeders. But I advise the Master. :). By the way I have no association with them other then seeing them get good traction with the rescue community on several key issues.

HonestyHelps said...

Thanks again Anon:21, those are encouraging words.

If one does care to search through this blog, you would find where I say I care about pits. Think about this, they make up the highest euthanization rate at many, many shelters. If that population were cut down, many shelters might even be no kill.

If for no other reason, support BSL to reduce the killing rate at shelters for pit bulls. It can do that. If pit bulls die in shelters after BSL is passed, it is because of their owners. Doesn't the pit community complain about those irresponsible pit owners, blaming them for the attacks? Then the pits owned by these irresponsible people would be in the shelters and the rescues could take them out, right? Problem solved as far as the irresponsible pit owner.

Yes, PeTA does support BSL. At this point in time, I consider PeTA the only honest organization out there when it comes to the major issues of the pit bulls and of No Kill. I didn't always feel that way but I sure do now. HSUS is a major disappointment for me but I will still defend HSUS because of the great work they do. Bittersweet.

Anonymous said...

I think the delimma faced on the BSL issue is as follows. You and I and most reading these pages know what you say is very true but we have a different view. Most people never realize that many shelters hold a large amount of pit or pit mixes. ie. they rarely or ever go into a shelter. They only see the nice pit (puppy) down the street and wonder why anyone dislikes them. Additionally I think a view that many that have worked in a shelter have is of the big picture. In my mind the right view. But I am constantly amazed by the number of indivduals that will focus on one animal (good to a point) at the detriment of a 1000others. They just don't have the data base to see it. But shelters are getting smarter. I know of a large local shelter (very large) that EU's about 50%. But interestigly enough every month or so they pick out one that needs a lot of help, food medical etc. and Facebook it to death. Does that make sense in the big picture. Nope. Does that appeal to people that know no difference and may even know of the EU numbers. You bet u. They focus on the one animal the shelter saved. That shelter actully has a pretty good reputation despite the high EU numbers and it would be hard for a "No Kill" group to bash them.

One final thought on the "I Hate Breeders" page. They appear pretty much laser focused on breeders as the cause of "too many animals" thus shelter killing, cruel to breed odd amnals (pugs that can't breath, cats with short legs, genetic defects etc., rape racks and discarded puppies that breeders can't sell but give away and then do it again. They are very emotonal about it. Much like many that attack shelters. If they get Mr. W and at least a porion of the No Kill movement associated with and supporting breeders (and they are well on their way) then bye bye to those lobby groups that support breeders. Thank heaven for emotion at times.

HonestyHelps said...

I definitely am against the breeding community as it stands. I don't want to see purebreds go away however. I just would like to see them bred for their best interest rather than for the vision of the beholder. It's just become too much of a business and the product suffers.

I'll let others do the posting to that page, what they think is appropriate. I'm consider a little heavy handed in my approach. I am on comments, on this blog, but not so much with the real work I do. Dealing with reporters, officials, etc. presents a completely different person. But some people have developed a "love/hate" relationship. They kinda moderate my stuff to their own agenda. I don't mind at all as long as it stands up against No Kill and the breeders.

Anonymous said...

When San Francisco passed mandatory spay and neuter for pit bulls, the attacks were reduced by a big margin and the number of pit bulls in the shelter system plummeted down.

The breeders fought against it because all breeders care about is producing more product and more profits. All they see are dollar signs, not dogs.

BSL is the only thing that will help pit bulls and these morons who claim to love the pitties can't even figure that out as they help get more killed.