This rescue was awful. We adopted a dog from them a few months ago and were told he "had no issues at all, was a perfect dog around people and other animals, was house trained and perfect with other animals." All of these things were lies. He is dog reactive, wasn't leash trained when we got him, still pees in the house from time to time, reacts aggressively to men, and has such horrible separation anxiety that he tears apart his bedding in his crate unless we sedate him before we leave.
It's not his fault at all, and we understand that, but for this shelter to not mention any of the above issues, which we noticed in less than a week, they would have to be either A) Intentionally lying to us, or B) So neglectful and uncaring that they hardly knew the dog at all. The second might be the case, as our dog also showed signs of never being played with, or being played with very little. He not only didn't know what a pull toy was or what to do with it, but he also had no concept of fetch (when we tried to pull the toy with him he would simply drop it, and when we threw a toy he just looked at us, clearly confused.)
Last but not least, he reacts to any kind of scolding viscerally and dramatically, literally cowering in fear any time we try to scold him. He's a fabulous dog and he has a heart of gold, and we wouldn't trade him for anything in the world, but the fact that this shelter didn't mention ANY of these issues before we adopted him is completely unacceptable. Add to that the frankly ridiculous 400 dollar adoption fee and you get a recipe for disaster. We feel like we were scammed, and in the future we will stay far, FAR away from this rescue.
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