i see rescues are also now using craigslist as a means of placing animals in homes.There are always tons of animals available on CL - though it's possible your area is having a spike in rehoming or something similar.
The internet is definitely taking over the paper when it comes to get alerts and information out there. It's faster, reaches more people, easier to make listings on, etc.
yea i forgot bout that but some of the excuses you see on there are way out there though. I've seen pups on there because the owner couldnt potty train them.Don't forget, the economy is still bad. The more people who lose their jobs, the more pets there will be losing their homes.
A last ditch effort to make some cash before dumping her, I suppose.There have been a ton of puppies and dogs for sale on my employee bulletin board at work in the past 2 months or so.....one today made me really said.....Min pin puppies for sale....and they were also trying to sell the mom....all with no papers and for 150 each...why breed an animal then try to get rid of it?....wish they would have given her up before breeding her
Or maybe after she got pregnant someone lost their job--or maybe they had expectations from the stud owner that never came to pass--or maybe one of their children got sick--or maybe any number of things that you don't know occurred. There is no point in being judgmental unless you have all of the facts.A last ditch effort to make some cash before dumping her, I suppose.
Not every person who breeds does so irresponsibly. That being said, even before the Internet, the local newspaper was a hotbed of BYBs selling puppies or kittens or bunnies or any other impulse pet. The Internet has changed nothing; rather, it is a tool, like any other, and like any tool it has expanded the "reach" of the people who use it.The internet is just showing what people have been doing for ages - breeding irresponsibly and then they can't get rid of them, or they didn't realize that people who bought them might want to give them back, or getting an impluse puppy and not training it. I think something like CL just shows this more openly since we are all so connected now. People now know they can dump them on the internet (hopefully) - at least it prevents the "burlap sack" solution (I cannot even fathom how anyone could be so heartless).
