"He stopped for a second and then ran towards me and jumped up on me," she said. She and her father met with the seller and knew quickly that the dog was Raiden.Īfter Arroyo walked past the front door, it didn't take long for the usually jumpy Raiden to recognize her. "They know someone loves him."Īfter she saw the online ad, she reached out to the woman selling the year-old dog last week and posed as an interested buyer. "I couldn't imagine trying to sell a dog when people are out there looking for him," she said.
She had already been alerted that her dog might have been for sale before getting confirmation through the Craigslist post. The local pet community was crucial to finding information about Raiden after Arroyo posted about her lost dog through Beck's website. "Most of the owners are pet people and are starting to know what to look for." "We're bringing more awareness to it," she said. Raiden's case was one of three she dealt with in one week.Īlthough Beck isn't certain the flippings are becoming more frequent, she thinks independently started websites and pages such as hers that highlight lost-and-found animals are starting to alert people to more cases. "In both cases, the person, the criminal, is trying to resell the animal or trying to extort the owners," said Dan Shackle, the chief administrator at Indianapolis Animal Care and Control.Īwareness of pet flippings is increasing in the Indianapolis area, said Danielle Beck, operator of website Indy Pet Lost. "But I knew we were going to get him back."Īrroyo's story is one of several local cases widely considered pet flipping, a situation in which a dog or cat is either stolen or found and then put up for sale online by someone else. "I was initially furious," she said as the white wolf/malamute mix with yellow eyes jumped onto the couch beside her. Elizabeth Arroyo never thought she would see her dog again after he ran away from her Greenwood, Ind., home late one June night.So the 22-year-old was shocked when she was forwarded a Craigslist ad days later saying her dog Raiden was not only found - but for sale.
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