There are many Breed Specific Rescues, as well as Local Shelters that need help maintaining animals that have been abandoned, rescued or surrendered for whatever reason. The Breed Specific Rescues that are associated with a Breed Specific Rescue network have 100% of the funds they raise dedicated to helping the animals they take in. The local shelters work with the help of volunteers and may have some state or local support, but mostly function from your donations. They operate boarding facilities, gain veterinary assistance for animals in need and adopt out as many healthy well temperamented animals.

The ADOA
The American Dog Owners Association preserves the special relationship between dogs and mankind by protecting and defending the rights of responsible dog ownership; opposing detrimental and supporting appropriate regulation for dog owners; educating the public; and promoting standards for safe and civilized treatment of dogs.
American Dog Owners Association is a good website that will help you keep up with what is being proposed
locally and how it will impact you over time
http://www.adoa.org/


AKC
Breed Rescue Groups
http://www.akc.org/breeds/rescue.cfm
Provides a list of Breed Specific contacts who can assist you with information about purebred rescue.

As a consumer, when you make the decision to donate, you need to look beyond the surface and see what these organizations have done over the years to rescue domestic pets and what their true motives are behind the hype. There are many "Animal Wefare Agencies and Animal Activists who taut that animals should be free to roam the world and not held captive by human beings. They feel that the human being in not responsible enough to own animals of any kind.

I am going to share some documentation about some of these organizations who exhibit questionable behavior as documented in the media, however, they have you, the consumer, blinded to their ultimate goal of stripping you of the right to own an animal as a pet or as a food source of any kind.
Folks, who do you think is behind all this mandatory spay and neuter legislation, taking away the right to make decisions about your own pets. Who do you think is behind the local pet guardian legislation, and the breed specific bans, etc.
Animal activists are not necessarily on your side. Yes they do appear to do some heroic things for the whales and the dolphins, but that is just a cover to hide what they are really doing behind the scenes. I have been active in fighting some of this legislation that is slowly chipping away at our rights to own animals. You should be paying attention to local legislation and stopping it before all your rights are taken away from you with regards owning animals as pets.

The Humane Society of the United States:
"One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic
animals. They are creations of human selective breeding." (Wayne Pacelle,
CEO, HumaneSociety of the United States; Animal People News (May 1, 1993));
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) does not operate a single pet
shelter anywhere in the US. Please donate to your local shelter and NOT
HSUS.

Consumer Group: HSUS Must Return Donations after Misleading Haiti Fundraising

Humane Society Of The United States Has A History Of Deceptive Pitches

Washington, DC - The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is calling on the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) to return all the funds it has raised under the pretense of "saving" animals in the wake of Haiti's devastating earthquake. A disaster relief expert working with Humane Society International (HSUS's global arm) reports that there are no animal issues resulting from the earthquake and that no actions can be taken to help animals there. This follows a thorough assessment of the situation in Haiti.

HSUS continues to raise funds for "emergency" donations, claiming Tuesday that "Humane Society International's team on the ground in Haiti continues its work of helping animals in distress."

David Martosko, Director of Research at the Center for Consumer Freedom released the following statement on HSUS's deceptive fundraising:

Raising money to help nonexistent animals is the lowest kind of fundraising scam. Sadly, it's just the latest in a string of phony HSUS fundraising schemes.

In 2007 HSUS raised money with the false promise that it would be used to "care for the dogs seized in the Michael Vick case." The New York Times later reported that HSUS was not caring for the animals at all, and HSUS president Wayne Pacelle said his group is recommending that government officials "put down" (kill) all the dogs, many of which were later saved by other organizations.

HSUS also raised a reported $34 million in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, funds that were supposed to help reunite lost pets with their owners. But an investigation by WSB-TV in Atlanta found that less than $7 million of this money could be publicly accounted for.

In the name of transparency, HSUS should cease its Haiti fundraising immediately, or redirect 100 percent of the proceeds to the American Red Cross.

The Center for Consumer Freedom is a nonprofit coalition supported by restaurants, food companies, and consumers, working together to promote personal responsibility and protect consumer choices.

For media comment, contact our media department at 202-463-7112 ext. 115

PETA
Exclusive: PETA’s Pet Killing Program Set a New Record in 2008
Public Records: PETA Found Adoptive Homes for Less than 1 out of 300 Animals

Animal lovers worldwide now have access to more than a decade’s worth of proof that People for the

Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) kills thousands of defenseless pets at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters. Since 1998, PETA has opted to “put down” 21,339 adoptable dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens instead of finding homes for them.

PETA’s “Animal Record” report for 2008, filed with the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, shows that the animal rights group killed 95 percent of the dogs and cats in its care last year. During all of 2008, PETA found adoptive homes for just seven pets.

Just seven animals -- out of the 2,216 it took in. PETA just broke its own record.

Why would an animal rights group secretly kill animals at its headquarters? PETA’s continued silence on the matter makes it hard to say for sure. But from a cost-saving standpoint, PETA’s hypocrisy isn’t difficult to understand: Killing adoptable cats and dogs – and storing the bodies in a walk-in freezer until they can be cremated – requires far less money and effort than caring for the pets until they are adopted.

PETA has a $32 million annual budget. But instead of investing in the lives of the thousands of flesh and blood creatures in its care, the group spends millions on media campaigns telling Americans that eating meat, drinking milk, fishing, hunting, wearing leather shoes, and benefiting from medical research performed on lab rats are all “unethical.”

The bottom line: PETA’s leaders care more about cutting into their advertising budget than finding homes for the nearly six pets they kill on average, every single day.

The Virginia Beach SPCA, just down the road from PETA’s Norfolk headquarters, manages to adopt out the vast majority of the animals in its care. And it does it on a shoestring budget.

Years of public outrage has not been enough to convince PETA to eliminate its pet eradication program.

Now the death toll of animals in PETA’s care has reached 21,339, including more than 2,000 pets last year.
That’s not an animal charity. It’s a slaughterhouse.

Pets 911
www.pets911.com
This is one of those organizations whereby you as a consumer needs to do some research. They are associated with HSUS - but that may not necessarily be bad if their goal is true rescue and rehome of pet animals???
Mission
To be the platform for a collaborative network of animal rescue organizations, health services, media, marketers and Forever Families for the betterment of animals that become part of the shelter and rescue system across North America.

Pets 911 provides the public with a focused repository of animal related education elements along with adoption, lost and found and health services. We contend it is only through educating the public that we will create a proactive environment to substantially decrease the extermination of the adoptable pet population that currently resides in the over-burdened shelter system across North America.

Pets 911 is an answer for not only the public, but also the animal welfare community to take a proactive stance in saving the lives of over 5 million viable animals every year.

Pets 911 is partnered with many of the nation’s largest animal welfare organizations, such as the Humane Society of the United States, SPAY/USA, Alley Cat Allies, HALO and thousands of local shelters and rescues across the country to provide this valuable information to the public.

Through our partnerships with various media outlets we include our content on their Web sites, providing their usership even further access to all of Pets 911’s life saving content. This content is devoted to saving homeless animals, ultimately being a part of the solution to ending pet overpopulation and the euthanasia of adoptable pets.

Pets 911 is also a toll-free phone service (1-888-PETS-911), that enables people to access a life-saving notification system. We are partnered with the Maricopa Animal Care and Control on this project and we will roll this out in other Counties in the coming months, becoming a true public service.

These are just a few of the organizations out there.
If you are going to put your efforts out to helping save an animals life - my recommendation would be to
donate to a breed specific rescue group who is associated with a larger breed specific network. All your money goes to help the animals. Or go to your local shelters, where, once again, the major part of your contribution goes to the animals in need, not into the pockets of the greedy and wealthy.

Thank you for yoru time.

Kathy Jacobsen