Whiskers & Wags

I believe that Reach Rescue has a good concept with the store and fostering instead of crates piled on top of each other. I also believe that the execution is a fail. The store is over priced and the adoption fees are outrageous. I think that Reach Rescue has lost sight of what is most important … The staff should take a couple of classes on professionalism. They come off as being unstable people. I have seen worse rescues but I have also seen much better rescues

REVIEW FOR REACH RESCUE: My husband and I adopted a dog from this organization this weekend and I can’t tell you how friendly the staff is, easy the adoption process is, affordable the adoption fee is and how GREAT the dog we got. Everyone that we dealt with and met in the organization was very… well …organized! And thorough. When there was a question on our application, Patti called and we cleared it up. They called all of our references including our veterinarian (we have two other rescues). At the adoption event, the other volunteers were very friendly with other potential adopters. The foster volunteer, Amanda and her husband, Ben, were VERY good with the dog. They went through every single piece of paperwork with us, gave us all of the dog’s paperwork including the information about the microchip, the type of preventative heartworm medication and flea & tick preventative treatment. They knew a LOT about her which I found amazing and so helpful. We love her so much and she is a great dog. I think they screen the dogs very well.
We can’t thank Reach Rescue enough for our adorable new little addition to our home!

Reach Rescue is a wonderful place to adopt a dog or cat in need of a good home. The volunteers there are all wonderful people and are great at answering any dog questions you mite have. I have volunteered here for a little over a year now and really enjoy it. Of course like anywhere there will be good reviews and bad reviews but any bad review on reach rescue is either from somebody who wasn’t approved for getting a dog which can happen due to a family not being a good fit for a certain dog which is common sense. Or people that have volunteered here before and are just stupid and I’m not gonna say any names (Jackie W)… That weren’t competent enough to do this line of work. But aside from that this place is so nice and any place that saves animals from shelters should be given 5 stars regardless if your experience there wasn’t what you hoped for.

Great store but very over priced
Lower the prices and you will move the stock
The owner has a great flair for setting up displays

We have adopted/​rescued two dogs in the last few years. We have maintained a great relationship with the people at Reach Rescue. We always bring our adopted dogs into Reach so they can see how the puppy we rescued is doing in his new home. Reach has always been more than helpful in the adoption process and made sure that we knew the history of our new pets.
We have donated to the resale shop… where the profits go towards the rescue of these animals. I would highly recommend anyone to go to Reach Rescue, on 176 and Midlothian, (next to Old Dominicks) to adopt/​rescue their new family member. You will not be sorry!!! Your review helps others learn about great local businesses.
Please don’t review this business if you received a freebie for writing this review, or if you’re connected in any way to the owner or employees.

(The following review is intended for the Reach Rescue organization)
Few words can express how angry I am with this organization.
My girlfriend and I discovered a wonderful Italian greyhound on their website. This 4 month-​old puppy had recently broken a leg and was recovering in a foster home. Enamored and undeterred, we went through the application process which included being vetted by the organization staff, Director Suzanne, and even the foster home where the dog resided. Everything looked great. We were told we were the best and most qualified applicants as we have had two of these dogs before and could provide not only the best medical care, but the best home for the rest of its life.
The day before we were scheduled to meet the dog we were told the dog had been given to another home.
What?! What the hell? There was no, «Hey there’s another interested party.» There was no mention of our application being deficient in in the slightest.
Their justification was one of the adopters was a vet and was allegedly able to provide better care for the animal and save the shelter «a few hundred dollars» in veterinary services.
Not once were we asked what our jobs are, nor what care we we were willing to give. And more specifically, how much money were were prepared to give to the shelter in order to take home this dog.
It’s not that we don’t want the best care for this animal, which we were easily willing to provide. It’s the fact that this decision was made by a shelter looking out for their bottom line at the expense of our emotional investment. Apparently an applicant (possibly with a connection to the shelter?) can drop in at the last minute, and bypass or entirely disrupt a lengthy and thorough process another applicant started a week earlier.
It’s like if you were to buy a car, and while you we’re signing the paperwork, someone else drove off in it. The justification being they were willing to pay more for it.
This is all of little solace to my devastated girlfriend and who had spent every waking hour planning this new addition to our family. We realize the dog was never ours, but all communication indicated it would be. All of this over a few hundred dollars in vet bills, which I would have easily paid if given the chance.
I don’t expect anything to come of this review other than to encourage others to work with a different organization who stands by what they say, and wont mislead you down a path of hope to capriciously shatter it when a higher bidder arrives.

The volunteers and staff are ReachRescue seem wonderful. But we adopted a puppy from them who was sick and died, which was a devastating experience. And in the course of investigating to adopt another, it does appear that there’s a good bit of misrepresentation in the «rescue adoption» world, especially for puppies. One rescue agency I phoned was clearly just some person who was flipping puppies — she explained that her husband had driven to Ohio to meet someone from Georgia with a truck full of them… This is not to say that Reach doesn’t have wonderful dogs, and we spoke to many kind-​hearted and dedicated volunteers; one volunteer had been walking an unadoptable dog every weekend for months trying to keep it alive. They deserve our thanks. But I am suggesting that people looking to rescue a puppy be well informed before those adorable faces sweep you off your feet.

Whisker & Wags is a great little shop that benefits animals in need! I visited there recently when attending an adoption event and was very impressed. They have nice things in the store and some of the cutest pets ever!

Kind of a weird place, but a nice idea. Half resale furniture shop, half pet adoption center. From what I understand the former supports the latter. Anything for the animals is good with me. The resale shop isn’t bad. I thought it was perhaps a touch overpriced and was hoping for more antique stuff, but i definitely found a few cool pieces.

Whisker & Wags is a resale shop that supports animal rescue.
Mt sister somehow knows where all of these type shops are located so she and I checked this place out for the resale items. She had told me that they have pretty nice things and that they do a really good job of staging items.
This is place is set up in an old somewhat abandoned storefront right next to an old Dominick’s. Right next to the store is an animal rescue and that some of the proceeds go to support the little ones.
I have to agree with my sister that they have some pretty nice items in here and that they do a good job of staging the items. As we walked around it was almost like walking at a furniture store because they would set up a room and fill it up with furniture and all of the nic nac items. You need to walk around and check every room out to find the little items as they are everywhere.
As we were walking around checking things out there were some cats that followed us. I’m guessing this was their security system :-). The cats just wanted some attention and I gave them what they wanted.
Since we already own a couple of dogs we weren’t looking to rescue a new animal but we did check out a pretty cool resale shop.

We adopted our Shepherd mix Reggie (formerly Kai) from Reach Rescue and we love him so much! We are very grateful for what Reach Rescue does! The process was simple and the people were so nice! We will definitely come back to them when it’s time for another addition to the family!

Reach Rescue is the best. They are so pleasant to work with. They keep the animals’ best interests at heart and truly want to find every one of them a good home. I worked with another rescue organization in the past where the foster homes didn’t want to give up their foster dogs. Reach Rescue is quite opposite and thrilled when they find a loving home for one of their furry friends. I highly recommend Reach Rescue to anyone looking for their newest family member! My little Molly (formerly known as Marley) would completely agree. She is so happy to be a part of our family. Thank you Reach Rescue for all you do!

The truth about reach rescue… We fostered a choc. Lab mix from reach named Kent aka Duke. When we brought him home we experiencing that he had kennel cough, we went to the vet, and Suzanne the founder on Reach told us that we couldn’t go one Sunday to an adoption event, obviously we listened to her. He was the greatest dog ever, we loved him more so than our other fosters we had in the past. There was a event in the lake County fair grounds and I was on a mission to find him a home. I came across a lovely lady and her daughter whom are a lab family that recently lost their lab well now they were very interested in adopting Kent aka Duke. They wanted to meet Duke so they followed us and they met him and fell in love with him. She filled out the adoption application and the next following next weekend they were going to meet us at the adoption event to finalize the adoption papers. When we arrived at the adoption event one of the members start screaming at us in front of everyone and says «how could we not come last Saturday, he had a potential adopter». Suzanne explained to the member what had happened and still she wasn’t happy that we found duke a home the week we had him in our foster home. All of our fosters, puppies and seniors ALWAYS find homes in the week that we have them or two. Anyways, Kent now Duke’s adopted mama’s daughter fell in LOVE with one of their lab puppies and wanted to adopt her. She was adopted also. So, now we gotten not one, but TWO dogs adopted from reach and they still didn’t like us. The Puppy they adopted also had kennel cough and heart worms! The adoptees took her to the vet and the vet game them medications. They also called reach asking them why didn’t they tell them she had kennel cough and heart worms and there response were «her litter and every single puppy there does, we don’t have the money to afford to get them to the vet. If you don’t want her drop her off». Duke and Bailey (the pup) are now sick free thanks to the wonderful adopters Rosie and her daughters. Suzanne also told us that we can’t keep our XL dog crate for another dog we would foster. Once again the members of Reach yelled and screamed at us calling us liars, and that they needed their crate back, we were thefts for taking there crate. blah blah blah. One day they brought the police to our front door step and demanded to get their crate back. Well we did even though Suzanne said we can keep it. Well then there’s more. They don’t even take their dogs from kill shelters, pounds, or gas chambers, they buy their PUREBRED un– fixed dogs from Puppy Mills and back yard breeders while loading them in large trucks without even going to the vet first. I have experienced it with my own two eyes. They also give them illegal shots like shooting them up with flea and tick prevention and they gush blood after wards. That isn’t suppose to happen at all! Also they give them a microchip in front of everyone to see in the dog adoption center. All done by the same members too that brought the police to my house. I am done with them and myself and The Puppy Mill Project are investigating them as I type. I have seen so much here that it blows my mind to how in the hell do they get away with that type of stuff. ALSO I have experienced them putting non pet safe salt on the ground for the winter and literally the pups and dogs pads on their paws have gotten burned to where the members immediately put the puppies in the back w/​o any medical attention at all. So please people be wise to the places you adopt one from you could be supporting a puppy mill and breeder facility and not even notice it.

We adopted a puppy from here about 3 months ago and we are so happy with him… he is the best dog we could ask for! We adopted him when he was about 11 mos old and you could tell how well his foster parents took care of him and trained him. We brought him home and he became a part of our family right away. The adoption process was also very easy! They were thorough to the point where you know they cared who was adopting their pets, but they also made the experience painless. Our puppy was completely up to date with his shots/​vaccines and they also include rabies shot and neutering in the adoption price. I’d definitely recommend Reach Rescue to anybody looking to adopt!

I got a puppy from here a few months ago and the process was easier than any other place I’ve been to or heard about. They people that work there keep in touch for all the proper shots/​vaccinations/​etc. and they even handled my pooch when she got worms, free of charge. All of the shots/​nudering/​vaccinations necessary in the first year are included in the small donation fee for dogs (300). Angela was taking care of the litter I adopted from and I think she did a great job of training my pup in the early stages of her life. By the time I got her, she was used to the crate, she was comfortable away from her siblings, and she walked fairly well.
The only downside is that the people that work here don’t always communicate well to each other but they’re so kind that I can forgive them for it. I also have had to wait several times for people to show up or for shots to be done. But honestly, I think that’s what you get whenever you’re working with adoption agencies.
Besides the adoption angle of the business, the furniture is in great condition and reasonably priced. I keep wanting to purchase items but by the time I return to the store, they’ve been sold, which I suppose means they get a pretty good influx of new items.

No clothes here, but this upscale resale shop has lots of very nice items for your home, all affordably priced. Some antiques, books and furniture. Everything in the store is arranged pleasingly. They also do pet adoptions and, I think, boarding. For your donations, they provide a donation receipt.