Save A Dog

I am shocked at the bad reviews for this wonder place. The women that work here are the sweetest, most caring women you could ever meet. If someone wasn’t fit for a dog then they would never send them home with one. To write a review for that reason is unfair to them. They know who are best for their dogs.
I adopted from them and had nothing from a positive experience from the moment I entered, to the moment I left with my amazing little guy.
To say that the girl at the desk is rude because she has a personality that is different from yours is just wrong. If you talked to her for one minute you would see how nice she actually is. and Shirley, the owner, has the biggest heart, and truly cares for her dogs.
If you are looking to adopt here. do not let the negative reviews change your mind. This is an amazing place!

If I could give negative stars, I would. I love my dog, but save a dog did not disclose any illnesses my dog suffered from before I adopted him. When I confronted save a dog about my dogs illnesses, they told me they bear no responsibility after the dog leaves the premises. They take no responsibility for their failure to disclose information. I love my dog, so I have been paying thousands of dollars in medical bills. Don’t adopt from here unless you want to fall in love with a sick dog and spend thousands of dollars in medical bills.
I’m not misinformed. I’m responding for a Ms. Marsha Pecard. She adopted her dog from this animal shelter and she was there was no disclosure of the dogs illness before it was adopted. It’s a shame that this animal shelter both denies its wrong doing, fails to remedy its wrong doing, and attempts to discredit those trying to warn others from adopting sick dogs.

I have worked with Save A Dog for several years and you can’t ask for a better rescue, working their tails off to find every dog in their care a fantastic home. Save A Dog is about the dogs and their new prospective families. They go above and beyond to make sure each and every home is the right fit and they take the time to do genuine evaluations of their dogs. There are many rescues that bring em in and send them right back out the door. That is not what Save A Dog is about. They really care that both the dog and the adopter find the right fit.
When it comes to local homeless dogs, the FIRST rescue I think of is the Save A Dog team. I KNOW if they can take in an abandoned soul, he/​she will be one of the luckiest dogs on earth. I am so grateful for rescues that are this dedicated. It’s a lot of work powered by a real love of what they do. This is an amazing team and the dogs would certainly agree. Save A Dog is top notch!

If I could give no stars I would. Like Rebecca D. put it «the female dogs are not the only bitches at this place» Very upsetting how applicants are treated.

We’d been looking for a specific type of a dog due to my allergies, but really were focused on sticking with rescues. We searched high and low, visited some dogs, but nothing was clicking. I frequently checked on Save-​A-​Dog and another Sudbury rescues websites, and saw a little guy that stole my heart. I’d already submitted an application previously to Save-​A-​Dog, so I emailed and left a few messages and waited for a response. This place is run mainly by volunteers so I understood that I might not always get a person when I called. Within a week, we were meeting our soon-​to-​be new family member!
The staff was helpful and Jill was awesome to work with. You can tell these ladies really know their stuff and care about the well-​being of the dog. Another plus is they treat the dogs very well and use holistic and organic products on all the dogs in their care. something that’s not cheap or easy, and something a lot of other shelters don’t want to do.
I appreciated all the effort and time Save-​A-​Dog put into helping me get my little guy home with me and I’d recommend them anytime!

The women who work here are completely rude and demeaning to prospective pet owners. After adopting our dog from them (who you can see in the picture), my wife came on to Unilocal and wrote a review of them. Which they then called us about. It was not much of a surprise to me when, not long after, her review of Save-​a-​Dog was taken down. Did you know that owners have the right to do that? Nothing in her review was insulting or incorrect, yet those «ladies» didn’t want more negative criticisms.
In short, while I won’t be able to reiterate it as well as my wife did, they told us that a vet friend of ours was completely wrong in an opinion she gave us about dogs, that a retractable leash shows lack of caring, and that we should spend gobs of money on the holistic approach and all-​natural foods. WE don’t even eat that well! Further, they told us our vet (who I’ve taken my dogs to all my life) don”t know what they’re talking about, Read the fine print too: They have a clause where they are allowed to remove the dog from your home if they don’t approve of how you’re raising it. It’s DSS for dogs.
The place is called is Save-​A-​Dog because you should get these harmless and sweet animals away from such awful women.

We adopted our dog Mugsy from Save A Dog in February. And WOW.
Found Save A Dog online and that day they were having a meet and greet. I wasn’t sure what to expect but drove out to Sudbury. We met Jill and she told us the process of looking through the books to pick the dogs we wanted to meet and about their application process. We immediately felt very comfortable with this organization, and knew that they cared about who the potential parents of these dogs would be.
The other great thing is that they actually call your references! Very thorough! :)
After we filled out our application and talked with Jill about the dogs we wanted to meet, she gave us her insight (which was greatly appreciated because she knows the dogs that are there) on which dogs would be closer to what we were looking for. Sure enough she was right!
Mugsy was being fostered at a volunteer’s house. So the next day we drove there to pick him up. We got to spend a little time with his foster mom and she gave us a lot of really helpful info about him.
They do say on their website that you can fill out the application before-​hand there is a pdf for download. Also, if they decline your application, I’m sure that it’s a bit of a ego bust, but maybe you already have to many dogs, or you work to long hours, or have no prior experience with dogs… etc. it could be anything. But it’s THEIR JOB to make sure that these dogs go to good homes. I don’t fault them at all for declining anyone they don’t feel would be a good match.
Anyway! TOP NOTCH! I highly recommend this place :)

The woman at the front desk was so rude that I left immediately. After almost killing myself on the icy driveway, I was told to wait and look through a book of dogs (two families in front of me) and then fill out an application and I might get to visit with the dog I preferred. She said the dogs are traumatized by just random visits by a group of strangers??? What? isn’t that socialization? My dog would love for a group of people to drop by our house randomly. I never went back. :(poor dogs

Let’s just say the female dogs are not the only bitches at this place.
To start off with, their website is misleading. They claimed to have a Meet-​and-​Greet from 12 – 3 on the day we drove ALLLL the way out there. What they don’t clarify is that you have to apply ahead of time to be able to meet the dog at the event. The staff seemed very annoyed at us for not knowing that prior to showing up.
My friend proceeded to fill out their application while we were there, in hopes of coming back another day to meet the dog she wanted. (I should note at this point that my friend is dog-​crazy & treats her ‘boys’ better than any person she knows. No joke.)
Without more than a 3 second glance at the application, we were told that my friend isn’t a good candidate. Period, end of story.
Seriously, that was it. No explanation. Just a cold shoulder as she turned and walked into the back office. I feel bad for the poor dogs left to someone this cold-​hearted.