Dave Smith wrote:
>
> While there my be people who find themselves in hard times,
> let's not pretend that there are are not people who go out and acquire
> pets they cannot afford to care for. A prime example would be the
> street people who get a dog to pose for pity donations.

Here's a good one that I've noticed on late night commercials.
Some charity to feed the starving little children in some 3rd
world country. First of all, they show cute little kids to get
your sympathy. But then they show many hard cases...mothers
waiting in a long line for food and those little kids look like
living skeletons, obviously near death from starvation.

What bothers me is all those horribly starving children are being
held by very well fed and healthy looking mothers. I see a big
problem with that.