Etosha Rescue & Adoption Center

Worst animal rescue operation I've ever seen. They have no interest in actually placing any animals, yet hide behind a non-profit designation to solicit donations. It's a total and complete fraud, and has multiple times failed to pay it's teenager contract labor (misidentified as contractors when actually being scheduled and managed, which is legally an employee... but, why should they pay employment taxes?!). They have NO workers compensation insurance, yet have animals that may react due to prior abuse situations; that's cheap and disregards safety and liability). DO NOT DONATE to them, please!

The majority of comments from this “angelmtn916” are so ridiculous that they’re hardly worth a rebuttal. But let’s start with the facts.
1. She did not “leave” Etosha because she “just couldn’t take it anymore,” she was fired and with good reason.
2. No employee – past or present – has ever been told to bang on a dog’s crate with a broom or any other instrument.
3. Etosha dogs are vaccinated on a yearly basis, or by the vet recommended schedule, and given monthly heartworm prevention year-round. We use rabies vaccinations that are good for 7 years according to Jean Dodds, DVM.
4. It is true that I, as Director of Etosha, have refused adoption to more than one ex-serviceman with PTSD. I allowed it once, and, two months later, the dog was dead – shot in the head by the ex-G.I. and buried in his back yard. He had no explanation for killing the dog.
5. Etosha’s financial records are well-documented and maintained by a local accounting firm. I am happy to provide records to any person or organization who is considering financially supporting Etosha. We are completely transparent.
6. It is true that our dogs are crated at various times during the day or night, depending on the weather and other factors. However, they all spend sunny days outdoors or in new pens made possible by funding from our supporters and previous adopters.
7. Finally, our mission has always been to rescue and find good, loving homes for dogs and cats. Etosha does not discriminate against any animal of advanced age or disability. If a suitable home cannot be found, elderly and special needs companion animals live out their lives here at our sanctuary.

The Etosha Rescue and Adoption Center website is currently out of date. Many, if not most, of those dogs have been there so long, that they’re seniors now. The amount of dogs and cats she claims is on her property & her alleged foster homes, is no where near close to factual. She actually has no “foster” homes for dogs. The higher numbers she claims is what her grants are based on. Many dogs are not even UTD on their rabies vaccinations, much less any other veterinary care. Someone needs to do something for these dogs & 7 cats (as of June) in her care. They have no life, with no chance of adoption because no one promotes adoptions, works the website properly, nor will she answer most of the calls she gets where people are asking about dogs on the website. Two dogs in the 5 months I worked there, were adopted out. They got lucky. All someone of authority needs to do is audit her facility records and medical records of her current dogs/cats to see that every bit of this is the truth. People who have given her grants just this year, since I was under her employment, have been given false information as to how many dogs, cats and fosters she has. So many of these dogs haven’t been in a vets office in 2-3 years, if not more. I’ve seen the records. It’s so sad. No one wants to adopt from her because she runs them off with ridiculous questions and accusations which personally offends them. The dogs suffer. They are suffering. Yes, they have shelter, food and water. Her favorites gets vet care. But is this all a rescue/adoption center is required to do to receive 501c3 status, tax exemption status and to receive thousands of dollars each year in grants? It’s June. Why isn’t every single one of her almost 60 dogs on property and 7 cats atleast up to date on their rabies? Does no one that helps her see it & care? Do they think her practices are ok? Are these places never audited or fact checked?
If someone does care, help these dogs and contact someone that can do something & just go check her records. Don’t take my word for it. Just simply go ask her on the spot to show all records of the dogs on the property. Which isn’t, by the way, the amounts I’ve personally heard her tell callers and read on the grant application letters/thank you letters. Look at her website and see that hardly any of the dogs on the property are on the website to be adopted. She’s had MANY of the same dogs FOR YEARS!!! She’s a hoarder &/or collector at best.
I heard her once tell a medically retired army soldier that she wouldn’t adopt to him because he had been to war and had PTSD from his tour in Iraq. In his late 30’s, married for years, a family, perfect home environment, but asked this and then judged him saying he wasn’t suitable because he served his country & was affected by what occurred over there. This made no sense and was completely inconsiderate, distasteful, rude and a downright ignorant action to take on her part simply asking this young man something so personal, then judging him because he didn’t look her in the eyes and answer her when he replied “yes”, that he had served overseas & that yes, the army had told him he suffered at some level with PTSD. As a 26 year army wife and a mother to a two time Afghanistan war veterans, I can tell you that it disgusted me when she told me what she thought of him and what she said he would definitely do to “her” dog if he took her home. I mean, as she said, she’d seen this many times. Really? That type of judgement isn’t even reality & it’s truly sickening in its nature. The dogs under her care pay for the negligence & negative mindset she (the owner) afflicts onto them. Their crates are hit with a red broom handle and yelled at to shut up when they bark. The dogs in her house are let out 3 times a day for “maybe 15 minutes to drink water and go to the restroom. She cusses them and yells at them in front of her employees. She teaches her employees to use the stick on their crates if they won’t listen. I wouldn’t touch it. The other ONE employee does. It’s sickening. It truly is. Something needs to be done.
My heart goes out to these dogs and cats. They need a hero. They need some kind of chance for someone, somewhere, to know they need a home of their own. This woman needs to be held accountable for the large funding checks she receives and the lack of veterinary care the animals in her care receives. It’s not right. There were two hounds there, a redtick and a bluetick with ear infections. They had the ear infections the entire 5 months I was there. Puss and blood came out and they cried out when they’re cleaned. They weren’t taken to the vet and hadn’t been before I left. I just couldn’t take watching it any longer. I felt like I was a part of what happens there. All the grant money that came in during those 5 months, but she put a roof on her house when dogs need vet care and to be up to date on their rabies (at minimal). There’s so much more I could report about what I saw. I just don’t know who to tell.
I’m not the only person who has seen how she treats these animals. I left the day she called my phone and cussed me because I didn’t want to work 7 days straight on 3 digit Texas heat. I just couldn’t take it anymore. Leaving those dogs knowing the conditions of many of them killed me. I think about them still everyday. I just wish someone who gives out grants would audit her records. She’s 73yo, can’t keep good people because of how she treats them and had one person when I left for all those dogs. She can’t handle what she’s got. The dogs need to be rescued FROM HER!!!