Email to Kijiji

Hello,

I am a dog trainer in the Halifax area. I'm writing to you concerning a disturbing trend I've seen on your site. There are a large number of ads of peopling seeking to breed their dogs. These ads take the form of either female dog owners looking for studs, or stud dogs looking for females.

I know kijiji is taking steps to try to clean up the ads in the pet section - as noted by your recent change displaying that puppies should not be adopted out until I believe 8 weeks.

I'd ask that you consider adding to your policy to make these types of breeding ads a violation of your policy. The last thing the dog community needs is more backyard breeders and pseudo puppy mills - your site makes it easy for unregulated and unlicensed owners to attempt to become breeders.

I'm curious if this has been considered in anyway and if you have made a decision, or if the decision process is ongoing. I'm sure many others feel this same way and I'd be willing to start a petition or campaign, whatever is required to end this practice.

Breed Specific Law in Yarmouth looking less likely

A Public meeting was held last night to discuss how to change the town of Yarmouths Dog Bylaw in light of a recent Pit bull attack in the area. It looks likely that the "BSL" part of the bylaw that would punish dogs based on breed alone will not go through. There seems to be a very strong, united message from people in and outside the town that this isn't a good solution. I also wrote to the mayor and Council as noted in my below post - and happily all this feedback (including my email) were posted on the Town's website for all to see.

The vanguard newspaper in the area published an article and used some of my comments:

http://www.thevanguard.ca/News/2011-05-09/article-2492483/No-breed-specific-legislation,-council-told/1