Russian Pensioner to Pay Debts With Dogs

SOURCE: Associated Press

Russian bailiffs have threatened to take three Shar Pei pedigree puppies from a Russian pensioner who has failed to pay her debts.

The pensioner, who bailiffs did not name, owes 350,000 rubles ($11,330) to an individual in her home town in Russia’s volcanic Kamchatka region in the Far East.

“If she does not fulfill her obligations (to pay back the debt) within 10 days, the puppies will be sold by the Federal Agency for State Property Management,” bailiffs said in a statement on their site fssprus.ru.

In Kamchatka, Shar Pei puppies fetch 15,000 rubles ($482.6) each, media reported. But bailiffs said they will try sell them for 5,000 rubles to attract more potential buyers.

They added that the famously wrinkled Shar Pei puppies have been allowed for the time being to remain with the pensioner, who breeds them as her sole source of income as she has no property.

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MY TAKE: If this woman is a pensioner, she’s probably alone and these dogs are all she has. They are her pets, not family protection dogs. They aren’t attack dogs either, so there’s not risk of them hurting anyone. This woman obviously uses the dogs for income, which many would not agree with. But she isn’t rich. She has no Costa del Sol real estate or expensive evening dresses to offer up as collateral.

If she did have a pair of seaside villas in Marbella, or a closet full of expensive Escape dresses, I could see the justification for taking things away from her. But I don’t think taking her dogs is a humane way to collect a debt.

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