Placer SPCA — Local services in Roseville

Really nice since the new building. Roomy, inviting clean. Why are all the cats on gabapentin?!!!!???? I found that bizzarre!!!!

Update and change of opinion

This review is for Placer SPCA in general.I live on a Major Street and my daughter's cat who she got in the fall was with me while she was in LA so she got out and I had called Placer SPCA and said that it was having a difficult time getting her to come back in the house cuz. I had called them and asked for a trap and they told me that traps were only 4 capture ferrel and spay and not for a cat who got out and you can't catch them.

I called animal control and they told me they didn't have any drops and to call the pound. I had a large bowl on the front porch with water and I would feel it in the morning with water and ice cubes and I put a mix of dry food and canned food on the front porch and would feed Kitty.

I'm not sure if it's the folks that bought the house a few doors down from me because Kitty like to sleep on the previous tenants porch or if it was someone who was walking up and down the street that decided that Kitty was a stray and they took her and I'm not certain where they took her because when the poundgive my daughter the cat for some reason or another her information associate with the microchip was deemed as private. So if you took the cat to say the Atlantic Street but they couldn't call my daughter and say hey we have your cat they could only notify the microchip plays which would send you an email. to complicate matters my daughter had moved to LA and changed her phone number and forgot to change her number on kitties microchip.

I didn't tell you the cat was missing because I was seeing the cat on the daily and feeding it and putting water out for it and I knew that she was okay haven't seen her in a couple of days but something was eating the food and drinking the water.

lo and behold I get a text message from a kid saying why didn't you tell me kitties. I called the microchip place and they say the cat Placer SPCA.

now apparently this cat was captured once before before my daughter adopted it with no records attached to my daughter whatsoever. And I called and I asked how much could kitty's bail was.

they transfer me to the old location I guess where they store recovered animals. And I was told that she was there since the 28th and we're at like maybe the 16th because I was down in La visiting. and they said that being that she was a stray once before even though it wasn't under my name that she was a stray before and so it was $45 + $15 a day plus another charge because it's the second time she was brought in as a stray. Long story short kitties bail was $345. I was so heated with your information that they gave me that I just said keep the cat because number one she was not a stray she likes to go outside she likes to hang out on the front porch she likes to watch people go by she was well-fed she had food she had water someone was coming and feeding and watering while I was in Los Angeles. all this organization is to reunite pet owners with their pets why in the world would they make it cost prohibitive to for lack of a better word redeem your pet and go and pick it up when it was turned in.

First of all someone took it upon themselves turn in the, second of all no one fully explained my daughter the privacy settings on the microchip would prevent her from getting phone calls if something were to happen to, which delayed the process in collecting said said lost but not really lost pet. which just increase the cost to redeem the pet to an egregious amount we're even someone who is of comfortable means would balk at paying $345 to get their pet back.

that being said I will never advocate for the Placer SPCA ever to Infiniti again, nor will I donate one thin dime to them.

I'm still too annoyed to even think of calling them entering to negotiate be...

I really wish I could like this place. My first impressions of Placer SPCA were great! The volunteer greeter was so kind and gentle with my mom who had a stroke and a number of other issues a few years ago after my father passed. The volunteers in the kennels were wonderful. The trouble started with the front desk staff the day after we initially came for our visit.

We made an appointment to see some older cats for a potential adoption for my mom, who recently lost a long term pet. It's not always easy to manage social outings for us as sometimes the unexpected happens socially, physically, and emotionally (after a stroke and other disability). We made an appointment to meet some cats, and needed to reschedule for later in the afternoon as I was just beginning a protracted medical treatment myself and my mom also was not ready. We called ahead of time to let the facility know we were running behind and assumed all was well based on the lack of call back. When we arrived, just under ten minutes late, nobody greeted us. Front desk staff were busy, but somehow unable to look up from the routine paperwork they were completing to greet us. We wandered to what appeared to be an appointment kiosk and I tried to see if we could check ourselves in (you can't). Seven minutes later, a visibly annoyed woman named Sara looked up from her computer and asked if she could help us. We said we'd been waiting and had an appointment. When we told her the time, she became even more annoyed saying they'd called out for us and then marked us as a no-show. I explained we'd been there for approximately seven minutes and had also called. Sara then exaperatedly said we should come back two hours later. I live a fair distance from my mother and coordinating her and my presence isn't always easy with traffic and medical conditions, and I expressed a desire to please be seen if we could. Sara then asked us WHY WE WERE LATE in front of staff and customers, to which I apparently was expected to explain medical conditions, neurological conditions, and whatever other embarrassing and private qualifiers Sara deemed worthy of being late. She eventually called for a volunteer to show us a cat room.

My partner came into the room for a bit, and then walked around the facility. Sara, who'd apparently been so inattentive to our arrival that she didn't notice we were with my partner, opted to then begin gossiping about us in a different room with an older woman who was also a staff member IN FRONT OF MY PARTNER. My partner remained quiet to see how much Sara and the other staff member would say within earshot of customers.

Extremely unprofessional. You're literally in one of the happiest places possible - working with pets and uniting pets with forever families, yet you lack the compassion and respect for people to have their own issues and retain their privacy. Even worse, staff talking poorly behind doors let alone within earshot of clients is abhorrent.

One additional star for the wonderful volunteers. If only the desk staff had the cheer and spirit of the volunteers. We adopted, but absolutely don't plan on donating or recommending, which is sad since the pets are well loved and the volunteers...

Be aware they will not adopt rabbits to outdoor homes. This was not listed anywhere on their website (not even the downloadable forms, checklists, etc) and I wasted time and money going to learn this. Not to mention the disappointment. They literally would not adopt them to me.

I'm bummed that this location would rather let these animals sit in a small cage inside rather than adopt them to a loving home with lots of space outside.

Plenty of people keep rabbits outside and as a shelter I believe they shouldn't be so picky. These animals needs homes! I wonder how many other great homes have been denied the animals who stay here??!

In my specific example they have THREE rabbits that must be adopted TOGETHER, to an INDOOR home. This seems unlikely and the employee even said they had been there a while. I did a lot of research before deciding to adopt an outdoor rabbit and for every person who says indoor only there is another who says outdoor is fine.

Do they adopt cats and dogs to indoor homes only?

I really hope they reconsider this policy. It seems like a personal opinion, which is fine to have, but please let us choose....

Policies like this actually support backyard breeding, and helps continue the cycle of animals in shelters. Not only are they helping create more animals, they are simultaneously denying homes to these same animals. A double whammy to the pet population.

To give meaning to the previous paragraph I will give an example: now that I have been denied by the SPCA my only option is to get bunnies from a backyard breeder. This directly supports backyard breeding. As you know the leftover bunnies will end up at the SPCA waiting for an indoor home. They didn't get adopted the first time around, to indoor OR outdoor homes. What are the chances they will get adopted the second or third time around, when you cut the housing prospects in half? Not only this but the bunnies I get from a backyard breeder might be sexed wrong and result in 8 more bunnies in the shelter. Since my backyard breeder bunnies aren't fixed, and I don't want to pay for the procedure, these bunnies also end up at the SPCA. 8 babies, 2 parents, plus the 3 they refused me. This policy might result in 13 bunnies in the shelter, PER PERSON! Not to mention the parents brothers and sisters from the backyard breeder.

PLEASE CHANGE YOUR POLICY ON INDOOR ONLY HOMES!

The picture is my lovely outdoor rabbit hutch. It's a bit overgrown since nothing is...