A companion animal is, simply put, a pet. We've put together a list of animals that are seen as companion animals and whether or not they can be advertised on DoneDeal.
Companion animals allowed on DoneDeal
Mammals
Donkeys
Alpacas
Rodents including fancy rats, fancy mice, hamsters, guinea pigs
Rabbits
Birds
Domestic canary
Companion parrot – please note advertisers must provide care sheets
Reptiles
Iguanas
Lizards, including bearded dragons, leopard geckos, green anoles, blue tongue skinks, monitor lizards, and green iguanas
Snakes, including corns, kings, milks, and ball pythons
Tortoises
Turtles
Allowed (may require a passport or microchip)
Cats - require passport*
Horses - require microchip to get mandatory passport
Ferrets - require passport*
You need an EU Pet Passport if you’re planning on bringing pets such as dogs, cats and ferrets across EU borders - even between Ireland, Northern Ireland and the UK.
Allowed once advertised under Livestock or Poultry
Sheep
Goats
Pigs
Chickens
Domestic turkeys
Domestic ducks and geese
Peafowl
The following animals cannot be advertised on DoneDeal
Mammals
Dogs
African pygmy hedgehog
African pygmy mouse
Chinchillas
Elephants
Birds
Crows, ravens, and magpies
Restricted breeds such as Yellowhammer, Greenfinches, Goldfinches, Redpoll, Siskins, Bullfinches, Linnet
Owls
Amphibians
Frogs
Newts
Salamanders
Toads
Axolotls
Red-eared, yellow-bellied and Cumberland sliders
Caimans
Arthropods
Ants
Centipedes
Crabs and hermit crabs
Millipedes
Praying mantises
Stick insects
Sea-Monkeys
Triops
Tarantulas and other spiders
Exotic mammals
Anteaters like southern tamanduas
Canidae like Arctic foxes, coydogs, dingos, fennec foxes, gray foxes, and wolfdogs
Civets like binturongs and genets
Deer like leaf muntjacs
Duikers
Felidae like bobcats, ocelots, margays, and servals
Marsupials like opossums, gliding possums, koalas, short-tailed opossums, wallabys, and wombats
Mongoose
Mustelids like badgers, minks, skunks, and otters
Primates like capuchin monkeys, chimpanzees, guenons, lemurs, macaques, marmosets, slow lorises, spider monkeys, squirrel monkeys, sykes' monkeys, tamarins, and vervet monkeys
Procyonidae like cacomistles, coatimundi, kinkajous, raccoons, and ringtail cats
Rodents like chipmunks, degus, dormouse, flying squirrels, groundhogs, patagonian cavys, pouched rats, and prairie dogs.
Sloths such as two-toed sloths and pale-throated three-toed sloths
Monotremes such as platypus and echidnas