Your lost dog might become somebody's cash cow

[The Straight Story]

Elizabeth Arroyo never thought she would see her dog again after he ran away from her Greenwood, Ind., home late one June night.So the 22-year-old was shocked when she was forwarded a Craigslist ad days later saying her dog Raiden was not only found — but for sale.

"I was initially furious," she said as the white wolf/malamute mix with yellow eyes jumped onto the couch beside her. "But I knew we were going to get him back."

Arroyo's story is one of several local cases widely considered pet flipping, a situation in which a dog or cat is either stolen or found and then put up for sale online by someone else.

"In both cases, the person, the criminal, is trying to resell the animal or trying to extort the owners," said Dan Shackle, the chief administrator at Indianapolis Animal Care and Control.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/15/pet-flipping-might-make-lost-pets-become-cash-cow/2517093/

[kalli007]

1. This happens a lot on Craigslist

I see the postings all the time where someone is calling out ads that are doing this. This is why my dogs are never outside when I am not home, I am super paranoid.