Dear Kijiji, I read what you said in the Montreal Gazette today. Don’t remind me that you continue to sell animals on your site because if you were to close this category, it would drive traffic to another website that might not care at all. We never asked Kijiji to close its pets category! Kijiji is a great site for our community – I use it to sell my kids’ toys and clothes - but it’s not the place to buy and sell animals. We need Kijiji Canada to help thousands of friendly and healthy pets waiting in shelters and in registered rescue groups across Canada to get adopted through your site. We also need you to help individual families carefully rehome their pets for a small adoption fee to ensure their future well-being. Why close this category when all this traffic could be going your way? Kijiji might throw us a bone here and there by charging $4.99 per dog ad or by removing their “free to a good home” listings. But the fact remains that as long as you know that animals with health problems (perhaps because of the conditions under which they are raised and bred) are being sold on their site, and as long as you know that users are being cheated by unethical animal breeders on their site, Kijiji should not be selling animals. Kijiji should be doing the right thing, regardless of what other websites are doing. As the leader of classifieds sites in Canada, you should set an example and ban pet sales on your website, sending the message that animals should not be sold as just another item via classified ads. You should warn Canadian consumers about the sale of animals on online classifieds sites instead of spending this amount of time and resource to scrutinize ads. You should care about animal welfare and be responsible enough to protect your users. Kijiji condemned prostitution when it prohibited erotic products and escort and sexual services. Can you take a stand to protect animals, too? @BarbaraLapointe