Tuesday, March 19, 2013

The title says it all. D.E.L.T.A Rescue is a sorry excuse for a rescue. Nothing about this place is normal. Animals are supposedly saved from the wildlife and brought to DELTA to live out their lives medicated and without real people interraction. At least half of these animals are fully adoptable and would make amazing forever pets. However, they will never get the chance. In fact...if an animal is extremely old and has more problems than good...it stays inside the clinic area laying in his or her own feces and urine until someone comes around to change the potty pads they lay on all day. There are animals that have sores on parts of their bodies and they will never heal due to no movement or blood flow to the area. These animals are just over medicated till they pass away, laying on one side of their bodies in pain and nothing is done. There are two animals in the hospital area that have MRSA. They are not quarantined fully away from other animals or people and this is a serious and contagious disease. They just sit in a cage with no interraction other than being medicated. The cat with MRSA isnt even nice enough to go near let alone medicate. He will bite and claw at you. The dog with MRSA has one of the worst skin infections on her abdomen that I have ever seen...and I am a Vet Tech. The
dogs that are outside are out in the cold when its freezing and stuck in the extreme heat when its hot outside. They have a dog house to go in but it is not enough protection in extreme temps. Being at D.E.L.T.A is a horrific nauseating and sad experience. You would only be there as an employee because of your crazy love and dedication to animals or an illegal immigrant who has to work there and be treated like crap because your stuck. At least half of the employees are illegal immigrants. The owner gets crap from the IRS every year because he makes up social security numbers for his workers. Wow right? Employees come and go like a gass station. They see what goes on there and they leave. The interview to get a job is given at a McDonalds in Acton. If they like you they take you to the property and "kind of" show you around. It seems so awesome and a great opportunity but it's not. what it seems. People have quit the same day they started. Others have been there a few months only because they need a job. Or you could be fired for being too slow. 7 years at the "rescue" and disabled...fired for being too slow. The culprit who fired him...his name is Cisco. He became the rescues' supervisor and all hell broke loose. The place is falling apart. And if you expect to be paid the amount you were told and had a signed paper stating that...forget it. You will be paid less. And...they will tell you that the paper (which was signed by HR) stating your pay...is a mistake. Wow again right? This "rescue" is a just one disaster after another and I am so surprised it has not been shut down yet. Ive heard people have tried but no luck. The owner is a very mean person who is racist, rude, and will fire you for absokutely anything. You can not talk to him unless he talks to you. You can not call the HR Lady because yoy wull ve fired  You can not talk to any of the sponsers that tour...which is brief and rare...you will be fired. The owner makes over $17 mil dollars a year in donations yet the dog and cat food is cheap bad nutritioned junk.This is such a horrible place and it needs to be fixed or shut down. Have the adoptable animals put into loving homes. Be truly all about the animals not how many and how many different kinds you can have all to yourself!!!

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  1. Everything here is true and more. The owner of the sanctuary only visits maybe once or twice a month. All of the rest of the work is done by the employees. It is a huge facility with a lot to do. The employees put a lot of themselves into their job. Yet the employees are faced with such abuse that it is very common for them to leave in tears. And if you manage to stick around, you can be fired for something as small for taking the donor's attention momentarily away from Leo - who is a narcissist. If you are touring the facility, please do the employees a favor and do not smile at, wave or compliment any of them. The employees are to be seen and not heard. Leo can be the only star here. By giving the employees any attention at all, you could cause them to be fired. This is especially true if you are a celebrity donor. Hey, Priscilla! That cute, pregnant, Latina lady you talked to got FIRED for talking to you. And she'd been on the job nearly a decade.

    When employees are fired or quit, management screws around with replacing them so long that the employees left behind end up getting more work piled up top of them. And management doesn't care how much you have to do. They'll keep piling until you start writing in that you took lunch when you really didn't, or clocking out and then continuing to work.

    Oh, you logged too much overtime this month? Thief! As management is happy to say over and over again: all of the employees are a bunch of thieves. And if you don't get the work done, you don't care about the animals. They'll say this while you're working 10-12 hour days away from your family. If you're called to come in on your day off, you'd better come in. Nobody cares if you have family in the hospital or you just worked nine days in a row. Employees really do have to choose between their jobs and their families.

    The verbal abuse is constant. He gets away with it by not usually doing it to your face. Instead, it will get to you through someone else. He'll tell someone who was hired yesterday that all of their coworkers are idiots, thieves and have no talent. Or that the supervisor (who works 12 hours a day guaranteed) doesn't know s#%t.

    Strangely enough, though, bossmam will hire some new manager (like Cisco) out of nowhere and trust that person implicitly - giving this person the keys to just about everything and telling the employees that he doesn't want to hear from them anymore (as if he did before). Where he gets these people from is a mystery, but they are almost always shady (like Cisco) with larger than life resumes. Somehow they never seem to have the skills to back those resumes up.

    Meanwhile, the owner keeps getting more and more animals - including wild animals who had the misfortune of wandering onto his property. Leo doesn't care that there are not enough people and that he's been complaining about overtime. He'll drive out and trap 30 more feral cats and cram them into a hospital that's already full.

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    1. I can say first hand all this is true about this place. The animals are in hell. And nothing is being done about it. It's a huge money scam. Leo grillo takes advantage of people. He gets paid to take these dogs in from people that say they can't take care of them anymore. Only select few dogs get attention,bath,groom, then a few pics cuse the people who donated the dogs want a follow up. They donate money and a dog thinking they will have a better life but that's not the case. And when one passes away it gets tossed in a freezer for months on end. I can keep going on and on about how this place needs to be shut down ...I was an employee and got fired for no legal reason..and that happens daily at this horrible place of misery.

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  2. WOW...thanks for posting this, because I'm in the middle of applying for a job there. I saw an ad for a vet tech position and the ad did not post the name of their facility...it was very vague on who and what they were...and it didn't require "vet tech experience" or "RVT credentials." *Red flag 1* Seemed alittle fishy, but I sent them my resume anyways. Then today I got a response by voice message. The message said they were D.E.L.T.A. and were interested in me. So I'm currently playing phone tag with the HR personnel, and that's a good thing, because it gave me time to Google them and learn more about who they are.

    On their website they admitted to not adopting their dogs out, which I thought was odd. For a dog to be cooped up in an enclosure all its life with no chance of a happy home doesn't sound right. *Red flag 2* With their big facility and resources, they should be adopting dogs out to make space for dogs at the shelter on death row. That's rescuing! Instead they hoard dogs for a life sentence in a kennel?! I also thought it was strange they didn't post their physical address on their website and are closed to the public. Only on special occasions did they allow public access for tours. I also didn't see anything on their site about volunteering. What rescue doesn't seek out and welcome volunteers!! *Red flag 3* So apparently, they are hiding something since they don't want the general public on the premises. As I searched further online for reviews, I couldn't believe what I was reading. It sounds like a house of horrors for dogs. I eventually was lead to this blog. Yikes, worse then I ever expected!!

    So it's basically another typical rescue ran by crackpots that hoard animals and takes donations from unsuspected kindhearted people. Shameful. I'm really glad I found this blog and comment by former employees before I preceded with the job interview and got hired.

    Thanks for sharing and warning us of this place.

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  3. I used to work here, the employees that managed to stay longer for a month are absolutely horrible people. I was fired with no proof of what I did or anything, they stated I left cats out, this piece of shit vet tech, I do not remember his name, reported me doing so, with again, no proof, and the fired me on the spot with ONE employees here say. The animals are incredibly over weight, and Leo is a sexist racist piece of shit. The animals just sit in one house or enclosure rotting to death with sores and most have severe health problems. They drug up the animals worse than a mental ward, and the abuse from the higher ups is ridiculous. I hope Leo gets his karma and everyone else in there.

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    1. wow! how can this be stopped? I used to donate to this org but no more. I'll stick to my local humane society. How horrible for the animals I wish I had known before

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    2. It's so horrible! And most people don't know it's happening and donate to them. It's so sad! Such awesome animals there and they are stuck in kennels with little to no interaction.

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  4. I honestly don't know but have a feeling it is! It needs to be shut down stat!

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  5. I just checked the Better Business Bureau website and found there are no complaints against Delta Rescue, going back three years. Leo Grillo would not be able to sweep anything underthe rug once the BBB receives a complaint. Money doesn't talk everywhere. I urge those who have experienced such horrific business practices and firsthand poor treatment of the animals, to file a complaint. You have that right and might be obligated to do so. I just discovered Delta Rescue, as they have been featured on a Saturday morning program about animal rescues. I pray conditions have improved.

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    1. I would love to file a complaint with the better business bureau

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    2. These animals have no way to voice their situation.

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  6. I can attest to everything being said here. Sometime ago I worked in the office and you would be second by the amount of money that comes in through donations, especially from the elderly. Some even leave their entire states and their wills. This is why the location is so secret, because I don't want angry family member showing up. Also why they don't adopt the dogs out, which makes no sense for a rescue. Worst scam ever, and the vet side is a joke

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  7. I can attest to everything being said here. Sometime ago I worked in the office and you would be second by the amount of money that comes in through donations, especially from the elderly. Some even leave their entire states and their wills. This is why the location is so secret, because I don't want angry family member showing up. Also why they don't adopt the dogs out, which makes no sense for a rescue. Worst scam ever, and the vet side is a joke

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  8. These comments are all false. AND HSUS is the worst. DELTA gives all donations to animals. You can read their IRS forms on line. The founder gets zero. Says so on their IRS forms. HSUS is the worst - they are the ones that don't help animals - take a look
    https://www.helppetshelters.com/

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    1. They are not false! I worked here and saw what was happening daily. Dealt with all the bad going on. Animals never leaving the shelter. Animals laying in their own filth, paralyzed. Animals not being worked with to help with their behavior so they could be adopted. The animals being fed horrible food instead of food with good nutritional value especially with all the donations they receive. Rooms full of so many cats, too many cats. Animals also with diseases that they shouldn't have and no one could help them as it was contagious to humans. People not getting paid what they deserved. People being fired for absolutely nothing. So much not right things going on here. I'm not saying HSUS isn't a bad thing either(don't have exoerience), I just have first hand knowledge of D.E.L.T.A and its horrible practices and daily nonsense.

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    2. Bull crap all stated is true facts

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    3. AND WHAT ABOUT ALL THE OTHERS OUT THERE WHO HAVE BEEN THERE AND SEEN WHAT'S GOING ON, THE LIVES THEY GET OFF THE STREET, BECAUSE YOU WEREN'T THERE TO DO THE JOB...YOU ARE A COMPLAINER, NOT A DOER. THE IDEA IS FIRST TO KEEP THESE ANIMALS OFF THE STREET. IT TAKES WORK, MONEY AND THE LONG HAUL. COMPLAINING GETS NO WHERE.

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  9. Im a former employee at D.E.L.T.A and let me set the record straight to you Social Media Bullys these allegations are false I take pride in my job animals get well taken care of and I make sure there kennels are keeped clean,they are feed top of the line food these animals are loved

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    1. This blog is old. But obviously things still go on there or there wouldn't be people posting about it now. And I'm a former employee as well and everything spoken about in the original post is accurate. It's the Reason why I left. Things might have changed now but it was a different story years ago when I worked there.

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    2. Exactly things did change for the better.

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    3. Well that's great then. The animals and staff deserve better

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    4. I worked their and this is all so true Leo and his ex wife Stacey are so rude and are constantly talking shit about each other and every one else. They do hire a bunch of illegals that are to scared to even voice their opinion because they have no other way of employment the animals that are in the intensive care that they so call are paralized laying in their on urine and feces with bed sores that have no way of healing due to the fact that they lay in their own urine and feces. Yes it's a non kill rescue but when animals have amputations they are labeled and but it a freezer so the crematory can come by and and pick up the remains then they get the ashes back just to be placed in a storage house they have on the premises because Leo states that when he passes he wants all the ashes with him honestly he is totally rude and a wack this place needs to be shut down. I'm so happy people are finally speaking up if you only know the amount of illegals that are employees and mistreated their it would make u sick and the way the animals living in the winter you come in to dead animals frozen for the cold weather and in the summer due to hear strokes it really sad when about 80% of these animals are adoptable pls I urge everyone to speak up if you truly love animals help them stop donating to this rescue

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    5. YOUR THE JOKE. YOUR THE COMPLAINER. IF THERE IS A PROBLEM AND YOU THINK YOU CAN DO A BETTER JOB, OPEN YOUR OWN SHELTER AND DO WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT, GETTING THESE ANIMALS OFF THE STREET AND USE YOUR ENERGY FOR THE GOOD...

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  10. I worked there in sometime ago and got fired for something I did not do went to the unemployment office when you had go there in person before computer and file for unemployment they asked me what happened and I told them they told me it was no big surprise and that Delta had a big turn over rate and as far as the animal I tried to take care off them the best way I could but they did not like how long I toke so I got moved animals need human interaction and your not supposed to do that there also if your not in there little fake vet tech group you are treated really bad I had hoped it had changed for the animals sack but I guest not so sad

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  11. All that is said here is very true I was not fired but just couldn't go back illegal employees are so mistreated and animals that are suffering are kept alive with bed sores while sitting in their on urine and feces which is not a good thing the smell is horrific. I am a true animal lover and truly believe that if an animal is adaptable they should be giving the opportunity to have an everlasting home where they get attention and love instead of being locked in cages where all the attention they get is when a employee comes in to feed them or clean their kennel

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  12. It's possible they are as horrible as this site says, and it's also possible that there a few people who A. hate them for personal reasons and B. have social media skills.

    Look them up at
    https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=3603

    ... and make up your own mind.

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    1. OK seriously... That website is a lie. They make millions a year yet it isn't going to the animals. The animals are fed shit food and left to sit in their own filth. The animals that are adoptable, will never know what a home is. The animals with health or behavioral issues aren't taken care of or rehabilitated. This place is a joke. We don't hate this place for personal reasons, we hate this place because of the way the animals are treated. It's horrible and inhumane.

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    2. THAT IS RIGHT...GO OUT AND SEE FOR YOURSELF BUT ONLY IF YOU CAN DO A BETTER JOB, OR HELPE OUT. NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR YOUR COMPLAINTS JUST FOR NO REASON, THIS IS HARD WORK PICKING UP AFTER OTHERS NEGLECTED BEHAVIOR. THIS SHOULD NOT BE GOING ON, DOMPING ANIMALS AND LEAVING THEM FOR OTHERS TO TAKE CARE OF...

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  13. Glad I found this information. I was about to make a donation, but figured I better check them out first.

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  14. I order the key chain tags they took my money I never got my order do not place a order

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  15. this place got to be a JOKE bless the animals there somebody getting a bank account off ppl

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  16. Of this place is so horrible and former employees crying and complaining but not doing anything about it wow then I think the former employees are just a bunch of pansies! Do something file a complaint with BBB or shut up . Everyone loves animals until it's work . Better yet get a life .

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    1. First off... This post is extremely old. Second... Workers do try to change things and make this place better, but when they file complaints, nothing is done because no one ever goes there for the proof. Workers know what is going on. But seeing as most workers are illegal, they can't do anything to fight it. Maybe work on your grammar and then rewrite your post.

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    2. DON'T NEED TO MAKE ANY EXCUSES FOR DELTA, THEY ARE DOING THEIR BEST AND HAVE GREAT IDEAS ON HOW TO RESCUE AND KEEP ANIMALS OFF THE STREET. THERE SHOULD BE MORE SHELTERS LIKE THIS...

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  17. THE IDIOT WHO WROTE THIS CLAIMING "A JOKE" NEEDS TO BE JAILED FOR SUCH FAKE, FALSE ACCUSATIONS AGAINST SOMEONE....YOUR A NEGATIVE SICK PERSON!

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    1. Hahaha! You are funny! This post is sooo old and everything said was true. Jailed? Hahah! Clearly you have no clue on anything! Maybe it's changed there but years ago it was horrible.

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    2. WELL, NOW IT'S UP TO DATE....DELTA HAS ALWAYS BEEN A GREAT SAFE PLACE FOR ANIMALS THAT NO ONE ELSE WILL TAKE, ALL THOSE ANIMALS THAT WERE DUMPED BY SOME OF YOU TROUBLE MAKERS, AND COMPLAINERS WHO DO NOTHING TO HELP...

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  18. I think I will start my own.......thank you

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