Animals lovers everywhere want to help those animals that are less fortunate that their own household pets. In an attempt to help,  most will donate blindly to an association based solely on the sound of the name or even the fact that this organization has been around awhile.

We have all received those envelopes in the mail with the cute Christmas cards begging for you to support the charity by buying these cards. Some of us also have received letters throughout the year showing starving and abused dogs and cats. Others, pictures of Rabbits while the writer indicates that this is a result of animal testing for the purpose of testing shaving cream and won't you please help by sending money!

The two organizations that most often use these begging tactics are PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and HSUS the (Humane Society of the United States.)

Please do not be duped by these organizations. They are playing on your sympathies and using YOUR money to further their hidden agendas. There is nothing good about them. Your money supports their self serving interests!

All Charities with annual revenues of $25, 000 or more must file form 990 with the federal government. This form details exactly what portion of contributions goes to help animals and how much goes to administrative costs.

It is better if a nonprofit group raises its own money or uses volunteers to raise that money. There are a lot of 90-10 contracts out there where only 10 percent actually reaches the actual cause. Be aware that some charities list fund-raising costs as program services in their reports and it doesn't directly aid animals.

We have the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA, the scourge of the earth. PETA supports Terrorism by donating YOUR money to groups know as The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) Both of these groups are responsible for terrorist acts against fellow Americans for various reason that, simply put, do NOT agree with the agendas of the ALF and ELF. They raid farms releasing all of the animals and they bomb research laboratories.

PETA made a sizable donation last year to the North American Earth Liberation Front, which claimed credit for the 1998 fire bombing of a Vail Ski Resort and literally hundreds of other crimes.

The violent activist group known as "Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty" (SHAC) is a special-interest subset of an FBI-certified "terrorist group" called the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). SHAC is singularly dedicated to destroying a medical research company that uses laboratory animals in its search for clues to curing breast cancer and Parkinson's Disease.

See how this goes???? PETA donates YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY TO ALF AND ALF SPONSORS SHAC, a terrorist group!! And you thought that you were saving rabbits from being tested with shaving cream.

Hats off to PETA for their successful job of totaling *snowing* the general public!

PETA made the following Fiscal Report
Fiscal Year: 2004 Assets: $6,403,799 Income: $13,867,001
PETA files an IRS Form 990 or 990-EZ.
To see PETA'S income tax return click on the link below
http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2005/521/218/2005-521218336-02015e44-9.pdf
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