A few weeks ago people began sending me messages and texts claiming that Scalawaggles Pet Rescue is selling sick puppies in the Seattle/King County area.
Here’s one message from June 28 similar to the others I received:
“There have been reports of Scalawaggles Pet Rescue adopting out sick pets. They have been known to have adopted out puppies with parvo in the past. They had an adoption event at the Benson Pet Pros in Renton 2 weeks ago and there have been pups that tested positive for kennel cough. One pup ended up with pneumonia. Sherry Halfon is the Founder and Director of this organization. There’s a rumor that she is running more of a puppy mill than a rescue.”
Recently, a woman named Kayla Hanus told me she adopted an extremely sick puppy from Scalawaggles.
Last June she adopted a cute, black and white terrier mix puppy she named Rico at a Scalawaggles adoption event. Other than telling Kayla that she treated the puppy for fleas, ticks, and worms, Ms. Halfon told Kayla that he didn’t have any health problems.
Two days later he began to “(have) trouble breathing and stopped eating or drinking water.”
Kayla took him to an emergency vet who diagnosed him with an upper respiratory infection.
The next day Kayla took Rico to another veterinarian who performed more extensive testing and diagnosed him with bronchopneumonia, which is “an inflammation of the lungs in response to a disease-causing bacteria.”
Kayla told me the vet said “there is no way he was not sick when I got him” and “it is not possible for him to contract it in the time I had him.”
The next day she took Rico to the emergency vet again “because he stopped breathing and was rolling his eyes back in his head.”
Kayla ended up paying approximately $1400 in vet bills to treat the bronchopneumonia Rico had when she adopted him from Scalawaggles.
Ms. Halfon agreed to reimburse Kayla the $1400 (approximately) she spent on Rico’s medical treatments. After the rescue sent her about $700, Scalawaggles co-founder Pam McGriff sent her this letter in late September (I added all bolding and underlining):
I believe these statements in the letter are either false or misleading:
- “you have incurred vet bills for this poor dog who could have been helped immediately had you returned Sherry’s texts and allowed her to help.” Kayla took Rico to the emergency vet just two days after adopting him because he was lethargic, wouldn’t eat, and was coughing up clear foam. The next day she took him to a regular vet who diagnosed him with bronchopneumonia, gave him medication, and scheduled 2 follow up visits to ensure he was recovering. Nothing Ms. Halfon could have done would have quicker or more effective.
- “you have not had your dog neutered as per your contract with us.” This is true but misleading. Rico’s vet wouldn’t neuter him until he fully recovered from bronchopneumonia. The vetwas neutered after he recovered.
- “when we asked for the bills you had issue with, you did not respond in a timely manner.” This is simply a lie. I have an email showing Kayla sent the bills for Rico’s initial treatment to Ms. Halfon on June 26, less than a week after he had been treated for bronchopneumonia. She sent bills for Rico’s follow up visits in late July and August when she had both of them.
In my opinion, this letter is contemptible. It not only deflected responsibility for Rico’s condition from Scalawaggles to Kayla but also blamed her for allowing Rico to “suffer unnecessarily.”
Ms. McGriff continued to add to the guilt trip by saying that the partial reimbursement Scalawaggles sent to Kayla literally caused dogs to die: “You also need to realize that the funds given to you have deprived many dogs of rescue. They are no longer alive because we did not have the funds to protect them.”
Ms. McGriff’s statement that “The Board has agreed that Sherry has gone far beyond what we would have encouraged in this adoption” is also misleading because the only people on the Board are Ms. McGriff and Ms. Halfon.
Ms. Halfon did contact me to give her side of the story. She claimed Scalawaggle’s has spent thousands of dollars on veterinary care and found homes for about 700 dogs.
Unfortunately, she spent most of her time making false accusations against anyone she thought had contacted me about Scalawaggles’ sick puppies. For example:
- She claimed someone she thought gave me information about Rico adopted a dog from Scalawaggles. A week after I asked to see the adoption contract to verify her claim, she changed her story. She told me one of this person’s relatives adopted a dog from her. That wasn’t true either, and I still have no evidence to back up her statement.
- She said the dog the person above adopted had kennel cough and maintained the Petco that hosted the adoption event paid the vet bills to treat the nonexistent dog for kennel cough.
- She said Kayla waited 3 months to send her Rico’s vet bills. This is an outright lie. I’ve seen emails with the vet bills Kayla sent to her within days after she got them.
- She said the rescue holds dogs/puppies 10-14 days before making them available for adoption. Rico and his littermate were available for adoption less than a week after they arrived. One former volunteer said Ms. Halfon told her the puppies at an adoption event had arrived the previous day.
- She told me, “Never have we had a dog get well then worse over and over again, which shows inconsistancy in care on her (Kayla’s) part.” Based on Rico’s vet bills that I’ve seen, this statement is false. Rico went to the vet 4 times – his initial treatment on June 19th/20th, an emergency visit when he stopped breathing on June 21st, and follow up visits in July and August to make sure his recovery progressed as expected; he never “got well then worse over and over again.”
- To explain why Scalawaggles had adopted out sick puppies, she claimed that “(she) asked 3 other rescues what they do if an adopter adopts a dogs who gets sick, every one of them told us the same thing they pay the vet bills… We also because they all said it happens, dogs get sick.” The founders of 2 of the 3 rescues she listed denied saying this to Ms. Halfon. They both also noted that they’ve never adopted out a sick dog because they keep them quarantined for an extended period before they put them up for adoption.
Kayla isn’t the only person claiming to have adopted a sick puppy from Scalawaggles. One of my sources sent me screenshots of reviews by 4 people on the rescue’s Facebook page claiming they adopted sick puppies from Scalawaggles:
At some point someone deleted these reviews from the Scalawaggles Facebook page. Now no one can post a review or comment on it.
Ms. Halfon justified adopting out these sick puppies by noting that the adoptions were only a fraction of the approximately 700 adoptions by Scalawaggles over the last year. And as I noted earlier, she claimed all rescues adopt out sick dogs or puppies occasionally.
I’m not a fan of the “they do it too” excuse. It doesn’t absolve you from responsibility from what you’ve done; and in this particular case it’s not even true. Legitimate rescues also have policies and procedures in place that ensure they don’t adopt out sick dogs.
Quarantining new dogs for an extended period before making them available for adoption is one example.
The only rescues that I know adopted out sick puppies or dogs are ones that, like Scalawaggles, have no quarantine policies in place and put the dogs for adoption as quickly as possible.
I also don’t look at these adoptions in a vacuum. Their similarities indicate a disturbing pattern, and I believe more than these 5 people adopted sick puppies from Scalawaggles.
Furthermore, Scalawaggles’ mission statement is misleading. It says, “We are dedicated to the rescue and rehoming of pets who have been abandoned, neglected, abused, and especially those who have been sentenced to death unfairly. We have a special care for seniors and those with special needs.”
But virtually all the dogs pictured on their Facebook page look like puppies. If it has pictures of senior or special needs dogs, I couldn’t find them. Some of the puppies came to Scalawaggles with their mothers but I didn’t see any pictures of them either.
In my opinion, Scalawaggles Pet Rescue appears to be more of a puppy adoption service than a “pet rescue.”
As the rescue charges about $450 for a puppy adoption, and Ms. Halfon said they have found homes for 700 dogs, the rescue has made in excess of $300,000 since she and Ms. McBride formed it in the spring of 2016.
I asked both Ms. McGriff and Ms. Halfon for the tax filings they must file with the IRS so I could see where all this money went, but they never sent them. The IRS requires that they send these records to anyone who requests them.
This statement sent to me by a former Scalawaggles volunteer proves that Scalawaggles adopts out as many puppies as possible as quickly as possible rather than taking the time and expense to ensure the puppies are healthy before adoption:
“I responded to an ad posted for an assistant with Scalawaggles pet rescue. I did a working interview with them during an adoption event at PetSmart in Renton.
Upon my arrival they seemed to be very disorganized. They had a uhaul van stacked 2-3 high with crates with puppies. There was so much feces I could not believe it. They were working on getting the crates all sprayed out and puppies hosed down when I arrived.
Inside I met with the slightly rude and very disorganized “leaders” of this rescue, Sherry Halfon and Pam McGriff. There was another girl there for a “working interview” as well, she had to wash disgusting feces covered water bottles in the sink at PetSmart. We were then told to attach these water bottles to the crates for the puppies. (talk about risk of cross contamination). We were just supposed to clean up the poop when the puppies pooped in the crates, take the pups for potty walks outside and talk to potential adopters as they came in. As I was cleaning up poop from the puppies, mostly diarrhea, I noticed blood in the stool. I mentioned it to Pam and she basically blew me off about it. I think that there were three puppies that I saw this with.
Most of the dogs were young puppies, a couple about 1 year and then 1 dog I think was few years old. (what rescue has only puppies…. ) Pam even brought a litter of 4 week old puppies (not ready for adoption yet)… but too young to be exposed like that in my opinion.
Before adopters started to show up Pam mentioned that they just got some of the pups in last night. Then as the adopters came through Pam and Sherry claimed that all puppies had been through vet checks and that they did their best to have their current vaccinations. I HIGHLY doubt that these puppies had been through vet checks, especially the ones that they had just gotten the night before.
ALL puppies and dogs through them were $400. It didn’t matter if they had vaccinations, young, older. $400 flat fee. NO collars, or leashes included. No real adopter screening.
I stayed for a few hours and then got out of there. I was disgusted and heart broken at the same time! Those dogs deserve so much better!!!”
Terms of employment would have been cash, under the table. $10 an hour. When I had spoke to Pam initially she said that they paid very well and had great opportunity.
Initially on the phone, Pam also mentioned that they “did have an issue with Parvo a few months back but that it had all been taken care of. That they cant possibly know with all of the puppies that they have coming in so these things happen.”
In a separate email she added, “I forgot to mention also, Sherry had me administer de-worming meds to a puppy before the potential adopter came in. She said this one has them really bad, needs them most and then give this other pup a little too.”
I have no doubt that some people have adopted healthy dogs from Scalawaggles. But I believe these adoptions were by accident rather than by design.
If Scalawaggles is serious about adopting out healthy dogs it would require a vet to examine all its dogs to be checked out by a veterinarian before anyone adopts them. It must also quarantine them for a period of time to ensure they are healthy.
Scalawaggles claims a veterinarian examines all their dogs before they are transported to Washington. That could be true since all dogs coming into Washington from other states must have a health certificate from a vet verifying the dog is healthy.
But transports often group dogs going to different rescues in the same van. Some of shady dog rescues bring in sick dogs that haven’t been examined by a vet. So even if a dog gets a clean bill of health for transport, sick dogs can still infect them during the trip; this is why responsible dog rescues quarantine new dogs from out of state. They also ensure the dogs will be examined by a vet in Washington before putting them up for adoption.
Starting a dog rescue doesn’t make you a saint. It doesn’t immunize you against criticism. And it doesn’t absolve you from the responsibility of running it ethically, transparently, and humanely.
More importantly,it is in the best interest of the dogs you purport to save.
If Ms. Halfon and Ms. McGriff continue to lash out at critics and refuse to answer questions honestly they will only invite more scrutiny.
If that’s what they want, I’ll be happy to comply.
concerned citizen says
“rescues” need to be held to the same humane standards of care commanded of breeders. https://imageevent.com/illegalrescues/legislationforall
Seattle DogSpot says
Yes! In WA they are exempt from any regulations.
Sherry Halfon says
All I can say is we will be contacting an attorney about most of this as it is untrue! Completely untrue not to mention the dates are wrong. Yes we had a parvo pup adopted over a year and a half ago. We were not even doing adoptions at petpros 2 weeks or even 2 months ago! Get your facts straight before attacking! Slander, slander, slander!
Seattle DogSpot says
I stand by everything I wrote and will be happy to meet you in court. BTW, the adoption event at Pet Pros was almost 5 months ago.
Protecttheanimals says
You should be embarrassed Sherry. Disgusting rescue practices and unethical treatment of animals. I hope you end up in court for allowing animals to stay in feces filled crates. You are nothing more than a puppy flipper. Sadly seen many many pups at events. Almost all unfixed. No morals and no ethics. I will be calling every Montana shelter to inform them of these complaints.
Highly doubt you cut ties with anyone. They could see your Bs just like the other groups there could and you got the boot.
Crazy Cat Lady says
Thank you for sharing this! I volunteer in the cat adoption room at the Renton PetSmart and I always thought it strange that they had so many small puppies at their adoption events. PetSmart cut their ties with Scalawaggles some time ago.
Seattle DogSpot says
Thank you. Pet Pros dropped them too, I think. They’re having an event at Yummy Tummy in Covington today. Hopefully someone will alert the store about them.
Sherry Halfon says
They 100 % know and support us as they see what we do…
Sherry Halfon says
No we cut ties with them….
Kayla says
Thank you Seattle Dogspot for all your hard work in preparing this article containing 100% substantiated facts and data. This was our reality, as well as a number of others who adopted from Scalawaggles. Having Rico’s story so accurately represented will hopefully serve as a warning to other potential fur families. I’m thankful my baby is happy and healthy with no permanent lung damage. Keep up the good work Seattle Dogspot.
Seattle DogSpot says
I’m so glad you were able to get Rico healthy and that he’s doing so well know.
Animal Advocate says
Well Sherry, your organization won’t mind inviting Dept. Of Agriculture and animal control agents to your adoption events? I hope you people are charged with animal cruelty and receive jail time. The pain that you’ve caused not only to the animals but to the people who have adopted them is unforgivable. It’s not slander when it’s c the truth.
Seattle DogSpot says
At today’s adoption event Sherry had a bunch of dogs she just got from Montana this week. So much for her statement saying they hold dogs for 10-14 days. I hope none of those dogs were sick.
Sherry Halfon says
FYI: yes we had 3 dogs at the event that we picked up in Montana that were already quarentined and transported alone. Please ask questions before assuming!
HelpForDogs says
I have never experienced so much “deflecting” and vague comments when confronted with the truth. The issue regarding the quarantining of rescued animals is when they arrive here in YOUR care. The fact that they have been quarantined prior to transport is a mute point.
Sherry Halfon says
We choose not to be part of this biased which hunt! I know we are doing nothing wrong and thats all that matters!
Jennifer says
It seems that people only tend to write to you when they have a complaint. Which has prompted me to speak out! My experience with Scalawaggles pet rescue is polar opposite of what I have read here.
I met Sherry and Pam at an adoption event in Renton at the Hangar in late July 2017. I had a very specific dog in mind, (my husband always wanted a Chocolate Lab). Sherry told me they had one but he was still in quarantine. This was on a Friday, and Willy’s quarantine wouldn’t be up until the following Wednesday. We were able to meet Willy on that Sunday, but were not allowed to bring him home until after the quarantine period was over. So when Wednesday came around we thought we could bring that sweet little man home. Unfortunately, Willy had developed diarrhea and we were told we would have to wait until he was well. We ended up having to wait another 2 days past his quarantine to bring him home. Which seemed like a very long time, given my begging and pleading to complete the adoption. Even after I described the home we were providing. We have a fully fenced acre of land and a 24/7 vet we use for our other 2 Labs, an 8 year old black and 5 year old yellow. Finally, the Friday after his quarantine was completed, he was well, and we got to bring him home. So, why would I have to wait for a quarantine period, when some of you claim one doesn’t exist? It doesn’t make sense to me. We were so happy after our adoption experience, that we encouraged some friends to adopt Willy’s litter mate. Which turned out to be a healthy dog too. Any dog can get sick just like people can. But, for every one of you who thinks they have an axe to grind, there’s probably 99 others who are happy with their experience. I will always be grateful to Scalawaggles for bringing Willy into our lives. And, I will continue to help Scalawaggles, by volunteering whenever I can.
Seattle DogSpot says
I’m glad you had a successful adoption. I said in my post that I’m sure Scalawaggles has made dozens of several adoptions, but I believe it is more by luck than by design. But it’s clear that they do not quarantine all their dogs. I was told Scalawaggles held dogs 10-14 days before they put them up for adoption, but the puppy Kayla Hanus adopted was there for less than a week. That is why Scalawaggles adopt out sick puppies. The only ax I have to grind is with shady rescues who endanger the lives of the dogs they purport to save and use lies to smear anyone that points it out.
Martha says
The comments that
‘But transports often group dogs going to different rescues in the same van, and many of shady dog rescues bring in sick dogs that haven’t been examined by a vet. So even if a dog gets a clean bill of health for transport, they can still be infected by one or more sick dogs during the trip; this is why responsible dog rescues quarantine new dogs from out of state and having them examined by a vet in Washington before putting them up for adoption”
‘. That is not true for any rescue I have known for a dozen years and/or any transport I have ever heard of or known from CA to the NW or TX from the NW every single solitary puppy/dog has a health certificate and within two days of leaving for transport, normally the day before leaving on transport. There should not be a need for a pup/dog to be quarantined again for weeks in the NW if it was already quarantined for weeks before it got on transport and saw a vet and got a health certificate just prior to transport. Granted there might be an occasion where a dog is ill and the rescue and/or vet did not notice it because it was not showing any symptoms yet, but that is not the norm. Yes kennel cough is a reality from transport but that is normally easily treated with antibiotics. I find that you have many negative comments for rescues. I would like to see you instead post good reviews about rescues. Please understand anyone who has rescued many dogs, especially puppies parvo and other diseases are a sad reality. I’ve helped many rescues over the last 12 years and I’ve fostered so many dogs I lost count long ago I’ve never had parvo but it is a reality. Please concentrate on the good reviews. Please before you print up negative things like this rescue on five dogs and say they’ve adopted out 700 it is totally unfair to not get at least 100 other adopters stories to put it in perspective. I’m guessing there are likely many great dogs/pups saved that were very healthy by this rescue. I dont know but I would guess. It is disheartening to say the least that you chose five bad experiences and if they adopted out 700 what about the other 695 adoptions? I know for rescues I assist adopters are informed to contact the rescue immediately with any issues. Rescue is insanely expensive. The true cost of rescue is often over $1000/dog/pup. Please why dont you go and find out about the other 695 adoptions. Perhaps this rescue is not perfect, but my gosh until you do rescue, deal with the heartwrenching things all rescuers deal with, the insanely enormous vet bills, the countless nights of no sleep. Please stop spreading only negativity. Some rescuers are sadly pretty awful. I’ve had a rescue I fostered for years ago refuse to pay the vet bills after they authorized them and then been informed by others they are using donations for themselves. Yes sadly there are a few bad ones, but from what I see here, this just seems like you sought out the few five bad experiences and immediately trashed the rescue. It doesn’t seem you gave this rescue a fair chance. They had a few sick dogs, percentage wise it is bound to happen. Maybe their policy is return the pup/dog immediately and the rescue will deal with their own vets who might give them better pricing. I dont know. I just find you seem to be again going after the negative looking to put rescues down. I dont recall any articles about all the wonderful rescues. Why dont you do your research and get the other 695 or at least 100 of those adopters stories and you might find the percentage of sick pups/dogs was very low.
Seattle DogSpot says
Thanks for your comment. You made lots of points so I’ll try to address all of them.
That is not true for any rescue I have known for a dozen years and/or any transport I have ever heard of or known from CA to the NW or TX from the NW every single solitary puppy/dog has a health certificate and within two days of leaving for transport, normally the day before leaving on transport. There should not be a need for a pup/dog to be quarantined again for weeks in the NW if it was already quarantined for weeks before it got on transport and saw a vet and got a health certificate just prior to transport.
That’s great that you’ve never heard of anyone bringing dogs into the state without health certificates. I have, and no one I know in the dog rescue community would ever say no transport brings dogs without health certificates into WA. And earlier this year I looked at every health certificate from 2015 turned into the Dept. of Agriculture (which every vet that fills out a health certificate is supposed to do). The number of health certificates it received was far below the number of dogs that rescues bring into the state. The proof that numbers dogs come into the state without health certificates is indisputable.
There should not be a need for a pup/dog to be quarantined again for weeks in the NW if it was already quarantined for weeks before it got on transport and saw a vet and got a health certificate just prior to transport.
This is absolutely not true. Many viruses and bacteria have incubation periods of several days to several weeks. They may not show us in a vet example, and if a dog is infected during transport, it won’t show up when the dog is adopted. That’s why every reputable rescue I know holds their dogs for about 2 weeks. Every shady rescue I know of don’t. And most of the dogs that get health certificates aren’t “quarantined for weeks.”
Please before you print up negative things like this rescue on five dogs and say they’ve adopted out 700 it is totally unfair to not get at least 100 other adopters stories to put it in perspective
As I said in my post, I’m sure Scalawaggles has had dozens of successful adoptions, but it is by luck and not by design because they don’t quarantine their dogs. And 5 sick dogs is too many! The reputable rescues I know have never adopted out sick dogs because they quarantine them long enough to ensure they aren’t sick. If Scalawaggles was serious about always adopting out healthy dogs they would do this instead of saying 5 out of 700 isn’t bad. And I have no doubt the number of sick dogs they adopted out is much higher than 5. Since Scalawaggles blocked people from making comments or posting reviews on their FB site, I doubt we’ve heard all the sick dogs it has adopted out.
Yes sadly there are a few bad ones, but from what I see here, this just seems like you sought out the few five bad experiences and immediately trashed the rescue.
I didn’t seek out anyone. Kayla Hanus contacted me about her experience with Scalawaggles. When I asked others about Scalawaggles they sent me more information. And I didn’t immediately trash the rescue. As I said in my post (did you read it?), I was first contacted about Scalawaggles adopting out sick dogs in June. I researched and verified the information I collected for over 4 months. I have documents backing up everything I wrote. I gave Scalawaggles ample time to provide any information they had to disprove what others told me. They sent nothing other than some vet bills and transport invoices that didn’t address my questions and proved nothing. Instead they just sent lies about people they thought gave me my info.
One last thing. While rescue do spend a significant amount of money to rescue a dog, I’ve never heard of it costing $1000 per dog. How did you come up with that number?
Animal rescue says
Just because the animal got a HC doesn’t mean there was ANY quarantine prior. The stress alone can make something that they were harboring flare right up! You are naïve if you think housing 50+ animals together wouldn’t need quarantine!
Protecttheanimals says
Time to find out whose transporting for her and investigate them and their support of an unethical rescue.
Kayla says
That is interesting when you told a family at your recent adoption event at Yummy Tummy you were out of town all week in Montana getting dogs… And now you are claiming the dogs at your adoption event from Montana had already been quarantined? Hard to keep your stories straight when everything is a lie.
William says
The thing about all this what some people aren’t understanding is Sherry sold a sick dog whether they knew or didn’t know.. and you have to own up to it whether they like it or not. She didn’t reimburse Kayla that adopted a SICK dog from them.. She paid how much out of what? From the looks of it Kayla got you all the bills yet you find it so hard to give her the funds that came out her own pocket that your “Rescue” was suppose to cover? I just find it weird that Sherry and Pam blame Kayla for all this when it’s their fault that a sick dog was sold to her. How is that in any way Kaylas fault? Why don’t you just pay whats owed and man up to your wrong doing by selling a sick dog? I also find it weird that there was a Uhaul outside of your last adoption. I also find it weird that in the last year you found homes for 700+ dogs in the past year and you sell your dogs for 400+ that’s what roughly 3150,000$ yet you have a huge problem reimbursing Kayla 1,400$.. Where does all this money go if you’re “non profit” ? Why would you ever tell someone they’ve killed multiple dogs because you gave her 700$ (that you owed her due to the fact of you selling her a sick dog whether you know or not) but yet you’ve adopted out 700+ dogs at 400$ a piece but it’s Kaylas fault. Why would Kayla give the sick dog that she bought from you? If I was her I would have taken matters into my own hands like she did because you gave her the sick dog in the first place. Why would she trust you enough to put him back in your hands? Then you guys say she missed 2 neuter appointments.. uhhhhh yeah because the puppy had pneumonia and no one in their rightful mind would let a dog get neuter while being that sick because the dog could possibly die. I had a friend that was gonna adopt from Scalawaggles and they asked a question on what happens if a dog were to be sick when being adopted and had to be taken to an ER a day or so after? What’d Pam say? She said we fully reimburse you everything for the bills. So why isn’t Kayla being fully reimbursed? But i’m still stuck on the “you deprived many dogs from being rescued” yet Sherry and Pam have adopted out 700+ dogs at 400$ while being non profit… something just gives me an absolute weird vibe and I wanna know where all their money goes.. on top of that, that’s how you treat adopters? Rico or Browne is obviously in a great home and great care from the looks of it. It looks like Kayla did everything in her power to get that dog healthy yet Scalawaggles is bashing her? That’s odd. Long story short all i’m saying Sherry is own up to your mistakes and wrong doing.. don’t try to put it on other people that were helping the dogs out by adopting. I want this rescue to be investigated and would love to hear what they find good or bad.
Seattle DogSpot says
Thank you for your thoughtful comments. Nonprofit charities that bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars tax free should be accountable to the public and explain where the money goes.
HelpforDogs says
All you have to do is send a written request and as a registered 501c3, they are required to make their records public within 30 days of the request.
Seattle DogSpot says
Yes, we’ve done that. They have until the end of the month.
Nicole says
Has there been any updates on the scalawaggles pet rescue?
Seattle DogSpot says
Not lately but I’m working on something
Kim Schneider says
I’m worried about the dogs still in their possession. Are there any plans to rescue the remaining dogs from their horrid situation?
Seattle DogSpot says
I haven’t heard of one yet.
Sue Rice says
I am late to this debacle, but I adopted a 10 week old puppy (they lied and said he was 12 weeks) from Scalawwaggles. Puppy was surrendered to Animal Control in Parlier, CA at 6 weeks of age. I bought him in Renton, WA outside of PetPros during a “pet adoption fair” 4 weeks later. I took him to the vet a couple of days later, to find out he not only had giardia, but coccidia as well. They did NOT tell me he was already neutered. I found that out when I bathed him after I brought him home (because he had a very strong “kennel smell”) and found the metal stitches when I was washing his little Johnson. The poor pup was very weak physically, and had obviously never seen grass before, and for the six months he would poop in a tight circle (learned crate pooping habit). He is now 4 years old, and I love him, and he is fabulous. Fly-by-night “shelter” into making money off puppies? Yes they are.
RPregulman says
I’m so sorry. Thank you for not giving up on him and giving him a great life!