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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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If for some unfathomable reason I had to get rid of one of the Displaced Dogs, I'd start by asking friends and family, but my last resort would be Puli Rescue, not craigslist.
There's
a cover story on the Houston Press this week about an outfit around here that likes to throw dogs in rings for fights with wild pigs. I've refused to read the story. I don't want to know.
My sister has a Corgi fetish, but she can't really have a dog given her apartment in the Mission and her lifestyle, so she put an ad in the SF craigslist offering free dog walking services to Corgis. About a week later the owners of an 8 week old corgi contacted her, and she now hangs out with Tango about three hours a week.
