New Puppy Scam ... Leasing a dog you though you bought

[kenny]

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I’m Renting a Dog?
by Patrick Clark
March 2, 2017, 9:00 AM PST

After her family’s shiba inu died of cancer, Dawn Sabins decided to surprise her 7-year-old son with a new puppy. In March 2015, she dropped into a San Diego-area pet store looking for an English bulldog. She walked out with a golden retriever.

That wasn’t so strange, even if $2,400 was more than she’d intended to spend. (There’s a reason pet stores put puppies in the window.) The odd part came a few weeks later, when she and her husband were going over their credit reports and saw a $5,800 charge from a company they’d never heard of.

... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-01/i-m-renting-a-dog

 

[MaisOuiMadame]

This is a pretty nasty scam, especially if you imagine real animal lovers who actually care about their pets as victims.

The woman in the article, however made my blood boil from just reading:

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Dawn Sabins soon decided Tucker was too rambunctious for her family’s home. She called the pet store and threatened to leave the pup tied up outside the store, then decided on what she thought a more humane path. She sold the dog to a local trainer for $500,


REALLY??? You (not an 8 year old) go and buy a puppy at a store (as opposed to a shelter or a breeder) on a whim, realise the dog is actually work, want to return it to the store, publicly declare you'll just abandon it (!) and then call yourself *humane* because you rather decide to sell the puppy to someone like a piece of furniture??? And OBVIOUSLY neither the lady NOR the journalist thought there's anything wrong with that, given that she's OK with her full name being cited and the article being solely about the SCAM /trend on leasing stuff...

 

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This is a pretty nasty scam, especially if you imagine real animal lovers who actually care about their pets as victims.

The woman in the article, however made my blood boil from just reading:

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Dawn Sabins soon decided Tucker was too rambunctious for her family’s home. She called the pet store and threatened to leave the pup tied up outside the store, then decided on what she thought a more humane path. She sold the dog to a local trainer for $500,


REALLY??? You (not an 8 year old) go and buy a puppy at a store (as opposed to a shelter or a breeder) on a whim, realise the dog is actually work, want to return it to the store, publicly declare you'll just abandon it (!) and then call yourself *humane* because you rather decide to sell the puppy to someone like a piece of furniture??? And OBVIOUSLY neither the lady NOR the journalist thought there's anything wrong with that, given that she's OK with her full name being cited and the article being solely about the SCAM /trend on leasing stuff...

Whaaaaat?

Between that and the lack of reading comprehension when she initially obtained the dog, I don't think this woman is too bright. You don't have to be a genius to realize puppies are a lot of work. There's a reason I usually adopt adult animals. My brother got a puppy recently and I watched it a few times and that was enough puppy for me for a lifetime. I can handle spending entire days watching human toddlers and making sure they don't get into things but I can't do it with a dog.