Humboldt Paws Cause is a beloved local institution that Lost Coast Communications is proud to have shepherded these many years. When a person posts a lost or found pet on the Paws Cause, or on the Paws Cause Facebook page, local volunteers and our staff leap into action. The word spreads out online and on our four radio stations. We generate a flyer that people may post around the neighborhood.

We have helped reunite thousands of lost pets with their owners, and, with the help of our wonderful sponsors, we do it for free. Because it’s a nice thing we can do for our neighbors.

Check out this beautiful and wholesome song Caveman Dave wrote about the whole thing!

So of course, as with all good things, some scumbag is gonna come along and try to fuck it all up.

Here is the real Humboldt Paws Cause Facebook page, which is the most active interface the Paws Cause has with people who have losts pets, or found them. People chat us with our findings here, and we try to get back to them as quickly as we can. The URL is facebook.com/humboldtpawscause, as you’d expect it to be, and it has some 21,000 followers as of this writing.

It never, ever asks you for money.

The problem we address today is the fake Humboldt Paws Cause Facebook page that some lowlife put together to scam desperate people. I won’t bother to link it here, but it looks like the real Humboldt Paws Cause Facebook page in almost every respect — except that it only has 454 followers, it lists some weird Washington-area phone number, and its URL is not facebook.com/humboldtpawscause.

This site, should you or a loved one be unlucky enough to stumble upon it, absolutely will ask you for money. Demand it, even.

Here is the kind of shit it pulls:

Like I said: Total scumbag.

We’ve reported this fake page to Facebook a billion times; Facebook does not care.

All we have left is to try to raise a little awareness. Please let your friends and family and pet lovers all over Humboldt know that there exists a scam page, and the sign of that scam page is that it has basically no followers and it will ask you for money. The real Paws Cause has tens of thousands of followers and will never ask you for money.

Thank you!