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November 2024 by andrea vargas
I just want to thank you for your complete incompetence. Thanks to your staff I went out and found an incredible vet elsewhere. That instead of giving me paperwork to put my dog to sleep they gave me a plan which extended his life two entire years. This place and all its staff should be ashamed of how they treat animals. Please do not take your beloved pet here. They do not care about them.
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November 2024 by D Ferguson
I often donate to this rescue. I decided to read their reviews and here is what I have to say as former Animal Shelter Director - Great Job! The negative reviews I have read proves you are doing your job and above and beyond. I know there are people out there that don't understand the rigor shelters have to put forth to ensure stable forever homes. Nobody should be putting down a shelter because they are doing their due diligence to the animals in their care. The only bad reviews I could find were from people who have been denied. As a veteran myself, if you are looking for a therapy animal you should consult a professional, not a shelter. The VA can help you with that. Expectations of a shelter animal to meet your "needs" and "medical" requirements is not practical, not practical for shelter staff, or for you to determine that about an animal that you know nothing about. It really kind of blows me away reading some of these negative reviews. All the more telling that it was a good call to deny.
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November 2024 by Constantin Arama
Great place with amazing people
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November 2024 by Eric Bruenell
Best and biggest dog park in Long Island.
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October 2024 by marc picciano
I've adopted my best friend. From North SHORE IN DOUGLISTON HAD HIM NEAR TO 13 YEARS GIVE OR TAKE. THANK YOU FOR BROWNIE ❤️❤️❤️
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October 2024 by Santiago Centeno
Very good attention
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October 2024 by Mike1Colon
Nice to see the dogs and cats.
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October 2024 by Loretta Long
I took my sister back to North shore animal league after 17 years . Her last cat had to be put down. She adopted this adorable sweet girl she named Amber. They have bonded beautifully after one week. My sister is so happy with her. The people at North Shore are kind and patient. Shout out to Pat. She was right about Amber she’s a very sweet lovable cat. Thank you for helping her find her new fur baby .
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October 2024 by Drew Echevarrio
Absolute horrible experience. Went Sunday to adopt two kittens, we have previously adopted sponsored and donated over 25 years to north shore . Was denied adoption due to a previous cat who unexpectedly passed at a young age and there all because there was no information of bringing the cat to the vet after it already passed away?! My six year old son is devastated, was interrogated for 35 min and then had to leave without the cats because they could not call the vet because it was a Sunday, they called us multiple times asking for more information all to just be denied. 20 plus years of donations and other adoptions from them yet now we are not good enough. Thanks for wasting my time and making my 6 year old son upset all bc you couldn’t find “accurate” records. Will never donate or recommend this place again.
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October 2024 by janine alessi
I am a very experienced cat owner my entire life. I recently lost my baby so I came in to see if there were any connections. I was holding a baby orange kitty and some horrendous female volunteer came over to me and asked if I had a cat at home and when I started to ask if I could adopt another kitty along with “Slinky” because she said this tiny baby must go home with another cat there already she literally snatched the kitten from my arms and put him back in his cage. I am completely disgusted as I too was a volunteer at this shelter and we would NEVER treat a potential adopter this way.
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October 2024 by AJ ALPHA
They let you pick out a cat let you spend time with it get attached and then make you fill out a whole application and wait over an hour to let you know if you can adopt or not after all that and if you even ask if you can take it outside they deney your application and they wounder why they have no room you gotta jump through all these hoops for a cat it is easier to get a driver's license then a cat here. I'll just buy one for $5
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October 2024 by anthony enzukewich
Not going there again was treated rudely but always adopt a fur friend but not in this place
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October 2024 by Nova Brinx
I was honestly extremely disappointed and truly wish I would’ve searched this place up before coming there. They have so many animals begging for a new home but the adoption process is so strict that unfortunately none of those animals will be taken to a good home. When I first came in, they allowed me to choose an animal which later turned out to be very cruel due to the fact I was denied. I bonded with the most adorable kitten, played with so many others and truly fell in love. After choosing a cat, I went through the adoption process aka the interrogation. I was denied because
1. I had a previous kitten an over a year ago that passed from stomach issues and they wanted to speak to his vet. I only had the kitty 6 months and moved while having him so I had no idea the last vet I took him to. They needed his medical records to ensure I didn’t kill the cat. I’d have to drive all over Brooklyn trying to remember where I took my kitten over a year ago, once ever in his life.
2. They needed to call my landlord in which I provided their name and number but rather they looked up the property and saw it was owned by someone else. The was passed on but the name was never changed in the system. They wanted to speak to the owner listed or have a notarized letter from the new owner. That was way too much to ask my landlord to go do just so I could get an animal.
3. When I was younger I was allergic to cats but no longer am. They wanted me to go to my doctor and get a note stating that I am not allergic to cats. How would my doctor even go about testing that? I just sat in there facility for an hour and a half, played with cats for 30 minutes of that time and clearly had no reactions at all. Hello, use your brain??
It was honestly a waste of time and I drove an hour & 30 minutes from home with expectations of leaving with a kitty. I’m a phenomenal pet owner and any animal I had was spoiled and loved. I owned 2 dogs before my cat, one living well into his old age, dying of age and the other living until 12 and dying of cushions disease. Sooo many of these animals would find happy homes if they weren’t so strict. I understand wanted to protect the animals but it’s honestly excessive.
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October 2024 by Julie Marie
Saw them at the Bethany Harvest Festival and was extremely disappointed by their mobile adoption bus. The animals visually looked stressed, with one in specific spinning in circles, barking at the mass amounts of people who walked through and visibly looked frightened by the loud noises and tiny confined cage unit in the bus. Other large dogs in smaller than should be cages panting from either stress or heat. Loud children, music and festival activities that shouldn’t be around these animals if they aren’t accustomed to it. The staff member looked less than amused and almost pissed off that she was there. Genuinely did bring me to tears for the sheer amount of stress these poor dogs were in. Total shame and very hard to see. Please do better for these pups.
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October 2024 by cooldude530
The place is nice inside out but you will get denied if you’re not white, that’s all I have to say.
