Compassionate and Bobbi Yeo will never be seen in the same sentence other than this one. Dictator. Murder. Bi-Polar. Never did I see Bobbi Yeo lift a finger to clean an animals room. Never did she leave her office.

paws fails at this

Casey Smith used volunteers to do her job as Volunteer Coordinator. Volunteers decreased when she took the job and you rarely saw them in the shelter. Now those few that were wonderful and had been there for years before Casey were there all the time. Always willing to help. Always willing to be there for the animals. They too were asked to leave PAWS after many years of dedication. Just because they stood up for the fired staff, and for the murdered animals.

paws treats it staff and volunteers very poorly

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Casey Smith used volunteers to do her job as Volunteer Coordinator. Volunteers decreased when she took the job and you rarely saw them in the shelter. Now those few that were wonderful and had been there for years before Casey were there all the time. Always willing to help. Always willing to be there for the animals. They too were asked to leave PAWS after many years of dedication. Just because they stood up for the fired staff, and for the murdered animals.

paws doesnt do any comunity function like they did when it was muscogee humane society

I don't know what the cleaning is like now that PAWS has tossed me out like trash after two years but I do know in my time at PAWS we kept the shelter clean. Morning clean took on most days from 7am to 11am. In this time we scrubbed ever kennel with dawn, hosed out the rooms, used Accel to kill any unwanted germs, than dried the floors, replaced bedding, cleaned windows. Every day this procedure was in place. Now they have no staff so who knows how many animals are sick from being in dirty rooms.

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When MYM was brought in by Leslie Timberlake the adoptions not only rose but also never came back. Bobbi Yeo took the program away as well with the SAFER test. This caused us to not have an accurate amount of information for adopters and more than 75% of the animals were returned under the leadership of Bobbi Yeo.

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The way the adoption counselors are treated by management, Bobbi Yeo, Rebecca Pearce, were in definition a hostile work environment. The adoption team under the leadership of Leslie Timberlake were able to double adoptions, which decreased the dogs and cats euthanized at the Animal Care and Control. When Bobbi Yeo stepped into the picture staff dropped out like flies either by not wanting to put up with a dictator or being fired for standing up for the animals being euthanized behind closed doors. There are no more adoption counselors because they fired them all. The animals keep getting returned because there is no one to knows the animals anymore like the adoption counselors did. This has increased the euthanasia not only in PAWS but also at the Animal Control.

paws is not a no kill shelter

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There needs to be more volunteers but no one is going to foster for a program that kills, and hides it.

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MY FIRST REVIEW WAS DELETED PAWS HUMANE OF COLUMBUS, GA SO HERE IT IS AGAIN!!! I was once an employee of Paws Humane in Columbus, GA, for two years. Paws was home. I loved working with the animals and I miss it dearly. Every day was a new learning experience and I ate it up. I enjoyed, most of all, the offsite adoption events, that was part of my job. I was part of the wonderful adoption team that found homes for Pauli, Loli, Joffrey Rigby, Gemma, Lyla, Levi, Nina, Savannah, Miss Sassy, Kevin, Terra and Lyla to name a few. My mission each day, as I clocked in was to find homes for these animals that depended on us. The adoption team was family and always will be. Come 2015 when Paws welcomed in a new CEO. There is always change when new management comes in but we were not expecting the storm that came with the new CEO. Never did we see the CEO on the floor helping the employees clean the kennels. Never did we see the CEO on the adoption floor talking to customers and helping us succeed in the Paws mission/vision. Never did the CEO leave the cushioned chairs of the office. Never did anyone in the administration office leave the offices to get their hands dirty for morning clean. It was devastating losing our adoption manager/dog behaviorist with no leader at our helm. Two adoption employees stepped up and accepted the challenge, but the CEO stripped everything from us that was enjoyable about the job, making it harder, stressful, and a hostile working environment. The atmosphere became hostile, with all the employees scared for their jobs. We were told ‘paws is not cleaning house’ after one of our adoption managers was fired for another ‘mysterious’ situation. On January 22, 2016 I clocked into work not knowing that behind closed doors management was deciding on three employee’s fate. My last adoption was finding a home for two dogs a volunteer begged me to find a home for them together and I did that. At the end of the day the three of us were disposed of like trash for a bit protocol that FOUR adoption counselors were involved in but only THREE of us were fired over a BLOOD BLISTER, the size of a pin prick. The ‘bite’ could have been avoided if Paws would have either hired a QUALIFIED, FULL TIME, dog trainer or not have run off the dog behaviorist, who helped us find homes for all those hard case animals I listed above. The adoption team COULD NOT have done those adoptions without the dog behaviorist. We followed protocol and yet were still fired, disposed of like trash. I gave two years of my life to Paws. You could not find a more caring ‘line staff’. The Adoptions Department, Admissions Department, and Clinic Staff are amazing and the best in the business. The CEO, the Director of Operations and the other positions, in the main office are who do not and will not care about the employees who have given up their holidays, weekends, days off and time with our own animals to come into Paws for these animals every day. They don’t know what hard work their staff actually puts in each day. I put my heart, soul, tears and sweat into Paws and I don’t regret my time at Paws one bit. I was blessed to have received a job at Paws. I miss it and will always recommend people to Paws and to the clinic. I miss the animals. I miss the co-workers that became family. I miss the mission of aiming to make this a no-kill community. I was part of a great mission. I gave my heart to Paws Humane and I was one of the employees disposed of like trash in January of 2016. Should shelter employees be treated like trash?

They are doing the best they can with the high volume of people wanting to do the right thing for their pets.

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This program has taken off and Courtney Pierce is doing an amazing job of running this program. I give her and her amazing work 5 stars!

i agree we should do the above - but i know people who have worked with paws and they are not a no kill shelter as they say, they have put down many animals and have covered it up.

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