(These two award winning articles also provide creative analysis and viewpoints that correspond with this book:  STORYBOOK  and   TRUST )

An insider's view of the American version of the animal protection movement and all the noble and hard working volunteers who devote their entire beings and souls to the simple, yet unachievable goals of actually seeing resolve due to egos, politics and greed.

Although containing much criticism within these pages, it is by no means meant to do harm nor degrade the idealism of providing the companion animals we cherish, with the safe and healthy lives they are intended to enjoy, but to make a solid attempt to lure those hard working volunteers back into the much larger 'single' group that we should be in order to have the voices required to share the messages, enforce the laws and educate the public in an organized and unified manner to which the public will most likely respond to.

That would give us the such power that we would be unlikely to really use it. After all, it's been proven over time that conscience is much more powerful than consequence. If the general public thought we were a force to be reckoned with, they would not be as likely to break the laws but refrain from dealing with our numbers.

Realizing the billions of dollars this nation spends annually through taxes and donations, we can not possibly be proud of the flaring omission of successes we've achieved. Knowing that there are 3,000+ animal protection organizations just in America who annually log over one million volunteer man hours and that everyone's life has been positively affected by a dog or cat, I'm really surprised that nobody has yet to stand up and ask these very questions.

This nation's major animal organizations have good intentions, but are drowning in a quagmire of competition between themselves for the eve popular publicity in major newspapers as they crave the almighty dollar more than they crave success. Maybe the executives equate the two. Of course it takes a large sum of money to try and bring resolve to so many issues, but for the past 25 years, it's clear that the $20,000,000,000 ($20 Billion) we've thrown their way has not brought a conclusion to the main problems of pet overpopulation, animal abuse and neglect.

This is a good faith effort to make everyone aware of the growing financial powerhouses these national animal groups are becoming. This means that either we begin to police ourselves or sit back  and allow the government to step in and begin their own policing of our efforts.

The reasons for the abundance of shortcomings and lack of 'real' achievements are many. In this book I show the ten main reasons why we will not likely ever solve these problems UNLESS everyone will stop thinking that THEY have the only solution and to begin working together in many ways. I discuss a few of the situations I've experienced in my 22 years of doing rescue work as well as the ten years I've provided humane education to over 5,000 young people in 11 states.

We need to begin a process that will allow change to surface. We need to demand accountability from our local and federal governments as well as the major animal groups for the billions of dollars we pay in taxes and donate to them. We need to recognize, that as a group, we have massive powers to change laws and simply provide the education that is necessary to enforce these ideas. Seeing the need for change in this movement, at some point in time, we must all make the decision to stop exhausting all our funds and energies that place their focus solely on cleaning up yesterday's messes and to decide that we want to see solutions that will ultimately protect the millions and billions of animals yet to be born as well. Humane education is the best.... no, THE ONLY MEANS we have to accomplish this goal!!!

We must not lose perspective and shall choose those campaigns that will save more animals in the long run. the animals that exist today are a very tiny percentage of the animals who will be killed and tortured in the coming years, decades and millennia. Paying excessive attention to those who suffer today is actually condemning millions more to suffer the same fate. With the millions and billions of dollars spent to clean up the existing troubles, we've given nothing in time and effort to our tomorrows and all the animals that will be born in the future.

We must all, in the near future, realize that if for some reason, everyone involved with animal rescue were to throw in the towel tomorrow, the following day would be total chaos for the animals as we have just not given that any thought or respect at all.  Nobody in the world would like to see this effort succeed than I.

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