Hazleton Animal Shelter

i’ve visited quite a few shelters and hazleton is one of the WORST. Rude workers, deplorable conditions, and a focus on making money and not caring about the dog. Woman working yelled about being closed yet was still showing animals for a family… when inquired about a dog on the petfinder website, was told that was 3 weeks old and the puppy was adopted… if the dog is adopted, update your site! 3 weeks is unacceptable. Again, like the other person, id give it zero stars if i could

Beyond bad management and management system period! I volunteered here which I loved to do… for the animals. I adopted one cat, no problems… then another a problem occurred when the manager did the normal processing (contacting my vet) but contacted the wrong vet when she realized 3 weeks LATER! When the wrong vet was on vacation during the waiting period. I was very upset because the cat I wanted was a new cat to the shelter and I knew he wouldn’t do well with the other cats and 1 day after being with the other cats he got sick… then I couldn’t adopt him until he was 100%… 4 weeks waiting to take him home. I got so tired of this crap I wanted to speak to the owners… but wait… the only contact method to talk to the owners (manager’s bosses) was snail mail… Seriously?! No phone numbers, no emails… just a PO Box… Manager, and the owners could care less about this place and especially could care less about the animals housed here. I refused to contact through snail mail. I went to city hall because I knew the shelter WAS a city shelter, so city hall was very happy to help me get in contact with the owners. And just in my opinion I would assume a PO Box was the only method purely because the owners KNOW they got a crappy shelter and a very bad manager they refuse to replace with a better manager who actually LOVES animals! I promise… one day I’ll buy out this shelter, shut it down, build my own to give the people of this city a REAL shelter for animals and staff who actually LOVES animals! No disrespect to any other staff members who works or worked at the Hazleton Animal Shelter, just the manager is the suspect and owners, not the staff…

Well I gave it 2 stars only because they do have a place to keep lost and found dogs otherwise i would be giving no stars. The staff is rude and inconsiderate a new staff would do this buisness justice, they don’t listen to what you have to say and their done with you, they dont keep in touch over the phone and they were really rude to my two refferences to the point that both of them called me after their questioning from the shelter asking me if it was a joke i was stunned by this. after they took my information on if I have or have had pets they called the vet, ok fine nothing to hide its routine to find them calling me demanding to find out what happened to my other pets and why i did not inform them about them. I told them to hold up i had no other pets other than the one i told them about it was a family vet and my parents and siblings with the same last name have and had those pets they told me they had to investigate more and would let me know. I gave them a week they never called so i stopped in after a half an hour of looking for my papers they said their were inconsistant storys and they couldent help me WHAT… because of this i was thinking it would be less of a headache to just look in the paper or just buy from a petstore but with the intent of wanting to rescue a dog and give him a great loving home i tried again thats of course once my headache disaperared and my aggrivation dissapated it was like night and day from one shelter to the next the staff was so caring and very thoughtful to help in our rescure dissision making that i was taken back after seeing how i was treated i would not recoment it at all go to wilkesberre, weatherly/​whitehaven, stroudsburg, or even berwick they are all great shelters with a staff that listens and you can still rescue with out the drama headache and dissapointment my family has a wonderfull new addition thanks to stroudsburg shelter…