Horrible. Drove an hour for my 7 year old to see some cats and was told to come after 1. No…read moresympathy as my daughter openly wept

I was Looking to adopt an older cat after my one cat passes away. I filled out the application and…read morehad a phone interview and was able to setup an appointment. I went to the appointment and was taken in the cat room. Only one cat was loose. All the other cats were in enclosures. I asked the age of the cat I was interested in. The young Women said 9. I said that's great because my cat at home is 8. Then she said the cat has to be the only cat in the home. The cat's bio on their site said he is good with cats. Another Cat I asked about that was said to be friendly she said he bites and I cannot look at it. Cat looked friendly to me. Not one cat in the room was adoptable. When I asked why I was not told in my interview about the cats she said the people that do the interviews don't know about the animals. I feel I was discriminated against because of my age. I just turned 70.

Amazing place to foster kittens with a dedicated team with such experience who are there for you…read moreanytime! The adoption process is amazing with the best interest for all kittens/cats to find their forever homes

This is an awesome rescue where the owner and volunteers truly care about the rescue and who they…read moreadopt a cat to. They have a screening process with a meet & greet to match the cats to just the right person. Truly caring ppl at this rescue & would recommend this rescue to anyone who wants to adopt.

I cannot say enough about the prompt attention I was given from my first phone call regarding a…read morestray cat having had kittens issue. They provided me with information and came out to access the situation and set up traps for the Feral cats and rescued the kittens (which I was happy to take one home). What an incredible calling of sorts - by people who truly care about their community and just want to control the continued, unnecessary over population of cats !

I adopted a cat from Fat Cat Rescue and spay and stay is the vet who performed her spay, vaccines…read more and microchipping. I called afterwards for some information that my landlord needed about her vaccinations and spoke directly with the vet, and she was very kind and informative about the spay procedure that she performed and the vaccinations that my cat received. I may use this vet's regular office for future services but she is kind of far away. I love the work that she does for Fat Cat and all of the other local rescues that she works with! I highly recommend Spay and Stay.

Excellent, healthy dogs. Karen is a wonderful, funny lady to work with and very reliable. I…read morerecommend her dogs to anyone looking for a Frenchie.

3 stars since we did not purchase a puppy from her, but did find her very communicative and her…read moreenvironment tidy for the puppy. Karen was a recommendation to me since we've been interested in bringing a French Bulldog puppy into our home. Karen is not a breeder, but is a middle-person who brings puppies into Illinois from surrounding states. I guess you could consider her a "Puppy Broker". The origin of her puppies from what she told me is they come from out of state breeders and are AKC. She has also been working with these breeders for several years. We scheduled an appointment to meet Karen and the puppy. Karen was friendly and her home was a very tidy environment. The puppy area was spacious, had toys and a puppy bed. Karen answered all our questions. She also takes pride in her clientele, some of whom are public figures that she proudly displays their photos and thank yous. The puppy was adorable! She let us play with him for a while as we asked her questions. Karen gets three stars based on our positive experience with her and our newness to bringing a puppy into our home in this capacity. Neither one of us has ever worked with a Breeder or Middle-person like Karen. The reason we chose not to get a puppy from Karen is we decided to go with an actual Breeder where we could know and understand the lineage better. With Karen not being the breeder, this was something she was unable to provide. If a true breeder is not a deal breaker for you, I encourage you to contact her and see if she is a match for you and your puppy needs.

Tracey is the best! Super helpful with finding forever homes for birds in need! No judgement, just…read moresuper easy to work with!

Due to Covid she's had to move all the birds into her home, she takes in all types of birds for…read morewhatever reason, even no reason. She has a few birds of her own, also she has birds that never got adopted so she's decided to keep them. Either till they get a forever home or she be that for them

We recently had Dr. Jessica come to our house after our 15 yr old dog was diagnosed with terminal…read moreissues. You could not possibly ask for a kinder person to help through this process - she explains everything thoroughly, does not rush the process and was great with follow up communication as she even returned our dogs ashes to us in about a week. Would without a doubt recommend her to anyone in need of in home euthanasia.

We are so grateful for the calm, kind, gentle guidance of Dr. Jessica Kriner. It was an absolutely…read moregut-wrenching decision to have our 15-year old border collie, Maggie, euthanized at home. It is so helpful to have someone you can ask questions of, to reassure and comfort you at a fraught and emotional time. Every criteria we had was met and exceeded: we wanted Maggie to feel no fear, to have unhurried time with her, to have a clear understanding of what was going to happen, to say goodbye on our terms. Maggie simply and immediately accepted Dr. Kriner's presence, decided she welcomed pets and affection from this sweet person she had never met. The only focus was Maggie, to have her feel complete love surrounding her, to let her enjoy cheeseburgers and chocolate, pets, hugs, kisses, many words of love, to make certain she knew exactly how special she was and always would be and that we were grateful for her life with us. There is no avoiding how heartbreaking a time it is, but to have a precious fur baby handled with love, calmness, gentleness, respect and care is an enormous comfort. We are so profoundly grateful for Dr. Kriner. She returned Maggie's ashes to us with the same compassion with which Maggie left our home. We are unspeakably touched by every aspect of interaction with Dr. Jessica Kriner of Compassionate Heart.

The people that volunteer for this rescue are full of heart. They work tirelessly to help puppy…read moremill puppies find loving homes.

I adopted my dog from this rescue. I fostered her initially and we found out that she had…read moreleg-calve-perthes and needed hip surgery. They organized a fundraiser and we were able to get the surgery done! They were a great rescue and I am so happy we were able to give our dog her forever home.

This place is a SCAM!!! Don't believe ANYTHING that Terri Sween or Jennifer tell you!!! And…read moreBEWARE adopting a dog from them! We found a puppy on adoptapet.com that we wanted to adopt. Unfortunately, for us, it was being sheltered at the Paws Inn in Antioch. Our first debacle came when they told us that the dog we wanted to adopt was already adopted and proceeded to convince us to adopt another puppy instead. Seemed fair, at the time, but we noticed after the fact that our dog's picture was earmarked "adopted" on the website, immediately after we adopted and the original dog that we wanted remained on the website for weeks after, with no such ear mark. We were immediately curious if we got duped. But never mind, because we LOVE the puppy we got. However, the Paws Inn is cluttered, filthy and completely disorganized. When I went there to see our potential pup the first thing I noticed was that all the dogs in the back were barking and howling. Since we weren't able to get the pup that we wanted - I mistakenly assumed we'd be able to walk through the kennel and look at all the available dogs. WRONG. We were denied access to all dogs except the one they wanted me to adopt - and they brought him out front to me (instead of allowing me to go to him.) I thought this was odd. And judging from the unclean state of the "customer waiting area" assumed they did not want me to see the filthy conditions that the dogs were living in. We did not let this deter us - but instead told ourselves we were rescuing the dog from otherwise unfit living conditions. Our dog also has a damaged tail. Jennifer and Terri told me that the dog's tail was bent in the womb. However, my vet has confirmed that this injury happened post birth, most likely from being slammed in a door. Imagine my surprise/horror - when I log on to write this review (not sure why I didn't check it first) and learn the other two reviewers are complaining about damaged tails on dogs. What is going on at this place?!? Lastly, and probably most offensive in my book - I was told by Jennifer that the adoption fee of $350 included the cost of having my dog neutered (a requirement by Paws Inn if you want to adopt one of their dogs.) However, because my pup was only 3 months old - I was advised, by Jennifer, to wait until he was 6 months. He is now 8 months old and for the past 2 months I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to have my dog neutered by their vets. They refuse to return emails, phone calls or even notification from our lawyer. It has become obvious that we were completely SCAMMED out of $350. These people are a disgrace. There are plenty of honest people running dog shelters and I highly encourage you to avoid the drama we've been through and adopt from one of them.

First let me say that I went to Paws Inn to adopt a pet not to criticize whether the office was…read moreclean or not. My goal was to give a pet his furever home. We adopted a white malti/poo that was rescued by Terry and her staff. When I first saw him he was dirty and scared. They had just rescued him from a puppy mill. Thanks to them he was given a chance to have a fresh start. When we picked him up he was clean and ready to go. The ladies were very helpful in ways to help us help him. He never had a name and we named him Linus. He is doing great and opening up more and more everyday. We are so happy to have Linus in our family. He now has his furever home. Thank you Terry and your staff. I'm glad there are people out there that does a great job. People don't understand how hard it us to do your job and I congratulate all of you. Keep up Gods work of helping these poor helpless animals. Remember people your not there to pass judgement on the staff and kennel, your there to save an animals life.

Thank you Wagging Hearts for bringing this little kitten into our lives! The adoption process was…read moresimple, with clear and quick communication. Shout out to Martha for coordinating and connecting us with Callie's foster mother. It's been such an easy transition and our new kitty is well adjusted, and oh so cuddly!

They sell puppies to people, knowing that they are not well. When the people call to get assistance…read morefor their sick dog, they calls go on ass and problem goes unsolved. I would never recommend this place to anyone.