The Babinski Foundation - Pequot Lakes Pet Shelter
We strive to ensure a safe, healthy, and loving environment that will provide temporary shelter for abandoned, stray, and surrendered animals and to find each animal a new and prosperous home. The Babinski Foundation is a private 501c3 animal shelter located in Pequot Lakes, MN. We are a safe place to surrender dogs and cats. We also are a stray drop off facility for stray cats and dogs.
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Rating
1 stars
Author
Heartbroken
Review date
2021-09-17 15:16:17
Heartless and highly unprofessional. This organization should be ashamed. My son adopted a young dog Aug 7th from the Babinski Foundation. He purchased a collar and leash from their store for Loki and was told he would have to bring the dog back in for the remainder of his shots and to be neutered Sept 9th. He was to pay/complete the adoption following this appointment. But after dropping Loki off for his appointment on the 9th, when he went back, as scheduled, at 5pm to pick him up, he was told Loki had an adverse reaction to the anethesia and they wanted to keep him overnight for monitoring. Then when he called to check on Loki the following day, he was left on hold and then hung up on. After trying to call back several times to check on Loki (they were not answering the phone) he received a vm from the director that his application for adoption was not approved. During the month we had Loki, he bonded not only with my son, but also with our whole family and our 2 dogs as well. Loki was playful, thriving and happy, and was a delightful addition to our family. My son, myself, and my parents have all spoken to the director to ask that Loki be returned to us as it is unfair to him and our whole family to keep him from us. She said she it is up to her and she denied the application because my son had stated on the application that Loki would be kept in a chain link fence... and she said he lied because he does not have a chain link fence. Given the chance, my son would have explained that his friend has the chain link fence, and a dog - and that the plan was to bring Loki there during the day so he could be outside and with his friend's dog. Sadly, shortly after bringing Loki home, his friend's dog passed away, from his advanced age and ongoing health conditions. So Loki was spending the workdays with me and our two dogs. Then when my son was not working, Loki was with him constantly...went everywhere with him... and even slept in my son's bed with him at night. The director also stated that my son has a criminal history. Not sure how that has any bearing on adopting a dog when HISTORY is key word here... he served his sentance for his mistakes and has been doing amazing - even owns his own home now - a nice home with a big yard - perfect for large breed dog like Loki. Note that the director had also said she did a drive by my son's home and it was uninhabitable - she either lied or managed to mess up finding the correct address, because the home is nice, well maintained, with a large yard. I asked if I could adopt Loki - and with a snide and sarcastic tone she told me I could apply, but she would not approve the application. My parents were also speaking with her and she was snide and rude to my mother. To summarize, the director was extremely unprofessional in her dealings with us in this matter and clearly has no heart when she can take a dog away from an entire family of people who adored him and who he was thriving with to return him to sitting in the shelter, alone again, waiting for someone she deems acceptable, to adopt him. We are all heartbroken and still trying to figure out a way to get our Loki back.
We are a new non-profit foster based only animal rescue located in the Brainerd Lakes area with our 501C3 pending. We have an extensive network throughout MN for rescue, placement, and transporting of abused, neglected, special needs, and urgent animals in need.
Heartland Animal Rescue Team (HART) was founded in the spring of 1987 by a group of concerned citizens in the Brainerd Lakes area. At that time there were really no advocates for the unwanted, stray, neglected and abused animals. HART started out with very little money and a handful of volunteers who were willing to do everything from foster care to raising money and whatever else was needed to su
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