You’ve personally seen even ASPCA losing it? That’s sad, as they seemed to be among the last with their heads screwed on halfway straight. It began sensibly enough and last I heard directly from ASPCA they wanted to stop people who ritually and habitually abused animals (and they were not talking about feeding the wrong kind of cat food, they mean things like wounding the animals on purpose or abandoning it for weeks in a locked apartment, that a sociopath might do). I had an interesting exchange with their president about the involvement of mental illness (no not theirs, the sociopaths’) — animal abusers are often out of their minds in other areas and warrant the attention of mental health professionals if anyone does, this is a problem that mere fines and jail often cannot address. They agreed with me but it never went further.
And anyhow, as a vet (you do have a business somewhere?) do you get totally misleading come-ons from HSUS in particular? It astonished me when the pretty competent lady vet (that has a double meaning) who looks after my cats’ rabies shots and the like put an HSUS stand ad on her counter. I didn’t feel like arguing politics at the time, but gee whiz ma’am doctor, these folks would just as soon see you wearing a barrel.