thelmanelle
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Stolen Horse International...the non-profit organizationMany of you know NetPosse.com or Stolen Horse International is a non-profit organization. They do charge a $25.00 filing fee to help pay expenses and weed out people who file cases for the wrong reasons. Maybe, someone who really does not have a missing horse. But, they try to keep the fee low enough that it is feasible to say your horse is worth trying to find to a nation-wide alert for $25.00, where else can you get all that they offer for that amount of money?
That being said, I move to the topic of reward and the contract. Many times during the process of filing the victim says they do or do not want to place a reward. Debi Metcalfe leaves that to choice entirely up to the victim(s) and neither encourages or discourages them the reward.
The organization is a non-profit and uses the money to help with expenses and education. So when one says we will give a reward of this amount if the horse is found, they have signed and it is legal and binding. The sad part is some cases in the last years are not willing to give the 25% that they signed an agreement to in writing via the internet contract with SHI.
So it will become a legal issue, which SHI really hates. We want to spend our time helping find the horses, not fighting for nothing less than 25% promised from the reward. In one instance the actual person was given the full reward 100%, when only 75% should have gone to them and the first
25% to SHI.
Why am I telling you all this? Because Rescues and SHI are not in it for the money, but when you put up for a reward, it is a legal binding contract. Non-profits have to survive to do their help. If SHI was not around, alerts who be hard to know about. All volunteers. But, it still takes money. The money is used to further preventive education and to help other people in the same situation in the future. Many who have still not found their horses donate to help others find their's. Some times, the horse is found and the owner needs the money to just bring it home. It's what they do.
Thanks...off the soap box. 
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