Pawmetto Lifeline

We are new to this area and decided to adopt a pet. We found Pawmetto Lifeline and from start to finish the entire process was terrific. Yes, the adoption fees are a on the high side, but the animals are well treated and cared for. Our puppy came with everything she needed, all her first shots, spaying and her first round of rabies and microchip was included.
Since then, we’ve had terrific customer service. They call each month to remind us that the puppy is due for her heartworm meds and ask how much she weighs so they dose accordingly. If she’s the same weight, they pop the meds in the mail for us.
We’ve gone in a few times and each time we’ve been greeted and helped immediately. I’m not sure what the negative review is about. It is a pretty fancy place, but it seems to me they help a lot of animals that otherwise would not be saved. And we got the best dog from them, she really is perfect. We would return and refer friends to Pawmetto Lifeline.

I have adopted 2 dogs and numerous cats from PL over the years and have never had a problem. PL is an excellent, hard working rescue group and I highly recommend them to anyone. The staff is at times overwhelmed, but has always been pleasant and friendly to me. Most of their animals are pulled from local high kill shelters and if it were not for PL, these animals would be dead. The people bashing PL need to stop and think about all the countless animal lives that have been saved.

UPDATED 4÷24÷2014
First thing that needs to be addressed.
Are they housing animals and adopting them, yes.
They send threatening emails to people to guilt them into fostering, example: «If you sit idly by while these lives are lost, you are part of the problem.». All the while they have a well paid staff that makes in excess of 45k a year. They schlep the hard work on to sweet volunteers who are blissfully unaware that this place is raking in the bucks on what they charge to the public (have to maintain that paid staff somehow!) They take only the «healthy/​treatable and adoptable dogs and cats» from ‘kill-​shelters’. They do not save any all animals that are at ‘kill-​shelters’ as they would want you to believe.
They take these animals and they warehouse them to turn over a hefty profit. Dog adoption fee is $ 150.00– $ 300.00 and Cat adoption is $ 100. Yet, some of the wealthiest and most influential of Columbia are on their board of trustees.
They operate out of a glamorous 3 million dollar compound in the heart of Columbia; Although, I bet if you were to walk up to their door today and tell them that you had a loving, safe, and forever home for one or more of their animals (they could even visit your home to see) HOWEVER you were unwilling to pay Pawmetto Lifeline’s adoption fee or if you even offered to pay half– they’d turn you away like you had the plague. My apologies for the run-​on sentence.
It’s THAT mentality that is completely contradictory of their alleged goal and claims that they are ‘saving animals’.
Prior to having their multi-​million dollar compound, they spent Saturdays at the Harbison Petsmart. They would round up their huge *profitable* number of dogs and puppies and stack them in crates ON TOP of each other. Let me note that they did not have to stack the animals, they could have negotiated more space or brought less dogs. These poor dogs were frightened, angry and rightfully spastic. Pawmetto Lifeline then required that you filled out their adoption form before you could handle an animal (no taking them out of their cages for a minute, no walking them around) without an adoption agreement filled out and signed. Do they not understand that people need to interact with an animal in order to feel close with it, in order to want to bring it into their household, in order to hand over all their information?!
In conclusion, this group is cut-​throat at best. They want you to think they are angels. They’ll throw a thousand numbers and statistics (in their favor) your way, as most money-​grubbing and immoral corporations do. To return to my first point, they are adopting out animals and promoting spay and neuter BUT behind this operation is not compassion, it’s greed. Animals are commodities to be bought and sold in their eyes. Another «animal rescue» in the area called «Pets INC.» did all of this before Pawmetto Lifeline. My guess is that Pets INC. was a nice blue-​print for what Pawmetto Lifeline is doing now. A life should never turn a profit for someone else.
Also on a less important note, their paid staff is terrible. Working with them is 100% unpleasant.