Wayne the Delusional, echoing the worldly insight and life experience of an eight year-old, complains that nature films are not very authentic.

Most of us are familiar with the “there is no Santa Claus” reality-check when reports surfaced that Walt Disney staged Lemming mass suicide just to make a nature film more interesting. But now, a few decades after that reveal, Wayne Pacelle has learned that nature films are often staged, so he now whines about “ethical problems that arise in wildlife filmmaking.”

HSUS sells vegetarian dog food as "a nutritious, environmentally friendly and ethically responsible food for our best friends."

http://www.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2010/02/humane_choice_d...

(http://tinyurl.com/ylzhb9s)

The dog food made by HSUS, Humane Choice, that is made in Uruguay, does contain preservatives and vitamins that may be from synthetic sources, since the package does not specify the source of the vitamins.

http://thehumanechoice.com/recipe.htm

HSUS promotes Halo and Halo supports HSUS.

Hill's Pet Nutrition makes a pet food line that includes Prescription Diet® and Science Diet®. They have recently issued a statement to customers announcing that they will no longer continue their program with HSUS and Care.

Why does the company, Drs. Foster and Smith, which provides products to animal owners, support and affiliate itself with the anti-animal ownership organization, HSUS?

10. Shelter dogs can have problems; they aren't for everyone.

9. Your animals are kind of a mess. I know you mean well so we're
going to get you some help.

8. Mandatory spay/neuter is a lousy idea. If all dogs are sterilized,
where will the puppies come from?

7. We're firing all the lobbyists and lawyers and we're going to put
the money into training animal control workers, improving shelters,
and organizing transport programs.

6. We're good at raising money but we don't know much about animals.
If you want advice about animal policy, you should talk to an

The Examiner, an animal ownership separatist-friendly publication, recently published an article opposing NAIA’s (http://www.naiaonline.org/) billboard campaign (http://exposeanimalrights.com/) against animal rights groups that fight against animal ownership. The Examiner’s article cited SourceWatch.com for its information on NAIA. SourceWatch is a wiki, which means that anyone can change the content in its pages. So, wikians, there may be a bit of work for you here.

Links to various SourceWatch pages follow.

The purpose of this post is to provide a resource to links to state animal shelter databases and other statistics-related links. Just post comments to the blog with new links as they are discovered.

The starting list follows.

http://www.naiashelterproject.org/charts_map.cfm

http://www.epi.state.nc.us/epi/vet/index.html

http://www.virginia.gov/vdacs_ar/cgi-bin/Vdacs_search.cgi

Here is a page with links to sources,
http://www.aspca.org/about-us/faq/pet-statistics.html.

http://www.seattle.gov/animalshelter/statistics.htm

http://www.rpanimalshelter.org/shelterstats.shtml