The owner decided to give up her dog because she couldn’t spend enough time with him and found a man to adopt him on a trading website. After the man took the dog he demanded the former owner pay him US$725 and threatened to sell the dog to meat traders if she did not agree. — SCMP
A Chinese woman was horrified after a man adopted her pet Labrador and then tried to extort 5,000 yuan (RM3,236 or US$725) from her by threatening to have the animal killed for its meat before vanishing with her pet.
The woman, surnamed Chen, from Shenzhen in southern China, gave her two-year-old Labrador Duobao to a man who said he wanted to adopt it as a pet. But two days after collecting the animal, he told her he had sold it to a dog meat shop and threatened to have it killed in a bid to extort money from her, The Paper reported.
