Have you heard about the “I Buy Strays” site that advertises for people to sell their dogs to them to be resold to research facilities? Turns out that the site is satire.

I heard from a lot of Dogsters outraged about the site. So I asked Dogster HQ to find out what they could about who registered this site. Our fabulous HQ ran down the registered information. So where and who registered it? It was registered to an agency that acts as the owner of record so there is no real address, phone number and especially name of the real owner.

Fortunately, the well known author Jim Willis had been in contact with the editor of the entry on About.com and was able to set all of our minds at ease with the news that the site is a “satire.”

Here is the beginning of the entry on About.com.

Comments: IBuyStrays.com was online for barely a week when it achieved instant notoriety thanks to anonymous ads posted on Craigslist.com and the word-of-mouth criticism that followed.

People who viewed the site took offense at the apparent callousness of its message, expressing puzzlement, anger, and outrage. From day one, the question uppermost on everyone’s mind has been, is it real? The answer is no.

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