I recently adopted a 6 year old 15 lb Tibetan Spaniel named Hank from this organization. Everything went very well with the process. They had told me about specific behavior issues with the dog, like urinating in the house, possible snapping and nipping and that it had an issue with cats. I spent a week going into see him everyday for an hour or two to get to know him. He had no cat issues. The peeing and snapping were still in question, but I felt confident that I could correct the behavior. I adopted him. I grew very fond of him quickly. The peeing was easy to deal with and the snapping was easy to correct. Unfortunately, lunging and biting me in the face and on my arm was a different story. The first time it happened I got an expert opinion from an organization that does temperament assessment. I took him to my vet to rule out illness, and again, to get more advice. I planned a course of action and kept the dog................until he bit me again, in the face while sitting next to me. When I stood up and pulled him off the chair by his leash he went at me again, severely biting my right forearm, which is still infected as I write this, and may require surgical cleaning. It went deep. I decided to take him back to Pet Friends. It is one thing to bite me, but my Mother is elderly, and god forbid he bites a child in the face like that. They took him back and told me that they would not adopt him out again. 10 days later, I see that they adopted him out to another rescue who placed him with a very elderly couple in Oregon. I saw all this on their very own Facebook page, telling the same story. Nipping and cat issues.
They saw the healing bites on my face and chin, and the fresh defense wound on my forearm, but make no mention of this.
Nipping and cat unfriendly is what they state.
That is the same song and dance they gave me.
I have attempted to contact the rescue place who facilitated it's new home to warn them. I find this lack of regard for safety to be alarming and negligent.
I will be reporting this incident to the county Health and Safety Department. I am going to suggest that they impose a temperament test on the dogs Pet friends currently has up for adoption and that they enforce this in the future. read more