Recreation - Pets

Recreation - Pets - Issues

Dogs 'n Cats SA - Dog and Cat Management Board of South Australia offers information about dog attacks and pet law, neglect, and care.
NAIA Trust: Position Statement - Position on pets and pet ownership including welfare and legislative issues. Statements regarding dogs, cats, birds, and exotics, and links.
Pet Care Tips: Is Your Pet "Bugging" You? - How to avoid diseases transmitted to humans by dogs and cats.
Can We Help You Keep Your Pet? - Resource for frustrated pet owners who need help solving problems that could force them to give up their pet.
The Pet Doctor - Veterinarian Jan Ball discusses elective surgery on dogs, cats, rabbits, and ferrets.
SNiP: Spay/Neuter Information Program - Pasadena Humane Society offers information about why pets should be spayed or neutered, referrals, links, and descriptions of successful programs in other locales.
SPAY/USA - A nationwide network to provide affordable spay/neuter programs. Referrals, newsletter, articles, and advocacy.
AWLA: Animal Overpopulation is a Serious Problem - Reasons to spay and neuter dogs and cats.
Rat & Mouse Gazette: The Great Spay Debate - An article by Mary Ann Isaksen that examines studies, facts, and opinions.
AltVetMed: Vaccination Decisions - An article with bibliography by Susan G Wynn, DVM, about concerns and alternatives.
Cornell Veterinary Medicine: Goats Rabies Vaccine Project - Campaign to provide rabies protection to goats.
Vaccine Issues and Vaccination Information - A veterinary clinic's position on annual vaccinations with an article by Dr. Don Hamilton, DVM.
Vaccination Options - Veterinary Information Network Pet Care Forum article on obstacles to vaccination, which vaccines should be used, vaccinating adult dogs, and using titers to monitor vaccination.
Critter Fixer Pet Hospital - Dr. Bob Rogers website focuses on vaccination issues, discussing current research, benefits and adverse effects of vaccines, and current recommendations.
Pet Vaccinations - CBC News article on recent changes in pet vaccination issues, and how veterinarians and pets owners are responding.
Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital - Small Animal Vaccination Protocol.
University of California-Davis Veterinary Teaching Hospital - Vaccination Protocol for Dogs and Cats.
University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine - This article urges veterinarians to shift away from annual, grouped vaccinations, and cites adverse effects of vaccination.
University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine - 2001 vaccine protocols for dogs and cats.
Vaccinations for Your Pet - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne on-line newsletter article.
University of Minnesota - PetCARE Information Center article on vaccination of dogs and cats.
Bellwether 48: Vaccination Guidelines for Dogs and Cats - University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine newsletter article.
Small Animal Immunizations - Vaccination guidelines for dogs and cats, of the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine.
North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine - Vaccination guidelines for dogs.
Should You Vaccinate Your Dog This Year? - Holistic Vet Shawn Messonnier discusses what to do about pet vaccination.
Dr. Dodds's Revised Vaccination Protocol - Dr. Jean Dodd's vaccination recommendations for dogs.
AVMA: Model Rabies Control Ordinance - For mammals in general and dogs, cats, and ferrets specifically. Vaccination requirements, registration, pet travel, management of animals that have bitten a person, and penalties.
European Convention for the Protection of Pet Animals - Legislation to protect the health and welfare of pets. Includes full text, summary, report, and declarations of differences by country.
HRS: Not by the Numbers - How limit laws adversely affect rescuers.
New Hampshire Consumer Protection: Pets - An overview of the law that applies to pet acquisitions whether purchases, adoptions, or gifts, and methods of resolving disputes.
Puppy Lemon Laws - Overviews of the laws in several states, with pros and cons of each.
New York State Lemon Law for Dogs and Cats - Information about a law protecting consumers who purchase a sick dog or cat from a pet store or breeder.
VetCentric: Pet Lemon Laws - An overview of consumer laws protecting consumers who purchase sick or genetically defective pets and whether the laws work or not.
VetCentric: Humane Ways to Keep Animals Off Your Lawn - An article by Jorie Green offering several ways to make property less inviting to neighborhood dogs and cats.
UF: Impacts of Free-ranging Pets on Wildlife - Report by Joe Schaefer on the potential of cats and dogs to impact wildlife, actions pet owners can take, and suggested reading.
Pets and Wildlife - The problems of domesticated pets chasing, killing, and transmitting diseases to wildlife, why wildlife is vulnerable, and what pet owners can do.
Burnie Coastal Strategy - West North West Tasmania Coastal Management Project, Australia, to address the harm to beach wildlife by feral dogs and cats.
Animal Friends Online: Animal Hoarders - Links to many articles.
Tufts.edu: Animal Hoarding Research - Definition of pet collecting, research findings, links to articles.
Amarillo Globe-News: Cat Collector to Seek Counseling - A brief article about a woman who recognized herself as a collector, yet her animals were well taken care of.
Animal People: Animals in Bondage: the Hoarding Mind - An article about seven cases, statistics on dog, cat, and horse hoarding, and enabling behavior.
St. Petersburg Times: Woman may be Animal Hoarder - An article by Jamie Malernee about a local incident as well as other cases and the problem across the U.S.
Psychiatric Times: People Who Hoard Animals - An article by Randy Frost, Ph.D., providing an overview of research, hoarders' rationales, and possible explanations for the behavior.
HSUS: Renting With Pets - Helping pet owners find rental housing and landlords and housing managers develop effective pet-keeping guidelines. Links to pet-friendly rental listings.
RHOL: Rental Housing Pet Pages - Information, guidelines, forms, and links for landlords, tenants, real estate investors and property managers.
People with Pets - Searchable database of pet-friendly housing in the US.

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