My Nonprofit Reviews

I will never adopt through this group again. I adopted an older rescued dog who I was told had a "mild" case of heartworms. I was grilled with questions about my current pets from one volunteer here, as well as them requesting all of their records to even adopt which took days. It was absurd!! I was at a point to where I was going to say "just come and get the dog!" I was told to take the dog to Pressly Animal Hospital in Matthews for her appointment to be spayed and given heartworm treatment. The dog had shown signs of seizures and breathing issues. When I took her to Pressly, I explained her issues I had noticed. I had only had her a week. Pressly did an xray and found the dog had an "enlarged heart" along with 2 bullets around it from the previous owner. They moved forward and spayed her and did the 1st heartworm injection. They gave her a bottle of heart medicine and told me she'll need to stay on these meds. I decided to take her to my own personal vet to have her checked out for another opinion. My vet said this dog's chart stated "high positive" for heartworms, she is not a "mild" case. She advised the dog's heart issues be addressed because she did have an enlarged heart. 3 weeks later the dog had breathing issues and she went into heart failure. I had her for one month and had to put her down. Another vet told me this dog was a candidate for "slow kill heartworm treatment" that takes place over a year's time using medication because she had other health issues going on, that actually this heartworm treatment killed her. This vet told me she had done this process with many rescue dogs and was very successful. After this experience I will NEVER adopt from SPCA. They want to scrutinize an adopter over letting someone adopt a dog, yet they dont mind running each dog through a mill of standard heartworm treatment without first making sure the vet clinic they are choosing are examining that individual dog's health. To me, they want to rescue dogs but when it comes to helping the dogs past that initial "rescue" they are falling way short and actually doing the dogs harm. You are best to go just adopt a puppy, or check out many other rescue groups out there versus dealing with these people.