Ask Wellness Pet Food to Support Local Shelters, not HSUS

Last week on Giving Tuesday, some readers let us know of a promotion benefiting the deceptive Humane Society of the United States: For every dollar donated to HSUS, Wellness Natural Pet Food would provide a bowl of food as a donation to HSUS.

Donating food is a great promotion. It’s just that HSUS is not a great partner. HSUS doesn’t run a single pet shelter anywhere.

And more to the point, HSUS isn’t exactly starved of funding. The group has some $200 million in assets. Last year, it stuck $50 million of donor money into Caribbean hedge funds. That’s a lot of bowls of food. HSUS ought to already be doing more to feed animals, but instead it shamefully mismanages donor money—whether it’s earning bad marks*from charity watchdogs for high spending on overhead, sticking money in the Caribbean, or even paying a large racketeering settlement.

Who could use the pet food donations? Local shelters or rescues that take care of cats, dogs, and other pets. They’re often in desperate need of help, and they could use the extra boost generated by a partnership with a pet food brand.

Ask WellPet’s CEO, Tim Callahan, to please stop doing business with the scammers at HSUS. Please take a moment to send him a polite note encouraging him to do things a little differently next time.

Timothy Callahan, CEO
WellPet
200 Ames Pond Drive
Tewksbury, MA 01876
978-289-5500
tcallahan@wellpet.com



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My name is Chanda Leary, and I am with Wellness in our home office in Massachusetts. I wanted to personally reachout to your group here to say thank you for your feedback about the #GivingTuesday campaign. Pet parents are very important to us, which is why we are reaching out. We participated in #GivingTuesday by donating meals directly to pets in underserved communities through the Pets for Life program. This program provides food and veterinary services for pets that would not typically have access to it because their families cannot afford the care or food. Our participation did not include a monetary donation. Through our WellPet Foundation, we provide nutritional and monetary support to a wide variety of animal welfare organizations year-round, the majority of which are on the local level. Our overall goal is to help pets live happier, healthier lives through the power of natural nutrition. We do not have an ongoing relationship, and it was a one-day event. I would be happy to answer any other questions you may have. I can be reached at cleary<at>wellpet<dot>com or you may contact our Consumer Affairs team at info<at>wellpet<dot>com. Thank you.