Etosha Rescue & Adoption Center - Seguin Pet Shelter
Our mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and find the best homes available for our dogs and cats. Adoptable pets are spayed or neutered, vaccinated, micro-chipped and free of disease (including heartworms) prior to adoption. Dogs receive basic obedience training as well as socialization through the Etosha Foster Care Program. We promote state-wide educational events which focus on the importance of spaying or neutering, humane treatment for all animals, and workshops to teach children the basics of responsible pet ownership. Etosha is dedicated to maintaining a high success rate (about ninety-five percent) for placing companion animals in forever homes. We achieve this by carefully screening prospective adopters and knowing which dogs or cats are most likely to be a good match for them.
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Rating
1 stars
Author
jaypatrickjr
Review date
2023-12-08 02:57:59
The woman that operates this 'not-for-profit' is stiffing teenage workers of hard-earned wages by not paying final paychecks(see other reviews as well). The 'rescue' operation rarely adopts out animals, and violates state regulations on vaccinations and neutering. The owner fails to pay payroll taxes while incorrectly paying 'contractors' hourly, she has no insurance for accidents on her property, and has no workers' compensation for a dangerous job working with animals. I highly advise avoiding this business, and hope the state investigates.
Rating
1 stars
Author
ACannon
Review date
2022-08-15 20:28:36
The Etosha Rescue and Adoption Center website is currently out of date. Many, if not most, of those dogs have been there so long, that they’re seniors now. The amount of dogs and cats she claims is on her property & her alleged foster homes, is no where near close to factual. She actually has no “foster” homes for dogs. The higher numbers she claims is what her grants are based on. Many dogs are not even UTD on their rabies vaccinations, much less any other veterinary care. Someone needs to do something for these dogs & 7 cats (as of June) in her care. They have no life, with no chance of adoption because no one promotes adoptions, works the website properly, nor will she answer most of the calls she gets where people are asking about dogs on the website. Two dogs in the 5 months I worked there, were adopted out. They got lucky. All someone of authority needs to do is audit her facility records and medical records of her current dogs/cats to see that every bit of this is the truth. People who have given her grants just this year, since I was under her employment, have been given false information as to how many dogs, cats and fosters she has. So many of these dogs haven’t been in a vets office in 2-3 years, if not more. I’ve seen the records. It’s so sad. No one wants to adopt from her because she runs them off with ridiculous questions and accusations which personally offends them. The dogs suffer. They are suffering. Yes, they have shelter, food and water. Her favorites gets vet care. But is this all a rescue/adoption center is required to do to receive 501c3 status, tax exemption status and to receive thousands of dollars each year in grants? It’s June. Why isn’t every single one of her almost 60 dogs on property and 7 cats atleast up to date on their rabies? Does no one that helps her see it & care? Do they think her practices are ok? Are these places never audited or fact checked?
If someone does care, help these dogs and contact someone that can do something & just go check her records. Don’t take my word for it. Just simply go ask her on the spot to show all records of the dogs on the property. Which isn’t, by the way, the amounts I’ve personally heard her tell callers and read on the grant application letters/thank you letters. Look at her website and see that hardly any of the dogs on the property are on the website to be adopted. She’s had MANY of the same dogs FOR YEARS!!! She’s a hoarder &/or collector at best.
I heard her once tell a medically retired army soldier that she wouldn’t adopt to him because he had been to war and had PTSD from his tour in Iraq. In his late 30’s, married for years, a family, perfect home environment, but asked this and then judged him saying he wasn’t suitable because he served his country & was affected by what occurred over there. This made no sense and was completely inconsiderate, distasteful, rude and a downright ignorant action to take on her part simply asking this young man something so personal, then judging him because he didn’t look her in the eyes and answer her when he replied “yes”, that he had served overseas & that yes, the army had told him he suffered at some level with PTSD. As a 26 year army wife and a mother to a two time Afghanistan war veterans, I can tell you that it disgusted me when she told me what she thought of him and what she said he would definitely do to “her” dog if he took her home. I mean, as she said, she’d seen this many times. Really? That type of judgement isn’t even reality & it’s truly sickening in its nature. The dogs under her care pay for the negligence & negative mindset she (the owner) afflicts onto them. Their crates are hit with a red broom handle and yelled at to shut up when they bark. The dogs in her house are let out 3 times a day for “maybe 15 minutes to drink water and go to the restroom. She cusses them and yells at them in front of her employees. She teaches her employees to use the stick on their crates if they won’t listen. I wouldn’t touch it. The other ONE employee does. It’s sickening. It truly is. Something needs to be done.
My heart goes out to these dogs and cats. They need a hero. They need some kind of chance for someone, somewhere, to know they need a home of their own. This woman needs to be held accountable for the large funding checks she receives and the lack of veterinary care the animals in her care receives. It’s not right. There were two hounds there, a redtick and a bluetick with ear infections. They had the ear infections the entire 5 months I was there. Puss and blood came out and they cried out when they’re cleaned. They weren’t taken to the vet and hadn’t been before I left. I just couldn’t take watching it any longer. I felt like I was a part of what happens there. All the grant money that came in during those 5 months, but she put a roof on her house when dogs need vet care and to be up to date on their rabies (at minimal). There’s so much more I could report about what I saw. I just don’t know who to tell.
I’m not the only person who has seen how she treats these animals. I left the day she called my phone and cussed me because I didn’t want to work 7 days straight on 3 digit Texas heat. I just couldn’t take it anymore. Leaving those dogs knowing the conditions of many of them killed me. I think about them still everyday. I just wish someone who gives out grants would audit her records. She’s 73yo, can’t keep good people because of how she treats them and had one person when I left for all those dogs. She can’t handle what she’s got. The dogs need to be rescued FROM HER!!!
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