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Dalmatian Rescue Scam

© Cheryl Rhodes

Sarah is her name but she is known to use other phony names. She is a teenage girl who uses her age to gain sympathy for her rescues. She lives in Southern California and fraudulently runs a phony rescue called the “Clyde Foundation” which is not a non-profit legal foundation. To escape detection she uses many different email addys from free server accounts. This girl has spent several years scamming people out of untold amounts of money. Her stories are always urgent, horrible, and heartwrenching. Dogs will die if they are not helped, and money is of utmost importance. It will likely never be known how mucy money she has scammed out of people hiding behind her phony “Clyde Foundation”. She is alleged to have spent the money on things other than the “rescued” animal.

Sarah has included Dalmatians in her rescue scams. In the case of one Dalmatian she requested donations to bail him out of a boarding facility where the tab was over $700. The dog would not be released until the bill was paid. On her web site she listed the dog’s traits, stating he did not show any signs of agression, which was untrue. Sarah scammed a woman into sending money, presumably for vet and boarding costs. Sarah then found a second woman in a different state who wanted to help and the dog was sent there. Unfortunately due to vicious acts of agression, this family had no alternative but to put this Dalmatian to sleep.

It is probable that it was this same Sarah who came in contact with a woman who lost her Dalmatian pup three days before Thanksgiving. The dog owner listed information on her missing puppy on some lost and found web sites. She received a phone call from a teenaged girl in Southern California who claimed to have her pup. The teenage girl wanted gas and travel money to bring the dog home to the owner and also needed $300-$400 sent for an imperative surgery as the Dalmatian had been attacked by another dog. Upon questioning of the dog’s identifying features, the woman determined that the teenage girl did not have her pup. The girl refused to accept that and insisted she had the missing Dalmatian, and constantly badgered the woman, causing her further heartbreak.

Sarah eventually came into contact with Lisa (see my March 2001 article about her missing Dalmatian, Dulcie http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/dalm... ). She insisted she had Dulcie who was part of a group of dogs used for six to nine months in research and were rescued just before they were to be killed. Lisa had a friend check out the Dalmatian that Sarah had “rescued” but it was not Dulcie. Since that time Lisa has been contacted by some of Sarah’s victims and has a website warning people with missing pets or interested in rescuing a dog, not to deal with this girl. See all the shocking stories here: http://www.eburg.com/~dalmatia/duke.html

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