BLACK LAB PUPPIES FREE TO A GOOD HOME

If you are interested please call (Moderator note: This has been proven to be a long-outdated plea that has been circulating around the 'net for years now, so I've removed the phone number. See below for details.)

Rescued 6 black lab (mix) puppies out of the middle of the road on Saturday. PLEASE help find them homes - otherwise, it's Animal Control - which means they only have 5 days. We've bathed them, sprayed them for fleas and wormed them....but we can't keep them. They are currently in a kennel in my basement since I don't have a fence. I've lost count of the number of rescue groups that I've contacted, only to be turned down due to no room. Please check with every dog person you know to see if they need a puppy.

These puppies are in Connecticut, but I imagine since they want to place them that they will help you get the puppy to your house.

I read on the Park Slope Parents list that as of yesterday morning (Wednesday) all puppies had already been "spoken for," and were able to find good homes in no time flat.

Good to hear.

Ya'know, that picture looks familliar.

Would these be the same labs?

Subject: It's fake.

Yeah, sorry people. I'm a rube.

For what it's worth, I feel really, really stupid about falling for this.

Eh, I wouldn't feel bad.

That one only *just* started in the last few weeks (September 2007 as per the aforementioned snopes link), hardly an established noob detector.

In the first wave of any new hoax, how does anyone know until they get a second (and subsequent nth) version?

This happens to be a current version of a "please adopt a pup" - a highly plausible thing to fall for if ever there was one. It's not like you fell for phishing. I only noticed the similarity between the photos, not the text itself.[/b]

why would someone start this? what's the point? just to see how far it goes?

snazzybangs wrote: why would someone start this? what's the point? just to see how far it goes?

It probably was a real group of puppies needing a home at the outset. The Snopes.com article makes it clear that the problem is that there's no date and it has continued to get forwarded around by well-meaning people long after the pups were adopted out.

Kinda like Craig Shergold and his get-well cards:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/errata/a/craig_shergold.htm

wow, that's a crazy story. i never thought of that... thanks for clue-ing me in!

Yeah, I first heard about the Craig Shergold thing around 1990 or 1991. My boss got an email about it and made everyone in my office send in cards! I think I got my most recent email about it four or five months ago.