Taps Animal Shelter

Put an application in on a sunday, email tuesday nothing, call tues left message, call again fb contact said wed, wed told them looking at another dog tomorrow, she pulled app and said it would be processed asap after she said it was already processed. References were called, no phone call next day as promised by noon. Calls the following day today, tues, saying i need reference and landlord information in my app? Fyi they take like 40 applications per puppy and their dear sweet time getting thru them when you cant even interact with the dog until your app is processed. Rock island shelter tou can adopt the same day, consider some where else, adopt from fb, something. They wonder why they are at full compacity and cant take more animals in. Got my forever baby from a private home.

I had a application to them for adopt a puppy n they told me that they would give me a call on last Tuesday to let me know i get the approves or not but I didn’t get their calls so i called them n they said «we will let u know on Thursday «yeh right n its never happen. Very disappointed for the call service, never pick up the damn phone or they pick up n then hand up on me. Im worry for every single animals there, this is the horrible place for them to stay.

I volunteered here from the time I was 15 – 18. It was okay back then. But now not so much. Their adoption process is ridiculous. They continue to take apps even if they have 16 other apps. They don’t even tell you if they already have an adoption pending. It seems to be much more about making a profit then actually caring about the animals. The kennels are always dirty when I go in. Which I understand is hard to keep cleaning ²⁴⁄₇. But most of the dogs there are sick from things like kennel cough. They don’t seem to treat the animals and just let it spread. The sick ones are usually not even separated and some of the kennels just have chained linked fence in between them. I feel bad for the animals!

Very disappointed. They refused to allow me to adopt a puppy from their organization. According to them, I never gave my dogs a rabies shot. Even after contacting my family vet which I have been going to for 39 years — yes my whole life. Tried to explain to them that we do not give our animals rabies shot because there is no rabies in Hawaii. (We have quarantine). I have adopted animals from the Hawaiian Humane Society before with no issue. Relocate to Illinois and I pretty much was told I was not a responsible pet owner. Yes my family was upset — esp since they found a rat terrier puppy very similar to the animal we have in Hawaii. In the end, I apologized to the head lady for wasting her time and said aloha. In the back of my mind I was calling her an idiot for not believing there is no rabies in the state of Hawaii.