For The Love Of Dogs: The Scam Shelters Abusing Animals For Clicks
Chameleon
Audiochuck | Campside Media
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🗓️ 9 July 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Camp site media. |
| 0:05.3 | Hello? |
| 0:06.2 | What is the, what do you want me to say? |
| 0:08.6 | Oh, it's just a commillion. |
| 0:10.9 | Camillion weekly. |
| 0:12.8 | Oh. |
| 0:15.0 | I have a fluffy cat named muffins, and one day I was just bored, and I had pipe cleaners, |
| 0:20.3 | and I'm like, I'm going to make a |
| 0:21.6 | little pipe cleaner cat that looks like her. I'm listening to this group on Facebook called, |
| 0:26.1 | oh, shoot, I think it was just called like, I love black cats or something like that. |
| 0:32.9 | This is Sarah Herbert. She's a chameleon listener who recently called us with a tip, which is a thing we |
| 0:39.4 | love, by the way, so please keep doing that. I posted a picture of muffins and the pipe cleaner cat, |
| 0:46.4 | but I posted like separate photos. And all these people are like, oh my gosh, the poor cat. They |
| 0:52.2 | thought it was a before and after photo. |
| 0:55.2 | And they felt really bad because the first image of the pipe cleaner cat, I'm like, no, it's just a pipe cleaner. |
| 1:02.6 | So then all of a sudden, all these people wanted to buy them. And that's how I started making them. |
| 1:07.9 | Don't worry, this isn't today's scam. |
| 1:13.2 | Sarah wasn't calling to inform on herself. |
| 1:17.3 | But it does bear some similarity to this week's story, |
| 1:21.7 | in the sense that you probably should question everything you see online. |
| 1:27.7 | Soon, Sarah's homespun pipe cleaner kitties were doing a roaring trade on Etsy. |
| 1:32.2 | They now supplement her other art and day job working for a pharmacy. |
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