Monmouth County SPCA

They were great!!! I adopted a sweet male mixed breed dog named lightning, the process was easy and very informative. You can tell they love what they do there!

I have been a volunteer at the MCSPCA for many years & have experienced many of the areas within. They are truly one of the best shelters for an animal, but no shelter is perfect.
The staff at the SPCA truly cares about animals & are incredibly dedicated to their well being. Volunteers can help out in many areas, including walking the dogs & socializing the cats. All make the animals happier & more adoptable.
They offer a low cost spay & neuter clinic, micro chipping, fecal tests, several blood tests at much less than a vet & even have a food pantry for those that need help feeding their pets. They do anything they can to keep pets with their families.
Injured & sick animals are accessed by the vet staff & when possible, rehabilitated & put up for adoption. On a daily basis, they have dogs, cats & rabbits for adoption & sometimes even reptiles, rats & mice.
The adoption counselors can be a bit ‘tough’ on some potential adopters however, they see the worse cases on an almost daily basis. They are extremely careful about making sure an animal gets adopted by an appropriate family, which isn’t always appreciated by potential adopters. No one wants to see any animal returned if it can be helped so they tend to err on the side of caution.

Beautiful facility and very helpful volunteers! I loved this location so much that I decided to volunteer here myself, as well as adopt a cat from here. Adopt, don’t shop!

If you’re looking to adopt, please go elsewhere. While the facility is very nice and reasonably clean, the people who work there are atrocious. I know I’m not alone in this feeling when trying to adopt
People are rude, they are nasty and make it as difficult as possible to adopt. They have a long time volunteer, Irene whom is allowed free reign there, why I’ll never know ! She is by far the nastiest, rudest individual you can possibly meet. I certainly understand the shelter has guidelines and policies that need to be enforced, however you can do so in a pleasant manner ! The shelter is doing itself a GREAT injustice by keeping nasty people employed or kept as volunteers .
Your first interaction at the reception desk is key to what follows. These folks are absolutely unprofessional and as unhelpful as possible. Do yourselves a favor, and for the animals sake get better qualified, personable employees.

We came here looking for a possible pet for a friend. First impression, the shelter looked clean and very nice. We were first greeted by a pretty nice elderly lady who asked us to sign in and then told us we can go in and enjoy the animals. When we stepped into the back there was another desk with several people there. We were not greeted or acknowledged so we assumed that we were free to walk around and look at the animals. When we walked around to the areas where the dogs were, we saw a dog that we liked so we opened the door to see him. Immediately some man (who had a dog on a leash outside) who i guess was an employee or volunteer looked very angry at us and the dog he had on the leash got the dog we were looking at all riled up. Ok, so you guys don’t want people to just go in to interact with the dogs, well then why didn’t a single person out of the 5 – 7 people who were just sitting around not tell us the rules? And why would you make the locks on the enclosures for the dogs so easy to open? If you have rules, freaking tell people or have signs up! Don’t go off talking to me and my friends like we’re children and assume we never been to an animal shelter or never interacted with dogs. I feel horrible seeing so many homeless animals at this place, but the people who run it are total morons.

About a year ago my wife and I decided that we would get a dog for our 12 year old daughter. We decided that we would do the right thing and get a rescue dog. We chose the monmouth spca because of the positive reviews. We had a preset notion of what we were looking for, a small to midsized dog we felt, would meet our needs. We found a cocketpoo who was a few months old, but we were told that we would be better suited with an older dog who was house broken. This is the scheme, they will push older dogs on you I guess because they are harder to get rid of. Fast forward a year later and we had to return our dog because he attacked a neighbors dog. When we first got our rat/​fox terrier, we noticed that he was hard to walk, aggressive towards other animals, and hard to manage outside of the home. We reported this to the spca, and we’re told that we needed to take our time with him. After calling back 2 more times, we were told that someone would get back to us, and they never did. So, because we started to love the dog, we worked with him, and tried to calm him down. Sometimes it worked and at other times it didn’t. And now, after this incident, i am pretty sure that he will be euthanized. Upon returning him, I spoke with the Manager of the shelter, who told me all the patronizing BS that you expect to hear when one realizes that they dropped the ball. I was not in the mood to hear this nonsense after having had to pay my neighbors vet bill of $ 375. I was told that they would reassess the dog, to determine what should be done with him, (more BS). if they had done their due diligence to begin with, and not just tried to push the dog off on the first sucker they could find, then this would have never happened. Now I do take some responsibility, because I didn’t have to take the dog. When we surrendered him, the lady even had the nerve to ask for a donation, i told her that I deserved a donation of $ 375.00. I now know how the game is played at this shelter, and i wouldn’t even buy a dog collar from them!

I can’t knock a place that harbors abandoned animals and tries to find homes for them. In my first dealing with them, we had taken in a stray from our yard. we kept her for a while, but our other cat just couldn’t coexist with her so we had to get rid of her. We brought her here and explained and they gladly took her. We asked to be notified when she was adopted. Just a few weeks later, we got the call that she was adopted and put in a loving home. It was a BIG relief to us and we were happy that they remembered to tell us. We lost our old cat a short while ago and with the house feeling empty, we decided it was time for another one. Adopting was the only way to go. We went back here to see what they had. The place has been redone since were here last and is very nice. I can’t speak for the sections with dogs or other animals, but the area with cats is very big! They have a LOT of cats here. There are a lot of women working here that will assist you, but if you are interested in having one of the animals taken out, they have to get someone else to do it. Just found that rather odd. You work there? It’s not a mountain lion, it’s a cat!!! Any way, while we didn’t find what we wanted here this day, there are a lot of animals waiting for a home. Get over there and take one home. Never buy from a pet store and support animal mills.

Excellent shelter. We’ve been supporting the Monmouth County SPCA for many years now and had a wonderful time this past weekend at their Valentine’s Day Brunch fundraiser at McLoone’s Pier House in Long Branch.
The shelter was completely renovated a few years ago and the potential adoptees are housed in clean, roomy, bright, glassed-​in enclosures and «gazebos» that allow them freedom to move around, play and cuddle with friends, and see and be seen by visitors to the shelter. The shelter also hosts a low-​cost vaccination and spay/​neuter clinic, the Vogel clinic, and the Maureen O’Brien thrift shop, which has currently been commandeered to store pet food donations being used to aid pets impacted by would-​be Hurricane Sandy. The SPCA is also temporarily boarding pets impacted by Sandy until their owners can again care for them.
Last summer, the SPCA also worked with the property owners of the Freehold Raceway Mall to not renew the lease of the mall’s pet store and opened an adoption annex of the shelter there in it’s place showcasing kittens and puppies, many of which are rescued from over-​crowed and high-​kill shelters in the South and Puerto Rico.
HIGHLY recommended.