Spay the Strays, Inc

A woman named Anita runs this rescue, you will not meet a more caring involved person to adopt from! She personally gets involved in every adoption to ensure a love match that lasts. In the event something goes wrong, health, mismatch, whatever, she personally will make it right; whatever it takes! You can feel secure in the knowledge that she & her volunteers are only interested in the wellfare of the cats and a happy end result.
5 7 years ago (20-02-2018)

What I thought was a well run and put together organization, is turning out to be the exact opposite. I just never heard of an organization allowing its members to trespass onto personal property to take a cat away from its home after already being officially adopted and then keep the cats location a secret from the owners. Pretty sure it's illegal and at the very least extremely rude and unprofessional. There's no need to put that unnecessary stress on a happy little kitten and its owners who werent even home at the time. They lied to the police and pretended that they were invited in/given permission but they were not. If that were the case I wouldnt be upset and writing this review.
1 7 years ago (31-01-2018)

I adopted 2 cats from Spay the strays 3 years ago. They were wonderful and obviously very careful in vetting me to take the cats. They want to be sure that they will be treated well and be cared for properly. I didn't mind, as a cat lover, I actually appreciated it. Anita is a very busy woman and also does work feeding feral populations....did any of you who criticize her realize that? It's one thing to adopt a cat, take it home and forget about everything else but your own little world....but this group fosters, rescues and cares for many cats in many situations....especially Anita...so maybe you should realize that there's more to all of this than meets the eye...a cat is not a toy or piece of furniture that you can toss out when you're tired of it....taking a cat is a life long commitment and by adopting one you agree to be RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT ANIMALS WELFARE AND TO ALWAYS CONSIDER WHATS BEST FOR THEM!!! I adopted an older wonderful Siamese from them who had been adopted previously and returned because he likes to "talk" late a night as Siamese tend to do...We talk back to him and let him carry on until he's done having his say and he settles down right between hubby and I and falls right to sleep....it's NO TROUBLE WHATSOEVER....he is the most wonderful, loving, sweet, intelligent, bright, funny and intelligent cat I've ever had and we diont know how we ever got along without him, or any of our cats! I was born into a familyj with 3 pairs of Siamese cats....I've always had cats and for me to say that this cat from Spay the Strays in particular is the best one I've ever had is a testament to this organization....EVERYONE who sees this Siamese says there's something special about him...and how he seems so human....that you can see him thinking....so MANY THANKS to Anita and Spay the Stray fosters/ etc. for providing us with 2 very sweet, loving, wonderful cats and one that is pure genius...you have helped make two older peoples lives more fulfilling and happier by supplying us with 2 beautiful furbabies who bring us more joy than we can ever say...you ARE appreciated by some people who understand....please keep up the amazing work and thank you for your wonderful hearts and caring for these animals so much....❤️❤️❤️❤️
5 7 years ago (11-03-2018)

To be frank this organization is terrible. Sure they have a great mission, but incompetent people are trusted to carry it out. Thankfully I've never met Anita, a director that can't communicate well and told us that we "didn't know who we were messing with" when we called to clear up the situation civilly, however I did meet, Rose G. Rose was sweet at first but after adopting a cat that was one of her favorites, ended up turning pretty hostile towards me and my boyfriend who bought that cat and had the process done under his name. Somehow these people got my phone number when it was never given to them, as well as his friends and mothers and then continued to harass us with phone calls and left rude messages when we couldn't get back to them in time due to our busy schedules and one of our phones being damaged. Yesterday Rose came to our door when we weren't home and when my bfs sister answered, proceeded to trespass uninvited in our house and go into his room and take our cat saying "I don't care, I'm taking this cat". she won't tell us where she is taking her despite us being the ones who will have to pick her up and fit this inconvenience around our schedules and ignoring the fact that we had plans to neuter her ourselves since she came to us uneutered due to a preexisting health condition. Not to mention our cat lives in a house with two neutered males and never goes outdoors. I don't know what kind of overtly self righteous behavior overtook them to act in this way, but rest assured I'm never recommending this charity to anybody. Not to mention, they took credit for a cat adoption for one of our cats we found on the street without their help, which is just a little weird to me. There's better ways to accomplish your mission, but I'm sure lying about how you guys actually handled what happened in this case will always look astronomically better than how it actually played out on your end. UPDATE: after a day of my bf & I missing out on a few errands/obligations, we were able to get our Cat due to another person that became involved who ended up being reasonable and actually respected us as owners and adults capable of making our own decisions (and who have experience with cats). I'm thankful for him. However before they told us where they sent our baby, we were being pressured to sign papers that ended up not being present and somehow the director was unable to understand why their course of action didn't sit right with us and how we still had the cats best interest at heart bc we chose to not rush into her surgery since there's no need. somehow a conclusion was reached and the tone directed us sliiiightly improved, I guess. Our cat did come back with an infected/teary eye though which she didn't have when she was taken from our house (we assume it was due to the environment she stayed in overnight since she had that problem when she first came from that house into our possession). Our cat came back visibly distressed and shaking/more reserved but instantly perked up when she saw us. This whole ordeal was unnecessary, but I'm just glad I have my baby back. I'm hoping this doesn't become a repeated course of action and that this doesn't happen to anyone else that adopts a cat from them in the future. I wish I had a more lighthearted/happier review to write since I do love my cat so much and im so thankful she's in our lives, but I'm not one that appreciates what happened and then being accused of being "mentally ill" and being told I have no manners and wasn't raised right when it was this organization that grossly overstepped its boundaries in the first place and thought they were above the law until I had an attorney involved.
1 7 years ago (31-01-2018)

I called to see if they could help with placing a 6-7 month old kitten that we took from someone who couldn't keep the kitten at their home. This kitten is aggressive towards a cat we already have that has wobbly cat syndrome. We had actually bottle fed the one with wobble cat syndrome because she had been abandoned by her mom. We also have 2 others that were taken in as strays and we had them fixed. I was basically told too bad. She has too many and to separate the cats and also to have her fixed. We do not want to have to leave this kitten in a crate all day while we are at work. The other issue is she is a black at with very little white so re homing may prove to be a challenge. She also made it known that I was bothering her.
1 8 years ago (04-10-2017)