Baldwin County Animal Shelter - Summerdale, Alabama

Tina D'Aversa

I drove all the way to this animal control shelter. They gave me the run around about some young puppies that I wanted to adopt two of them. I’ve recently lost my dog of nine years very suddenly and my husband and I decided to adopt two puppies. We are very, very capable of giving very very good homes to these puppies. I called every day after I saw the puppies they kept telling me they didn’t know anything and finally I got a young lady to tell me that typically the young puppies are giving to rehoming facilities so I was fearful of this, but what’s happening is they’re giving the young puppies to these organizations that then charge us more and I don’t agree with it and I think it’s very bad that this is a government agency funded by taxpayer dollars that then does not allow taxpayers that live in Baldwin County that are citizens of Baldwin County to adopt puppies. I’ve seen that they’ve shipped some puppies on airlines up north and I can’t believe that they would do that and not allowfamilies to adopt these puppies. I desperately wanted to give a home to puppies that have been displayed start up for adoption or just dropped off at a doorstep and it doesn’t look like this is gonna happen with this shelter. These are the puppies I personally saw at this Baldwin Shelter. I can easily pay for a dog. I wanted to adopt a needy dog or two and the shelter did not allow me to do so. I would gladly neuter the dogs through my own veterinary clinic. However, it must be the case that they just don’t want to adopt out young puppies because they’re not able to be spayed or neutered. Was never able to reach anyone that was the adoption coordinator. Every time I called the person wasn’t available and then today the person was out for the day so there’s another weekend that these puppies either sitting in a cage or they’ve already been shipped to a rehoming center.

Joe Mencotti

I was looking for a dog stopped by Baldwin co shelter. Walked in everyone was helpful .Amber took me to look at the dogs ,Amber knows all about the dogs and help me find Alice renamed Amy I instantly fell in love with her . It’s been a week and I would adopt her all over again thank you to everyone at Baldwin county animal shelter. I would also like to thank the person or organization who paid my adoption fee. Thank you to all.

Faith

If you call animal control about someone starving and abusing dogs for weeks they'll say "it's fine" just so they don't have to actually work. They're lazy and don't care about any animal.

JJ Arness

I came in to get a companion for my dog and was extremely pleased with their patience and understanding of what I was looking for. We love our Daisy Boo !!

Al Jones

I adopted Beverly last year for half price 🙂 Our vet understood the shelter's vaccination records. They're good to take anywhere. Somehow, Beverly acquired a long scar down her back from either being a stray, being trapped, or at the shelter, because it was a fresh wound on a beautiful dog. Her fur did not re-grow over the darkened and healed skin.

They didn't show me her behavior with other dogs, though. As soon as I got her on walks, she was aggressive with no leash manners 🙁 I had to shock-collar rehabilitate her, and it was the only thing that worked. Training took a month. She's excellent off-leash now and is the best traveling companion 🙂

Lo

Sarah is amazing with these precious babies, hearts like hers are hard to come by. Thank you for everything you do for these pups!

Alice A Burton

All staff were very inviting and helpful. A very nice girl took us around to see all the dogs and was very knowledgeable on their personality. She was very patient with us trying to decide and brought 2 dogs we were interested in, to the play yard, so we could see how they would interact with us.
The kennels were clean and there was no smell and with so many dogs, a miracle at best. We were so impressed! Congratulations to all the staff for their job well done!

Penny Adams

I took our 3, Pekingese, Mini Schnauzer & Great Pyrenees, and it cost less than taking 1 for an office visit. And tDoc was a sweetie was a plus. 🙂