“I was duped by a liar with a sob story.” Cat found after missing for 8 months!

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A Reader’s Forum story by cat rescuer Sheri Dickson. Afterword by Elisa. “𝐙𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐑” 𝐇𝐀𝐒 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟖 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 !!!! 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐭—𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭—𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐞. 𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐲 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬: Last August, a Turkish family in Clemson contacted me about rehoming their two cats …

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Ethical Pet Adoption versus Saving a Life

This article asks the question whether it is ethical for a person to adopt a companion animal, who is on death row at a shelter, to then advertise the animal on Craigslist as a freebie, without the shelter being involved.  This happened and it enraged the world of animal advocates. The woman who adopted …

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Craigslist’s policy of a small adoption fee for rehoming cats not good enough

Craigslist allows people to advertise a kitten for adoption provided there is a “small adoption fee“. In order to comply with the policy cat owners demand about $5-50 dollars. Class B dealers in the US are licensed to purchase and sell animals for research. Most deal with other dealers, it seems to me. The …

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