Actually Haitians do keep companion animials....saw it on the news tonight....a big family hanging out with their dog.....a Doctor was trying to help a kid and the dog was interfering and the Doctor told the family to keep the dog away. That said....I agree it's BS that any of these organizations are involved in rescue in Haiti.....ASPCA just sent me an email today......I can't figure out how to reply to them. Cindy www.cinosamgsd.com --- On Mon, 1/18/10, pmick12 <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: pmick12 <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] latest HSUS/PETA lies.......Haiti.............. To: Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 5:13 PM The HSUS, IFAW, ASPCA, WSPA are all lying about the animal situation in Haiti! Haiti was ravaged by severe storms in 2008, and most of the crops and livestock were completely wiped out. Over 57% of the population there is extremely impoverished, and "dumpster diving" for food is essentially the norm. Over 40% of that country's population consists of children under 14 years of age. Haitians do NOT keep "companion animals" - they can neither afford them nor sustain them. About the only livestock left in Haiti are goats, and not many of those...and they are used for food. There are no "roaming packs of stray dogs." If you have been following the situation as closely on TV as I have, you will not see animals of any kind. One viewer finally spotted 1 (yes, ONE) chicken yesterday on CNN. These urgent pleas to save the animals in Haiti are nothing more than the latest barrage of LIES from the HSUS, et al, to bankroll themselves even further. Please cross post the blog link given below widely to try to help educate people about the true "plight of the animals" in Haiti. What we're seeing from the HSUS is their standard money-grab. What they're doing is a crime against mercy itself. Here's a snippet from the blog: ***The ASPCA and HSUS also claimed that there are companion animals. "...a large stray dog population, an untold number of companion animals." This is really a tough sell, in an area so poor that scanning trash for food was the norm. It would be utter suicide for the more than 80 percent of those are poor in the country to house and feed a companion animal. Approximately 57 percent were deeply impoverished, and the figure is now expected to rise significantly. "I didn't see one cat while I was there, and I would have noticed that because I'm very much a cat person," said James Patrick Jordan, who was in Haiti for a human rights delegation just six days prior to the quake. "There didn't appear to be a lot of overcrowded factory farming of animals, and since they weren't, as a rule, confined to buildings that would have fallen on them." ***** Full blog text is here: http://www.anairhoads.org/animal/ASPCAlied.shtml ===========================================================================POST is Copyrighted 2009. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ =========================================================================== ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2009. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================