My Nonprofit Reviews

I was completely unimpressed with this organization. They seem to be over crowded and over whelmed with a large amount of dogs that have been returned by their owners. We were told that a record number of dogs had been returned to the GCSPCA in the last few weeks. They're in such a hurry to adopt all of these dogs out that they gloss over behavior issues and don't really consider what makes a dog a good fit for a family. For example, a dog with aggression issues should not be adopted out to a family of first time dog owners. They claim to be supportive and that they want to help you even after the adoption, but they're so overwhelmed with what they have going on that they aren't really available to do that. We were willing to pay a good amount of money to the trainer recommended by the GCSPCA but she was unable to meet with us in a timely manner. Once our dog showed aggressive behaviors and no one was available to help us, we felt we had no option other than to return our dog. Our concerns over the aggression our dog showed was basically laughed at as "no big deal," yet we were told that we would have to keep the dog 4 days longer than we wanted to because "no other foster families want her due to her showing aggression." I can't claim this is true for every person fostering for the GCSPCA, but the woman who fostered our dog had 10 dogs in her house at one time, with most of them spending a large amount of time in a crate. No wonder our dog who was supposedly crate trained hated going in to her crate! Perhaps the GCSPCA wouldn't have such a high number of animal returns if they did a better job of matching dogs to potential owners.