Metroplex Mutts

I was really interested in a dog that I had seen on their website, and drove to meet her at one of their adoption days. The foster was rude and defensive for some weird reason, and whenever I asked her a question she was really abrupt. She told me that the dog was not ready to leave the foster home yet, so I told her that I would be willing to take it slow and just visit the dog, because I know rescue dogs are often slow to trust/​become comfortable with people. She told me that would probably be okay. (I wonder why they even brought the dog to an adoption day if she wasn’t ready to leave… but whatever.) I emailed them a couple days later wanting to know about setting up visits to get to know the dog. They denied me even the chance to fill out an adoption application because they wanted the dog to be placed with an older single woman with a backyard who doesn’t work, aka, the exact type of people who run the organization… she also said the dog needed a ‘really quiet household.’ How on earth would they know what my household is like, based on one conversation? Since my experience I’ve met and heard of others who have had similar comments about how they were treated. Basically, it left a bad taste in my mouth, like they were looking down on me for being young and wanting to adopt an animal, and acting like because I live in an apartment there is no way I could possibly take care of the animal properly. They knew nothing of any experience I had with rescue dogs, dogs in general, or of my lifestyle. I am happy and blessed with my rescue dog who I adopted from another organization a couple months after that, and he is very happy with his lifestyle as a dog who gets walked 5 times a day and sleeps on my bed at night. (His former people had kept him outside his whole life… just think, even though they were older and had a backyard, that didn’t make them good owners!)
I just think it’s sad that they have such prescribed notions of what makes a good dog owner; it’s pretty prejudiced in my opinion.

Our experience could not be more different. Our dog Jack was grieving due to the loss of his sister, Tricia helped us find his new mate in Gulliver. Tricia was very helpful, informative and insightful as to what Jack was going thru at the time. Gulliver has been with our family for over a year now, Tricia still calls to touch base and see how all of us are doing.

Wow, I just had a very similar experience with Trisha! And she left a message for me to not call her anymore and that I was the one being rude. AMAAAAZING! Its not surprising she has 17 dogs! Seems like she can’t work with humans long enough to get the dogs adopted. So sad for those poor doggies!

Beware of Metroplex Mutts!
I contacted Metroplex Mutts’ President, Tricia Todd, in late April of 2010 about adopting a dog for my family and as a companion for the dog that I currently have. I was made aware that Metroplex Mutts would have dogs for adoption at the White Rock Lake Festival on May 1 & 2, 2010.
I took my dog, Mollie, to the White Rock Lake Festival on Sunday, May 2, 2010 and spent a great deal of time letting her interact with the dogs. There was one dog, Sport (a Flat Coat Retriever), that we loved and got along very well with Mollie.
Later in the day, Tricia made a home visit and said that our home would be perfect for Sport. I completed the Adoption Agreement, paid Tricia and let her spend some time with Sport to say goodbye.
Later that night, Sport broke free and ran through our neighborhood for about 30 minutes before he was located. I discussed this with Tricia and she said that Sport was very attached to her and adopting him would be difficult. We spoke to dog trainers and came up with a plan to ease the transition.
Tricia was to make visits during the following days, with Sport, to allow him to become acclimated to his new home. During the visit (s), my children played with Sport and got to know him. This seemed like a great plan, except Tricia only brought the dog to my house on two (2) occasions — each time she complained (about family issues that made it difficult for her to be effective at Metroplex Mutts), however, she said our home was perfect for Sport and she would make the effort to ease the adoption.
Tricia became very difficult to contact — telephone calls and eMails went unreturned. After several days, I got an eMail saying that Tricia was going to keep the dog and not allow him to be adopted, regardless of the fact that we had a signed Adoption Agreement and she had cashed my check for $ 200.00 (Adoption Fee).
I sent her a Certified Letter explaining my position and requesting that she bring my dog to me. Tricia responded by leaving me an angry voice mail in which she made threats, cussed and called me names.
In the meantime, I am out $ 200.00 and left to deal with my children’s disappointment of not having the dog that they wanted.