Mississippi Animal Rescue

We went to look at cats, the staff seemed nice enough. We were ready to fill out the paperwork around lunch but the woman at the counter was busy chatting with a colleague and when she noticed me told me I would have to come back after lunch. So we leave, come back with the 90 dollar adoption fee with the filled out forms and it is busy. A woman comes out of the back to handle our paperwork and is quite curt. After working through this form with her, get the okay on it, she looks at the animal and says we can't have it because it prefers to be the only animal and we had two small dogs (This was a Maine coon mind you). I tried to get more information on what the exact reasoning was, did the cat attack other animals, had other animals attacked it or what? She came back a few minutes later and just said 'We cannot home this animal with you due to the safety and health of the animal' with zero additional explanation, reasons why, or suggests. So we leave, I call back later to talk to the other woman for clarifcation, she apologized and said the woman that helped me doesn't normally work up front, asks us to come in and see her and look at some other pets and explained Sampson was adopted out once before to people with dogs, and the cat would harass the dogs (Toy dogs). So we come back, adopt a 5 yr old Pug whose owners couldn't keep him. We were told he had been checked out, on parasite prevention, had shots, and was nuetered, that is what the 90 dollar fee was for. I started getting mixed feelings when I was told he had to go to the vet within 7 days for a check up. Why a check up when you have on-site vets who were supposed to check him? So jump to tomorrow, I take him to the vet. Have his nails trimmed because the shelter had not done it, blood and stool parasite tests as he had labored breathing and his ribs were visible. It comes back that he has hook works and a moderate heartworm infection, just barely testing into the high scale which is bad AND that he still had a testicle that had not descended and needed to be removed. He is underweight by about 8 lbs, needs a year of expensive heartworm treatments, dewormers for the Hookworms, and still needs to have another surgery to be properly neutered so it does not become cancerous. I don't have the heart to bring the dog back and sit in a crate until it is put down, but were looking at almost a grand just to possibly rid him of worms. The vets at this shelter are in my opinion there for a reason, they are not good vets and are not professional. This dog should have been tested, as should every dog coming in there, for worms. The tests were 10 and 18 dollars for me, for the vet itself it is most likely much cheaper. I would not recommend getting animals from this shelter, they do not properly screen their animals and let sick animals in a room with small dogs and young puppies just ripe for infection to spread.
2 7 years ago (31-05-2018)

I got my 6 week old lab puppy here, her name was Judy but we changed it to Presto. We got her on Valentine’s Day and she stole my fiancé’s and my heart. She turned out to have some issues when we took her to the vet. She had heart worms but the vet said it’s so common in little fur babies and she gave her the treatment she needs. My puppy also happened to have d-mange but it’s easliy treatable and also common in rescue pups. None of this was life threatening and all treatable so I’m not mad about any of it, I adopted her so I also adopted all her needs. These people do what they can so the people adopting need to do their part on taking care of these pets. They are rescue shelter not a top notch breeding facility. Of course some fury friends might have some issues. As long as they are not life threatening, or causing them pain, it’s now your job to make sure your pet is healthy. Lastly, this facility is beautifully clean, and what I loved about it the most is the fact that even though my pup was too young to be spayed there. I’m able to come back in April and get her spayed without charge for the fact it’s covered in the adoption cost. These people care enough about the dog population to make it that easy to stop careless breeding in which causes all these stray dogs to end up here. She’s the best little baby ever, so healthy, playful, feisty and sweet. I would 10/10 recommend you try and find a new addition to your family here.
5 7 years ago (27-02-2018)

The staff was very friendly and respectful. They asked what type of animal I was looking for and I said I dog of a large breed and what type of breed and they found me what I was looking for. They also asked what type of personality was a looking for in a dog and they help me find it. I think more people should go into the shelters and adopt more dogs. And animals from the shelter they are just precious and these animals are just begging for love and to take home.
5 8 years ago (21-11-2017)

I love that they are going to try very hard to find a good home for my puppies.
5 7 years ago (05-03-2018)

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS PLACE. WHEN I FIND LOST/HOMELESS DOGS, I TAKE THEM HERE & GIVE A DONATION, USUALLY IN DIFFERENT FAMILY MEMBERS NAME. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!!
5 8 years ago (18-12-2017)