Just launched
Animal Traders is open. Be one of the first to list.
The marketplace just opened, and the first listings are going up now. Early listings get seen first, buyers can browse free without an account, and every sale builds a reputation that follows you to the next one.
List your first animal
A better way to connect with animal buyers and sellers
For owners, farms, breeders, and rescues selling their own animals. Not an auction house, and not a transport or shipping service.
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Browse
Explore listings without creating an account.
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Connect
Message sellers privately without immediately sharing your phone number or email address.
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Complete the transaction
Pay by card through the platform or arrange cash at pickup.
For buyers
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Browse verified listings
Filter by category, breed, distance and price. Every listing shows the seller’s trust status and rating.
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Message safely in-app
Ask questions, request photos or vet records — without sharing your phone number or email.
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Meet or arrange transport
Agree on terms with a seller whose reputation is on the line. Rate the experience when it’s done.
For sellers
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Verify once, list anywhere
Confirm your email and phone to unlock your seller profile and the verified badge buyers look for.
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Create better listings
Structured details, health records, photos and video — templates built for animals, not furniture, so your listing looks professional without extra work.
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Manage inventory & reputation
Track listings, renew or mark sold in one tap, and build a rating that brings buyers back.
Built for more than posting listings
Manage animals, inventory, records, and documents in one place. When an animal is ready to sell, turn its existing information into a marketplace listing without starting over—no retyping the same details for every listing.
Manage animals and inventory
Store records and documents
Track listing availability
Create marketplace listings when ready
No repetitive listing creation—reuse inventory details
Support individual sellers and organizations
Let organization staff help manage inventory and sales
Selling on your own? Create an individual seller profile.
Operating a farm, rescue, shelter, or breeding program? Create an organization and invite your team.
Our story
Built because animal transactions should feel safer
I'm Joe Klingaman, and I started Animal Traders after my own family ran into the uncertainty of buying and selling animals through general classified sites. Limited seller information, public contact details, and meeting strangers with no way to check who they were added risk to every sale. I built Animal Traders to give buyers and sellers a more transparent and accountable way to connect.
Why I built this
Every sale should start with knowing who you're dealing with. On Animal Traders both sides confirm a phone number and email, talk privately before anything changes hands, and earn reviews only from transactions that actually happened. That's the marketplace I wanted for my own family, and it's the one I run today from Arkansas.
Joe Klingaman
Founder, The Animal Traders · KTeck LLC, Arkansas
Trust & Safety
More confidence on both sides of every transaction
Confirmed contact methods, two-way reputation, private messaging, and reporting tools help buyers and sellers make more informed decisions.
No account needed to browse
Phone and email confirmed for every member
Card payments run through Stripe
Cash sales confirmed with a code
Reviews only after a confirmed transaction
Every photo screened before it goes live
Confirmed contact methods
Members confirm an email address and phone number during signup. This confirms their contact methods—not their legal identity.
Report suspicious activity
Report a suspicious listing, account, or message directly in the app. Reporting a user immediately prevents them from contacting you while our team reviews the concern.
Trust works both ways
Buyers and sellers build reputations through confirmed transactions. Sellers see a buyer's trust status and transaction-backed rating when a conversation begins, with full reputation details only a tap away.
How trust badges work →
Talk before you transact
Every transaction begins with a private conversation. Review each other's trust history, ask questions, and arrange pickup and payment without publishing your phone number or email address. Block unwanted contact or report suspicious activity directly from the chat.
Moderation & Family Safety
Screening, community reporting, and real enforcement
The Animal Traders is designed to be a marketplace families can comfortably browse. Every uploaded image is automatically screened for harmful content, and members can report suspicious listings, accounts, and messages for review.
Every image is screened
Every image uploaded to Animal Traders is automatically checked for harmful or inappropriate content before it can appear publicly.
Community reporting
Members can report deceptive listings, suspected scams, harassment, animal-welfare concerns, inappropriate content, and suspicious accounts directly from the app.
Human review and enforcement
Our team reviews flagged activity and takes action based on its severity. We may block or remove content, place listings on hold, require changes, restrict features, or suspend accounts.
Read our moderation standards →
Automated image screening and community reporting help reduce harmful content, but no system catches everything. Members can contact support to report additional concerns or request a review of a moderation decision.
Trust that grows with you
The reputation you earn on Animal Traders is meant to become more valuable over time. As the marketplace grows, we will continue strengthening account protection, suspicious-activity detection, payment safeguards, and enforcement tools to help protect the history buyers and sellers build here.
See how trust works →
Simple, pay-per-listing pricing
No subscription. Pay once to publish a listing, then sell by cash or card.
Choose a listing period
Less than the cost of one Facebook ad. No subscription, no commitment—pay only when you have animals to sell.
🐾 Free for verified shelters and rescues.
What every listing includes
Published for your selected duration
Prominent placement in marketplace search and browse
Visibility on relevant pages throughout The Animal Traders
Your primary photo displayed wherever your listing appears
Designed to help buyers find your listing through online search
Secure, private buyer messaging
Accept payment by cash or credit card
Optional add-ons
Browse Spotlight
Add-on
Coming soon
Feature your listing in the spotlight section of the browse page for more views.
Social Media Promotion
Add-on
Coming soon
Get your listing promoted across our social channels with weekly ad slots.
Pricing coming soon
Escrow Buyer Protection
Add-on
Coming soon
Give buyers greater confidence with a secure escrow payment. The buyer's funds are held safely while the transaction is completed, then released to the seller once the agreed conditions have been met. This helps protect buyers from paying before the animal is transferred as agreed—and gives sellers confidence that the buyer's payment has been secured.
Pricing coming soon
Create a listing
New sellers and referrals earn listing-fee credits.
How pay-per-listing works
Farm-management apps charge a yearly subscription whether or not you sell anything. On Animal Traders a single 30-day listing is $9, and you pay nothing in the months you have nothing to sell.
Your money goes directly to you.
Card payments settle into your own connected Stripe account. The Animal Traders never holds or controls your funds.
Learn how payouts work →
💵 Cash — no fees
Meet locally and settle in cash. The Animal Traders never takes a cut of cash sales.
💳 Card — buyer covers the fee
Prefer the security of paying by card? Card sales include a small processing fee. Sellers can set a separate card price so the buyer covers the convenience fee — you still take home your full cash price.
Why Animal Traders?
Built for animal transactions—not Craigslist or Facebook Groups
Compare the trust, safety, and marketplace tools available to animal buyers and sellers on Animal Traders, Craigslist, and Facebook Groups.
Feature
Animal Traders
Craigslist
Facebook Groups
Animal-focused marketplace
Purpose-built
No
Animal sales prohibited
Structured animal and inventory details
Structured
No
Generic sale posts
Email and phone confirmation
Both confirmed
Posting checks only
Email or phone
Buyer and seller trust ratings
Two-sided ratings
No
Marketplace ratings
Transaction-linked reviews
Transaction-backed
No
Interaction-based
Trust visible in private chat
Visible in chat
No trust history
Profile-based
In-app block and report controls
Block + report
Email flagging only
Block + report
Animal-listing image screening
Every image screened
Community flagging
General moderation
Reported-listing review holds
Held for review
Removed after flags
Admin review tools
Controlled records sharing
Controlled access
No
No
Card checkout and confirmed cash
Cash or card
Off-platform
Not for animals
Dedicated nonprofit listing program
Free listings
No dedicated program
No dedicated program
Facebook's commerce policies prohibit animal-sale listings. Sellers in groups resort to vague wording, coded prices, or private messages to communicate sale details, making listings harder for buyers to evaluate.
Animal Traders is built for clear, structured animal listings from the start.
Why pay when Facebook Groups are free?
A free post reaches whoever happens to scroll past it, and the platform can take it down because animal sales are against its rules. A $9 listing on Animal Traders stays up for 30 days, is built for animal details and records, reaches buyers who came here looking for animals, and keeps your phone number private until you choose to share it. Reviews from confirmed sales follow you to your next listing—something a group post never gives you.
Side-by-side comparisons
Comparison reflects standard platform capabilities. Individual services and features may change.
Free listings for qualifying nonprofits
Shelters, rescues, sanctuaries, and other qualifying nonprofit organizations can list animals for adoption without paying listing fees.
Free adoption listings
Organization profiles
Staff access
Private messaging
Animal records and documents
Frequently asked questions
Ready to find what your farm needs—or your next buyer?
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