Hillside SPCA reviews and complaints

My husband and I recently adopted an adorable pitbull there. We went to see the dog and all that. Well my husband signed the adoption papers and like any spca you have to agree to random visits without notice that's fine with me. Well I wasn't there to pick the dog up my husband was and he wrote all his info down and me as an emergency contact. Well all the people that I didn't meet there the one day i went are looking me up on facebook and used the info my husband gave them to find me and it creeps me out . None of them sent him a request. Just me . And none of them knew my name it was only on paper so what does that say. You can just use someone's info for anything ?

For a place that is supposed to help animals find a loving home they treat you like an idiot for wanting to adopt one. I am a stay at home mom of 2 children, own our home, have a dog who is at the vet regularly for check ups, who we pay health insurance for every month and buy him 70 bags of dog food bc he has food sensitivities, goes along with us everywhere, sleeps in our bed, is a huge part of our family!. Needless to say I consider ourselves pretty good pet owners.

We took the decision to get a cat very seriously, we did our research, got everything ready, got a cat tree, litterbox, cat bed, ect..even installed a cat door from kitchen to laundry rm so she could have her own space. We decided on a kitten so she could grow up with the children and be used to being around kids.

Back to the shelter, we've been there several different times looking everytime the lady in the front is very rude and short with you. When we went this past time we were sent to their small rm the one lady eyeballed me up and down like I ran a cat slaughter house. We spent an hour or so picking out a kitten, when we went to the other space there are cats everywhere sneezing, puss in their eyes, one cat was even bleeding from its nose.
The lady who is usually in front office asked what I was looking for when I said we def want a kitten she huffed under her breath and says "Well that's not gonna happen!" I must have looked appalled and she goes "we don't adopt kittens to any one with children." Really!? Maybe you should have told me that BEFORE we spent hours there. I couldn't believe the ignorance in her voice like what was I thinking trying to adopt an animal from her shelter... silly me...that's what I thought it was there for.

We drove right up to ruth steinhart in pine Grove, and adopted a kitten. the cats were clean and very well taken care of, the people were so friendly and helpful, it was a great experience!

On a side note my parents adopted a cat from hillside a yr ago when they took her to vet she had 105 fever, ear mites, and was severely matted.

Also when I was in there with my 4yr old one worker went on to yell about the "[censored]"all over the place.

I was fuming when I left, the worker in the cat section is just extremely rude. Bc of her a kitten there missed out on a very long happy life :/

I recently bought two kittens from this place. The first thing that hit me was the overwhelming smell of uncleaned litter boxes an there were many of them. As I was looking for a kitten I found that they didn't separate the unhealthy cats from the ones that were healthy an no one told me that the kittens that I held had ringworm! They are supposed to give them their first shots but instead the just deworm an give them a flea bath and act like they are doing them a great favor. One of the kittens that I bought ended up having a very serious upper respiratory virus that was caught from when he was there because as I said before they do not separate the animals when they are I'll. Someone should go there an do something about the deplorable conditions. If we ourselves treated our own animals like this we would be fined, charged with animal cruelty an our pets taken away! There are plenty of workers there so there is no reason for that facility to be in that condition. The woman in charge sits behind a desk an acts like she does everything but if you were to step beyond her office you would become sick from the smell! There are many cats, that are sick an as long as no one goes an checks on them there will be animals who will end up dead or on the verge of dying like my little kitten. I guess when push comes to shove the SPCA doesn't practice what they preach because if they truly care they would investigate this place with no notice given. But I fear that I am wasting my breath on this no one will ever look into that place an make it a better place for all the animals there.