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Reviews (10)
Miranda Charney
Jun 20, 2022
Kari Guddeck
Apr 12, 2022
Brenna Thompson
Apr 08, 2022
Deborah Plamondon
Jan 23, 2022
Found this beautiful and loving cat at HART. The shelter is amazing! Cats walk freely around in nice clean rooms. Volunteer staff spent 2 hours with me answering questions about any cat that showed interest in me. They sent Gidget and I home with everything we needed. Gidget loves her new home and we sure got the perfect luv! I highly recommend them!
Rabbit Bag
Dec 20, 2021
Unbelievably unprofessional, was waiting to adopt a cat that had been injured and was told I'd be notified he was ready, has everything set up. He was adopted by someone else and no one had notified me he was ready. Unbelievably unprofessional and disappointing. If you are looking for a shelter that will be in contact with you, pick a different one.
Free Style
Dec 11, 2021
Agree with other recent reviews, all of the staff there are great, but Andy who is an operations director is snide and hyper judgmental. I can appreciate that they see a lot of people of different stripes but I really felt prejudiced against. He pretty much called me a liar about my use of vaccines and veterinary care for my prior cats, but was not interested in looking them up under the correct name, my wife's. Had I known that's what he wanted to do, I would have started with that name, but he didn't communicate, just denied my application that was initially approved.
I had to follow up in person to figure out what had happened. Doing that to me is one thing but we had selected a cat and my child was very hurt. He asked unanswerable questions like "how do we know this cat will never escape your house" but was not interested in discussing the cat's history as to why it wanted to run away from its prior house. Something about living in a basement?, but no details beyond that.
He simply didn't know and it didn't fit his apparent narrative that I was a dirtbag pet owner. Didn't seem interested in the cat's mental and emotional history, just the physical. Sad that this cat missed out on an excellent home with an excellent family where it could bond. The cat I'm looking to replace lived for nearly 19 years and was happy, healthy, never injured, and never sick. I will not accept pet shaming from someone like Andy.
I had to follow up in person to figure out what had happened. Doing that to me is one thing but we had selected a cat and my child was very hurt. He asked unanswerable questions like "how do we know this cat will never escape your house" but was not interested in discussing the cat's history as to why it wanted to run away from its prior house. Something about living in a basement?, but no details beyond that.
He simply didn't know and it didn't fit his apparent narrative that I was a dirtbag pet owner. Didn't seem interested in the cat's mental and emotional history, just the physical. Sad that this cat missed out on an excellent home with an excellent family where it could bond. The cat I'm looking to replace lived for nearly 19 years and was happy, healthy, never injured, and never sick. I will not accept pet shaming from someone like Andy.
Zachary Doe
Nov 15, 2021
My girlfriend and her friend went to hart to adopt a cat for our home and upon arrival the attitude from the staff wasn't exactly the best. She filled out the adoption forms and waited. Shortly after my girlfriend was taken into a room with an employee named Andy who immediately started giving her a hard time because our yellow lab, who is a pure bred with papers, was "in tact" as he called it, basically shaming her because he was not fixed.
He's 6 years old, perfectly healthy, no behavioral issues whatsoever, I did not feel the need to have him neutered when he was younger. Afterwards he started giving her a hard time because he claimed our dog was not vaccinated (which he is for everything Maine legally requires him to be) and that he was overdue for an annual wellness visit to the vet (he was at the vet 3 times last year for a checkup an ear infection) than followed up with denying her application.
I called my vet, confirmed he's vaccinated to which I called Hart after the encounter and spoke with Andy, essentially what he was telling me is that we're bad pet owners for not neutering him and vaccinating him for more and said he wanted owners who will shell out the money for animal care, which I found funny giving how much I've spent on my animal's care over the last 6 years, completely clueless and disrespectful.
He focused on the vaccination issue again and I informed him that he had everything that was required in the state of Maine and is in perfect health, to which he said he'd get back to me after he spoke with the adoption team and discussed my "philosophies" about vaccinations with them. They followed up 3 days later with a denial email due to my dogs vaccination status.
Moral of the story, my girlfriend left there and went to another animal rescue center and adopted a great cat to a loving home within 2 hours. Adoption is solely about caring for the animals an making sure they'll never want for anything else in life, which is sad because I would never recommend anybody go to Hart because of the sole reason of avoiding their disrespectful and rude employees.
He's 6 years old, perfectly healthy, no behavioral issues whatsoever, I did not feel the need to have him neutered when he was younger. Afterwards he started giving her a hard time because he claimed our dog was not vaccinated (which he is for everything Maine legally requires him to be) and that he was overdue for an annual wellness visit to the vet (he was at the vet 3 times last year for a checkup an ear infection) than followed up with denying her application.
I called my vet, confirmed he's vaccinated to which I called Hart after the encounter and spoke with Andy, essentially what he was telling me is that we're bad pet owners for not neutering him and vaccinating him for more and said he wanted owners who will shell out the money for animal care, which I found funny giving how much I've spent on my animal's care over the last 6 years, completely clueless and disrespectful.
He focused on the vaccination issue again and I informed him that he had everything that was required in the state of Maine and is in perfect health, to which he said he'd get back to me after he spoke with the adoption team and discussed my "philosophies" about vaccinations with them. They followed up 3 days later with a denial email due to my dogs vaccination status.
Moral of the story, my girlfriend left there and went to another animal rescue center and adopted a great cat to a loving home within 2 hours. Adoption is solely about caring for the animals an making sure they'll never want for anything else in life, which is sad because I would never recommend anybody go to Hart because of the sole reason of avoiding their disrespectful and rude employees.
Gow Mosby
Jan 19, 2021
Sharman Mahoney
Mar 25, 2019
The people who volunteer here at thisshelter in particular are so incredibly amazing. They turn no cat away and stick to their no kill policy. They are angels they keep the place really clean and you can tell all the cats in there feel loved. It is amazing experience to go into the rooms and spend time with the cats, it really is good therapy.my cat, Colonel Gregory Grayson Sarcophagus truly saved my family as we saved him, total symbiotic relationship. Please if you're going to adopt an animal go to a shelter. And if you want to volunteer it seems like they are looking for people
Zombie Otr
Nov 11, 2017
I went here on Saturday and adopted two of the sweetest cats Duey and Hewey. Everyone there was super friendly and nice. The only thing I will say is there needs to be a bit better ventilation in there. If I had an HVAC company I would totally donate a system. Over the past 2 or so weeks I have visited about 19 or so other shelters or pet stores looking to adopt a cat and this was the only one where the cats were living in open rooms, everywhere else the cats were caged or caged but let out into a room at times. 10/10 would adopt from again, just wish it wasn't almost 1.5hrs away.
