Resources & Links
Topics
- Animal Behavior
- Animal Cruelty
- Animal Ethics
- Animal Welfare
- Community Practice & Shelter Medicine
- Disaster Preparedness & Response
- Human-Animal Bond
- Journals
- Related Programs at Other Educational Institutions
Animal Behavior (top)
General information about dog and cat behavior
- Animal Behavior Resource Institute
- ASPCA Virtual Pet Behaviorist
- ASPCA Ask the Expert: Dog and Cat Behavior
- Denver Dumb Friends League behavior and & training tips
- Feline Health Center at Cornell University
- Pets for Life Program - The Humane Society if the United States (HSUS)
- Indoor Cat Initiative at the Ohio State CVM
- Dog Care & Training: The Well-Behaved Dog
Recommended book list by Kristine M. Alpi & Barbara L. Sherman -- Library Journal, 11/1/2008
General information about horse behavior
Training and education in animal behavior
- Animal Behavior Society - Applied Animal Behavior
- Animal Behavior Society - Education Committee (includes guide to academic/graduate programs)
- Indiana University Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior
- Purdue University DOGS! Course
- Certification Council for Pet Dog Trainers seminars
- University of Illinois Masters Program in Behavior
Professional veterinary behavior organizations
Animal Cruelty (top)
General resources
Hoarding
- The Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium at Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
Incidents and investigations
- Pet-Abuse.Com National animal protection organization that researches & tracks incidents of criminal animal cruelty
- Veterinary Forensics Website managed by Dr. Melinda Merck, Forensic Veterinarian for the ASPCA
Animal Ethics (top)
- Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics Pioneering ethical perspectives on animals through academic research, teaching and publication
Animal Welfare (top)
American Association of Equine Practitioners
American Veterinary Medical Association
- Issues: Animal Welfare Includes links to animal welfare policy statements, science and educational materials, guidelines on euthanasia, and information on legislative and regulatory issues.
Animal welfare organizations
- American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)
- Royal Society for the Prevention of Animal Cruelty
- Universities Federation for Animal Welfare
Professional veterinary animal welfare organizations
- American College of Animal Welfare (ACAW) The mission of ACAW is to advance animal welfare through education, certification, and scientific investigation. Once recognized by AVMA, Diplomates of the American College of Animal Welfare will include veterinarians with specialized training and experience to carry out the ACAW mission.
North Carolina Department of Agricultural & Consumer Services
- Veterinary Division - Animal Welfare Section
- North Carolina Animal Welfare Act
- North Carolina Animal Welfare Administrative Code
United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- Animal Welfare Overview
- Animal Welfare Publications and Reports (Includes Animal Welfare Act and Regulations)
United States Department of Agriculture National Agriculture Library
Community Practice & Shelter Medicine (top)
General resources
- HSUS Animal Sheltering.org A program of the Humane Society of the United States
- Asilomar Accords A set of guiding principles, standardized definitions, a statistics table for tracking shelter populations and a formula for determining shelter live release rates.
- ASPCA Professional American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals site for animal welfare professionals
- Association of Shelter Veterinarians (ASV)
Population control & spay/neuter
- ASV veterinary medical care guidelines for spay/neuter programs
- Alliance for Contraception in Cats and Dogs
- National Council on Pet Population Study and Policy
- North Carolina Spay & Neuter Program
Disaster Preparedness & Response (top)
NC State University College of Veterinary Medicine
- Including Animals in Disaster Planning
- Pet First Aid - Dr. Brenda J. Stevens
- Pet fish and dealing with a power outage - Dr. Greg Lewbart
North Carolina Department of Agricultural & Consumer Services
- Emergency Programs Division - Veterinary Section
- Equine Disaster Response Alliance
- Horse owner's disaster preparation brochure
- 24 step disaster plan
- NC Veterinary Response Corps
- NC Animal Disaster Sheltering Resources
NC State Animal Response Team (SART)
American Veterinary Medical Association
United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Human-Animal Bond (top)
American Psychological Association
American Veterinary Medical Association
Human-animal bond organizations
- American Humane
- anthrozoology.com - Research in Human-Animal Interaction
- International Association of Human-Animal Interaction Organizations
- International Society of Anthrozoology (ISAZ)
Humane education
Pet loss and grief resources
- Argus Institute
- Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement
- Delta Society
- NCSU CVM - Pet Loss Resources
Society and animals
Therapy and service animals
Journals (top)
- Applied Animal Behavior Science Official Journal of the International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE)
- Animal Welfare Published by Universities Federation for Animal Welfare
- Anthrozoös Journal of the International Society for Anthrozoology (ISAZ)
- Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Joint project between Animals and Society Institute and the ASPCA
- Society & Animals: Journal of Human-Animal Studies Produced by the Animals and Society Institute
- Animal Behaviour is published for the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
in collaboration with the Animal Behavior Society