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one there to meet me for the drop off . When they finally arrived I was not refunded the adoption fee of $650 in cash. The next day Little Lion Man was back on their website with no change in his profile and with his adoption fee back at $650. That dog is a liability and should not be rehomed!
Regretfully I also had personal encounters with other people (adopters AND fosters alike) blatantly wronged by DPS (for instance, a foster receiving multiple puppies from DPS without knowing that they had an active Giardia infection, and this foster has multiple dogs on his own. Needless to say they lost a foster on that day).
I'm actually also interested in the reasons they charge so much for rescue dogs, while the other rescues in the territory (even when they have physical kennels and paid personnel!) ask often half of that (DPS' range is $400-$800 as per website, but the average is far from being in the center of the range).
I've had multiple rescue dogs in my life and I've never seen anything like this, both in terms of how traumatized and shut down the dog was, as well as being treated in such a sloppy (at first) and unfair (later) way in my entire life.
Please, before adopting, DO YOUR RESEARCH, DPS is a retail rescue and they are taking advantage of their fosters, their clients but most importantly of the dogs they have under their control. PLEASE, look for information before committing to a dog adoption, as the naive as I am, I learned this lesson and for this I thank DPS rescue.
Total money lost $400
Type of a scam Online Purchase
They were asked to submit applications and said they will be called for a phone interview. The families never got a call. When they went to check on the pet they wanted, they were turned down saying the pet was adopted by another family.
Now family 2 went and asked for the same pet, for which they asked them to submit an application. The pet was there and was never adopted.
So when family 2 went and looked at their Yelp reviews (https://www.yelp.com/biz/doggie-protective-services-palo-alto), they found out that they were a scam for-profit org cheating people.
They ask the people who adopt to pay $*** cash, don’t give any vaccination paperwork and many of the pets are sick, or aggressive. No tax receipts to people who adopt and when they return the pet, no refund.
Many people have been cheated ( you can read the Yelp reviews for details).
They don’t have a legitimate address or phone number on their website to call.
Any call to the number or email mentioned earlier goes unanswered.