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Originally posted by Spanky
#4 If in circumstances of last resort you decide to post a listing on craigslist to give your pet away, consider the fact that 70% of those you get responses from will NOT BE with good intentions, even if they sound and look like the nicest and most trustworthy folks on the planet, they are professionals and know what unsuspecting owners want to see. Once they have your pet because you trusted them when they brought "their" 10 year old kid with them, your pet will very likely end up being used as live bait for dog fight training, or sold to labs for scientific experiments, and you will never know, you will just hope for the best and want to believe you did the right thing.
So think very carefully before even deciding to make that listing, you might just decide you should make every attempt possible to keep your pet with you after all even if it does soil that nice new carpet a few times a day, you are better of investing a few bucks and taking your pet to a pet behavior specialist which will almost always solve the problem behavior of your pet.
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Where is this quoted from? I've also heard these rumors about the pets section on Craig's List but how could this 70% statistic be verified? Do you think the dogfight "adopters" participated in a follow-up survey?
I must be part of the 30% because I adopted my cat from Craig's List and he's a spoiled little beast.
In case anyone cares, I didn't buy him a water fountain. He likes to drink from my water glasses and not running water so I don't think a $40 fountain will distract him from doing that.
