My best friends in the world, past and present, have come from the Humane Society. \n\nMultiple experiences with this Sunnyslope location have shown me that they are full of wonderful, caring staff, much of which operates on volunteer basis.\nThey've always been clean (as much as possible) and friendly, and even if their rules are a pain to me, such as waiting for them to get ahold of a former apt complex before they'd let the cat go home with me, those rules are designed for the best interest of the most pets possible.\nI've dealt with the dog, cat, and little critter depts, and had positive experiences with them all, as far as adoptions. I've also dealt directly with the vet and vaccinations offices, and had positive experiences with everything from simple shots to euthanasia.\n\nPrevious reviewer Kate G has had a single experience that, while sounding horrible, is also only giving one side of the story.\nHer one star review is not a fair assessment of the kind of situation that she put the shelter in, and how they were forced to deal with it. \nBringing any new animals into the shelter, stray or not, is dangerous, and quaranteen-like circumstances exist. They have rules to follow, and they have to be very strict about them for the protection of other animals already in the shelter. \nGoing through the volunteer orientations should have given a chance for this concept to be learned and its importance understood, but I guess not. I can see how it would be hard to understand what happened if you just plain don't understand what happened, but this shelter does not deserve to be unilaterally slandered like this. She gave up responsibility for the pups to AZHS because she didn't want to take on that responsibility herself; with that responsibility, AZHS made what they determined to be the best decision for the pups and all other animals in their shelter - to put them down. \nSad, yes, but likely altruistic on the whole.\n\nAZHS brought me some of my best friends, and although like any organization they must be kept in check, the services received at this place are really wonderful.
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