STAY AWAY FROM GENTLE GIANTS!!!! I cannot emphasize this more as they are blatant liars, scammers, and are on their way to getting sued from adopting out dangerous, sick dogs. Here is a website dedicated to shutting them down. So many adopters with very similar disaster stories like myself.
http://www.gentlegiantnews.com/index.php
I won't go through the whole God awful story, but here's the gist. They lied about his veterinary care. He had absolutely none, but they required that I reimburse them for a lot of specific care he never received. He peed blood 10 hours after I got home and they they blew it off. Then I insisted there was something seriously wrong and they blamed me. Then, after 2 weeks as he got healtier, he became shockingly, and unpredictably aggressive. I had found out that he lived in a kennel for 3 months with little interaction while he was at Gentle Giants. All the training and evaluating they had supposedly done was a total sham. Because of all these fraudulent charges, he cost $890 up front to supposedly fix all his health problems. (Yes, they are taking money off the top. You can see it in the giant discrepancies in their public tax returns.) Then I had to spend several hundred more even though they paid for a portion of it. I need to have a moderator take down that thread since I know a lot of people won't read it all the way through. I don't want to give these horrible people any advertising.
I had to return him due to the contract. I worked as a vet tech for 5 years, and I can tell you that this dog NEEDS to be put down (not something I take lightly at all nor would recommend in all normal cases). He suddenly turned on and tried to attack both my mother and my grandmother (both who have raised and trained all sorts of animals) without warning after 2 hours of great interaction. He goes from super friendly to attacking with no provocation that we or the behavioral specialist could find. After I told the vet everything, they agreed with me that this dog needs to be euthanized. However, when I informed the woman running Gentle Giants, she says she is going to 'fix' him in 4 months and readopt him out. She says that she'll tell the new owners of his history, but given that she lied to be about EVERYTHING I don't think she will. I have notified Norco Animal Shelter about these people, and reported the whole thing to them including his microchip number.
All I can do at this point is spread the word, and work to get these guys shut down...
http://www.gentlegiantnews.com/index.php
I won't go through the whole God awful story, but here's the gist. They lied about his veterinary care. He had absolutely none, but they required that I reimburse them for a lot of specific care he never received. He peed blood 10 hours after I got home and they they blew it off. Then I insisted there was something seriously wrong and they blamed me. Then, after 2 weeks as he got healtier, he became shockingly, and unpredictably aggressive. I had found out that he lived in a kennel for 3 months with little interaction while he was at Gentle Giants. All the training and evaluating they had supposedly done was a total sham. Because of all these fraudulent charges, he cost $890 up front to supposedly fix all his health problems. (Yes, they are taking money off the top. You can see it in the giant discrepancies in their public tax returns.) Then I had to spend several hundred more even though they paid for a portion of it. I need to have a moderator take down that thread since I know a lot of people won't read it all the way through. I don't want to give these horrible people any advertising.
I had to return him due to the contract. I worked as a vet tech for 5 years, and I can tell you that this dog NEEDS to be put down (not something I take lightly at all nor would recommend in all normal cases). He suddenly turned on and tried to attack both my mother and my grandmother (both who have raised and trained all sorts of animals) without warning after 2 hours of great interaction. He goes from super friendly to attacking with no provocation that we or the behavioral specialist could find. After I told the vet everything, they agreed with me that this dog needs to be euthanized. However, when I informed the woman running Gentle Giants, she says she is going to 'fix' him in 4 months and readopt him out. She says that she'll tell the new owners of his history, but given that she lied to be about EVERYTHING I don't think she will. I have notified Norco Animal Shelter about these people, and reported the whole thing to them including his microchip number.
All I can do at this point is spread the word, and work to get these guys shut down...
very confused.