Kijiji is a subsidiary of eBay and is a hugely popular free classified ads site in Canada. Like eBay classifieds, Kijiji offers live animals for sale, without safeguards on the conditions of the animals being bred for sale. They try to mediate the danger to these animals and to people by putting in place arbitrary breed-specific restrictions which further complicate the problem, and do nothing to ensure that dogs and cats that are sold are safe from the often cruel and inhumane conditions in which they were bred. They say that they don't support irresponsible breeding, or animal cruelty, but how can that be true if they can't make any guarantees about how these animals were kept, or how they are cared for in their homes?

Selling animals online is a great way for puppy and kitten mills to get their mistreated, poorly bred, puppies and kittens sold.

There is a groundswell of support to ban the sale of animals on eBay classfieds. We need to ensure that Kijiji, a subsidiary of eBay, also stops selling live animals. In 2005, eBay backed off from selling live animals on its site after thousands of people strongly protested the move. Yet Kijiji, founded in the same year, has set up shop differently, continuing to sell pets online. Please sign this petition, and the one to press eBay classifieds to stop selling live animals: http://www.change.org/petitions/ebay-classifieds-stop-selling-live-animals.