Has Rescue become an industry for the bigger agencies?
Posted by flip195 on March 20, 2008
When I look at some of the “Well Known” animal agencies and the figures they put out each year I find myself asking this question.
Some of the agencies that have recently been made famous by animal planet for instance
Houston SPCA Pat Mercer (Pres) $167,500 Salary
Michigan Humane Calvin Morgan (Exec Dir) $128,618 Salary
NY. ASPCA Edward J Sayres ( Pres) $393,541 Salary
The list goes on and on.
These places Gross MILLIONS of dollars per year, they have the money to advertise, to build, to get their faces on the news etc.
Meanwhile thousands of small mom and pop type rescues struggle to make ends meet. Without these small rescues, the larger agencies would go under from the sheer volume of unwanted, abused, negelcted animals needing help, yet not one of these agencies offer any help, like free vet care, spay/neuter etc to the smaller rescues. Nor do they offer any financial help.
The directors, presidents, and workers of these small rescues do not get paid, these places are run by volunteers, the bills are met out of the pockets of these volunteers, they rarely get donations, but they always get the animals. Most don’t kill for space, euths done properly and gently at the vets office, full price is paid, and are only done in cases of serious illness and severe aggression.
So if you want to make a donation to help animals please seriously consider who is more deserving, an agencies that pays a huge salary to someone or the small rescue that is struggling, where no-one gets paid.
Do you want your donation to pay someones salary, or do you want it to save a cat, dog, horse, goat, sheep, pig etc…. the choice is yours.
Marianne Stovall said
Yeah, I’m pretty put out myself. I went into animal rescue to make a difference—What a joke!!!! The only difference is I’m totaled out, fully spent, believing now that there is no silver lining for those of humble beginnings, dogs or man. All we do is just use them up, waste them so to speak at the expense of those closer to God than ourselves and the animals of course too. Just the best of the best fair, and they always will. It’s the way of our world. It’s a terrible fact to face yet it gives those of us who try to the point of desparation at least a reason to completely give up for good!!!!!!!