Over the last 20 years I've adopted 2 wonderful cats from…read morePALS who were on display at the nearby Petco on Whitten Road in Augusta. Sadly they have both passed, but I will be back soon looking for an older cat companion.

Long story. The assigned volunteer showed me 2 cats one day. I chose the cat only to find out it…read morehad a health problem. I tried to see the medical records. I was denied. I decided not to get that particular cat. I wanted to see 3 other cats that were in foster care. She was irritated and decided to give me to another volunteer. I was denied seeing any cat in foster care since the other volunteer spent so much time showing me tons(2) of cats, I had to pick one from the shelter and not a foster. I was treated like a nuisance, told I asked for too much. I went elsewhere.

Absolutely now the best shelter in Maine! After so many years of being limited to a small building…read moreoff Western Avenue, the new humongous modern facility is offering the cleanest, kindest and most modern animal shelter facilities in the state. The staff is friendly and skilled. They also serve as an animal control facility for stray, abandoned, and owner-surrendered animals from all of Central Maine. The on site clinic is state of the art. Oh, and it's perched on a hill with many spectacular acres where the future of farm animal rescue can be envisioned. This is the place to find your next best friend!

amazing place you can tell all of the animals are very well taken care of. The facility is very…read moreclean, and the staff is very friendly. I come here very often!

Great love to the unhinged kitties and dogs. They do everything to make money to support these…read moreanimals. A great yard sale is coming up. Drop things off or volunteer!

The Place does have great resources, like for being a volunteer for the shelter making sure the…read morecats are doing well, they have 4 rooms you can go to except room 5 witch is for farel cats, and the real workers go their so you'll be fine as long as you where you are the first time, and they also have a coffee machine, so you can make coffee or hot chocolate, to help your self from staying awake, even after 6PM when the shelter is closed.

My daughter and her fiancé arranged to adopt a dog through Harvest Hills. HH called their…read morereferences, their landlord, and their vet. They were approved to adopt this dog. My daughter's fiancé took the day off of work to be able to make the appt on a Sunday. HH told them that they would recommend this specialty food for the dog, a more expensive kind. My daughter went out and bought the specialty food and all the supplies that they would need. The staff at HH knew that my daughter lived a little further away and assured her that it would be fine to pick up the dog on Sunday. All week, we looked forward to finally meeting this dog, which was apparently the only dog they had that met their needs (good w/cats, quiet etc). On Saturday, HH called to say that the dog had been given to someone else. Needless to say, my daughter is heartbroken. When I reached out to HH they did not sound like they cared at all. Very disappointed in Harvest Hills!

Just got a voucher for my two cats for the spay and neuter clinic. Thank you Harvest Hills for…read morehelping me out.

The cats are super friendly! I went in not to adopt but just to pet the cats and to keep them…read morecompany :)

This Adoption center is amazing! We had such a great experience with them even though we ended up…read morenot adopting a pup because of compatibility with our senior dog. They were so accommodating, patient, professional and helpful. They allowed us to take a pup home for a "sleepover" to see if he was compatible over time with our senior dog. The pup was so amazing, but was too high energy for our senior dog and very sadly we had to bring him back. The pup was greeted with so much love when we brought him back that we know that he was not "traumatized" or saddened or discouraged by our inability to adopt him. We will be going back to them once we are ready to adopt another dog! Thank you PAWS Staff!

My adoption process a couple months ago went very well. I arrived without any pets, and left with…read moretwo kitties! I walked in without an appointment, a couple hours after opening. There were some people there, either in the main waiting room or walking through the separate pet areas... wasn't too busy. Was greeted by staff behind the counter and I told them I wanted to look at some cats. They have you fill out some paperwork, mainly about what you're looking for and what your home environment is like (senior cat, kittens, other pets at home, kids at home, etc) to help them in finding an appropriate cat for you. You wait for a bit so they can find a staff member to walk through the cattels with you. You get to meet them, and pick some up in some instances. I deliberated because I intended to get a senior cat, but many of them had behavioral or extra medical problems. I ended up getting a disgustingly cute and impossibly smol brother and sister, and they've been wonderful. It may not be the cheapest, depending on which pet you want to take home, but obviously that cost goes into the program and really, can you put a price on a new family member?

We stopped by today to bring Christmas presents to the cats and kittens. Merry Christmas!read more

Your response it simply untrue. I don't know on what end this misinformation is coming from. No…read morevet ever recommended we put our cats down earlier than we did. We have always followed their advice. No, not going to argue back and forth except to reiterate that we would never ignore such advice had a vet given that to us. Do you think we would have given a reference if we thought it would be in any way negative? Like I said, you may have been given false information or a misinterpretation of events by someone trying to avoid blame. or simply jumped to the wrong conclusion yourself. Cats can live a long time with this disease. He certainly was not suffering that whole time. When it was evident to us that he was, we made the hard decision to put him down ourselves, as we have had to do several times in the past with other pets. Funny- we have dealt with several other rescue organization since contacting you, and our references have always checked out.

This rescue contacted me about taking a dog for them. I politely declined as they detailed…read moreseveral aggressive instances where the dog attacked other dogs and injured one human. Since I do like to help out rescues, I researched this particular case further, and found it disturbing that this aggressive dog was passed around to 4 different foster homes and having aggressive instances at each. Because I was concerned for the families being put in danger (including their own dogs), I contacted the rescue director personally to express my concerns. I also noted that the description of the dog even after the first incident where it was reported the other dog was seriously injured, they described the rescue that they were trying to place with me as great with other dogs. After doing this, the rescue director began a campaign of encouraging her volunteers to put bogus reviews on my business site. She also directed them to my business page to harrass me as well. I would not support a rescue that does business this way. They were also posting outright lies about me on their facebook page, which were taken down after my complaints to facebook.

If you have never been.... go! If you love animals the way I do, a visit to the MSSPA is a must…read more They currently have 47 horses. In April they rescued 9 horses & rehabilitated them. They are now happy, healthy, beautiful horses. They have a donkey or two & a goat here & there. We spent 2 hrs there yesterday & it was just what we all needed! You can walk around the barn & visit all the horses. It was the perfect way to spend a Sunday!

From the owner: Schedule a visit to come see the horses (through our website, msspa.org). The Farm is a place of…read morehealing, and home to a herd of 35 to 40 beautiful horses, all in various stages of rehabilitation.