Giving money to animal charities

[Blueranger1]

Have 2 monthly direct debits`s for £7 to Ifaw and WWF . Also give roughly £100 per month between Lacs or Huts Sabs .

 

[bakerdave76]

I give £12 a month to ncds .

 

[LittleStan]

I prefer childrens and emergency charities to be honest, sponsored a child with Plan and donated to MSF. Mrs supports a few animal charities.

Either way it really makes no odds abroad, I was at a conference in May where the WWF were talking about a village power project they had run.

The idea seemed to be "help the local economy and the animals will be sorted".

Makes sense as well, go good having a healthy leopard and trying to convince the starving villagers not to kill and sell it.

 

[LittleStan]

kids or animals ?

kids or animals?

kids or animals?



mmmmmmmmmmmmm...... one of them is a smelly needy **** that's always biting your ankles and always need feeding, shitting all the time have to take them for walks with a plastic fucking bag..
the others a ....nice dog


animals every time

I hear ya.....started donating before the kids came along!

 

[Plaything of the gods]

I've stopped giving to humans except diseases (MS) and mental overload (Samaritans). I wouldn't give to 'animal extinction' charities because that's just part of evolution (for which we humans suffer the loss) but I am keen on 'animal cruelty' charities. We humans do some truly dreadful things to defenceless animals purely for our (or a select few's) petty financial gain. Here in Horsham there is a very worthy charity, the Born Free Foundation, that I intend to work with when I'm retired.

A CRUEL MEDICINE

Bear bile is a traditional ingredient in Asian medicine and is extracted from living bears. There are more than 10,000 Moon bears held in horrific conditions in China and Vietnam.

Caught from the wild in vicious leghold traps, the bears are kept in cramped cages, their teeth and claws removed and a metal catheter inserted into their gall bladders. The pain is excruciating and the bears suffer appalling wounds. Animals Asia has campaigned tirelessly to end the cruel practice and rescued hundreds of bears in China. Now Born Free is supporting their work to extend the new sanctuary in Hanoi, Vietnam, to enable more bears to be rescued, and to promote the herbal and synthetic alternatives to bear bile. At the sanctuary the rescued bears will receive expert veterinary treatment and enjoy nutritious food, lush natural foliage and swimming in cool water.

http://www.bornfree.org.uk/animals/moon-bears/projects/bear-farming/

 

[lloydie]

Have this talk with Mrs L often, what little I donate goes to Cancer /Hospice work, if I had more it would go to the elderley and mental health charities.
My Mrs wouldn't, she has actually set up her own charity to help protect the Sumatran Orang Utan and it's habitat, cost her loads to do it but she feels strongly about it.

 

[Clevers]

I don't give to animal charities, but giving to charities is a personal choice and people are entitled to make their choices.

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

Animals every time mate, humans bring suffering on to this planet, animals are victims of human greed and cruelty.

 

[dannybcity]

I know loads of people who go on and on about the latest exciting thing that they've done for charity and how much they've raised but they wouldn't dream of buying a big issue or a homeless person a couple of tea on their own doorstep.

I suppose animal charities just pull out the heart strings more than your local pissed up tramp.

 

[Bill]

If you are kind enough to give a little extra money you have to charity, should it always go to human charities first?

I only ask because I get into arguments when I say I would always give money to animal charities, but probably never to human charities.

I just care more about the welfare of animals and in the end it is my choice who I donate to, or do some of you think it is a waste?

human only.