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February 2024 by Dominik Doskochynski
Excellent place. Caring and knowledgeable staff. Adopted from them. Highly recommend!
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February 2024 by Guadalupe Rea
I see this shelter gives so much for these little angels . Thank you for helping them ?????? adopting soon from this place .
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February 2024 by Alexis Rodriguez
I called and spoke with a rude lady name Denise ( she might have lied but an older woman who answered) my mom passed away and she had a year old pit bull and unfortunately I couldn’t take him in due to my apartment policy and no family member could take him in. I listed him on social media and asked around but no one wants a dog or wants a pit bull given their rep. So I called to see if they accept animals or if I could get information on where I could possibly take him, she explained to me that their shelter is full which is perfectly understandable but she could put his picture up and see if anyone would be interested but didn’t recommend me taking him to a shelter because it won’t look good for the dog. I explained to her that he wasn’t my animal and I was running out of time to find him a home that it was my moms and she rudely interrupted me and stated “well that’s your dog now” I explained I’m not able to keep him due to the reason I stated above. She then stated I don’t know how to help you and don’t know what to say. I then asked is there anywhere you know that I’m able to take him though she said no I’m not giving you that information because it won’t end up good for him. Then proceeds to hang up on me. I call back to ask for her name because she was really rude then she said I was being inconsiderate and heartless because I was trying to give away an animal not putting in consideration that I just lost my mother last week. Also stating it didn’t matter if I lost someone or not the dog shouldn’t have to suffer. I understand a shelter isn’t the best place for a animal and I understand that but if I were able to take him I would but I can’t and I didn't appreciate being judge for a situation that I didn’t expect to be put in. I was just calling for information not to be judge also I’ve never ever had to give an animal away.
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February 2024 by jalen
They said that they dont let their cats into homes with dogs then i walked in and saw someone with a dog getting a cat. Mind you this isnt a rule. I would of respected them more if they said we dont give cats to black people with rottweilers. Also the lady on the phone is beyond garbage at her job stop hiring worthless individuals.
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February 2024 by Tammy Marshall
Great place.
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January 2024 by Gayle Lakeview
Gloria and her staff of volunteers bend over backwards helping animals that recieved a unfair position in their lives.
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January 2024 by Anastasia Bychkova
My husband and I tried to adopt a cat from here not so long ago. I came by one day to take a look at the cats and the staff was incredibly kind and encouraging about the process of adoption. The place was not clean and looked like there were too many cats per room, but I dismissed that in the beginning because one particular cat just stole my heart.We filled out an application for him and came a couple days later to take him home. Or so we thought… We spent 40 mins waiting for Gloria to become available to interview us. That whole time we spent in the room with the cat that we were wishing to adopt and the staff was already instructing us on the care for him and letting us know more about his personality.When Gloria started interviewing us she was very condescending in her attitude, especially about the fact that we were from Ukraine. Never mind the fact that we are residents of the US, have stable jobs and I attend college in the city. From that point on, we were “unstable”. At some point in the conversation she asked if we were to ever move from Chicago, to which we said honestly replied that it is a possibility. Since we are both in our early twenties we thought that we might eventually move to some other state/city. But we told her that whenever we went, we would ofc take our cat with us.She said that it’s unstable for a cat to move and that this possibility made us unfit to bring a cat home.There were other things she said about our country of origin that were disgustingly rude all because she knows better watching “Fox” than we do having lived in Ukraine our entire lives.An absolutely terrible person to be running a shelter. It’s almost like she doesn’t want any animals to get a loving home. Someone in the previous comments described her as a hoarder and it’s true.The day we came for the cat, he was in the same room (mind you, a room is probably a few square feet) with a very sick cat who was just found at the dumpster. How is that acceptable?We feel sad about the cat we could adopt because we absolutely loved him. But we ended up adopting a senior cat from Felines and Canines which is North Uptown and we couldn’t recommend them more. They didn’t ask any invasive questions, were kind and offered vet services if we discovered something was wrong with our boy within a couple months.
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December 2023 by Grigsy
I adopted my baby boys from this place. Gloria loves her animals and her community and has dedicated her life to the chicago animal community. It’s a bit messy, but it’s full of love and dedicated staff and people who genuinely care about animal welfare. They want to make sure the person adopting has the right fit for the animal to avoid unnecessary abandonment. This is something we should all appreciate. They will make sure you have what you need when you go and want you to be successful. These people saved my boys until we found each other so I’ll forever be grateful to them.
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December 2023 by Lourdes Hurtado
We adopted our first cat formally known as Biggie from this shelter. Gloria and Cindy made our experience very easy and pleasant. For people who critique the place, why don't you volunteer instead? Does the place smell like flowers? No, but imagine having over 100 pets in one location. Gloria thank you for everything that you do, for taking the responsibility that pet owners decide to give up.
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December 2023 by Dominique Casey
I would give 0 stars if I could.I recently learned that my son was severely allergic to our puppy. After weeks of trying to rehome our pup, we finally (reluctantly) contacted this shelter to inquire about taking him there. The lady who answered was extremely rude and after explaining our situation suggested that we simply give my 4 year old benadryl and/or allergy shots (despite the professional advice from my son's LICENSED allergist).Her unsolicited advice was extremely disheartening and unprofessional. She then told us that we needed to be careful "calling random shelters" because they could put the dog down or he could sit in a cage for a long time. Again, unneccesary & unsolicited considering that we did in fact contact THIS no kill shelter & made every effort to avoid a shelter to begin with.She had no regard for our situation or the fact that this is very difficult on our family especially after bonding with our puppy. I raised my first dog for 13+ years so this puppy was not an irresponsible decision but an unfortunate & uninformed one. A little compassion goes a long way.
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November 2023 by Erica Yoder
Very caring and helpful towards healthy solutions for dogs. ??
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November 2023 by Diana Robert
This is a good place, I left my two cats outside November 13 morning, I'm worried about them, there name is lucky and Luke, I lost my apartment so I couldn't keep them, but I know I left them at the right place, I will leave a donation every week,
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November 2023 by eric- “Bird-E” brd
I will say I haven’t visited this place. My German shepherd passed and they have a malinois. I don’t want to do puppy stage but want to foster/adopt the pooch in their care now. But I will always rate a non/kill shelter with top honors.
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November 2023 by Oreo Luna Jedi
For over a year we have been trying to adopt 3 senior cats and with no luck on them reviewing our applications. At first I thought it was just the overwhelming amount of applications they received but then they will post about the same cats we tried to get. When we dropped of cat supplies since they were in need, we asked Gloria and she made a not so nice remark about us having pitbulls. Our pitts are sweethearts to our other cats and a no kill shelter would be the last place I expected for pit discrimination. An email to say we don’t think you are good fit would be appreciated instead of having to keep applying with no response.
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November 2023 by eileen meg kravitz
Excellent shelter run by a wonderful, caring womsn
