How can someone do this?

03-02-2005, 02:47 PM

I have seen this a few other places and thought I would post here. www.saveourpets.net is a complete load of garbage! Just look at what they are trying to do to those cute animals. It really makes me angry!

velvetrabbit · 03-02-2005, 02:54 PM

It's a scam, usually. I've seen MULTIPLE renditions of this with rabbits, where the current "owner" threatens to eat the rabbit unless a certain amount of money is received by a certain date. Most of those sites, if you look at the older ones, give no conclusive evidence that the animal was eaten or put to sleep, or what have you. Yet people are still donating money to stop that from happening. If this person doesn't get enough money by the certain date, it is quite probable (given the previous examples of this kind of site) that s/he will not put the animals to sleep in hopes of getting more money.

There's no use reporting this to PayPal, as it has been done numerous times for other sites, to no avail. Just ignore it, really. That's all you can do. You have no way of knowing if those animals are mistreated, so unless you know the people, there isn't anything you can do anyway. It's unfortunate, but these things tend to be simply scams anyway, so in all liklihood, those animals will be fine.

Solarsis · 03-02-2005, 03:38 PM

anyone else notice this "owner" called his ferret a rodent?

This is definitely a scam. The statements on the home page make no sense at all and if this person really hates these two pets I'm sure there is a decent shelter that would be more than happy to take them

veggiegirl · 03-02-2005, 03:46 PM

I agree. Its a really sick scam. I tried to report a rabbit one awhile ago and PayPal wouldn't do anything. They said something about not being able to shut it down because rabbits are considered to be "livestock animals." I wonder what they would say about this site since it features a cat and ferret.

03-02-2005, 03:50 PM

if you ask me those pets look like healthy "loved" and well taken care of besides why would you hold and take a ferret out of its cage if you could care less about it and if you did not like your cat why does the cat look happy and why is it inside instead of outside yup a scam

bunnylady62 · 03-02-2005, 03:51 PM

Some people are disgusting. The animals would be better off without him.

Floydian1 · 03-02-2005, 04:12 PM

This is sick:

www.saveourpets.net

velvetrabbit · 03-02-2005, 04:17 PM

http://www.pets-on-the-net.com/forum...ad.php?t=15114

TaMinKelowna · 03-02-2005, 05:21 PM

what a nut..

najiwench · 03-02-2005, 08:24 PM

hey, just because they think they've found a way to part some fool and their money doesn't mean they don't care for their animals...heck, i could threaten to turn Lucy into doggie steaks all day long, it doesn't mean i'd ever actually do it.

it's a shock method of getting money. the only thing that really bothers me about it is that people are actually dumb enough to give them money.