Why is anyone listening to the Humane Society of the United States anymore?

Examiner.com - USA -- The “Humane” Society isn’t as humane as you’d think. They have a bad track record with defending the lives of the victims of dog fighting rings. We all remember the media frenzy associated with the Michael Vick dogs in April of 2007. Well, Wayne Pacelle the CEO of the Humane Society did an interview with Madeleine Brand on NPR in regards to the Michael Vick dogs and she asked “So, in this particular situation they are not even up for adoption?” Wayne Pacelle’s response was, “Well, typically not because these are animals that were bred for aggression, they were trained for aggression, and then there was this culling process where you had selection for just the most aggressive animals. We would consider it irresponsible to put them up for … adoption because number one, some of the wrong people might want them, other people interested in dog fighting might want to obtain them and if it was just a situation where people didn’t really know how to handle them, these dogs could certainly be a danger to other dogs, and to animals and possibly to children as well.”

This response is creating a mass fear of pit bulls. Wayne Pacelle is the CEO of the Humane Society and he is keeping this fear alive. Shame on him. He isn’t giving any pit bull a chance. He is making a sweeping assumption that kills all the dogs without treating them as individuals.

In February of this year, another raid “rescued” the victims of another dog fighting ring in Wilkes County, North Carolina.
According to Wilkes County Chief Deputy Chris Shew some of the 127 pit bulls were in the kennel’s fenced enclosure and others were chained to stakes near dog houses in nearby woods. About half of the dogs were puppies.

Two representatives from HSUS were in the court room when the fates of these dogs, mostly puppies, were decided. There were even puppies that were born after the raid. They killed those puppies, too.

Amanda Arrington, N.C. director for The Humane Society of the U.S., and Chris Schindler, the agency's deputy manager of animal-fighting law enforcement, both told the judge that these particular dogs have been bred for aggression. The Humane Society of the U.S. was the lead agency involved in the undercover investigation that led to the arrests.

Wilkes Animal Control Director Junior Simmons told the judge that some of the dogs that were puppies when they were seized in December are already showing aggression toward each other.

"They're not just play fighting," he said. "They're starting to draw blood."
Puppies are starting to draw blood? Are you kidding me? Dogs have to be trained repeatedly to fight, dogs by their nature are kind, loving animals. I don’t believe for one minute that puppies are so aggressive that they are “drawing blood”. Shame on the HSUS for not addressing that issue. You know why dog fighters pick pit bulls? It’s not because they are vicious killers. It’s because they want to please their owners. They want to make their owner happy and unfortunantely, dogs don’t know between right and wrong. They think their owners are telling them what is right. I have to add here that any dog that is not trained properly can have behavior problems. So, if someone gets a pit bull and does not know how to treat or train them, there could be problems. Read more about pit bulls here.

Then recently, there was a huge raid that spanned a few states. Read about his at the Humane Society of Missouri’s website. In response to this, Wayne Pacelle, told a St. Louis newspaper:

"It's just unclear what will happen," said Wayne Pacelle, head of the Humane Society of the United States. "I think it's pretty certain that a lot of those dogs will not pass a behavioral test."

What? This is the CEO of the Humane Society, one of the most influential animal organizations out there and he is just calling for the deaths of all of these victims of dog fighting. They are victims and he is calling for their death. You might be thinking, well, these dogs are aggressive…no, not all of them. Puppies that were born after the raid could not be aggressive.

Aggressiveness is not genetic! It is a learned behavior that newborn puppies have no tendency toward.

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Gotta ask, though, how much harm does it do for someone to claim that "pit bull" dogs are NOT disposed to fight with other dogs? That's pretty much a breed trait to be aware of in ANY Terrier breed.

We can't fight misinformation with more misinformation and expect to be believed.