My Nonprofit Reviews
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Review for Toy Poodle Rescue, Dover, MA, USA
The owner called to deny my application which is okay but she proceeded to question me and was emotionally charged making me feel like I was going to abuse or neglect the animal. She tried to scare me by making claimed that I will "loose my house" if my dog but a client of mine. Unprofessional, rude.. Here's the letter I wrote her: Hi Sue, Thank you for considering my application. When you called today it was clear that I was not going to be a candidate for your dogs, which is fine with me however when you asked me what if I "could stand not go to the bathroom for 9 hours" to make a point that the dogs couldn't either, I felt like you thought I would abuse/neglect my animal. Also, claiming that I will "loose my house!" if my dogs bites one of my clients I felt was presumptuous, emotionally charged, and unprofessional. Clearly you care about your animals and I'm certainly okay if I'm not a fit, but I didn't appreciate being treated like this.
We keep all our correspondents, this lady works as a therapist in a troubled boys school. She works 9 hours a day so the dog would be crated, or she can take the dog to school her application states. We would not approve a dog being left alone for 9 hours in a crate. We called the school and they do not have insurance to cover any dog of a staff member. She planned to have this dog interact with the children, but if one of the children were to hurt the dog in anyway and it bit in response, the dogs life would be in jeopardy. If that happened and the parents were to sue, I explained if you have no insurance covering, they can personally sue her and she could lose her house. If you want to use a dog in this situation you have to have a certified therapy dog that is insured through a service like Therapy Dogs International. It's funny how the information we supplied has been twisted to be negative rather than informative. Due to us denying adoption this is her response, a negative review!
