On Fri, 11 May 2018 16:51:44 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 5/11/2018 10:58 AM, Gary wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>I'm not making light of the situation by any means. I did love a line
>by comedian Sam Kinison about those children's charities: "Gee, you'd
>think someone on the film crew could give that kid a sandwich."
>
>How about if they take the resources used to film those commercials and
>put it towards providing clean drinking water, food and medicines instead?
>
>Jill

The major pet food companies donate semi truck loads to feed needy
pets. In the US there is never any reason for a pet to go hungry. My
wife worked as a CPA for Colgate Palmolive for years, they sent
truckloads to where people needed to feed pets... Science Diet is
Colgate....