Horrible person of the day award goes to...

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  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    From the way the ad reads, this ferret comes with a posh ferret hotel. People don't spend that kind of money on their pets, and then mistreat them.

    Actually, they often do.

    Honestly, though, I just don't see living creatures as commodities or disposable. This person may not be the worst person in the world, but I don't approve of this at all. And Craig's List is about the worst place to go to find a home for an animal.
  • BAMFMeredith
    BAMFMeredith Posts: 2,810 Member
    If I, for whatever God forsaken reason, owned a ferret, I'd trade it for much, much less than a phone.
  • Jxnsmma
    Jxnsmma Posts: 919 Member
    Hey, the way my cat's been acting lately, I'd be willing to exchange her for some new curtains :-)

    LMAO! THIS!! Pee on MY curtains do ya....
  • tappae
    tappae Posts: 568 Member
    Does anyone want my dog? He has separation anxiety, displaced aggression and a tendency to eat things that might kill him. I don't even need a phone.
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    And Craig's List is about the worst place to go to find a home for an animal.

    I could agree with that.
  • TylerJ76
    TylerJ76 Posts: 4,375 Member
    If people can sell their pets, why can't they trade them? I don't see anything wrong with this.

    This.
  • Jules2Be
    Jules2Be Posts: 2,238 Member
    On another note, why is every British man I know deathly afraid of ferrets biting their, uh, ferret?

    Two reasons, one being that in Europe, ferrets are often bred as hunters and not as the cuddly housepets that we breed them for here in the US. The other being that some really...special... guys in the UK play a game that involves putting one of these bred for hunting ferrets down their pants and seeing who can last the longest without screaming.... This is a real thing. I think it's called ferret legging.

    Ferret legging? i can't even begin to wrap my head around that...why would? just? but? uh...
    I think you broke my brain with that one.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferret_legging

    SHUT. UP.

    Snort!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • dinosnopro
    dinosnopro Posts: 2,177 Member
    http://albany.craigslist.org/mob/3181371586.html

    Seriously, what kind of god awful individual is willing to trade their pet for a phone?? :angry:


    They are i phone 4's
  • amysuespears
    amysuespears Posts: 127
    or the award could go to the POS who left his pit bull on interstate 275 today with only a t-shirt and a bag of food. rescuers from dearborn county (indiana) animal shelter tried to catch and rescue the poor animal, but it was terrified and ran off. they tried to find the poor dog, but they weren't able to. i only hope the owner is punished in a terrible and untimely way.... no one should ever treat an animal like that.
  • TubbsMcGee
    TubbsMcGee Posts: 1,058 Member
    I would like to exchange my father for for a pair of running shoes.
    The shoes sound more supportive.
  • ket_the_jet
    ket_the_jet Posts: 1,257 Member
    I would like to exchange my father for for a pair of running shoes.
    The shoes sound more supportive.
    It would be schadenfreude to laugh about this, but I thought that this was rather clever.
    -wtk
  • bellesouth18
    bellesouth18 Posts: 1,071 Member
    The award should really go to this prick.

    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/08/man-faces-animal-cruelty-charge-after-abandoning-dog-on-colorado-mountain/

    He's a real jerk without any trace of a conscience. I'm glad charges were pressed against him. The judge should order the same punishment for the guy--cut up his feet and hands til they're raw, bang up the rest of him, and leave him for a week on top of that very same mountain with no food, water, or shelter.
  • rlmadrid
    rlmadrid Posts: 694 Member
    I small child, potty trainied.

    In exchange for an LCD Digital TV .

    I shouldn't laugh, but I did.
  • heliumheels
    heliumheels Posts: 241 Member
    I just want to give all these poor animals a good cuddle :frown:
  • LadyIvysMom
    LadyIvysMom Posts: 391 Member
    http://albany.craigslist.org/mob/3181371586.html

    Seriously, what kind of god awful individual is willing to trade their pet for a phone?? :angry:
    people who treat their pets as things. people who don't understand that a living creature is LIVING, and that they have assumed responsibility for it until it dies. Basically, people who don't have much of a conscience.

    Yup. I can't wrap my mind around treating my pet as a "thing". People who do that make me sick to my stomach.
  • LadyIvysMom
    LadyIvysMom Posts: 391 Member
    or the award could go to the POS who left his pit bull on interstate 275 today with only a t-shirt and a bag of food. rescuers from dearborn county (indiana) animal shelter tried to catch and rescue the poor animal, but it was terrified and ran off. they tried to find the poor dog, but they weren't able to. i only hope the owner is punished in a terrible and untimely way.... no one should ever treat an animal like that.

    OMG :(
  • LadyIvysMom
    LadyIvysMom Posts: 391 Member
    From the way the ad reads, this ferret comes with a posh ferret hotel. People don't spend that kind of money on their pets, and then mistreat them.

    Actually, they often do.

    Honestly, though, I just don't see living creatures as commodities or disposable. This person may not be the worst person in the world, but I don't approve of this at all. And Craig's List is about the worst place to go to find a home for an animal.

    This.

    I do foster & rescue and yes, people constantly spend $$$$$$ on animals and then get bored with them and dump them or try to sell them to recoup their costs. I can't even wrap my mind around "trading" a pet for a material object.
  • mcrowe1016
    mcrowe1016 Posts: 647 Member
    It is sad that this seems tame compared to the stories about pit bulls posted on my facebook every day :-(

    How dare people accuse pit bulls of being the mean ones.
  • LadyIvysMom
    LadyIvysMom Posts: 391 Member
    The award should really go to this prick.

    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/08/man-faces-animal-cruelty-charge-after-abandoning-dog-on-colorado-mountain/

    He's a real jerk without any trace of a conscience. I'm glad charges were pressed against him. The judge should order the same punishment for the guy--cut up his feet and hands til they're raw, bang up the rest of him, and leave him for a week on top of that very same mountain with no food, water, or shelter.


    I agree.

    Reminds me of my old neighbors. They used to have a big dog. It was a Mastiff and it was deaf and blind and they used to keep him tied to a chain in the yard all day and night. No shelter from the heat or the cold or rain. A lot of the time I would bring him water because he didn't have any or he had knocked his bowl over. :(
  • Pollywog39
    Pollywog39 Posts: 1,730 Member
    On another note, why is every British man I know deathly afraid of ferrets biting their, uh, ferret?

    Two reasons, one being that in Europe, ferrets are often bred as hunters and not as the cuddly housepets that we breed them for here in the US. The other being that some really...special... guys in the UK play a game that involves putting one of these bred for hunting ferrets down their pants and seeing who can last the longest without screaming.... This is a real thing. I think it's called ferret legging.

    IS THAT A FERRET in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?

    lol...........................
  • Newf77
    Newf77 Posts: 802 Member
    Reminds me of a Shel Silverstein poem;

    One sister for sale!

    One sister for sale!

    One crying and spying young sister for sale!

    I’m really not kidding,

    So who’ll start the bidding?

    Do I hear the dollar?

    A nickel?

    A penny?

    Oh, isn’t there, isn’t there, isn’t there any

    One kid that will buy this old sister for sale,

    This crying and spying young sister for sale?
  • JustJennie1
    JustJennie1 Posts: 3,749 Member
    We obtained our dog because some a-hole decided to drop him off at the end of our road the day before a big snow storm was about to hit back in March. Almost every day my husband and I wonder how someone could do something like that to an animal (or child. Doesn't matter which). He's the most sweetest, spastic, loving dog. He's got so much energy and all he wants is to play, be petted and loved. That's it. I swear the only reason he sleeps at night is because he has to LOL.

    I know I posted that it was probably a joke but with all the jerks out there I'm sure it's not.
  • Squidgeypaws007
    Squidgeypaws007 Posts: 1,012 Member
    Two reasons, one being that in Europe, ferrets are often bred as hunters and not as the cuddly housepets that we breed them for here in the US. The other being that some really...special... guys in the UK play a game that involves putting one of these bred for hunting ferrets down their pants and seeing who can last the longest without screaming.... This is a real thing. I think it's called ferret legging.

    You guys breed ferrets as pets?? What are they like? :D
  • cat3nv
    cat3nv Posts: 389 Member
    http://amarillo.com/news/local-news/2012-08-20/deputies-seize-52-animals-randall-county-property

    This guy!
  • KettleBellHoe
    KettleBellHoe Posts: 161
    i sent her an email :
    You suck as a human being your gonna trade your pets for a phone you are ****in out of your mind. No one is gonna do that offer first of all and second those animals deserve a way better home then someone as dense and ignorant as you. i have 2 ferrets of my own and they are my babies-your despicable.
  • LadyIvysMom
    LadyIvysMom Posts: 391 Member
    We obtained our dog because some a-hole decided to drop him off at the end of our road the day before a big snow storm was about to hit back in March. Almost every day my husband and I wonder how someone could do something like that to an animal (or child. Doesn't matter which). He's the most sweetest, spastic, loving dog. He's got so much energy and all he wants is to play, be petted and loved. That's it. I swear the only reason he sleeps at night is because he has to LOL.

    I know I posted that it was probably a joke but with all the jerks out there I'm sure it's not.

    Someone tied a small dog with a jumprope to my old roommate's front porch during a snowstorm a few years ago. He took him in and found him a permanent home. I used to work in an exotic pet store and I left my car unlocked one night and someone left a full grown iguana in my car with a note saying they couldn't keep him anymore. It was freezing and they are cold blooded animals that require heat. People are idiots.
  • Pollywog39
    Pollywog39 Posts: 1,730 Member
    Reminds me of a Shel Silverstein poem;

    One sister for sale!

    One sister for sale!

    One crying and spying young sister for sale!

    I’m really not kidding,

    So who’ll start the bidding?

    Do I hear the dollar?

    A nickel?

    A penny?

    Oh, isn’t there, isn’t there, isn’t there any

    One kid that will buy this old sister for sale,

    This crying and spying young sister for sale?

    I love me some Shel Silverstein.............................

    And, to comment on the subject......not all of us a 'pet people.' I don't want pets, like them, need them, nor have time for them. However, I don't agree with anyone treating them badly..................that's just wrong.

    And sorry, people who have pets are not PET PARENTS.........gadz, that's just stupid :noway:
  • fbmandy55
    fbmandy55 Posts: 5,263 Member
    I would. I would prefer not to have a pet anyways though, animals gross me out.
  • WifeNMama
    WifeNMama Posts: 2,876 Member
    I don't see why this trade is so bad. If someone has an iPhone and wants a ferret in exchange, win win.

    Now child sex trafficking and pornography, that I get absolutely livid about.
  • sarahharmintx
    sarahharmintx Posts: 868 Member
    Ok. I get facing a left or death situation and having to leave your dog. I would be in tears and hysterical as I walked away. I love my dogs more than most people and probably boardline too much in comparison with my hsuband and daughter. However, there would be nothing on this Earth that could stop me from going back to rescue her/them. It really makes me sick to my stomach just thinking about it now.

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