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    Brightside Animal Center

    4.2 (14 reviews)
    Open 10:00 am - 5:30 pm

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    adoption day!
    Andie O.

    Years and years ago now, I adopted two rats (Jasmine & Roary) from Bright Side Animal Center. My experience with them was good then, and the two rats lived out the rest of their lives happily with me :) More recently, I adopted a cat ("Gray Skies" but we've recently changed her name to "Storm/Stormy") and I couldn't be happier with her and the whole experience! We came in the first time just to meet some cats, see if we found any that we thought would be a good fit, and to think the decision over for a few days. I first met Gray Skies in one of the open rooms. I was sitting on the floor and it only took a couple minutes before she was crawling all over me and cuddling and purring in my lap. We still wanted time to think it over, but it didn't take me long at all to know we had to go back and get her. It was super busy when we came back in but the adoption process still didn't take too long. Fill out the forms, show them your ID, wait for everything to be processed and then she was taken in for her rabies shot. She was understandably nervous, but they let me take one of the blankets she was using and I think that was comforting for her. It was after I had filled out some forms that somebody let me know she has some minor medical/dental issues but that was just an honest mistake on their part because again, super busy with adoptions that day (which is good!) but just letting people know if they're looking to adopt, it doesn't hurt to ask & double check. We already have sick pets and were making comments about it'll be nice to have a not-sick pet lol but it didn't really change anything for me, I can afford it and I was already too in love with her at this point to change my mind! I've only had Stormy for about a month now but it feels like it has been so much longer. She really warmed up to me and her new place quickly. She is 11 years old and had a family/home and for whatever reason was brought here, so I am sure that's all she was wanting again and she got it. She's really doing great and I am so thankful for Bright Side and what they do. I wouldn't have found my new best friend without them :')

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    The staff is wonderful and the animals are very well taken care of. No kill animal shelter as well which is amazing - thank you!

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    I worked at Countryside for a while, and I also had a friend who worked at Thelma's Place. We both…read moreended up quitting for many reasons. One of my biggest concerns was how situations with residents were handled. I had an experience with a resident and when I went to my manager about it, I was told it was my fault. I thought that was very unprofessional--especially since if I had actually done something wrong, I would've been written up or gotten in trouble. Another major issue was the cleanliness upstairs where Thelma's Place is. Me and a coworker discovered how unsanitary it was. We even found mold growing inside the kids' water bottles, which the kids were actively drinking from. When I asked my coworker if we should say something, she told me she already had--and that management didn't care. To make things worse, I was told one of the manager's daughters is the boss of Thelma's Place, so nothing gets addressed. I had multiple pictures of the mold in those cups. Please, please, PLEASE check your children's water bottles and belongings if they go here. Staff was only scheduled to clean upstairs once a week, meaning water sat in the cups for days at a time. Parents deserve to know what's really going on. They treated their staff terribly too, they had fired a kid and went around telling everyone he was "worthless"..

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    Brightside Animal Center - petadoption - Updated August 2026

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