TWIN CITIES PIONEER PRESS — Jan 2 — Wendy Peikes was tired of dating guys who'd vanish when they'd met her housemates — three hairy, energetic dogs. So she took to her computer keyboard and joined DateMyPet where pet aversion is not tolerated. "There are 40 million single pet owners," said Dan Cohen, CEO of animalattraction.com. "This is a big business." Yahoo personals surveyed 5,000 users and found that 91% of them would use a pet as a conversation starter. More than three-quarters said a person's pet gives greater insight into the owner's personality.
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Mark Brooks: Maraud your ever so cute puppy outside a Starbucks and see how many singles you meet in the time it takes to drink your venti latte! DateMyPet and AnimalAttraction are onto a good thing.
Pet people beware. This can happen on any on-line dating site but this one happened to me on datemypet.com. A man contacted me via through the site. He goes by xto400 and has a stallion posted for his pet. We communicated via e-mail, chat, and then by cell phone. I got suspicious of some of the things he said he was doing, such as international horse buying and training in Egypt, then on to Nigeria. He said he was a member of the Christian Aid Organization and asked me to help him with receiving donations for him while he was out of country. I did not accept to help. Instead, I paid and had a full international background check done on this guy and turns out he is a professional criminal and scammer. He claimed he lived in Washington, yet there were no personal records or postal records for him. He claimed he got a degree from Bristol University and they had no record of him ever attending there. I contacted the Christian Aid Organization and they had no such membership of him and advised me to contact the authorities for they felt this was a case of fraud and scam. His e-mail address and chat address was on the blacklist for prior scam operations out of Nigeria. I paid a company to do this full background check, mind you. So on-line dating people, beware. This man is preying on women who have the love for pets for his own financial gain. I was smart and fortunate but not everyone goes to the extent that I did to make sure he was legitimate.