Originally Posted by cheryl000

Today when I was preparing dinner my husband handed me the phone and told me that it was a teletype email service for the deaf. I am currently trying to find a home for Brandy and so I figured that it was someone deaf, which made me feel sorry for the person and think this might have been a good home for her. I know that yorkies can be therapeutic dogs.
Basically teletype is a free service provided by our tax dollars so that the deaf can use email to make phone calls. Basically they type it, then the teletyper calls me. Scammers are now using this service to make free international calls! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/ID/4781806/
Anyways, there was some confusion at first because I asked if he has any questions about Brandy. Then he asked me if I had any questions. I asked him where he is from. He said Michigan and that he had a FREE yorkie and he saw my ad! Obviously he had translated my ad wrong!
I told the typer that I KNOW that scam and I know that he will want me to western union the money and I will never see a yorkie or my money again. Then I said that I know he's probably located in Nigeria. Then the teletyper told me that he disconnected. I tried to talk to the teletyper about it, but he kept saying that he's not allowed to get involved in our conversations and he's just the go-between! Then he hung up on me. My tax dollars are funding this!
Anyways, if I wasn't getting ready to move tomorrow and working on dinner I would have messed with the guy longer. PLEASE be careful about this! I have NEVER heard of them calling people like this. I am APPAULED that they are allowed to use this wonderful service on something so horrible. It is so immoral. Maybe the government needs to have legally deaf people register before using this service to get the scammers off of it. It's a wonderful service that shouldn't be abused. I am AMAZED that right now my tax dollars are funding these scammers!

Originally Posted by cheryl000

I want to find her a home where she can be someone's baby and get more attention. I have recently been diagnosed with some medical issues and we are moving in a couple of weeks across the country back in with family... my husband has yet to find a job still. With a baby coming it's even more scarey. Everything is "Up in the air" and I'm not sure how long it will be before things settle down or even where we will end up living as we are probably going to move a couple more times. It's not fair to Brandy, I want her to get the care, attention, and time she deserves.
I am sad about it, but I realize it's the best choice for her. I know she loves me, today when I took a nap she cuddled with me the whole time after the movers left. She deserves to be in a household with a mommy who can be with her as much as she wants. She is a very needy girl and is a baby in every sense of the word in that being on the floor isn't good enough for her... she has to be in your arms.
Her ideal home would have at least two people to give her attention and another dog would be good too. I have already posted a thread about her. A lady and her daughter stopped by yesterday to see her. Even though I took the adoption fee way down for her she didn't call me back last night. I would have liked to see her go with them, but then again I could tell that she didn't know much about yorkies. We will see, I know a better home is out there for her.