I have a lot to say.. .. these were MY. Puppies and MY mama dog! My family went homeless in 2021 after covid hit. Our Dog Sammy (we miss her so much) was pregnant. I had to place my children with their grandparents and my fiance and I were resorted to a car with 3 dogs….. Sammy included and pregnant to boot. It was the start of summer around July and Sammy still had about a month to go. We places our larger and smalller Chihuahua with our oldest son and were desperately searching for a foster for Sammy and her pups.
Sammy was in prestige condition and was a dog who was amazing. So protective!
Such a wonderful animal!
My mother put a post out to her friends about our situation and someone recommended Main Street Mutt Rescue.
My mother trusting her friend and me trusting my mother, I neglected to do enough research on them.
The owner told my mom that they have a foster for my dog and it was a family that had another dog but lived on a farm with lots of land for her to run and that was Sammy’s favorite thing to do Run!
Since we lived previously for Sammy’s entire 2 year life on 14.7 acres, we thought this would be perfect considering keeping Sammy in a car at all was not an option especially not pregnant and at the start of the hottest part of the year!
So we did what we thought was right.
Had we known what we were in for…… I would have rather pitched a tent with her and those pups or even released them to the humane society.
It’s a long story from here, but the original agreement was that she (Main Street Mutt Rescue) was to take Sammy and foster her and the pups and we were to get the first pick (we had housing lined up but needed to wait 2.5 months before our new.place was ready) so it would have been perfect timing…. But we were willing to allow Main Street Mutt Rescue to keep and adopt out the remainder puppies and even keep all the proceeds.
Sammy was a rescue dog when we got her and found out when she was pregnant she had never had her shots like the owner had told the original foster home we got her from them at the start so MSMR agreed to have Sammy looked over fully by a vet upon arrival and when it was safe MSMR was to vaccinate her through their “vet” and the puppies as well. MSMR was to chip Sammy also when it was safe to do so and fix her prior to her return home.
NONE OF THIS HAPPENED.
In fact Sammy had 12 puppies in her litter, and we got photos of them at the fosters home and all seemed well, we were told we couldn’t go see her as it would disrupt her at her foster home and could turn her away from feeding the pups. So we stayed at Bay though it was sool hard and we missed her so much.
We told MSMR that Sammy was an aggressive dog and could not be around other dogs and no kids and thrived well with a one owner situation as Sammy tended to be very dominate and jealous when she formed attachments with people.
When we seen how much she was asking for the pups online we were floored!
Then we never got a pick of the litter in fact we didn’t even get the last pup!
We seen them going. Going and when we tried to contact MSMR to get Sammy (figuring if they are selling the pups they no longer need Sammy) also we were starting to get anxious because she had not even told us she was selling them when she did, and she would not answer any of our calls or emails or text messages.
She sent my mom one message and told my mom that Sammy was starting to get aggressive with their dog…. That is most likely if that dog got any where near her pups chances it would have got bit with how she was.
But she never told us that she was going to use this as an excuse to get rid of our dog…. Next thing you know she is SELLING our dog Sammy on her web site!
We kept trying to reach her and let her know that was not part of the agreement and we indeed wanted Sammy home desperately!!!
No response from her
Nothing!
Also she put on Sammy’s listing that she was good with kids and other animals and that was DEFINATLY NOT THE CASE.
We stressed this to her from the get go!
So no one or no animal would get hurt.
Still no reply from her.
I had to downright send messages to her saying that if I didn’t get my animal back that I would 100 percent be down at her store and picketing her business that I would contact kgmi and Bellingham harald and who ever else would listen to what I had to say about what she was doing!!!
Finally she wrote back saying that she no longer had Sammy.
Skipping to the end, when I finally got her to tell me where she shipped my dog and I found out it was the Skagit Humane society and that Sammy was on the Euthanize list for about 2 days out because she was brought in by MSMR and told to them she was to be on the unadoptable list.
SHE SENT MY DOG TO DIE!!!!
I had to come up with several hundred dollars to bail Sammy out of there, and just in time!
MSMR just told me that they had been in business 15 years and they were shutting down their business when I threatened to sue. And she did too. On her page for a while it said they were taking a much needed “break”.
None the less she blocked.me on fb and never was heard from again.
I literally just came across this and was reading through it and my jaw hit the floor………
I thought it was time for my story to finally be heard.
This place is a joke. She should have criminal charges against her for what she does to animals and to their owners!
She claims she is a “Rescue shelter my ass” no Rescue shelter brings animals to be killed.
She fails to tell people that she is partnered with a shelter that puts animals down if they aren’t adopted in a certain time frame.
I now wonder how many animals she (MSMR) has taken to Skagit to get them off her hands and do her dirty work.
I wish she would get charged!
Someone needs to investigate of she is still taking animals there.
I hope this helps.
I also have all the fb messages still between us!
If you want them.

P.A.C.K. people for animal care and kindness.

Which organization is doing this?

I told her what I was writing and asked if she had a response but she never got back to me.

Thanks for your comments. I didn’t identify the person fostering the puppy but since you made this comment people should know you were the foster.

I haven’t seen the adopter’s application so I can’t say anything about what was true and what wasn’t. I will say that if lying “multiple times” on the adoption application was the reason you revoked the adoption you never mentioned it in and of the texts. You said it was because you “had too many applications and miscounted.” Also, if she lied on the application, why did you approve the adoption?

Regarding vaccines, I didn’t say that no veterinarians accept self-administered shots, but most of them do not. So what if someone who adopts a dog from you can’t get a health certificate from their vet because MSMR did the vaccination. Do they have to start calling vets all over Washington to find one that will sign a health certificate? And what if they aren’t near the vet they find they will sign a health certificate? Will they have to drive hundreds of miles to get it?

Also, the statement that vaccinations are safe if not administered by a vet isn’t true. As I said in my post, if a puppy has an adverse reaction to a vaccination that wasn’t administered at a vet’s office it needs immediate medical attention and could die if it doesn’t get it.

And I don’t agree that there are “many ways” shelters/rescues can operate. Sure, not all a run the same, but that doesn’t mean all the ways they run are in the best interests of the dogs. Reputable rescues don’t vaccinate dogs the day they’re adopted. Reputable rescues have their dogs examined by a vet before they’re adopted. Reputable rescues don’t wait to deworm puppies until they’re six weeks old.

As I noted in the story, this wasn’t the first time someone questioned MSMR adoption and vaccination policies, so clearly this is an ongoing problem for years that still hasn’t been addressed.