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Glaskowsky wonders about a bizarre website that claims to offer pet dogs for rent.
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http://petsitusa.com/blog/?p=1307
I saw some other articles yesterday implying the company had shut down, but there were also some articles implying that wasn't necessarily the case, so I went ahead with this post.
A comment to the PetsitUSA post you linked, apparently from FLEXPETZ itself, says the company isn't shutting down after all. It appears to be repositioning itself as a sort of "try before you buy" pet adoption agency-- still a very expensive one, though. Whether that's enough of a change to address all the potential concerns one might have about this kind of business, we'll have to wait and see.
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- by MaynardClark October 1, 2008 2:41 PM PDT
- How truly cruel to the 'rented' nonhuman person.
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