I took an old, busted-down golden retriever off of someone's hands recently. After only a little work, I made back double my money. Turns out all it needed was a new roof.

stpauler: Mims said she believes she is a victim. She immediately called the new owner to ask to get Munchie back, but couldn't reach her.

Sadly, Mims said she would have to figure out how to tell her 8-year-old daughter about her precious puppy.

"I don't have the heart or courage to tell her about her dog," Mims said.

Oh, you mean you don't have the heart to tell her about the dog you gave away to a stranger? A dog's a commitment and you just gave yours away. fark you Mims.

Yeah, this whole article made me sad as hell. Poor Munchie.

Not quite as bad as cat juggling.

Cagey B: I took an old, busted-down golden retriever off of someone's hands recently. After only a little work, I made back double my money. Turns out all it needed was a new roof.

after reading that I had to paws and laugh

I_Am_Weasel: Give the dog away, daughter will be "Oh, OK mom, that's fine"

Give the dog away, which is then sold, daughter will say "OH MOM, HOW COULD YOU! WE LOVED HIM"

The very fact she's considering telling her daughter says that she's a worthless coont. Sorry Mom, but there's absolutely no reason to tell your daughter except in an attempt to try to offload your own guilt. You're a shiatty pet owner, and a shiatty parent for even considering telling an eight year old that you didn't use your brain before giving her pet away.

I_Am_Weasel: Sadly, giving your pet away and then having it re-sold is nothing new. I don't know a lot of about it, but I understand that flipping birds is done quite often.

Oh, well played.

/sees what you did there

That's why you ask for a "rehoming" fee.

Took in a starving pup that was rescued from a tweaker by a neighbor's teenaged daughter.

Never again. It was very hard to give that dog up to it's new owner. No I didn't ask for a rehoming fee, I just wanted to find it a home.

She was a cutie though.

A fiend living in San Francisco had roommates who fostered pit bulls. Think you hate the idea now, just wait until you see how this ends! At any given time, they'd have up to five pit bulls of various backgrounds and dispositions. They'd get into fights and have to be kept apart, etc. Sounds like a lot of work for no return. But wait, it gets worse!

They got this one pit bull from a shelter. The dog was going to be destroyed because the owner had gone to jail and abandoned it in his house. Eventually, they placed the dog in a home. Well, dude gets out of jail, finds out about his dog, and goes to the shelter demanding to know where they'd sent it. The assholes at the shelter end up telling him, probably out of fear for their lives.

Dude shows up at their apartment and wants his dog. Too bad, it's been adopted out. Well, guy goes nuts and threatens them -- there all womyn living here, by the way. He leaves, but all of a sudden their cars are getting vandalized, their house is getting egged, mail is getting stolen, etc. They call the cops, but of course there's no proof.

Because of the violence, they start locking their apartment door, something they'd never done. Well, one of the roommates gets locked out and ends up trying to scale the wall to the second story balcony. Nearly all the way up, she loses her grip and cracks her skull on the concrete below. She lays there for hours, barely conscious, until one of the other roommates finally comes home. She's got brain damage for life and now talks with a stutter.

If there's any discernible moral from this heap upon heap of shiat story: people are nuts when it comes to their pets.

gweilo8888: I_Am_Weasel: Give the dog away, daughter will be "Oh, OK mom, that's fine"

Give the dog away, which is then sold, daughter will say "OH MOM, HOW COULD YOU! WE LOVED HIM"

The very fact she's considering telling her daughter says that she's a worthless coont. Sorry Mom, but there's absolutely no reason to tell your daughter except in an attempt to try to offload your own guilt. You're a shiatty pet owner, and a shiatty parent for even considering telling an eight year old that you didn't use your brain before giving her pet away.

I_Am_Weasel: Sadly, giving your pet away and then having it re-sold is nothing new. I don't know a lot of about it, but I understand that flipping birds is done quite often.

Oh, well played.

/sees what you did there

Yeah, when I was twelve my gerbil had babies and I got attached to one in particular. But my parents made me give the babies away. I gave my favorite to one of my teachers. About three days later she told me the baby had gotten out of her cage and her son had stepped on her. I cried for farking ever. Why would you tell me that?

stpauler: Mims said she believes she is a victim. She immediately called the new owner to ask to get Munchie back, but couldn't reach her.

Sadly, Mims said she would have to figure out how to tell her 8-year-old daughter about her precious puppy.

"I don't have the heart or courage to tell her about her dog," Mims said.

Oh, you mean you don't have the heart to tell her about the dog you gave away to a stranger? A dog's a commitment and you just gave yours away. fark you Mims.

The part of the story I don't like is that the Mims gave up looking for Munchie after an hour. She didn't put posters up or anything, she just sat on the porch like a moran and waited. That little biatch's gotta think 'You got a pet. You got a responsibility.' If you give your dog to someone that turns out to be a scumbag, don't look for an hour then call it quits. You get your ass out there and you find that farking dog.

I_Am_Weasel: Sadly, giving your pet away and then having it re-sold is nothing new. I don't know a lot of about it, but I understand that flipping birds is done quite often.

Cagey B: I took an old, busted-down golden retriever off of someone's hands recently. After only a little work, I made back double my money. Turns out all it needed was a new roof.

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I regret that I have but one "Funny!" vote to give for each of you.

The moral of the story is; if you are going to give away the family pet make sure you find a nice southeast Asian family willing to take it in. No worry of dog flipping there!

Man I love dogs but Chihuahua... does not equal dog.

Lucky you gave the damn thing away.

Grifter will be luckier to make a buck off the damn thing.

Chihooahooa's are not good eating.

Joke is on the chick trying to sell the chihuahua. I hate those farking dogs.

Why the hell wouldn't you just sell the pup? People value things they have to pay a cost to obtain, not so much when it is free.

//Common sense ain't so common

My folks have a flipped dog. English setter, raised and trained to be a show dog, but the dog was just too damn stupid, so the trainer gave the dog to my folks. Good dog, incredibly sweet, loves small children, INCREDIBLY FARKING STUPID.

Do a barrel roll!

meat0918: That's why you ask for a "rehoming" fee.

In my state, rehomers are just backyard breeders... and pet flippers. There was a big todo on CL last week with some woman giving a sob story about why she needed a free cat; a couple days later, she's flipping four cats for 20 bucks a pop. Rinse and repeat.

They got kids out here stealing pets out of people's yards. People selling pets for more than retail with no vet visits, spaying, check ups, nothing. But mostly, it's backyard breeders and fake 'we found this pet on the street so we're selling him to you for 100 bucks' crap. Oh, and the 'it's registered but we lost the papers/the guy never gave us the papers, we want 800 bucks, purebred' backyard breeders.

Thank you for doing it the right way, and not trying to make a buck off someone.

LincolnLogolas: My folks have a flipped dog. English setter, raised and trained to be a show dog, but the dog was just too damn stupid, so the trainer gave the dog to my folks. Good dog, incredibly sweet, loves small children, INCREDIBLY FARKING STUPID.

that's not a flipped dog. A flipped dog would be if the trainer bought the dog from its owners (or received it for free), and then sold the dog to your parents for more than what the trainer originally paid for.

Be that as it may, I'm glad your parents gave a needy pet a home :) I hope its fixed.

You gave away the family pet? You deserve whatever guilt you have coming to you.

spentmiles: A fiend living in San Francisco had roommates who fostered pit bulls. Think you hate the idea now, just wait until you see how this ends! At any given time, they'd have up to five pit bulls of various backgrounds and dispositions. They'd get into fights and have to be kept apart, etc. Sounds like a lot of work for no return. But wait, it gets worse!

They got this one pit bull from a shelter. The dog was going to be destroyed because the owner had gone to jail and abandoned it in his house. Eventually, they placed the dog in a home. Well, dude gets out of jail, finds out about his dog, and goes to the shelter demanding to know where they'd sent it. The assholes at the shelter end up telling him, probably out of fear for their lives.

Dude shows up at their apartment and wants his dog. Too bad, it's been adopted out. Well, guy goes nuts and threatens them -- there all womyn living here, by the way. He leaves, but all of a sudden their cars are getting vandalized, their house is getting egged, mail is getting stolen, etc. They call the cops, but of course there's no proof.

Because of the violence, they start locking their apartment door, something they'd never done. Well, one of the roommates gets locked out and ends up trying to scale the wall to the second story balcony. Nearly all the way up, she loses her grip and cracks her skull on the concrete below. She lays there for hours, barely conscious, until one of the other roommates finally comes home. She's got brain damage for life and now talks with a stutter.

If there's any discernible moral from this heap upon heap of shiat story: people are nuts when it comes to their pets.

The disturbing thing is I can really see your story happening.

/ good one though.

ExperianScaresCthulhu: LincolnLogolas: My folks have a flipped dog. English setter, raised and trained to be a show dog, but the dog was just too damn stupid, so the trainer gave the dog to my folks. Good dog, incredibly sweet, loves small children, INCREDIBLY FARKING STUPID.

that's not a flipped dog. A flipped dog would be if the trainer bought the dog from its owners (or received it for free), and then sold the dog to your parents for more than what the trainer originally paid for.

Be that as it may, I'm glad your parents gave a needy pet a home :) I hope its fixed.

yeah, we wouldn't want any more of that kind of stupid running around.

The Atlanta Humane Society told CBS Atlanta that it recommends taking a pet to shelter such as theirs over posting an ad because since they don't euthanize animals. The shelter doesn't have space or time limitations and considers owner-surrender animals for adoption.

And, of course, they charge a rehoming fee. Which you can do too, avoiding the whole problem. The shelter doesn't have space or time limitations, unlike the rest of the universe, however.

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lemme guess, you pasted the first one and then found the second and said oh I farking HAVE to put him in their too!

Earpj: meat0918: That's why you ask for a "rehoming" fee.

Took in a starving pup that was rescued from a tweaker by a neighbor's teenaged daughter.

Never again. It was very hard to give that dog up to it's new owner. No I didn't ask for a rehoming fee, I just wanted to find it a home.

I'm a terrible foster home. I tend to keep them. I try. We've found homes for lots. But, some...some just attach themselves to the family so tightly, that a crowbar can't pull them away.

When I was volunteering at the local shelter (sadly I don't have time anymore), we lovingly called them "Foster home failures"

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lemme guess, you pasted the first one and then found the second and said oh I farking HAVE to put him in their too!

Guilty as charged. For some odd reason, the first dog has more votes than the second dog.

I put stuff out on my curb all the time and my less well-to-do neighbors who have the time to put on yard sales are welcome to have it. Only a chump would think that something they gave away for free would be treated like a precious jewel. This includes animals.

Years ago, a cat made herself at home in my kitchen. I asked around to find who her owners were and no one knew. She wound up having kittens (no surprise). I called a slew of animal agencies for help in homing the kittens. One of the shelter operators told me never to give an animal away for free, ever. She said to charge some token fee, and if I felt guilty, to get all of the kittens vaccinations and ask for reimbursement for the vaccination. The reason, she said, was that people need to have a notion that the animal has some monetary value, else they get treated as garbage. I followed her advice and found good homes for all of the kittens. I heard back from everyone later that year, and some even sent photos of the cats in their new homes.

Years later, i wound up working in an animal shelter and I reflect on how that lady really called it the way it was.

The up side to the whole story is that the woman treated the pet like garbage and gave him away, the person she gave the dog to treated the dog like merchandise, but the person who paid money for the dog is probably treating the dog like an object of some value, rather than garbage - which is how the original boo-hoo owner treated the dog.

I'd pay 100 bucks to the shelter, but I'm not paying 100 bucks to re-compensate some moron who bought a dog and now doesn't want it. That goes double if they're the idiot who actually bred the unwanted dog.

hmm ya know FTA -"The dog would be for my daughter. She's turning eight today, It's her birthday" would actually be something of a red flag to NOT give the dog to that family.

Skr: hmm ya know FTA -"The dog would be for my daughter. She's turning eight today, It's her birthday" would actually be something of a red flag to NOT give the dog to that family.

To somebody who had themselves presumably got a dog for their own eight year old, only to dispose of it when they got bored of it?

Yeah, probably not so much.

Contents Under Pressure: I put stuff out on my curb all the time and my less well-to-do neighbors who have the time to put on yard sales are welcome to have it. Only a chump would think that something they gave away for free would be treated like a precious jewel. This includes animals.

Years ago, a cat made herself at home in my kitchen. I asked around to find who her owners were and no one knew. She wound up having kittens (no surprise). I called a slew of animal agencies for help in homing the kittens. One of the shelter operators told me never to give an animal away for free, ever. She said to charge some token fee, and if I felt guilty, to get all of the kittens vaccinations and ask for reimbursement for the vaccination. The reason, she said, was that people need to have a notion that the animal has some monetary value, else they get treated as garbage. I followed her advice and found good homes for all of the kittens. I heard back from everyone later that year, and some even sent photos of the cats in their new homes.

Years later, i wound up working in an animal shelter and I reflect on how that lady really called it the way it was.

The up side to the whole story is that the woman treated the pet like garbage and gave him away, the person she gave the dog to treated the dog like merchandise, but the person who paid money for the dog is probably treating the dog like an object of some value, rather than garbage - which is how the original boo-hoo owner treated the dog.

I disagree with idea of paying a lot for an animal like pure breds. A small fee for previous care is reasonable. However, a person paying for a dog will not treat that animal any different than a free dog. My sil had a couple dogs that she payed for and didn't care if they were fed. She left one dog with me, forcing me to take the animal in. We couldn't care for an animal at the time or we would've kept it. Animal lovers will care for the animal in either case. Someone who buys an animal to have something to show off are just self centered primadonas that should be locked in a cage over the weekend while the dog goes to the beach.

I dunno, maybe don't abandon your goddamn dog.

CrispFlows: spentmiles: A fiend living in San Francisco had roommates who fostered pit bulls...The disturbing thing is I can really see your story happening.

/ good one though.

I don't buy that story (another spentmiles troll original?).
- Pit bulls are great pets but a lot of apartment complexes have them banned
- What apartment complex is going to allow someone to foster DOGS in them, let alone foster a so-called 'bully breed'? Isn't there an insurance issue there?
- What legitimate rescue organization is going to allow some women to foster dogs (some of which are going to have emotional issues, because they're rescues) in an apartment complex?
- If the third chick lived there, she wouldn't need to scale the building to get in, she'd just have to contact maintenance or after hours. Or call her other roommates.

The story is fake, but it doesn't matter.

Well, The Troll Spentmiles caught one (me) through you, dude. Props.

ExperianScaresCthulhu: CrispFlows: spentmiles: A fiend living in San Francisco had roommates who fostered pit bulls...The disturbing thing is I can really see your story happening.

/ good one though.

I don't buy that story (another spentmiles troll original?).
- Pit bulls are great pets but a lot of apartment complexes have them banned
- What apartment complex is going to allow someone to foster DOGS in them, let alone foster a so-called 'bully breed'? Isn't there an insurance issue there?
- What legitimate rescue organization is going to allow some women to foster dogs (some of which are going to have emotional issues, because they're rescues) in an apartment complex?
- If the third chick lived there, she wouldn't need to scale the building to get in, she'd just have to contact maintenance or after hours. Or call her other roommates.

The story is fake, but it doesn't matter.

Well, The Troll Spentmiles caught one (me) through you, dude. Props.

It wasn't an apartment. One of the womyn owned the condo and had roommates living there. This was in San Francisco and by being gay, they write their own rules. Shove that up your ass and smoke it.