WonderBra
Doodledog with regard to the FB posts about dogs with a terrible illness and asking for crowdfunding, I'm on a fb page where there are a couple of people doing that. One sets up several crowd funding pages, linking each one to a different post, and posts on several pages (and covering at least a couple of breeds - that's just from my fairly minor use I've seen). She raised about £20K in that way last year, from the few posts I saw, but when I reported her post, I was the one getting abuse, because that 'poor woman, trying so hard' etc. The condition required about a £5,000 spend (although it's something routinely done for about £800, which is what made me wonder at the start). Recently, it's started up again with another dog - the first one died. Apparently.
Yes, I am extremely cynical too. My daughter is less so (with the innocence of youth ), but even she is getting hardened to it. It's such a captive audience, as everyone in the group is a lover of the breed, and the scammers show cute puppy pictures that go straight to the heart of dog lovers.
It's always Crowdfunding, too, where people can contribute smallish amounts. If they were genuine, why not set up an account with a vet, to prove that the money was going directly to fund the operation?
Also, the dogs are expensive, and notorious for having problems. Why would someone pay a lot of money if they can't afford even basic pet insurance? It doesn't add up, to me.