Tell me your adoption counselor or adoption experiences

[moosmom]

I adopted a 15 year old cat from the Dearborn Animal Shelter because her owner claimed she didn't play with her children anymore. UGH!!

I took her home and put her in my spare room. She came down with a URI and stopped eating. I brought her back to the shelter to be treated with a nebulizer. I went to pick her up on Monday, only to be told that they killed her cuz they needed the cage space. My heart was broken.

I will NEVER do that again!!! If only I had known, I would've brought her right to my vet.

[jazzcat]

When I adopted Jazz I noticed that her hair was a little sparse above her eye but the shelter said it was just where she had rubbed it and they gave me some ointment. That was on a Saturday and over the weekend I noticed she kept sneezing so I took her to my vet first thing Monday. Turns out she had ringworm, a nasty URI, earmites, fleas (although the shelter said she was treated) and tapeworms. I called the shelter to tell them so they could watch the other kittens for ringworm and the URI and they waived my adoption fee since I had spent so much at the vet. I made a donation instead. Ultimately it took 5-6 week and hundreds of dollars to get her well. The worse part was my 10 year old cat caught the URI and got very sick which triggered a secondary blood infection. He almost died, spent 8 days total at the vet with another week of taking him for daily antibiotic injections at a cost around $800 for him alone.

By the way, when I took Jazz into the vet that first time and they discovered all the things wrong with her the vet suggested I return her to the shelter and wanted to know if I really wanted to treat her. That upset me so much. Luckily that vet was fired from the group a few months later.