Pets vs. Video Games...

[Kabob]

Just saw this in my local Craigslist:
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I have an AKC Yorkie will trade for Ps3 or Xbox360 and games,acc. - $550 (Walker County/Jefferson)

Hi,
I have a VERY sweet loving AKC Yorkie that is pad trained,very good bloodlines. He is 10 months old and has not been neutered. He is VERY small . ONly about 4 pounds. Im willing to trade him for a ps3 and accessories,games,etc. or a ps3 and games accessories.
I have 550.00 in him. He has never been outside, he is an inside only dog. Email if you have anything. I know that times are hard and everyone doesnt have 550.00 to pay for a Yorkie, and I have been looking to buy a game system again so i thought that if someone that had a nice game system and they wanted a very nice,beautiful, housetrained, tiny yorkie that it may work out. if interested just email me pics and let me know what you have to trade. Thanks

Anyone else find that funny/sad?

 

[dpodblood]

Kinda sad. I don't understand why people who don't develop an attachment to their pets bother getting them in the 1st place. I can't imaging trading a pet for an object.

 

[BoberFett]

That is really odd. Sure, monetarily my dog might only be worth about $400 but I wouldn't trade him for anything. I suppose not everyone gets attached to animals like I do. *shrug*

 

[RavenSEAL]

Damn, i would do it. You train that baby right and you can win 50k in a national competition!

 

[JoPh]

ehh. i was expecting something much worse.

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

I wonder if the Craigslist poster would accept a trade for Nintendo DSi with Nintendogs.

 

[Tristicus]

Ex-gf/wife dog, just doesn't work out, having a kid, etc....not really funny or sad, but unusual yes.

 

[pmark]

His logic is kind of off. If someone doesn't have the money to adopt or get a pet, how would they be able to afford the upkeep of a pet? That person is going to have to pay be food, vet visits, etc. Also since this is an inside-only dog (WTF?) I bet those pee pads aren't cheap either...

 

[xCxStylex]

It's pathetically funny, but really sad. It shows how people don't value animal life. People purchase pets as whims and then get rid of them after discovering "they're not what they wanted," especially people who buy rabbits for their dumb kids around easter.

I mean, people were up in arms about the girl throwing the puppies into the river, but if I were god, I would take all the Michael Vicks and ghetto ass latinos that participate in dog and cock/rooster fighting and then make them fight each other to painful deaths everyday before reincarnating them.

 

[artemicion]

It's pathetically funny, but really sad. It shows how people don't value animal life. People purchase pets as whims and then get rid of them after discovering "they're not what they wanted," especially people who buy rabbits for their dumb kids around easter.

I mean, people were up in arms about the girl throwing the puppies into the river, but if I were god, I would take all the Michael Vicks and ghetto ass latinos that participate in dog and cock/rooster fighting and then make them fight each other to painful deaths everyday before reincarnating them.

You're only going to punish Michael Vick and the latinos that participate in dog/cock fighting? Sounds like you'd be a rather racist God . . .

 

[Dekasa]

Meh, animals don't matter; if someone else put a high enough value to give me something I wanted or was going to buy I'd trade it. And before someone says I should be more humane to dogs, animals aren't human, that's why they're animals.