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A No-Kill Rescue Refused To Return An Emotional Support Animal To An Abuse Victim Because They Were Abused
A No-Kill Shelter Refused to Give an Emotional Support Animal Back to Her Abused Owner
I have been avoiding writing this mainly because I’ve wanted to protect my own feelings. As many of you know, I am in the process of a divorce. I also had some legal issues in December of last year. In that time, my dog, Killian Jones was taken without my permission and given to the Berkeley County Humane Society. I contacted the Humane Society and they were lovely and told me that she had been taken in by a no-kill rescue, which initially made my heart so happy. Someone was taking care of my baby and at least she was safe. I currently live in a domestic violence shelter, one that was prepared to have my dog with me when I came and almost disappointed to see she wasn’t with me when I arrived.
I contacted Melissa Needy, the owner, I guess of Pawssible Beginnings Rescue and explained my situation. My situation being that I am in the process of leaving an abusive marriage, while I was out of my home, my ex took my dog without my permission and surrendered her. Originally Melissa told me I would have to go through the adoption process to get my dog back because she had been spayed. I totally understood this. Money had been spent on her. Of course, why shouldn’t I pay that back? I was completely willing to do that.
And then suddenly out of nowhere, I received a message stating that she had decided not to give my dog back to me. Because she had promised her she would never be dumped again. I DID NOT dump my dog, I would have NEVER dumped her anywhere. I sat next to her day and night as she healed from being hit by a car. She sat beside me, a registered emotional support animal, so I could keep her while I sat in a domestic violence shelter with nothing BUT her, not even my children…and this woman had all the authority to keep my baby from me. She told me she had already been adopted and there was nothing that I could do.
I admit I gave up hope for a little while, until I saw her advertised on the Facebook page under a completely different name, breed, and age, when I had given this woman clear information about the dog. She kept saying her only concern was the best interest of the dog. If that were the case, wouldn’t she want the dog to be with the family she had spent her entire life loving and being around?
An advocate at the shelter attempted to help me with legal avenues, only to be answered by Melissa’s husband that Killian wasn’t being returned to me because I was an abuse victim and I would likely go to back to my abuser, so why would they give my dog back to me? The dog that was registered as an emotional support animal BECAUSE of the abuse? I begged and pleaded with her only to be mocked like we were children. It was honestly disgusting.
Eventually I found out that a lady named Chrissy Mongan in Clear Spring had adopted my Killian. I messaged her and begged her to return my dog to me or at the very least give me the chance to come there and see her so they could see how she would react to me. If she was fearful, I would let her go. But I knew that wouldn’t be the case. She blocked me from contacting her without even saying a word. Now internet….I need your help to get my dog back. If I had found that she had been adopted by a family with children, I would have just let it go. But an older woman, with at least 4 other dogs has her.
This dog wasn’t just a dog to me, she was a child. She was a family member and I won’t give up on her.
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