A good friend remarried and his new wife supports USHS and other like organizations. I never had a clear understanding to the extent of their humanizing animals until her dog died.
At first he was relieved to be free of the $300.00 a month medical/vet bills, but to his amazement the money spent was just getting started. Coffin, burial plot, funeral service, eternal and perpetual care, flowers, paintings, and now a new pet.
When I saw the funeral service pictures it was an eye opener for sure. Forty people in attendance, twenty-five flower arrangements, Hurst, head stone and several giving elegies in the "pet chapel". Very strange to say the least but by the sheer numbers in attendance and their co-dependant type support groups using this "funeral" for fundraising, their numbers are clearly there.
I feel the same things are happening all to often, as with Arrow's case. He is a renewable non endangered resource. He should have been privately shot, the game wardens called, and at the next open house sell Bar-B-Que buffalo to raise operational funds. But that did not happen, so as damage control I started the donation idea on a thread. Hopefully it did some good.
