BigMouth Posted December 2, 2006 Report Share Posted December 2, 2006 If you had £5 to give to charity and had to give it to a children's charity or an animal charity which would you choose and why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustMe Posted December 2, 2006 Report Share Posted December 2, 2006 At this moment the Cats Protection League because I have a friend who runs one of their branches. Animals rather than children because I think it is the governments duty to ensure that children, at least in the UK, do not depend on charity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Posted December 2, 2006 Report Share Posted December 2, 2006 I'd rather give a fiver to Aid Africa or whatever than to some freaking fur balls we keep for our own amusement. It's like those sad old ladies that leave their $$$ inheritance to their cats. Drown 'em and give the cash to a real charity i say! I used to give to amnesty international. Not because I'm particularly right-on, it's just that a girl with a clipboard jumped me on princess st and I was charmed into it. Had to cancel my fiver a month direct debit a year later when one payment put me overdrawn with my great mates at the royal bank, who then charged me £30. I love 'em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouth Posted December 2, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2006 It would always be to a people charity rather than to an animal charity for me. I have been on the receiving end of charity three times. As a child the NSPCC provided kids in children's homes in Leeds with a day out. A military charity provided the rail fare to go to care for my father who was terminally ill when I couldn't afford the ticket. My wife got a cat whose leg ended up broken (the cat's). Cats Protection League gave me the money for the vet and to have it's nuts chopped off. My giving to charity is regular, through the lottery, something a lot of christians have criticised me for. They don't do such things, so I like to pose the point to them that a lottery win would give me the chance to change so many lives, provide people with clean running water etc. etc. Normally they step down from the high horse that they are looking down on me from upon! I also like to drop the odd thing into the charity shops and try to buy stuff from them as much as possible. It's only books, plates, candle holders etc. but it is all useful stuff. I have been scouring them for a corner plate rack recently, but I digress. I donated to the Cats Protection League until after I had paid back what they had given me, plus a little bit, but one day I had to take a friend to hand a cat into them. I had agreed to take one of their cats, but the other one would fight the one that I was taking and to be honest I didn't want the grief, especially as I have an allergy to them. My friend had tried friends but they wouldn't take it despite the cat being very healthy and without problems, other than its dislike for the one that I had taken. She couldn't take it where she was going so the CPL was the last choice. The member of staff in the place reduced my friend to tears over the decision. Ironic really as they had been providing foster care to the CPL cats for years when the place had reached capacity. I have always felt that pets are a luxury whereas children are not and the treatment of my friend just made me decide that no animal charity would ever see a single penny of mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArabiaTerra Posted December 3, 2006 Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 Humans first for me every time. It makes me sick to see those Animal Hospital/Supervets type programs where they are wasting tens of thousands of pounds on animals when children are dying in Africa Fair enough if it is one of the last of a critically endangered species, but I once saw a program where a woman was spending £16,000 on open heart surgery on her 10 year old dog! At most it would only have lived for 5 or six more years. It was obscene. Sometimes we really do need to stand back and think hard about our priorities. If all the money spent on pet food in a year was diverted to the poorest countries in the world we could solve world hunger! But then, the fact that anyone in this world has to go hungry at all is a sad indictment on our sick society Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAStewart Posted December 3, 2006 Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 Animals. Kittens/Cats are cooler than children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanman Posted December 3, 2006 Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 Animals. Kittens/Cats are cooler than children. You must have totaly lost the plot. In case you've forgotten. You were a child once. You obviously still are if you think your little fluffy Kitten is cooler than a person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Posted December 3, 2006 Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 Animals. Kittens/Cats are cooler than children. Cats do have their uses... http://www.undergroundhumor.com/books/images/sneakapeek/101udcsample3_large.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanman Posted December 3, 2006 Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 LOL. ^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heimdal Posted December 3, 2006 Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 I usually have to shake my head when Radio Shetland broadcasts 'Lost Cat' messages and then says 'answers to the name........'The only thing a cat answers to is a sharp kick up the backside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouth Posted December 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 NEVER kick an animal - its really bad. Better to place your foot under their stomach and lift them. I used to get my mother's cat almost to the end of her 75 ft garden. Stand by for the onslaught .............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouth Posted December 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 Humans first for me every time. ....... snip .... My mum used to make us kids sit on the floor if the cats were sat in our chairs .... and she wonders why she is lonely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crofter Posted December 3, 2006 Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 Top 10 charities to benefit from bequests (according to Woman's Own) 1. Cancer Research UK2. RNLI3. The National Trust4. RSPCA5. British Heart Foundation6. The Salvation Army7. MacMillan Cancer Relief8. RNIB9. Guide Dogs for the Blind10. PDSA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styles Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 I only give to things which will help people in the UK, anything else can go whistle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Inky Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 I only give to things which will help people in the UK, anything else can go whistle. Why is a blind man in Birmingham more deserving of your money than a blind man in Botswana ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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