Tails Humane Society - DeKalb, Illinois

Ernesto Gatica

Muy triste ver a las mascotas abandonadas

Kerina Evenson

I have had nothing but great experiences every time I go! I have been visiting since 2012 and my friends and family have all adopted cats from Tails! I have also been a foster for several years, so seeing the little kittens I bottle fed grow up and get adopted is always worth it ♥️

Cameron Barnes

My wife and I couldn't be happier after 3 years, adopting our sweet little boy. He came home with my wife 2 months after he was born. Tails Humane Society was great with purchase and then there after with questions the wife had.

I highly recommend working with Tails, we are very happy with our adoption. He also came home with a little knitted blanket (which is pictured)

Patrick Sutton

Incredible experience from start to finish. Staff was very warm and engaging, gave good follow up instructions and took great care of our cat. It's now 1 week after his neuter and is incision has healed up very well and he is doing awesome.. Thanks again, Tails, for such great service and affordable pricing!

Jay M

I first came to Tails almost 10 years ago when I decided to adopt a dog and it was a great experience, the process was smooth, the staff was friendly but fast forward to today and unfortunately I can not say the same thing. I don’t know what happened to the place but the staff is very rude. I use to live 10 minutes away from Tails when I first adopted my dog but now I live an hour and a half away but because I had such a great experience the first time I decided it was worth the drive. I came in 3 weeks ago to see a dog and it was very busy. While I was waiting for someone on their staff to be free I decided to look at some puppies. I saw multiple people in front of me picking up the puppies so I reached for a puppy but then I had a staff member yell at me to put the puppy down that they were just spayed and neutered the previous day. I had my young child with me so of course I could not say what I wanted to say to the person but I wondered why was nothing said to the people before me that picked up the puppies and why were the puppies even out there if they were just spayed and neutered knowing people would try to pick them up and could risk injury to their incision, also 8 weeks is on the early side for spayed and neutering. I ended up leaving without seeing the dog I came there to see. I decided to go up there today after I noticed on their website the dog i was interested in was still available. Again it was busy so I looked around while I waited for a staff member to be free. My child wanted to look at the cats so we went into one of the cat rooms, soon after we had a staff member walk in to tell us that there was a ring worm exposure in that room and that we would have to leave the premises once we exited the room. There was a sign on the door but while watching my child I didn’t read it, who would to think you would have to read every sign in case of a ring worm exposure, why was that room even open to the public in the first place. So even though I was really looking forward to adopting a dog and so was my child, unfortunately I will not be returning here. After being yelled at and having myself and my child exposed to ring worm and being told to leave, I mean It’s hard to explain to a young child when they ask why can’t we see the dog and why were those people mean to us. Not that this place cares they’re making their money no matter what but hopefully this helps someone before they decide to adopt from this place. Also the pens were not that clean, I saw the puppies pens full of dog poop, one had dog poop on her back another one was even eating the dog poop. I saw a dog there in the corner of it’s pen just shaking, it’s really sad for the animals and the people that adopt from this place on how bad this place has gotten

Ashlyn Smith

I’ve gotten two of my cats from here and each time I’ve came the workers are always so nice it’s always so easy to look around every animal has their own paper explaining their age and breed as well as how long they been there. they make finding the right one easy.
they also have very cool things like dogs day out showing they rlly care about the animals i love it here and if i ever want another animal i want to come to tails!! ❤️❤️

Diana Graham

We adopted a 6 month old kitten after our 15 year old cat died. The staff was Wonderful.
Her Former Name was Gila Monster. She's Anything but a Monster. She is our Therapy cat.
Her New Name is Tilly Mae, we made her Southern 🙂

Kristen Fanella

Just got my 70 pound male Goldendoodle neutered there a few weeks ago! I was hesitant because my mom got his sister (littermate) spayed at the vet for triple the price and she had a tough recovery. She came home unable to walk and still heavily sedated. Taking him to a low-cost clinic for 1/3 the price made me think he would get less of the “bells and whistles”, but that couldn’t have been farther from the truth! Everything from the drop-off, pickup, and aftercare explanation was seamless and the employees/volunteers were SO nice! He finished up earlier than expected and he came out walking, tail wagging, and in the surgical suit I asked them to put on him. It took about 5 days for him to recover but he was ready to start running after a day ? I would absolutely go back to get another dog fixed in the future!