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Originally Posted by btytler83  Need advice... I got an email today in response to my craigs list add. Its a woman that asked "Do you stil have yorkie" And that is it no description and no pictures which I had clearly stated in my add I would want in order to find the owner. I had a woman email me a couple weeks ago and the dog she claims to had lost was clearly not the little girl I found. She kept calling and emailing me with excuses on why the pictures would look different then my dog and kept wanting to meet to look at the dog because she would know for sure. I wasn't comfertable with that because I could see her claiming she was hers and it not being. So I eventually told her that I found the owner (a big lie but the dog she says she lost was a completely different color and size so I was confidant that this wasn't her dog and the woman made me very uncomfertable). So now to the point. How do I respond to this woman? What if its that lady again using a different email address or her sister? The reason I am so suspitious of this email is the bluntness of it. Most people that have emailed me have provided pictures and discriptions of there dogs and the emails you can tell from the way they word them they are pleading and hopeful that I have found their dog (I don't know if that makes sense but that is the best way I can discribe it). I also don't want to just blow off this woman if it turns out she is the real owner. Thank you for your advise. |
I'd absolutely NOT trust this person!
If I lost my dog and thought someone had my dog I'd LOVE, RESPECT $ APPRICIATE them ensuring the dog they had WAS MY BABY. If they stopped responding (you) or gave me the run around the police would be at your door to get my dog back.
Period, I'd have pic, (obviously animal control to verify microchip) as well proof by how my dog responded and witnesses, plus my vet has pics in their file of all my dogs-a REAL owner HAS PROOF & wouldn't stop until their baby was home.
Otherwise this lady IMHO is a scammer-they really are out there- or doesn't really care that much to get this dog back.
PLEASE stay, strong, and do everything to protect this baby-
including microchip now and register to yourself immediately!
Can you imagine if you gave the dog to this person and a day later the real owner shows up?
RESPOND by sayingto every email or call you get from now on before you so much as say hello-I need absolute proof this dog is yours to every email you get-say you need microchip information (weather dog is chipped or not), pictures, vet records and you'll be taking the dog to the vet the person uses to have the vet ensure identification-also state you have submitted pictures and identification of this dog to the police department and if someone truly feels this is their dog they need to take their proof to the police department and have the police verify identification-I'd hope that would detour any scammer-if not do all of this. Plus chip the dog not to yourself just incase.