I am a member of the board with iResQ, and I am honestly appalled at all of you people who are writing these terrible reviews, full of lies and embellishments. Any and all of your negativity towards ANY rescue entity only causes animals to die. All rescues take in difficult to place animals, ones that are on the euthanasia list, and any negativity only leads to more of those animals being put to sleep. Don’t be an animal killer. We are a board run organization, our volunteers simply put our works, words and efforts into action at adoption events etc. Some facts for all of you: 1. Read your contract - everything you are writing reviews about, not receiving paperwork, or not being given an appointment time until the last minute - it is all clearly stated within your contract and covered by volunteers at events, not to mention the puppy pack sent via email. You only receive paperwork after completion of your spay/neuter appointment. YOU signed and agreed to this. 2. Deposits -again clearly stated in your contract. It is a requirement by state law in order to operate as a rescue to take a deposit if the animal is going home unaltered. We try to make this easy by asking for a check for the deposit amount so that when you complete your contractual obligation of getting your pet to the vet for surgery, we can simply destroy the check. Therefore no monies ever leave your account for the deposit UNLESS you fail to uphold your contractual obligation. 3. Spending thousands of dollars on a rescue animal- this can be what happens when you own a pet, rescued or not. We do everything we can to minimize this outcome as we do not want your pet to be ill or suffer in any way. We have a strict intake protocol where all animals are dewormed and given supportive care to insure their health. Unfortunately we can't predict what will happen once they go home any better than a doctor sending home a newborn baby. We try to offer solutions to help save adopters some money but in the end the adopter decides what type of care their pet receives. 4. Microchips are included with the adoption fee, however we can only supply them when they are available to us. We order as many as we can and they are sent to us, however if they are on backorder with the supplier we can't make a supplier give us what they do not have. HOWEVER you are more than welcome to contact us and let us know you are still without microchip and we can schedule you to go to our vet at no charge or if we have a volunteer who will be at the events that is comfortable with giving a microchip you can stop by the event. Let's clear the air about another issue. Dawn- first and foremost is a VOLUNTEER. She helped this rescue get started by filing paperwork for the rescue and her name is on record, only because she helped in the beginning. She in no way is the "owner" of this rescue. Yes she drives a Range Rover, yes her son helps with adoption events, yes her daughter helps with adoption events. Dawn also donates her OWN money towards veterinary expenses. Thank goodness for people who volunteer/donate/foster to help a rescue organization otherwise we wouldn't be able to save death row dogs. There are reviews of dogs dying of illness- welcome to rescue. All of the animals we "pull" from the euthanasia lists of shelters have been exposed to only God knows what, they see a vet while they are in the shelter, they see a vet once they are being loaded onto transport, and OUR vet will see your adopted puppy for their scheduled surgery/shots/etc, at NO CHARGE to the pet owner. When a dog breaks with an illness we offer for that animal to go to our vet at NO CHARGE to the owner. Yet we are a horrible rescue? In all honesty we could completely disregard your messages and emails and so forth because by contract the animal is now in your care and by being an animal owner you are responsible for all medical costs/care for that animal. AS YOU SHOULD BE, again- welcome to rescue. HOWEVER we do not, DAWN is the vetting coordinator volunteer and she contacts the board with all of your requests, gets approval to send to OUR vet (who is a partnered veterinarian overseeing the care of all of our animals in our program) at NO CHARGE to you. Furthermore lets get into the nitty gritty, adoption. When you come to our adoption events we have dogs that you can choose from and we can only tell you what we know about them. Most of the time that is very limited, they come from high kill shelters where they were facing euthanasia. Most are picked up as strays from the street- meaning they have no idea how to be pets- and others were owner surrendered because people in areas over run by animals on the street have no regard for their pets and throw them away, with little to no care. As for the dogs that come from the reservation. I dare any of you to go out to the reservation and look at the shelter. No dog deserves to end up there. We take as many as we can, and yes some may have illness (welcome to rescue). We have them checked by our vet, do all we can with preventatives and hope for the best, we tell the adopters to contact us if they start to show any signs of illness.... this does NOT mean after a dog has not eaten or drank for 2-3 days, and/or has a snout full of boogers that "just showed up". Clearly for those of you posting such negativity we should have never adopted to you, and for that I apologize for not seeing your true colors, our animals deserved better. If you are looking for a perfect full bred puppy - some words of advice: DO NOT go to an adoption event. Dogs in rescue are not perfect, they have character flaws and quirks but hearts so full of love for anyone who shows them kindness. They deserve the best homes available, not a snarky home where if they aren’t “perfect” they are not worthy of proper care or your love. WE THANK AND APPRECIATE THE THOUSANDS OF ADOPTERS WHO LOVE THEIR PETS AND ARE COMMITTED TO CARING FOR THEM NO MATTER THE OUTCOME! Because of you, we have been able to keep saving lives!