Give out my coupons and receive a FREE DOG!

“you can keep it in a shoe box”. Jesus Christ man. I bet they had a fuck ton of DOA deliveries

The dog in that picture looks like it wants to die.

[Relevant](https://youtu.be/lO6vkT6lDdQ?si=rZSa2T0CpzStG9wk)

They did! There used to be mail order baby monkeys too! If the animal didn’t arrive dead, it would arrive so freaked out and traumatized by the journey through the mail that as soon as little bobby eagerly opened the package it would leap out like a bat outta hell and instantly attack little Bobby’s face. These mail order schemes didn’t last too long fortunately. Fun fact; Reverend Jim Jones used to sell mail order monkeys door to door before he went on to form his cult and kill everyone with poison Flavoraid

Another fun fact is that people used to send their babies through the mail, it soon got banned lol

The “Good Olde Days”

Ngl, if I were a kid back then, I’d have somehow found a way to save the $18 for the monkey…

Dude. That was a LOT of empty pop bottles back then

The most humane thing is that this is a scam and you get mailed a dog figurine.

Definitely a scam. This ad specifically says “LIVE”, but that’s not how the dog was when it showed up at my doorstep in a shoebox.

I remember seeing ads in old comics where you could buy a monkey. They allowed some crazy stuff back in the day.

Bad news, it’s not free, if you read the fine print it says, at almost no cost.

Yes 19¢ + postage.

19 cents might be like a months rent or something back in the days of no cost miniature dogs.

Iowa hasn’t changed much. Still little to no legal protections for animals. That’s why we have so many puppy mills 😢

Reminds me of the old story of tourists in Mexico buying miniature chihuahua puppies only to find out later they were baby rats!

I wonder if that story is meant to illustrate how unscrupulous Mexican vendors were or how dumb tourists were. I feel like even small children would be able to distinguish baby rats from baby dogs.

My parents used to breed corgis on the family farm when I was a kid, to be honest with you for a few weeks after birth they just looked like tiny nondescript mammal. Also having seen a fair amount of baby mice and rats around the farm over the years, I can picture a Chihuahua puppy being hard to tell from a baby mouse with no context like parents around. You also shouldn’t separate a puppy and mom before 8 weeks but I’d imagine street dog vendors to not be particularly scrupulous and could be selling nondescript mammal blobs of various animals out of a box

That was also in Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark.

Man, I would hope it was “live”.

Fishing for credentials? Getting a picture, hair colour, eye colour and address might be enough to fake ID’s round that timeframe.

I imagine most of the people taking this ad up would be little kids, so not sure how in-demand having a fake ID that says you’re 8 years old would have been.

Ah so just the home address, headshots and identifying features of 8 year olds.

Does anybody know what it means to “simply hand out 20 get acquainted coupons”? I’m trying to figure out what the modern equivalent to this seemingly scammy tactic is but I’m drawing a blank.

Like Temu’s free gifts if you harass everyone you know to download their app and order stuff

I’ve read the entire Ad and don’t understand a thing.

Trying to be vintage, but looks like it was made last night.

I thought it was fake too, but no, the ad is found in “Southern Planter” volume 10, published on October 1, 1955.

I was reading an ad very similar to this in a 1955 comic book just a couple of days ago. This was definitely a thing.

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