The publication neither addresses animal issues in a substantive manner nor can its editors, incapable as they appear to be of critical judgment, detect self-serving hype when they see it. None, zero, zip, nada. Your tax dollars ARE NOT at work here. Very few shelters get government funding unless they are directly operated by a local government. The fact of the matter is that animal welfare is a very low priority in most city, county, or state government budgets.
Governments provide minimal services or funding.
It increasingly has been left up to the private sector to provide the services that government once provided and perhaps still should. First, everyone and his brother thinks they deserve money from the foundation, so the competition is keen.