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Quote:We have initiated a preliminary discussion with Betsy Saul, President of Petfinder.com

Aha.  Foreknowledge of eBay's next bonehead acquisition. 

Add eBay's Kijiji  classifieds sites to the list of eBay properties that allows live animal sales:

Canada: http://edmonton.kijiji.ca/f-animals-for-...QCatIdZ114
France: http://paris.kijiji.fr/f-chien--W0QQKeyw...CatIdZQ2d1

Animals are also for sale or auction on several other eBay owned international sites.

eBay Brazil (Mercadolibre Brazil)

Live ostrich listing: http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-3...do-ovo-_JM
Baby Rabbit: http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-3...zy-lop-_JM
Bull: http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-3...ni-boi-_JM

All live animals: http://www.mercadolivre.com.br/org-img/h.../1071.html

Many of the eBay international auction sites (including almost all of its South American Mercadolibre auction sites) and its Kajiji classified sites have live animal listings.

eBay's backing down in the US market does not negate that it has profited for years from the sale of live animals  on many of its sites.  Many of those animals are from puppy mills, many of them are abused like the fighting roosters up for bid in Mexico.

I think part of the problem is that each country has different laws. They either don't have any laws against animal abuse or they simply don't enforce them. 

In Greece there are so many stray cats and dogs.  There are a couple of pet shelters but they get little support from the govt so they can't do much about it.  During the Olympics they were trying to find a temporary shelter for some stray dogs in downtown Athens, they didn't want to scare the visitors away. 

Ostriches huh?  :

In some countries a dog would be a delicatessen!

A seller of puppy mill puppies and live baby mini pigs shows off the goods in the free store eBay gives them.  Plus no  FVF fee if PayPal is used.

http://stores.ebay.com.cn/15640507

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A seller of puppy mill puppies and live baby mini pigs shows off the goods in the free store eBay gives them.  Plus no  FVF fee if PayPal is used.

http://stores.ebay.com.cn/15640507
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Since its Christmas, I'll be nice and I won't call eBay's management a bunch of greedy immoral slimeballs and I won't  comment on the fact that the abandonment rate of adopted "mini-pigs" is even worse than that of cats or dogs because A. many of the pigs that are sold as mini grow up to be not so mini and B. many of the people who adopt them expect them to act like a cat or dog which they don't. 

Update: PETA will demand at eBay's annual meeting that eBay ban all sales of live animals on its sites:

Quote:Las Vegas — A PETA representative will read a statement to shareholders attending eBay’s annual meeting on Tuesday calling on the company to end its involvement in the sale of all live animals and their body parts as well as depictions of animal fighting. PETA—an eBay stockholder—has furnished eBay executives with evidence of how trading in companion animals and the body parts of slaughtered wildlife directly contributes to these animals’ suffering and deaths, but the company has yet to act to stop the practice:

Date: Tuesday, June 13
Time: 8 a.m.
Place: eBay annual meeting, Wynn Resort Las Vegas, Mouton 1 Room, 3131 Las Vegas Blvd.

Recently, cats and dogs have been offered for sale on eBay sites for buyers in China, where these animals are beaten, strangled, or boiled alive for food and fur. Other items up for sale include the remains of various animals, including lynx feet and a raccoon penis; "game eggs," which would likely be used for illegal cockfighting; and a video depicting an illegal dogfight.

"Animals are not trinkets to be sold to the highest bidder; eBay needs to become an industry leader by recognizing that animals deserve to be protected, not treated as mere ‘merchandise,’" says PETA Director Daphna Nachminovitch.

full press release: http://www.peta.org/mc/NewsItem.asp?id=8461

P.S. You can join PETA's activist network here: http://www.peta.org/actioncenter/join.asp

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