Why do leftist organizations always seem more focused on advancing their radical agendas than on actually helping whatever demographic they claim to care about? According to PETA Kills Animals:
 

PETA’s “Animal Record” report for 2010, which the animal rights group itself filed with the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, shows that PETA employees killed 94 percent of the dogs and cats in their care last year. During all of 2010, PETA found adoptive homes for just 44 pets…
…PETA has a $33 million annual budget. But instead of investing in the lives of the thousands of flesh-and-blood creatures in its care, the group spends millions on media campaigns telling Americans that eating meat, drinking milk, fishing, hunting, wearing leather shoes, and benefiting from medical research performed on lab rats are all “unethical.”

 
So does the “E” in P.E.T.A. stands for “Ethical” – or “Evil”? Well, sometimes they slip and actually “let the cat out of the bag” so to speak:

“Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.” — Ingrid Newkirk, national director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), Just Like Us? Toward a Nation of Animal Rights” (symposium), Harper’s, August 1988, p. 50.

 
Not all “Humane Societies” are totally honest in their endeavors either. In Canada, the Vancouver Humane Society likes to engage in attention-getting stunts – while the Calgary Humane Society actually works to improve animal welfare: City of Animals Wants Animals Treated Like People
 
And visit HumaneWatch.org for the latest updates on The Humane Society of the United States. If you love animals you’ll probably want to avoid the national version of this organization. Much less than half of their annual budget actually goes to help fund hands-on pet shelters; HSUS spends more on its pensions than on pet-shelter grants.
This site has a 50-State report (available for downloading) that shows which local humane societies are actually using most of their funds to run shelters. They also have links to organizations that are trustworthy and which sincerely try to find good homes for the animals in their care.