Dog abandoned at train station after buyer and seller couldn't agree on sale
Why was a dog left all alone with a suitcase full of his belongings in a Scottish train station a week ago?
One piece of the puzzle is coming together: A woman has come forward to say that she is the one who left Kai and to explain why she did it.
Photo credit: Scottish SCPA
Fin Rayner, 39, told the Scottish Daily Record that she left the dog at the train station after a man selling her the dog misled her.
She said that she brought her 9-year-old daughter to the train station almost 200 miles from their home hoping to purchase a dog after making arrangements online. When they arrived the seller was there with Kai, a male shar-pei crossbreed, whose real name is Pluto, the paper said. The dog was not the same as the one they thought they were buying, Rayner explained.
Rayner said she asked to take Kai on a walk, leaving a deposit with the seller that was a portion of the asking price. When she returned, the seller had left, she said.
After calling the seller and asking him to come back and get the dog, she didn't hear from him again. Needing to take care of her daughter, who has asthma, she decided to alert staff at the train station and leave the dog so she and her daughter could get home, she said.
According to Scotland's Animal Health and Welfare Act of 2006, anyone found guilty of abandoning an animal can expect to be banned from keeping animals for a fixed period or life. Rayner, though, told the paper that she believes she took care of the situation as best she could.
"What about me and my daughter, what we had to go through? I told somebody, I made sure the dog was safe," she said.
Kai became an internet sensation after the SSPCA, who has been taking care of him, posted his story. His fundraising page has raised the equivalent of more than $6,000. The money will go toward an eye operation that Kai needs.
The SSPCA said on Facebook that Kai is "doing well and probably wondering what all the fuss is about," and that offers to adopt him have been flooding in from all over the world.
