![]() Cruelty for FunĪs much as we don’t want to believe it, there are disturbed people in the world who enjoy hurting helpless animals. Although a hoarder may be caring toward their many animals, hoarding conditions are often unsanitary, dangerous and unhealthy for both people an animals. In an animal hoarding situation, a person has the uncontrollable impulse to need more and more animals - they are like collectors of sorts. They will agree to take your pet for a small fee from you, then give false promises to find loving families through their “animal shelter.” End Up in the Home of a Hoarder Or, a person pretends to be caring and lies about running an animal shelter. In the “free to good home” pet world, a newer trend called pet flipping is when a heartless person takes free pets only to turn around and sell them for a profit to another party. Please click here to learn about the horrors of puppy mills. He or she will then live in deplorable conditions, caged, malnourished, and completely unloved for the rest of their lives. In some instances when a free dog or cat is a purebred and unaltered, they could be forced to breed for a puppy mill breeder. Click here to learn more about dog fighting. Dogs used to fight are neglected, beaten and often starved to make fighting dogs more aggressive, bait dogs weaker and broken. Used as a Bait DogĬold hearted people will skim the Internet looking for free dogs, typically smaller breeds, to use as bait dogs to train their dog fighting dogs, or to train free dogs, like pit bulls, to become fighters. If you have not already, we encourage you to learn about some of the dangers animals could face as a listed “free to good home” pet. This is not to say that every pet given away for free online will end up in one of the following horrifying situations some do find genuinely loving homes! The point is that the majority of people will not stand for the exploitation of animals, which spans all around the animal kingdom, from domestic pets and farm animals to marine animals and wildlife, but a select few sadly subscribe to the belief than animals exist for our use and entertainment. It’s important to note that even pets with low re-homing or adoption fees requests can still be put in danger. Given the anonymity of an online platform, it is difficult to verify if the person who volunteers to take in a “free pet,” is really worthy of animal copanionship.
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