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We are not advocating
end of big organizations or even reduction of six-figure salaries being awarded their chief executives.Why shouldn't someone who saves an animal get paid as well as someone who is willing to send them to slaughter or pave over habitat? But, in any business and most other endeavors, a chief executive who does not do job is either demoted or fired. The big animal organizations have not done job. Should they continue to get paid?
Too much of their funding is channeled back into their own development, feeding their own labyrinthine gullets. These organizations have become creatures with bigger and bigger bellies and weaker arms and legs and smaller hearts to get things done. If we were truly compassion driven, we would not be so uninformed as to assume large national groups were truly out to help animals with their millions and millions of dollars laying around in bank accounts while much needed and well deserved programs go unfunded and lives continue to be lost. If we were truly compassion driven, we would educate ourselves on facts of these issues so as to clearly understand our individual roles in prevention.
Sharing blame and shame is American Kennel Club, which issues registration papers indiscriminately to decent breeders and to puppy mills alike. They sponsor suffering of thousands upon thousands of animals. No big organization wants to take them on. Why? We must admit problems are ours and ours to solve. Like our fanatical minority and religious leaders, our large animal welfare organizations need their victims. Absent crime and imaginary situations against their people and teachings, these organizations disappear -- this means jobs. Jobs = egos. As long as they can convince those who don't know any better, they will survive.
The picture as of today, is one of an overworked underfunded and failing animal control effort, schools failing to institute any form of humane education programs into a curriculum at any level, media won't cover real stories of HOW to prevent this and see a productive future, their readers don't want stories of puppies and kittens dying as it's too upsetting to read. Finally, all those who are sitting at their desk right now in any animal protection organizations while reading this are going to be outwardly angered that One would accost them in such a manner, but are not willing to correct situation as it stands, to ensure they receive a pay check next week.
The major animal welfare organizations are not useless. The world is a better place with them than without them, but they fall short. Too short. To whom much is given, much is expected.
Randy N. Warner is the worlds' foremost leader humane education materials. His efforts have been featured in People Magazine, NY Post, LA Times, along with appearances on Letterman, CBS Eve News and Hard Copy
See www.21stcenturycares.org/
See the books he's authored also www.21stcenturycares.org/products.htm
