Almost Home Humane Society Review

This is a non-traditional (and, sorry - really long!) review. We were the "re-home" for a dog we found through Craigslist who we (quickly) discovered had massive separation anxiety. Our house was progressively getting destroyed every time we had to leave (read: scratched up doors, ripped up carpet, chewed THROUGH a door), and we were at our wits' end. We'd ordered a crate, but it hadn't arrived, and we knew we were going to need to be away a couple times during the coming days before the crate arrived. We were so desperate that we seriously contemplated surrendering her to a shelter because we just didn't know what to do and were dreading whatever the next ante-up was going to be in terms of destruction of our home.

(Side note: I'm pretty sure I cried for about two days straight as I contemplated this. I volunteered at a shelter for several years, and I saw first-hand that dogs with separation anxiety were really hard cases for shelters. The dogs are otherwise really adoptable, but they get returned over and over again by angry people whose homes have been destroyed by them. The amount of time and energy spent by shelter employees and volunteers trying to desensitize and retrain these dogs is fairly enormous. Knowing all this, you can imagine how horrible I felt even considering having to burden a shelter with her.)

In a last ditch effort, I called Almost Home to see if they possibly rented out crates. They don't, but they did something better - they loaned us a crate. And even blankets to put inside. I really appreciated their efforts to try to help us KEEP a dog that was otherwise headed back to a shelter because a family just couldn't make sufficient accommodations for her.

[The end of the story is that said dog broke out of the crate and further destroyed the house while we were away for just over an hour, but thankfully, the ordered crate arrived several days early, we massively reinforced it, and I didn't leave the house for 2 weeks while we crate trained her. She still doesn't like us leaving, but she does go in the crate willingly, and thanks to the crate and anti-anxiety meds, we still have her!!! (And the destruction of our house has stopped...still need to repaint, fix carpet and screen doors, and replace an interior door, though...)]

Anyway, I really appreciated the efforts of the people at the shelter, their kindness, and their long-sighted vision for the care of animals, not just those currently at the shelter. If we found ourselves needing to adopt again someday, I'm confident our search would start at Almost Home.

These folks have protect our pets when they get into bad situations. They took good care of my dear cat Charlie when he had a long adventure and I was able to enjoy his good company again after I spotted him in their mobile unit.

Very friendly staff, but a very busy shelter. If you don t like waiting call ahead.

I love this place it's great very nice people who work there

Lots of cats and dogs for adoption, well cared for there

It is super difficult to get a dog here! Put in an application and didn t hear back for over a month. They could not tell us why we did not get the dog. It would have gone to a great home. Very disappointed that they will not give dogs to good homes.

A lot of aggressive dogs but still quite a few gems. Would not recommend bringing children that might not like dogs growling and barking at them.

Nice Humane Society with very friendly volunteer staff. Place was loaded with animals and we all hope they find good homes.

Nice selection of fur babies. Easy to adopt and most animals are already spade or neutered and cone microchiped.

Almost Home is an amazing place to get a new family member. We stopped by to look around after our previous cat passed and fell in love with this guy who looked just like him.