To think this couple are cheeky fuckers?!

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Just that really... the chairman of a well known ad agency - who earns well over £100k (at least) and his wife (who runs her own business) - have got other people to give them money for an op for their dog to have an expensive operation. They raised £5k though a crowd finding scheme because their insurance only covered some of the cost. Cheeky fuckers the pair of them?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/26/saatchi-chairman-and-his-wife-defend-crowdfunding-for-instagram-star-dog?CMP=sharebtnn_link

It is cheeky but I just don’t understand why people donate to this kind of shit.

Wow, just wow!

I know - appalling! I think I read that 200 people donated - maybe they didn't know how well off the family is? Having just paid £4K for our dog's cruciate op I'm wondering if we missed a trick!

Maybe they aren't as well off as you think. Or maybe they are well off because they know how to get others to pay for things for them.

Hoho - I think we can assume the Chairman of Saatchi and Saatchi is well off!! And earns a lot more than £100k!

The dog has been pictured in designer dog clothes and at five star hotels!

Total cheeky fuckers. In some way you’ve got to admire their brass neck. Turns out ‘You don’t ask you don’t get’ really is true.

Is the idiots who offer up money that I feel sorry for. I love my dog, and almost all dogs, but I'm not likely to hand over money to a total stranger.

Apparently the dog has been in pain for at least four months.

Pretty disgusting all round if they've delayed treatment because they're too fucking tight to pay for their own dog.

Cheeky fuckers and stupid people for donating. They should give the equivalent at least to an animal charity to make up for the CF they have demonstrated.

Stupids and their money soon are parted.
Amen.

Nah, you can ask anyone for money for anything. They haven't lied.

Some people are stupid enough to give their money to strangers on the internet. Their own fault.

WHAT?!!!!

I hope they donate the money to an animal welfare charity. They are cheeky, cheeky fuckers!

Unbelievable

I honestly don't see a problem. The dog's Instagram account has 10k+ followers, and they asked if people were interested in chipping in and they were. Why not? Instagram/pet people are a bit mental, and the fox account that I follow has thousands of devoted followers, who would be very happy to donate if the fox needed an operation, so I don't see the problem with these people seeing if they could garner any support when hit with a surprising bill.

Most people would put their dog to sleep if they had to pay a £7.5k excess on their pet insurance.

The money has gone towards making the dog better. The people donating knew this. Money was given freely. I think it’s fine.

Plus it kind of looks like the dog himself was a celebrity(?). The dog has 10000 Instagram followers. Not the humans, the dog.

We are developing a bit of a rich person bashing mentality in the UK. In this case people wanted to pay to make a dog they followed on instagram get better. The press twisted it into a rich bashing article which people are lapping up. Sad really.

One of them is quoted as saying "All I want is for my funny little dog to be able to run around again like the crazy terrier he is and climb mountains in the Lake District and Snowdonia like he used to and enjoy his life to the fullest."

To which the only possible answer is "then why didn't you pay for that to happen yourselves?"

Oh come on. There are loads of older people who are on their own who have dogs, and who really genuinely struggle to pay the vets bill when it comes. THOSE are the people who need this kind of help. Not individuals on six figure salaries with houses worth more than a million. It's utterly shameless that they didn't pay for this themselves and instead asked those less fortunate to fork out.

cheeky buggers,im glad the dog is ok but they should be ashamed but i doubt it

people like this are the one's that get a relative to take their pet to the PDSA so they can get cheap treatment from a charity

It’s a bizarrely worded article. £100k salary? £1m house? Ummm. So, fairly standard for the South East*. Did they just pluck those numbers out of the air? Pretty sure the chairman of S&S is on a fair bit more than £100k...

*I know it’s not ‘standard’ but it’s not rich people money.

To which the only possible answer is "then why didn't you pay for that to happen yourselves?"

Well, I imagine they did. They just demonstrated a bit of brass neck by asking for contributions from the dog's fans.

Actually, the main thing I came away from the story wondering is how he is a chairman at Saatchi and "only" lives in a 1m home (i.e. 2 bedroom flat in a converted house) in Primrose Hill. I'd have thought he'd live somewhere a lot fancier. #missingthepoint

They shouldn't have a dog if they're not prepared to pay for its care.

asked those less fortunate to fork out

The "less fortunate" were in no way obliged to contribute

Yes, the figures don't add up.

The thing that staggers me is that someone who is paid to be an extremely high-ranking executive in one of the world's leading ad agencies could misjudge the way this would play so badly. He can't be very good at his job of being a channeller of the zeitgeist if he didn't understand how controversial this was bound to be. I'd say it's pretty professionally damaging for him.

Meh. If people want to donate, surely that's up to them? Nobody's forcing them.