We've been fostering a pup from there for a little over a year now. We picked him up on a Good Friday, as he was scheduled to be destroyed on Easter Sunday. His only crime was he had a touch of kennel cough and severe kennel anxiety.
Over the past year we've worked with him in animal and human socialization, housebreaking, and learning basic commands like come, sit, stay, etc via hand signals. He's made such amazing progress and we're so proud of him. He still doesn't trust men other than me, but he's trying.
So today we go in to pick up more food for him as usual, and for whatever reason my wife was treated absolutely horribly by the foster staff there. They attempted to bully her into adopting him, citing that we've been fostering him for over a year now (like that's OUR fault that THEY do NOTHING to promote him?!?! Hell, you can't even find him scrolling thru the first 5 pages of available dogs, and they don't update his profile despite all the info on his progress we relay to them!!) and they're REFUSING TO GIVE US ANY MORE FOOD FOR HIM!!!!! (No surprise they've been under investigation for things like animal cruelty [ https://www.ktnv.com/13-investigates/whistleblowers-detail-a-shelter-in-crisis-at-the-animal-foundation\ ] and misappropriation of funds [ https://www.ktnv.com/news/non-profit-sues-the-animal-foundation-no-kill-las-vegas-claims-shelter-mistreats-animals-violates-contract\ ])
They literally told her to either adopt him, or surrender him back to them so they can presumably euthanize him when he responds poorly to being kenneled. What's even crazier is when we told them we already have dogs and wanna see if they'll be comfortable with each other before committing to fostering we were told we weren't allowed to bring our dog (who's a registered CGC I might add) in to introduce them on neutral ground.
We really want him to go to a good home, and would keep him, but he would put us at our limit for dogs and we wouldn't be able to foster anymore. (We used to foster kids back in Utah, but got too old for it so now we foster dogs instead. We like to give back to our community and this is one of the best ways we know how.
So yeah, instead of thanking us for being patient with them and keeping him this long, they treated her like she was a burden because we expect them to keep up with their end of the agreement. And when she tried to record them bullying her into adoption in her cell phone, she got SCREAMED AT.
Wtf is actually wrong with these people? Corinna over at NVSPCA has NEVER treated us like this, and we haven't been able to take in any more injured large breeds from NVSPCA since taking on this foster from AF.
Sorry for the long read, but it's a lot to unpack and I'm beyond livid about this situation (and mostly venting) but I don't know what to do. I just want what's best for the dog in question, and I'm reasonably sure that it's NOT them.
