DO NOT POST FREE PETS ON CRAIGSLIST.......here's why:

from Facebook today 1/17/13 at 4:12PM. This is specifically about bait animals and I have seen the affects on 3 bait puppies. This must be stopped. Here's the quote from Facebook Maybe someone needs to send this to all Craigslist posts. Subject: ALERT: PEOPLE FEEDING KITTENS/PUPS ETC TO REPTILES, ADOPTION FEES DON'T STOP THEM, SOUND THE ALARM: PEOPLE GETTING KITTENS PUPPIES RABBITS ETC AS FOOD FOR PYTHONS AND LARGE PET MONITOR LIZARDS--EVEN ADOPTION FEES OF 15-20 DOLLARS NOT ENOUGH TO STOP THIS (because they are willing to pay that for rabbits in pet stores.). Obviously Craigslist animals and "free to good home" animals are highly vulnerable. FROM Tracy ____________ This is a shared post from XXXXXXXX Cafe, please read.... Please Be Aware! I work at the local pet store and last week I spoke with a guy who came in to buy a rat. He has a 4-foot ball python, which he pays $10 per live rat to feed his snake every few weeks. He asked me (dead serious) if we'd give him a price break on kittens, or call if we got too many (presumably because kittens are a bit bigger than a rat and more readily available). Of course I told him absolutely not. Then he went on to tell me all about how he'd been cruising Craigslist ads for free to good home kittens, but (by sheer chance alone) the people either never got back to him or no longer had any available. He continues to look for free kittens. There's another customer who has a monitor (large meat eating lizard) that boasts regularly to other customers and employees that their lizard prefers pets over feeders, and laughs, telling people they get free to good home and cheap rehoming fee pets all the time (hamsters, birds, kittens, etc) off of craigslist, out of the paper, and from ads they find on post-boards in grocery stores and what-not. They pose as nice people but your pet becomes food. Adoption fees of $15 do not deter them! Remember, they're paying $10 for a rat, so $15 for something bigger (bunnies, kittens, etc) is nothing to them. And for the monitor family, they get a kick out of it - so they are happy to pay more just to watch their lizard kill your pet. Please be careful when re-homing your pets... that old "they become snake food" saying is true! Picture from blog DOG BEING EATEN BY A SNAKE