My Nonprofit Reviews

We bought a dog from the Dog Liberator for $325. The Dog Liberator might call itself a non-profit but it is a company that finds pretty dogs for free on the internet, uses volunteers to feed and house them, then sells them for a profit.  I am fine with that.  People have to work.  Unfortunately they are not honest about the dogs they sell.  The Dog Liberator knowingly placed a dog with a history of aggression to visitors in a Bed & Breakfast that gets hundreds of visitors.  This dog spent her 2 years of life guarding a family farm in Georgia. She lived outside with an older dog and never lived inside the house because their child was allergic. They were hoping the dog would grow up to protect the property, like their old dog, except she started killing the neighbors chickens.  So they put her on a 100 foot wire run with a 20 foot runner.  She became territorial and was aggressive to the UPS driver when he drove up.  I got all this in the first 5 minutes of a phone call to the the original owner.  The Dog Liberator told us she was a house pet when in fact she was a guard dog who had never lived in a house.  The dog was infested with flees, clearly had never been house broken and began leaving her mark all over the house. Within 2 weeks the dog was growling at some of our guests. I have tried to return the dog to the Dog Liberator so she can be placed into an appropriate home, a private home or farm with some room to run. For the past month, I have sent several emails to the women in charge requesting she pick-up the dog and refund our $325. She has condemned this poor dog to a life on the patio. She can’t be left outside, even tethered, for fear she will growl at a guest of the property and she can’t be trusted not to go in the house. The Dog Liberator’s owner wants us to transport the dog 140 miles and give the dog back to her for free so she can sell the dog again and double her profit, $650 profit on one dog. It appears to me that Dog Liberator’s owner is far more interested in the money she makes from selling dogs than the well-being of the dogs themselves. Please do not be fooled by the pleasant nature of her initial contact. Looking for a dog - your emails will get a quick reply. Buy a dog - you will get lots of emails asking you to donate more money to the “cause”. Try to return a dog for a refund- no reply. When you peel back the curtain, things look different on the inside. At least the donation emails stopped coming. Now I have to do her job and find an appropriate home for this dog - for free. Do yourself a favor and stay away from these for-profit “rescues”. Visit a local animal shelter where they care more about the animals than the money.