National Great Pyrenees Rescue

I adopted my Great Pyr/​Anatolian Shepherd mixed breed, Emma, from the National Great Pyrenees organization, and all involved made it a wonderful experience. You can tell that the volunteers are committed to saving dogs and finding them good homes. In fact, after adopting Emma, I decided to volunteer with the NGPR, which has made everyone’s devotion to the dogs even more apparent. I would strongly encourage anyone interested in adopting a Pyr or Pyr mixed breed, or even fostering one, to contact the NGPR.

For anyone looking to adopt a dog, DO NOT adopt from the National Great Pyrenees Rescue, based in Maplecrest, New York!
We adopted Reilly from them on January 6, 2013. We were told that he was perfectly healthy and our adoption contract says that he was heartworm-​free. During the first six weeks that we had him, he was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection AND heart worms. The rescue is refusing to take any responsibility for the fact that his urinary tract infection was brewing before he was adopted AND that he has had the heart worms for at least a year.
He was found in Vineland, NJ in a hoarding situation and was outside in a chicken coop, where mosquitoes were free to bite him. Here in NJ, the mosquito is practically the state bird, and heart worm is transmitted via mosquito bite. Anyone who has any common sense would test a dog found in this situation for heart worms once in their care (he was tested in October 2012 by the SPCA and the test was negative, so the NGPR never bothered to test him once they had him). Four months later, his heart is now enlarged, and his lungs and certain arteries are also infected with the worms. Due to the severity of the damage, the worms have been present for at least a year.
When the president of the NGPR was told, she told us to wait on the chest x-​ray. We said no way and immediately had the x-​ray done. Imagine if we had waited! He could have died, or else too much damage would have been done to save him.
Now the president is threatening legal action against us for slander (I guess no one told her that it’s only slander if it’s not true), and she is sending me emails calling me names, along with sending other people to verbally attack me (real mature, isn’t she?) Maybe if she spent more time taking care of the dogs instead of displaying her immaturity, they’d be adopting out healthy dogs instead of sick ones.
RUN, DON’T WALK away from this rescue!