I just got a phone call, at around 1130pm Sunday night.
Backstory~ my cat Baby got out somehow yesterday morning while hubby and I ran a couple errands. I posted about this in the Cat SOS section so I won't really detail it here.
Since he went missing I have posted fliers around my entire neighborhood, hung a huge poster on my car in my driveway, made posters on stakes to go out on the roadway, canvassed the neighborhood talking to neighbors etc. I also posted on petfbi, petfinder and craigslist all in the classifieds about pets or lost animals, with a picture of my cat.
I put my phone number on the craigslist ad. I shouldn't have but I thought that if someone saw him and went on craigslist to look if he was advertised as missing they could call me right away vs emailing.
Well tonight at 1130 I get a phone call. Here is how it went.
Them: Hi I saw your ad for a missing cat on craigslist and I think I found your cat.
Me (getting so excited) : Really? Where did you find him? Is he there now?
Them: Well I think it's him. Does he have a collar because I am not sure this one did.
Me: No he didn't have a collar
Them: Okay I wasn't sure if it fell off or something. The cat I saw looked like the picture on your ad.
Me: Oh so is he not there now?? Is it tail long white and fluffy?
Them: I am not sure, I can't tell.
Me: Oh, if he is there can you look and tell me?
Them: Well here is the thing, the cat was digging through my neighbors trash and my neighbor hit it with a shovel and the cat is meowing and crying and I can't tell how bad it is hurt and I don't want to look at it but I think it was your cat.
Me: Is this supposed to be some kind of sick joke? You cannot be seriously telling me this.
Them: Why would I call you and joke about something like that? But anyway, your ad mentioned a reward so I wanted to get that reward. Hello? I want to collect the reward since I found the cat.
At that point I was bawling and hung up on them. I am still shaking and it's been 30 minutes since the call. I got up and shut my curtains and turned my alarm on because it creeped me out so bad. I got on Craigslist and someone else had posted to not answer calls from that number because they are calling saying that they killed peoples pets. I can't believe people like this exist in the world. I can't stop shaking and crying. I just can't believe that someone would call random poeple and do this. It makes me so sick to my stomach.
Apparently this person used Google Voice, which is a service you can sign up for to use a supposedly non traceable number to call. I can't even call the number back so I can't find out who did it. My husband got online and send a complaint to google voice with the date/time/nature of the call telling them that it is ridiculous that their service allows people to do things like this. I don't know if the complaint will go anywhere, but at least we made one.
Basically, if you get a call from this number 760-705-8888, it is a google voice call. And if you have any lost pet ads, you might just have someone trying to wreck your emotions. Sorry for the long post, I just wanted to warn others so they don't have to go through this as well.
Backstory~ my cat Baby got out somehow yesterday morning while hubby and I ran a couple errands. I posted about this in the Cat SOS section so I won't really detail it here.
Since he went missing I have posted fliers around my entire neighborhood, hung a huge poster on my car in my driveway, made posters on stakes to go out on the roadway, canvassed the neighborhood talking to neighbors etc. I also posted on petfbi, petfinder and craigslist all in the classifieds about pets or lost animals, with a picture of my cat.
I put my phone number on the craigslist ad. I shouldn't have but I thought that if someone saw him and went on craigslist to look if he was advertised as missing they could call me right away vs emailing.
Well tonight at 1130 I get a phone call. Here is how it went.
Them: Hi I saw your ad for a missing cat on craigslist and I think I found your cat.
Me (getting so excited) : Really? Where did you find him? Is he there now?
Them: Well I think it's him. Does he have a collar because I am not sure this one did.
Me: No he didn't have a collar
Them: Okay I wasn't sure if it fell off or something. The cat I saw looked like the picture on your ad.
Me: Oh so is he not there now?? Is it tail long white and fluffy?
Them: I am not sure, I can't tell.
Me: Oh, if he is there can you look and tell me?
Them: Well here is the thing, the cat was digging through my neighbors trash and my neighbor hit it with a shovel and the cat is meowing and crying and I can't tell how bad it is hurt and I don't want to look at it but I think it was your cat.
Me: Is this supposed to be some kind of sick joke? You cannot be seriously telling me this.
Them: Why would I call you and joke about something like that? But anyway, your ad mentioned a reward so I wanted to get that reward. Hello? I want to collect the reward since I found the cat.
At that point I was bawling and hung up on them. I am still shaking and it's been 30 minutes since the call. I got up and shut my curtains and turned my alarm on because it creeped me out so bad. I got on Craigslist and someone else had posted to not answer calls from that number because they are calling saying that they killed peoples pets. I can't believe people like this exist in the world. I can't stop shaking and crying. I just can't believe that someone would call random poeple and do this. It makes me so sick to my stomach.
Apparently this person used Google Voice, which is a service you can sign up for to use a supposedly non traceable number to call. I can't even call the number back so I can't find out who did it. My husband got online and send a complaint to google voice with the date/time/nature of the call telling them that it is ridiculous that their service allows people to do things like this. I don't know if the complaint will go anywhere, but at least we made one.
Basically, if you get a call from this number 760-705-8888, it is a google voice call. And if you have any lost pet ads, you might just have someone trying to wreck your emotions. Sorry for the long post, I just wanted to warn others so they don't have to go through this as well.
People are sick.
Some people are just seriously sick with too much time on their hands.
It's no wonder I prefer my cats to most people now-a-days. 
, that is very cruel and I am sorry you had to deal with this on top of the worries about Baby. I don't get people, just heartless. 
Hang in there, we are all pulling for you and praying for Baby to be found . 
What goes around come around! 
There are some seriously sick people in this world.
