Complaint Review: Save A Life Pet Rescue Inc - Oviedo Florida

        Age discrimination practices, and unfair adoption rules, Mickey told me before I drove over there on 10,08,2016, I would not have any problem adopting two puppies, from one litter, Tanner and his brother as long as I was first on the list of a first come first serve, but i found out on 10/9/2016 (they do not oblige their policy of 1st come 1st serve, they let everyone pick up all the puppies at once), and their practice of age discrimination is against the law, Mickey, the handler of adoptions, said I look too old am too old to own 2 dogs, before she even inquired my age, I am 56, I had to drive acroos the state the night before to get their to be first on the list and then wait there until 1:30pm, to see the puppies,. Everyone there knew I was there for those two puppies, including the woman she let him go to, I have spoke with Anna and she has appologized numerous times for Mickey being rude to me and telling me I had to be able to lift 2, 6 month great danes at about 100 lbs each and hold them in my arms at the same time, to be eligible, to adopt the 2 puppies that will never get that large, and she can not even verify any dane was trully in them due to them being mixed breeds, I put verification on the phone with her that I have raised large breed dogs all my life, she still denied me the 2nd puppy, then came up with a brand new rule, no more than 1 puppy per person, and most appauling is that the woman she adopted Tanner to had another dog(s) which she did not ask about or discriminate against, Mickey stated in front of numerous witnesses that her Great Danes fight all the time, therefore she is not a suitable dog owner to even be in control of adoptions. This service adopts out unhealthy puppies, they claim to be non profit but are a big profit organazation. Beware of adopting a pet from these people you will find numerous complaints on yelp.com and at the department of consumer affairs. All the witnesses there that day will testify to that fact, she was very rude to me. But after I called and told Anna, I was going to sue them, she said I was rude to Mickey and Mickey had the right to refuse to adopt the pups based on age discrimination or for any reason she chose. Please look at all the other complaints on the internet before you adopt a puppy from these evil people.  

   On 10/11/2016     I just returned from the vet, the puppy has upper respitory infection, infection in the nuetered area, and hook worms, he is currently under treatment by my vet, you did not give me the date of his nuetering or the date a staple was put in his nuetered area, my vet said the puppy does not look to have any dane in him and is a small mixed breed dog.,  

        On 10/09/2016  here is what I wrote on yelp.com as soon as I got home, :    I searched for 2 puppies from the same litter, called this service, they told me to drive over to Oviedo and I would have no problem adopting a puppy named Tanner I requested about and one of his brothers, that It was a first come first serve policy, that I could not buy the puppies or adopt them before the day of 10/09/2016 that I was to put my name on a list and would get first option and be able to get the 2 puppies I wanted, I drove clear across the state, my name was 1st on the list, but that did not matter to the adoption handler, she allowed a mob to pick up the puppies all at once, I complained told her I was Ist and wanted the 2 puppies, she got snotty with me and said I was too old to own 2 puppies,

      I was in shock, I had raised 2 Great Dane and Mastiff mix dogs, they lived to be almost 14 years old, I am a landlord and own a multitude of homes, am not transient, do not drink or do drugs, my dogs weighed 170 lbs each , had good health and died of old age, they never bit anyone, never fought, were well mannered and noted by all in my community as beautiful awesome dogs. I mourned them and was shocked by this snotty adoption clerk who suddenly was telling me a 55 years old woman could not handle what she was calling large dogs.

      The dogs I came there to adopt, had small paws, were a small mixed breed, might have had some dane in them but I doubt it, she could not even verify what breed they were mixed with, then I told her I would put my vet on the phone with her to verify my handing for almost 14 years large breed dogs, I did, she still refused to let me adopt 2 puppies, she again told me I was too old, then said because other people had returned many dogs to her she was not going to let me have both, she said that large breeds like her great danes fight all the time and that she knows because her dogs fight all the time, I told her that if she was a good dog owner that would not be the case, she got even snottier, then told me I would be eligible if I could pick up 2- 6 month old great danes and hold them both in my arms at the same time I told her my dogs had weighed over 100 lbs at 6 months old each, that as a dog owner I could hire someone if they both needed be to picked up and held off the ground at the same time, that I should not have to pick up both dogs of that weight and size to prove I could handle mixed small breed puppies that she could not even verify if great dane was even in them, I told her the dogs I had for all those years, when they were puppies, their paws were as big as my hands, the dogs I came there to adopt had tiny little paws, probally did not even have great dane in them.

        I asked her to tell me what they were mixed with, she said she had no idea what breeds they had in them. This evil adoption clerk turned around and adopted the brother out to a woman who had claimed to other people there earlier she had 5 dogs, I mentioned what she had said, I offered to buy the other puppy from her for double the amount, she was there with a family member that had also put their name on the list, then she told the clerk she had only 1dog after telling a lot of people waiting in line she had 5, the clerk never even bothered to ask her if the puppy would be safe from the other dog.s. but told me in a snotty tone that she did not have to adopt any out to me at all if she didn't want to, I said she was given the power of authority to place dogs in places where she complained they were being returned and to split up litters of puppies that could be raised together in good homes and asked her if she thought she was doing wrong, she said do you want the dog or not. She had me so upset I was shaking, when I left there I cryed, prior to leaving she had me sign a contract that in order to get the 1 puppy, it waived them of all illness, I think the contract was not legal to force on people that want to adopt a healthy puppy.

      This organization claims to be non profit, they go all over the state collecting puppies from animal pounds and breeders, normal fee at a pound for adoption is $50, then they mass sell off these puppies for $300 each and they require all transaction in cash, 46 puppies on average in a couple of hours each weekend they raked in $35,000, they get volunteers to donate time foster homes, food, etc , this is a big money racket and Anna told me as did mickey these animal have no feelings when seperated from a litter, and she do not care  nor want to hear about their emotion health. 

       It is understandable that she has so many returns, I saw one puppy with a gash in its head, probally due to them letting them fight, the people she was adopting to were obvious drug addicts, alcholics, transients, did not have stable homes or jobs, were in young abusive relationships, yet she used age discrimination and told me I was to old, even though my history proves my ability to raise dogs twice the size of what I was there to adopt, she chose to deny me that right, Later I called the agency to get more info, she had even neglected to right down the prior vet info and the name of the puppy she did let me adopt, her company rep apologized at least 100 times but now instead of 2 brothers running and playing, 1 lonely puppy Dano broken hearted without his brother Tanner