My Nonprofit Reviews

 There are three reasons that I will no longer support this organization, those three reasons having to do with the Caboodle story only tangentially: First, the extreme ugliness of their supporters. Look and judge for yourself. http://madisonfloridavoice.net/?s=took+my+cats

 Second, in my opinion they have squandered the "in good faith" donations, including mine, to fly in and entertain people from all over the country when there were and are local and semi-local people who could have been of assistance. Instead of putting their volunteers up locally, in addition, the word is that they put them up in expensive Jax hotels and restaurants and rented tour coaches to carry them to and from Lee each day of the "rescue." https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhEJ5J_n7tIqdHNTNmJfZ1Fwc2RuazR2RHJpVGVqSmc#gid=0
Since this is a matter of local rumor, I am willing to have it pointed out and proven that it is not entirely accurate by the display of hotel and restaurant bills.

Third, they claim to have "rescued" the Caboodle cats and yet their "adoption event" is being billed as "free of charge adoptions." Surely, this organization has the experience to know that "free to a good home" adoptions are not in the best interests of the animals. If they do not, here is something that might help them: http://www.pet-abuse.com/pages/animal_adoption/free_pets.php#ixzz21rku8pUI
Fourth, I have over the summer discovered numerous otherwise moderate opinion that gives me much concern that the opinion that I have had of the organization may no longer be a valid or accurate one: http://www.dailynews.com/ci_21169780/tables-turned-humane-society (Please read to note the involvement of the ASPCA in this story. Unfortunately, however, I have come to believe that the HSUS and the ASPCA are "on the same page" in a number of ways and I therefore include this link also: http://www.veterinarypracticenews.com/vet-practice-news-columns/reality-check/hsus-agenda-on-par-with-that-of-peta.aspx)

 Disillusionment is not an easy thing. I have many times offered the ASPCA supporters the opportunity to re-instate the organization in my constellation of charities. However, they have not attempted to do so. I was once even directly refused. Instead, they have continued to name-call, accuse, pivot the discussion, and to employ other very recognizable fallacious tactics of argument. For me, I would not have cut off my contributions to a charitable organization because of a bona fide willingness to take on the rescue of animals that they, in good faith, believed to be abused. What I will withdraw my contributions for is manipulation, waste, inhumanity to man or animal, or for an extremist mission that I can no longer find myself in sympathy with because of its extremity.

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