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Woman buys ‘dream’ kitten online, but gets dead rural cat in the mail
     2015-December-22  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    A WOMAN, who had longed to own an American Short-hair cat, bought a kitten for 5,500 yuan (US$852) from an online vendor, but was shocked when a dead Chinese rural cat was delivered to her home, Chinese-language media reports.

    The woman, identified only by her surname Wang, discovered she was only one of more than 20 people who had been tricked into buying expensive breeds of cats by a Shanghai-based vendor, only to be sent dead or diseased kittens, the Shanghai Morning Post reported.

    Wang, from the city of Huaian, Jiangsu Province, spotted a cute white American Short-hair cat on the online shopping website 58.com last month and added the seller to her WeChat account.

    The vendor, using the name, “Love life, love pets,” claimed to be from Shanghai and sent Wang photographs and a video of the kitten.

    Wang then paid 5,500 yuan for the cat, plus a further 530 yuan to cover medical checkup fees, via WeChat, the report said.

    However, the cat sent to her over a two-day period without food and water was a recently weaned Chinese rural kitten, and it was dead by the time it arrived at Wang’s home.

    Wang contacted the vendor on WeChat, who claimed it was simply an error by the delivery company and promised to arrange a refund.

    However, after waiting for the money for 10 days, Wang then found that she had been blocked by the vendor’s WeChat account, and was no longer able to contact the vendor, the report said.

    After carrying out some research on the Internet, Wang found she was not the only victim. More than 20 other people had also received dead or sick kittens from the Shanghai-based vendor after paying for expensive breeds online, the Post reported.

    Although Wang and the other victims reported their cases to the police, the authorities said they could do little about it.

    (SD-Agencies)

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