Pet Travel Expert

Every day PetRelocation.com gets phone calls from people around the world wanting to know how much it costs to ship a puppy.  Our first question is always "Do you know the person you're buying the puppy from?"  Nine times out of ten, people are being scammed by individuals pretending to have some sort of adorable fuzzball that they "just want to give to a good home."  Unfortunately these scammers prey on people's emotions to talk them into sending hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars to ship a puppy that sadly doesn't exist.  Once the money is sent, rarely is it retrievable (because most of the money is sent via Western Union).

So we decided to do something about it. Back in July, we posted a blog entry about people getting scammed by "puppy shippers" or sellers.  We encouraged our readers who had received emails from puppy scammers to post their emails in the comments section of our blog, knowing that eventually someone would search for a similar phrase or person's name and find it.  This tactic has proved to be quite a success.  We now receive comments nearly every week from people who were almost scammed.

Here was the most recent comment from one of our visitors:

Like so many others we almost fell for this scam. Thankfully we thought it was a bit too good to be true and before we made any payments we searched the internet and found this page. THANK YOU for doing this!!!!

We aren't only in the business of shipping pets here.  Hopefully this very simple process of "outing" puppy scammers on our website will help others from avoiding scams in the future and will put an end to this unfortunate tactic.