Canadian Odd Squad Animal Rescue Society COSAR Fake Non Profit Porters Lake Nova Scotia

In October, we adopted a dog to a family that we thought was the perfect fit. The adopters were told that the dog could escape from crates and that he could be destructive in the home. They acknowledged this and said it was not a problem. The dog was returned to us after a month and a half for not getting along with the children. This dog had been fostered and tested around children and never showed any signs that would lead us to believe he would not get along with children prior to leaving our foster care.

As soon as we received notification from the family, we immediately picked him up the following day. We were hesitant to adopt to them again because this dog seemed to have back-tracked a lot in his training and other behaviours, but we thought this could have been normal confusion due to being returned. The family expressed continuous interest in some of our other dogs available for adoption, and we were initially okay with this since they followed protocol and returned the dog to us. However, after other local rescues seen this person commenting on our available dogs, they alerted us that she has a history of neglecting animals, including farm animals. We then found allegations of abuse and "flipping" animals for profit on a website being passed around to local animal groups, as a warning to others of her wrong-doings. We then blocked her from our page and called it a day. We realize we should have messaged her to discuss the information and our concerns before hand.

We are always up front and honest with our foster homes/adopters and provide all information we have about the dogs. We try to give them the highest success rate possible and we think we are doing a darn good job with that. In over 30 adoptions, we have only ever had two dogs come back after the three week trial period.

There is now a false claim that we are accepting donations and then blocking those people from our page. Another false claim states that we are not registered. There has even been a Facebook page set-up saying this about us and more, with false accusations of sick dogs being adopted out and not refunding adoption fees, which simply has just never happened. We are registered as non-profit, in the province of Nova Scotia, and we assure all of our supporters that all donations we receive go directly to the care of our dogs 100%. We are all volunteers and no one on our board of directors or volunteer team gets paid a single cent. We only want what is best for the dogs in our care and we dedicate numerous hours, daily, to ensure that they have exactly that.

For anyone with any concerns, please message our page. We would be more than happy to provide documentation regarding our finances, proof of registration and that we are 100% volunteer and helping dogs in need. We hope you will continue to support us in our rescue journey and we look forward to helping more dogs in need.