Abby

Review of west valley animal services

I brought my dog here to meet another dog I wanted...

I brought my dog here to meet another dog I wanted to adopt and it was such a terrible experience. The staff members know nothing about introducing dogs, posturing, etc. and they set them up for failure. The room for meet and greets is tiny and obviously two dogs (especially when both are rescues) are going to be tense and not mesh well in that room. I asked repeatedly to do a meet and greet outside and the girl told me she had other things to be doing. When I finally convinced her, she took us to a fenced area right next to a bunch of goats, so the dogs wouldn't even pay attention to each other there. A few minutes after we went outside the girl just stormed off with the dog and put her back in her crate and literally disappeared without a word to me. No one at reception said anything either and I was just left to assume that they weren't going to let me adopt the poor dog. It was so odd. Also, while we were outside she said to me, "This is why I don't have little dogs at my house." I get a little sick when I think about this experience and I can't believe animal shelter employees could be so rude and care so little about finding homes for the animals.