You know how this goes. You see a TV ad with a disheveled puppy staring wistfully through the bars of its cage while Sarah McLachlan’s music plays in the background. Donate now to help the poor animals. Who wouldn’t want to help starving puppies? So you send a few bucks, thinking it’ll go toward rescues and maybe save a few lives.
Turns out you got played. It was a bait and switch, not the good folks down at your local shelter. Less than 1 percent of your money actually went toward shelter expenses and saving puppies; the rest went to endless fundraising, administrative expenses, bloated salaries, and increasingly sophisticated emotional manipulation.
To add insult to injury, you thought your money was going to the kind souls doing the real work, pulling puppies out of ditches and rehabilitating them for adoption. Instead, what was left of your money (after lining some pockets) went to activists who pour blood on people in supermarkets while screaming meat is murder.
Let’s pause for a second; feel free to donate to a “meat is murder” cause if that’s what you believe in. The problem is the bait and switch. You were the victim of a predatory fundraising group with the perfect formula to override your good sense and prey
