Key takeaways
- A standard advert on Pets Connected is free to create.
- Most adverts that go unanswered are missing photos, a price, or a location — not luck.
- Screening enquiries properly costs you a day and saves you a bad home.
- Rules on age, licensing and microchipping vary by country. Check yours before you advertise.
Step 1
Screening buyers and enquiries
Be wary of anyone who will not talk on the phone, wants to pay more than you asked, or needs to collect immediately. Those three patterns account for most bad outcomes.
Step 2
Welfare checks before you advertise
Minimum age rules, licensing requirements and microchipping duties differ by country and often by region. Check the rules that apply where you live before advertising — they are your responsibility, not the buyer's.
Step 3
Rehoming fees and free-to-good-home adverts
A modest rehoming fee does two useful things: it filters out impulse enquiries, and it gives you a legitimate reason to have a proper conversation before handing an animal over. Set it low enough that it is clearly not profit and high enough that it means something.
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Step 4
Where to advertise pets
Pets Connected is a dedicated pet marketplace. Adverts are organised by species and category, so someone searching for what you have will find it, and every advert passes automated content and image checks before it goes live.
Step 5
What it costs to list pets
There are optional paid upgrades — a Booster moves your advert back to the top of its category, and a Featured slot highlights it — but they are genuinely optional. A well-photographed advert with a clear price and an accurate location performs better than a poorly written one that has been paid to sit at the top, so get the free version right before you consider spending anything.
Step 6
Listing a pet step by step
Adverts that stall are almost always missing one of those steps rather than doing all of them badly.
Step 7
Avoiding time-wasters and scams
Take payment in a way you can verify, in person where possible, and never release an animal on the promise of money arriving later.
Step 8
Writing the description
The most useful thing you can include is a genuine drawback. An advert that says an animal is nervous around small children, or needs an experienced owner, filters out the wrong homes before they contact you and makes everything else you have written more believable.
Step 9
Setting a fair price
If you are rehoming rather than selling, a modest rehoming fee is normal and is not the same as selling for profit. It discourages the kind of enquiry that treats a free animal as disposable.
Step 10
Photos that get replies
Avoid heavy filters. Buyers are trying to assess condition, and an over-edited photo reads as something being hidden. If there is a scar, a marking or a difference between siblings, photograph it rather than avoiding it.
Useful Marketplace Next Steps
Common questions
Where to sell pets?
Advertise on a site whose audience came looking for an animal. General classifieds put your pet beside furniture and phones, so you get volume rather than quality; a pet marketplace puts it in front of people already searching. Listing on Pets Connected is free, and adverts are sorted by species, category and area so the right people find yours. Pick the guide for your animal below — the practical steps differ more than you would expect between a litter of puppies and a settled adult cat.
Where can I sell animals online?
Post in the category that genuinely matches the animal rather than the busiest one. A reptile listed under 'pets' reaches people scrolling past dogs; listed under reptiles it reaches keepers who know what they are looking at and ask better questions. Correct categorisation is the single easiest thing most sellers get wrong, and it costs nothing to fix.
Where to sell animals?
It depends what you are rehoming. Dogs, cats, rabbits and small pets are straightforward to advertise on a general pet marketplace. Livestock, horses and some exotics have their own buyers, their own paperwork and in several countries their own movement or licensing rules, so check what applies where you live before advertising. Pets Connected has categories across species — start from the guide that matches your animal.
Where to sell pets online?
Choose on two things: who sees the advert, and what the site does about safety. Beyond audience, look for identity checks on members, moderation of adverts before they appear, and a way to message without handing over your phone number. Pets Connected runs automated content and image checks on every advert before it goes live, and keeps enquiries in-platform so you can screen someone before sharing contact details.
Where to sell pets online for free?
A standard advert on Pets Connected costs nothing to create and there is no commission when your pet finds a home. Be careful comparing that against sites advertising 'free' listings — some are free to post but charge to reply to enquiries, or push a paid upgrade before the advert becomes visible. Optional Boosters and Featured slots exist here, but an advert works perfectly well without them.
Where can I sell my pet?
For a single animal, the advert matters more than the platform. One pet competing against litters needs a clear head-and-shoulders photo, an honest description of temperament and routine, and a realistic price or rehoming fee. Publish free on Pets Connected, add your general location so nearby buyers find it, and expect a smaller number of more serious enquiries than a litter would attract.
Ready to write your advert?
Creating a standard advert is free, and there is no commission when your pet finds a home.
You will need a free account to publish an advert. Sign in if you already have one.
