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Originally Posted by Nancy1999

I do agree with your statement that "In reality while PETA does work at educating on companion animal issues, they aren't really a major focus of PETA's on any level . . ." I think though, most people do believe that PETA was concerned about pets, hence the name PETA. I think most people think it's an organization that promotes pet ownership. Most dog and cat lovers use to think PETA would be the place to give their money, and think of it as a pet friendly organization. By your own words, PETA is more concerned with other issues, and in that case, why would they be entitled to receive money from the Leona Helmsley estate?

So why would they be entitled to any of this money?

Well they do have several campaigns promoting responsible pet ownership so I think that qualifies them. It's not the primary focus but it is there and this thread was started to warn about HSUS also- whose primary focus is pets. In reality if it were my decision and I had to chose between the two I would think the HSUS makes more sense for it. This thread ended up so OT and focused only on PETA and I was just responding. I actually never made an argument that PETA would be my number one choice if given one for where Leona Helmsley's money should go, in fact it probably wouldn't be but I don't see any evil if some of it did go to PETA since they certainly qualify.

Totally aside from the estate issue, as far as people's perception that PETA is a pet friendly organization, it is, it just isn't their primary focus. They actually go after what are bigger animal issues than what pets face (IMO of course) and I assume most dog and cat lovers are animal lovers in general and these are issues that I assume matter to us all.

Originally Posted by Nancy1999

But by the time, you don't believe in what PETA's doing; they might already have your money, and all the money they need to accomplish their mission, that what I mean be you have no real power. I don't believe in some of the things they are doing now, but I can't get back my past money.

But that is the same case with any organization I would support or you would or anyone. All you can do is look at how they have spent their money in the past, how they say they are going to spend money in the future and seeing if they stay in line with your beliefs.