‘Pay up or I sell dog to meat shop’: man in China adopts woman’s dog then threatens to have it killed unless she gives him RM3,236

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.