Peaceable Kingdom Animal Shelter This animal shelter treats people like animals; they come after people attempting to offer them a rescue Whitehall Pennsylvania

YOU'D THINK THAT A SHELTER, WITH THEIR 'NO KILL/ RESCUE' POLICY WOULD WELCOME SOMEONE DROPPING OFF AN ABANDONED ANIMAL, BUT NO...READ ON.

Peaceable Kingdom?

This peaceable kingdom is a socialist kingdom more suited to a police state. The volunteers may be animal friendly but most certainly are not people friendly. The atmosphere  is an un-caring fierce one controlled by the volunteers to put humans leaving an animal or wishing to adopt an animal 'in their place' and treat people as an un-welcome interruption in their 'busy' day.

I recently found an animal in a wooded area, left it in one of my pet carriers under their awning as the web site states they open at 11:00 and it was only 10:40; I had to get to my real work-a-day job. I thought I was doing the right thing rather than leaving it in the woods! Did I learn my lesson.

This snotty little teen comes out threatening me that she will call the police as I am abandoning an animal. I explained that it was not my animal; I was leaving it at a shelter, not abandoning it, and she angrily threatened me again with 'abandonment' as if it were my pet, telling me that if I'm holding it, it's mine and that I have to fill out the 'proper' documentation. 

I went inside and left my license for her to copy feeling like I was the bad person. Then I remembered that three years ago I'd visited there with my grand-daughters to view their cats and dogs in filthy enclosures with an eye towards adoption, and was treated the same way, being told that wanting a pet was no guarantee that I would 'qualify' for one.

I was told to come back when they were not so busy (I was one of only three people searching at the time) and a young man told me to not get my hopes up. I wound up purchasing an animal from a pet shop instead where I was treated with respect and courtesy, as someone who wanted to give a pet a home, the opposite of how I was treated by these unruly overbearing pet politicians who seem to view humans as evil interruptions of their heroic efforts to house pets 'their way'.

HUMANE SHELTERS NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE WORD HUMANE MEANS 'having or showing compassion or benevolence'...IF YOU AREN'T KIND TO HUMANS, WHO WOULD BELIEVE YOU'RE KIND TO ANIMALS WHEN NO ONE IS LOOKING?