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October 2024 by Levi Lucas
Be ready for numerous visits to the shelter and 2 weeks for application to process. Theres never anyone at the shelter during business hours to be able to adopt a animal to you. Its a headache. Just find a private person
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October 2024 by Susan Smith
Always available to help the animals, so much compassion and caring
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October 2024 by Victoria Patnode
Originally I adopted from FMAS almost a decade ago with my first cat Chauncey - who was renamed to Edgar. I couldn't thank them enough for pairing him with me at a time in my life when I needed a companion most. He has been the perfect boy to this day. And with me and my fella's dog Sunny - they worked with us through an issue and paired us up with Jenn S, and incredible dog behaviorist who is so immensely appreciated and helpful. Time and again I'm grateful for you guys and all that you do!
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September 2024 by Monique Nell
Initially we went here just to give some of the animals some love and attention because obviously it's hard being stuck in a shelter. We met some of the volunteers, and they were great. Some were really enthusiastic and happy to be there. One guy was not, and he seemed to be in charge of reviewing applications.
Fristly, they don't seem to know their cats very well. A couple came in and petted a cat they were told was friendly, and then the cat attacked them. Another guy came in specifically to put in an application for a cat he had seen online, where the description was that she was the friendliest cat ever, but when he petted her, she bit him. She did that to someone else too, and hissed at one of the volunteers. This could ALL be due to stress in the environment, of course, but... just don't with confidence say it's one thing when it could be another and make people feel like it's their fault that the cats act out, even though they were being respectful and gentle. It felt like NO ONE knew what was going on around there, or well...anything about the animals.
Secondly, we fell in love with a senior cat, and decided to put in an application for him. He would have fit in perfectly with our cat, and in our calm home. We filled in the application, and spoke to the guy in charge of the applications just to ask him a question. He took our application, clearly annoyed, flopped through the pages looking very judgemental and unimpressed, threw the application aside, gave us short, irritated answers, and said that they'll let us know. After that the receptionist said that they just needed to make a few calls to our vet and our landlord.
We already had existing permission from our landlord to have more pets, and we called our vet to give them permission to give out information about us and our cat to them.
Weeks went by, and nothing. I reached out several times and was told that 'it takes time'. As more and more time went by we realised that it just wasn't going to happen. We probably weren't approved, and nobody gave us a reason why, but doing my research I have found that MANY, and I mean MANY, people have been unfairly denied and / or never received word from them.
Our cat lives a life of luxury (he even has his very own, personal, leather couch), and is showered in love and attention all day, every day, because I am home with him, and he's my baby. Any cat would have been treated like royalty here, but they seem to want to rather keep the cats in a shelter where they are incredibly anxious, unhappy, and terrified, literally screaming and hiding. And that just because of little, tiny, unimportant, quite 'nose up in the air' reasons. Like no, no you are not doing a better job at taking care of the animals than loving houses would have done?♀️ PLEASE tell me what's humane about this.
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September 2024 by Suzanne Welch
We could not be happier with the Manchester Animal Shelter. They looked over our application right away and let us know we were approved. We went on a waiting list for a kitten and when they called to tell me they had a litter, we were on vacation and had to forfeit that batch. We maintained our spot on the list and the next time there was a litter we adopted TWO beautiful litter mates.
$200 for a fixed and vetted kitten is an excellent price and we got $50 off of the second kitten.
We love Winston and Winnie. We are so pleased. Glad we waited.
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September 2024 by Kimberly Schafer
I reported my cat missing in December. I filed a missing cat report online and went to the shelter in person and filed another report. I also filed a report with animal control. I provided pictures and called and went down a few times looking for my cat. Each time they didn’t want to let me see if the had my cat . Each time I called it was no we don’t have her. Well Friday night I was looking at the lost/ found page on Facebook and there was my cat on a post from March. My cat was picked up. I was never contacted not once. No one will call me back. My son is in tears now again. I WANT MY CAT BACK!!!
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June 2024 by Marissa Bonardi
Thank you Jacob, Hannah and the rest of the team for all you did during our foster and adoption process of sweet Brewie! We are forever appreciative of the work you do!
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June 2024 by Steve Labbe
Really enjoyed the amazing Mutt Strutt. Thank you for the best time doing doggy yoga!!! Kylie and Family had a blast??
Steve Labbe
Owner
Paradigm Plumbing, Heating, A/C & Electrical
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June 2024 by Jamie Aponte
Thank you for helping with our pets this month. Great staff
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May 2024 by Aaron
Sad how hard it is to adopt an animal from there, had to go to a breeder because they do not allow normal people to adopt there, this place is more strict than dcyf is about children. They would rather have animals sitting in CELLS Than let them go to a normal person , both of my sisters are also vets by the way so I get discounted services and can call a real vet anytime I need on there cell phone with any stupid question instead of looking on Google, to bad I had to go to a breeder Instead of giving a dog in need a home. Sad place, only 2 stars because most of them are volunteering
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April 2024 by Deborah Bond
Adopted a senior cat 2 weeks ago. Other than her being horribly skinny after having been found very skinny with hypothermia in a snowbank. Took her to my vet and she is anemic and has a dirty ear but otherwise healthy. They have been available for any questions that I have had a call from them to see how she is doing. My resident cat is not yet friends but we are working on it..she makes great biscuits and purrs.
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March 2024 by Kyle Ross
A crew of people who love animals and donate their time and money to keeping them safe and healthy. Truly an amazing experience!
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February 2024 by John Glennon
I adopted Ruby and the staff was very helpful. Thanks to all.
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February 2024 by Michael
Everyone says 'adopt don't shop.' I used to believe this too. I thought animal shelters would be happy to find people ready and willing to take their animals to a good home. Boy were my wife and I disappointed. This and every other animal shelter make it as difficult as possible. No same day adoptions, big formal applications, long wait to have application approved, can't even reserve animals you bond with when you visit, of you're deemed worthy enough to see them at all. These people want to think they're cat and dog whisperers who must perfectly match their little angels with the exact right people that match what they think a pet owner should be and often hold potential adopters to ridiculous standards. Look, I totally get wanting to make sure the animals go to a good home and all that. And there are certainly ways to do that in a simpler same-day no application needed process. But your NUMBER ONE PRIORITY as a shelter should be making it as easy as possible for people to adopt your animals and get them out of the shelter. The horror of the overly complicated adoption process has driven us straight back to breeders, and unfortunately cleared up the mystery of why so many adorable animals in shelters like these go unadopted, because the shelters themselves seem to want to bottleneck the process as much as possible.
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February 2024 by Vanessa Kennedy
They do a great job.
