I paid $1300 to adopt my dog from Gingers Pet rescue. His papers were INCREDIBLY fake – the dog photographed was not him or even the same breed. She did not cover the vet bills required to cure his parasite or skin conditions. But she did pay to have him neutered. It’s very obvious that the whole set up is incredibly unprofessional and sketchy. Hopefully funds can be allocated towards growing the non-profit and not the pocket of the new CEO.

When I attended Pima Medical Institute, our surgeon spayed Ginger’s dogs, for free, so that we students could learn surgical assisting. (This was completely supervised by the surgeon or the teachers, btw).

This has always struck me as dishonest.

Or I could have compared her average salary for the last two years and compared it to what larger groups in the area pay their CEOs, which would have shown that her salary was way out of line with them. F

Yes, running rescue is hard and time consuming, but that doesn’t justify such a massive salary increase. And it certainly doesn’t justify paying her almost the same as Seattle Humane’s CEO, who runs an organization that raised more than $12 million a year vs. Ginger’s Pet Rescue, which averaged just under a million dollars a year.

In exchange for not paying taxes and accepting tax deductible contributions, charities have a set of guidelines from the IRS that they must follow. They can’t just suddenly decide to increase a CEO’s pay over 600% without justification.

And if the rescue had a defendable reason for the increase, it shouldn’t refuse to answer questions about it.