Petition: Ask Advertising and Community Sites to Help Stop Dogfighting!

Although dog fighting is illegal in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, there is a lot of organized illegal activity. The dog fighting rings operate and thrive on large part due to community websites, both social media platforms like Facebook and advertising sites like Craigslist in the US and Gumtree in the UK and Australia. Many people give their pets away for free online thinking the pet will go to a good home, or possibly not caring what kind of home the pets end up in, and it becomes easy for abusive people to get free pets this way.

By posting dogs for free online, people are just providing the dogs to illegal rings. There have been cases of people posting their dogs on “free to good home” advertisements and then the dog ending up in terrible situations. A rottweiler/staffy mix was found with facial injuries by a rescue organization who reminded people the dangers of giving your dog away online!

Thankfully, Facebook is trying to make improvements, they’ve banned all animal sales except to re-homing or adoption agencies, or animal shelters. But so many dogs end up in abusive homes or illegal dogfighting rings thanks to other sites.

According to this petition, an investigation uncovered that Gumtree is contributing to the illegal dogfighting rings in Australia but they have yet to take action. Sign this petition asking that they step up and ban posts that can contribute to dogfighting, such as selling dogs or giving them away for free!

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