It is with regret that C2C-R2C has finally had to discontinue redirecting visitors to the "Donate" pages of the Carroll County Humane Society's West Georgia Spay-Neuter Clinic and Operation Kindness. There are a number of reasons for this decision, as explained below.

Firstly, Bill Craig and the C2CR2C Team finished the ride from Carrollton, TX to Carrollton, GA on September 18th 2010. The CCHS/WGSNC Donate Page created for the purpose of receiving donations as the result of the C2CR2C Ride is really now something that is no longer valid. The Operation Kindness Donate Page was not, however, specifically created to receive donations resulting from the C2CR2C Ride publicity. It is still where it was and any interested parties will find it very easily on the Operation Kindness website.

Secondly, we (The C2CR2C Team) have no idea how much money was actually raised as a direct result of the C2CR2C Ride! Yes, that might seem very unusual and surprising, but it is a fact.

Bill Craig has contacted the Carroll County Humane Society and asked how much money was donated and collected in the jars that he and other volunteers distributed to various locations around Carrollton, Georgia, but Carroll County Humane Society has so far failed to respond with a total. This is rather disappointing, however Bill Craig and the Team should be justifiably proud if the money that was raised has at least helped to prevent some healthy and adoptable pets from being euthanized.

Operation Kindness never really got "on board" the C2CR2C Ride with regard to creating publicity and interest in the cause, and it is most probable that no donations were received by them as a direct result of the ride.

Lastly, and perhaps the most topical influence on the decision to remove links to the relevant organizations's Donate Pages at this stage, was an article by Amanda Thomas for the Times-Georgian which was published on 1st December 2010.

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Clearly politics and beurocracy have got in the way of the Carroll County Humane Society's "Mission Statement" and the result appears to have been that they have not been able to fully commit to the ideals that they seek to uphold and maintain. In other words, and apparently by their own admission, the Carroll County Humane Society still euthanizes animals. We leave it entirely up to you, the reader, to interpret and try to understand the reasons why they have not been able to implement a "No-Kill" policy, but C2CR2C feels that it cannot meantime fully affiliate itself with the organization while animal euthanazia reportedly persists there.

Bill Craig has been approached by a very angry and disappointed person who feels that he/she was misled with regard to the Carroll County Humane Society's standpoint on maintaining a "No-Kill" policy, and that his/her donation would not have been sent had the details given in the media article been known to him/her at the time. This person has stressed that his/her anger and disappointment is not through anything said, published, or done by C2CR2C, but something like this inevitably causes us concern and disappointment.

It should be reiterated that any donations received by the Carroll County Humane Society as a direct result of the C2CR2C Ride were purportedly to be assigned to the West Georgia Spay-Neuter Clinic, and that the money would be used to provide Spay/Neuter services to people who would not otherwise be able to get their pets "fixed". The general belief by them is that by tackling the problem at the source it would cause a decline in the number of unwanted pets in local shelters. The principle is exemplified in a section near the end of the Times-Georgian article where Local animal rights advocate Dr. Teresa Leslie is quoted as follows:

Dr. Teresa Leslie referenced a fable recounted in a book called "One at a Time: A Week in an American Animal Shelter."

A group of friends is having a picnic by a river, when they see a baby float by in the water. They leap in and pull the baby to shore, only to see another baby floating by. Every time they rescue one baby, another one appears. Suddenly one member of the group starts to run up the riverbank.

"Where are you going," his friends ask. "We need your help saving all these babies."

He replied: "I'm going up river to see who's throwing babies in the river and make them stop."

Notwithstanding the above, some of the content in the Times-Georgian article comes into conflict with Bill Craig's own personal Mission Statement and the core beliefs that drove him to ride from Texas back to Georgia, and therefore make it rather difficult for him to keep directing people via this website to the CCHS Donation Page.

Bill Dalziel - C2CR2C Webmaster.