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Originally Posted by Teresamag  Hi All, I agree that a raffle of a living animal is very wrong for so many reasons. Just remember not everyone has access to the type of information we do or understands the consequences of auctioning a puppy. I get several requests a year to donate a puppy to March of Dimes, school groups, and other causes. I have to explain each and every time NICELY why it isn't right to auction a puppy and that I just won't do it for several reasons but mostly because I can't approve the home it will go to. Each time I educate someone nicely without being judgemental or mean it is a chance to have someone really listen to my reasoning and maybe learn. If I get mean and nasty to them they may shut me out and not listen and learn. Maybe the next time the topic of auctioning a puppy is brought up the person I educated will educate more people. Maybe I'm a "Miss Merry Sunshine" but I prefer to educate rather than get on to someone, I prefer to think they just didn't know better. What did our mother's teach us?? You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar. 
I don't think this auction is by her school athletic department. It sounds like a competitive travel team. My daughter is on such a team and it is very expensive, we do many, many fundraisers each year plus parents pay player's fees just to be on the team.
Teresa |
While the school is not technically running the raffle, I suggested writing to the Principal not because he was running it, but because I would think that a college preparatory school holding itself out as some fine educational establishment would be concerned about the activities of its students (on and off school grounds) when those activities are directly intended to financially benefit a school team. If I were the principal, I'd be a little embarrassed that my students resorted to exploitation of an innocent animal to raise money for their athletic events.
Perhaps as Ms. Merry Sunshine you can tell him in a nicer way than those of us that cut right to the chase when it involves our precious breed.