Dear Honest Kitchen,
My name is Sandie and I am a volunteer with Neuse River Golden Retriever Rescue. www.goldenrescuenc.org
You recently sent our organization some samples to give out in our goodie bags at our annual rescue reunion, where over 100 Rescued Golden Retrievers attended. We truly hope some of those attendees start using your food as we believe in your product and think that feeding our pets high quality food is the one of the best thing we, as dog owners, can do for them.
I wanted to send you a couple of pictures of two puppies that our rescue group recently saved. These pups were dropped off at a shelter at 5 weeks old and were due to be put to sleep, since they were left without their mother at such an early age. Our rescue group jumped into action and brought these sweet babies into our program. I personally fostered 3 of the pups and fed them honest kitchen from day 1. I believe that your food has helped them become the strong, healthy, active pups they are today at 8 weeks. They are truly thriving as a result of this great organization that I volunteer with, the love of their fosters and the delicious, high quality, nourishing food that they LOVE to eat.
Thank you honest kitchen!
Sandie C.
NRGRR secretary and foster
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The fires from Tracy Hotchner’s blog post on The Honest Kitchen’s donation to the HSUS last year continue to smolder.
Steven, an Honest Kitchen blog reader, left the following comment on Tracie’s post…
“This is one of those topics where, in order to have a credible argument/opinion on the issue, one must do a little homework; “drive-by posters”, keep on driving….
While I agree that the Humane Society of the United States (By the way, you should always define acronyms on first use.) has done a lot to help the welfare of animals, it, like any other large organization is not without its faults, and no amount of general nonconstructive criticism will not change this; only actions such as education of the public, letter-writing, internal member actions, etc. can effect organization policy…
To the layperson, HSUS is usually thought of in a solely positive light, but as a dog owner I have come to have some strongly-felt criticism towards the organization…
While acknowledging their overall historical contributions to animal welfare in the US, I was only recently made aware of their stance that all fighting dogs confiscated by law enforcement should undergo mandatory euthanization.
The landmark decision of the federal prosecutor in the Michael Vick case to allow the temperament testing and screening of the animals resulted in the exposure of the ignorance of the HSUS on this matter: Only one dog had to be destroyed as too far mentally damaged to be rehabilitated. The remaining 48 or so dogs that survived have all been rehabilitated and most, if not all of them have been adopted into loving permanent or foster homes. These dogs are ambassadors of the breed and highlight the ignorance of the HSUS because, as an organization that claims to be knowledgeable about animals, they really should have known (and acknowledged) that the APBT (American Pit Bull Terrier) is as resilient mentally as they are physically and have an excellent chance of recovery and rehabilitation despite the horrendous abuses they endure.
HSUS is large and powerful enough to have taken a stance supporting rehabilitation screening for former fighting dogs a long time ago and could have saved countless dogs’ lives. Some speculate that lack of this action is due to their policies being influenced by the “foo-foo show dog crowd” who do not want “their organization” to be seen as helping “those killer dogs”.
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