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I have already written before to have my listing removed from t his horrible site. No response from you. The data is wrong, you are showing my home address to dangerous stalkers when that is not even the org address, and you have created a haven for libelous comments of the worst kind. By permitting these comments, all lies, you are complicit. As I told you before, we will not hesitate to file a lawsuit. And after years of diligent hard work you through devious means are # 2 on google search of our name? How dare you. This is trickery. Further, asking for donations without the express written authorization of an org is a felony...unauthorized 3rd party fundrraising. You are guilty! I will turn you into every atty general in every state. Get my org's listing off your phony site or we will sue for the maximum..no telling how many pets lives you are costing. We fund veterinary care for families that can't afford it and you pull this crap? Despicable.
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This organization is fake and horrible. There are 13 other complaints about For the Love of Alex, myself being one of them.
I wrote to this organization when my cat needed emergency surgery and after putting almost $3000 of our own money into her care, we could not afford her surgery. She had a kidney stone fully blocking her ureter and she needed surgery ASAP, because her kidneys started showing disease and one was swollen. She is 3 years old and this whole situation broke our hearts, I cried for a week straight.
After multiple back and forth messages with For The Love of Alex, it became clear very quickly that she had no intent of sending us an application for financial assistance. She told us to change our cats diet for 6 weeks and her stones would magically disappear. I have been working with animals for 20 years, so I knew right away that her information was false and could have killed my cat. I told her that she is not a vet and should not be giving out advice as she had to us, because she would kill someones animal. At that point, she called us "mean" and blocked me from messaging her.
During my cats first surgery, they found a major infection and that her kidneys were damaged. After they placed the sub system in (to reroute her a new ureter to her bladder from the kidney), she did not improve and they found that her kidney was leaking and needed to be removed because it was beyond repair. It was filled with puss and leaking fluid into her body. At this point, her care cost us $6500, which yet we still couldn't afford. We planned on getting married in August, so during all this we cancelled anything we could, because our cat meant so much to us. During this ordeal, we started a GoFundMe page, to help us with her medical expenses.
About a day or two after her second surgery to remove the leaking kidney, I had posted an update to her donors and our friends discussing what had happened with our cats surgery, etc. For the Love of Alex proceeded to message me on FB bashing us for feeding our cat dry food, yet again. She also bashed our doctors and mentioned that our "ego" was getting in the way of our cats care. She did not offer us ANY help, just hurtful words and wasted time. I am so angry, because this woman should not be a 501c3 and I plan to take action against her. If you are reading this, I beg you to do the same. I have never in my life met anyone as cruel as her.
The best part of all of this- she went directly to our GoFundMe, took our cats picture directly from the post and used everything in that post against us, telling us that we are killing our cat.
Here is a few snaps of her last message to me. I have the entire convo on my phone as well as the reviews and other complaints from heartbroken animal parents who had the unfortunate circumstance of dealing with this organization. Please leave all complaints and negative reviews online, it is evidence.
For the love of Alex is 100% correct! Dry food causes blockage and kidney damage! Even specialized dry cat food isn’t as good as giving them wet food. You think you’d want to expand your knowledge and not be so stubborn. The proof is in the pudding, and your kitty is proof! Not sure what more evidence your need?
Also, I find it interesting " I will turn you into every atty general in every state. Get my org's listing off your phony site or we will sue for the maximum..no telling how many pets lives you are costing. We fund veterinary care for families that can't afford it and you pull this crap? ", considering this organization never once offered us an application when our cat was dying, only harassed us about how we fed our cat beforehand. Where is there money going? Is it ACTUALLY going where they say it is? I don't think so... 13 bad reviews within 13 months sounds like the Attorney General should be looking at this organization and getting to the bottom of this...
This company is committing fraud. They take people's money, and don't give a crap about helping families that need it. When I reached out to them for help to save my baby's life, they didn't just ignore my plea, they blocked me from any more communication with them.
Because they were my last resort for either financial help, or pointed in the direction of help, I had no choice but to say goodbye to me baby. I couldn't let her suffer longer if I wasn't able to help her. I keep thinking how I wish that doctor could have ended my pain too.
I get they can't always help everyone, but what they did was just out right the most cruel thing anyone could have done. A simple response telling me they were not able to help, and direct me to resources that may help. Even vets that may have taken payments. Anything would have been better than the cruel and heartless thing they did.
By the sound of your annoying persistence to attempt to destroy this woman and this organization, I can see why she didn’t take you in. It’s only too bad your poor kitty had to endure the consequences of your actions. Do you really think that post that you copied and pasted Sounds like someone who does not love animals? Get real.. you sound like a very cruel individual who’s trying to get back at someone who didn’t have time for your stormy attitude.
For The Love of Alex — Unethical behavior and false info about funding sick animals
here is my formal complaint
You have balls to sit there and threaten someone that you will sue them for writing a review about you. Your nonprofit is a fraud. You take donations to help families save their pets from life threatening illnesses. Yet when someone pleas for help from you, you not only ignore their plea you BLOCK THEM from any communication to your organization. You are the most cruel and heartless piece of crap. I WILL be contacting an attorney, and also filing a formal complaint about you. I had to put my dog to sleep, because you were my last resort. You didn't even have the decency to respond and tell me you organization was not able to help, or offer me resources. Sad part is, you KNEW I was at the vet making that tough decision, but didn't care.
A very similar situation has happened with me with these same people, for the love of alex. They refused to give my kitten the help that he needed which was a pu surgery because he was unable to urinate on his own. Three different surgeon suggested that he get the Pu surgery but for the love of Alex refused saying it was inhumane and calling me all types of names. They pulled their funding but continued to mislead people on there Facebook page for the love of Alex. They continue to post pictures of my kitten that are old and outdated making it seem like he is still under their care and they continue to collect money from these people that are donating but are not funding him. I don't know what is going on with the money but I assume it's going in someone's Pockets because it is not being used for my kitten surgery. I am paying for my kitten surgery through funds being raised through my GoFundMe account. For the love of Alex went to my GoFundMe page and try to report me saying I was scamming people and they are the ones that are stealing pictures of my cat and posting them making people believe they are donating money to help this kitten get his surgery.
When my friends and my own Veterinary go to her Facebook group to post a comment stating that they are not funding my cat and that they need to stop misleading people and stealing their money, for the love of Alex will block and delete them. They will also remove any comments that were left on their page speaking against them.
When in contact with them they refused to give me their name when they were collecting my information. I was told that that it was not important to know the name of the person I was speaking with. I had asked the person to please call me so I could stop messaging on Facebook but they would not call and speak to me on the phone either. Something needs to be done. They cannot continue to steal people's money like they have been. There are so many other complaints online about the same organization. They need to be reported to the Better Business Bureau as well as the IRS and the police need to be notified
How do we go about getting these thieves shut down?
I've donated hundreds of dollars to For the Love of Alex to help certain animals get the care they need, and I don't believe a word of it. I don't want my money back, I want them shut down and gone. They aren't helping animals, they're pocketing the cash, using half of it for Facebook ads to expand their scam and he other have for their lifestyle.
I too at one point needed a very expensive surgery to save my dogs eye, or have t removed, and they ignored me as well. I sent pictures and detail etc.
this place is run by some real crazy people.
I filed a complaint months ago with the state of PA General Attorneys office and never heard back. I gave them as much info as I could about my situation (first posting). I don't think anyone is taking this seriously and FTLOA keeps taking money. It's disgusting
For the Love of animals sends receipts to everyone so your claim that they’re pocketing the cash outrageously false! Business owner you are not; especially NON-PROFIT or you’d know how record keeping works!
I don't know what happens now but I can tell you that without this organization I would have had 3-1/2 less years with my cat, Bo. He was diabetic and his vet at the time had him on insulin and so-called prescription DRY cat food. He almost died. FTLOA answered my pleas for help. I had to use their vet but he turned out to be an expert in feline diabetes. They changed Bo's insulin and got him on wet food and saved his life. That was back in 2014.
I will admit though, when he developed glaucoma 2 years later I reached out for help and got no response. A couple months later he got hyperthyroidism and again my request for help was ignored. I don't know what happened but they used to be a life saving organization.
What happened is that the founder got cancer and died. She kept her condition secret and so her board knew nothing about it. She also had no family, except her cats, I'm sure she was making poor choices and comments during treatment and in her final days. She suffered from 2015, until her death, February 2018.
The foundation she created had the best intentions and helped alot of people. A new CEO has been found to continue the mission. Shifting through years of unattended requests and issues has been daunting, but the new CEO is reliable and honest. I hope you all will give her a chance and your support. I work for another Rescue in PA and had never met Elizabeth, but have met the new CEO and believe she can restart For the Love of Alex, and begin once again helping families with their pets.