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Associations/clubs for Small Animals Links to Associations or Clubs American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals www.aspca.org Offers: Links to information on fighting cruelty, adoption and pet care. Programs include Adopt-a-Shelter-Cat Month, Disaster Preparedness, Shelter outreach, Animal Poison Control, Animal Behavior Center, Equine Programs and Humane Education. American Association of Equine Practitioners www.myhorsematters.com Offers: Twice-monthly online newsletter that includes horse-health news, views, research and happenings, plus an interactive Q & A veterinary forum and links to in-depth articles. Also offers a horse-health-related calendar of events, plus articles and links to other quality horse-health sites. Bonus:This site offers a link to Get-a-DVM, hosted by Bayer Animal Health, which makes it easy for clients to find an AAEP member veterinarian. American Veterinary Medical Association www.avma.org Offers: Brochures on horse-health topics that clients can either read online, or download and print as PDF files. Topics include Buying a Horse, Internal Parasites, West Nile Virus and Equine Euthanasia. Also offers horse-health news, and resources, biosecurity updates and animal-welfare position statements. Bayer Animal Health www.yourhorseshealth.com Offers: Clear, well-illustrated, horse-health information. Topics include colic, dental care, equine protozoal myeloencephalitis, nutrition/feed, general care, joints/joint therapy, laminitis, insurance and euthanasia. Also offers the Get-a-DVM service. Hoofcare and Lameness: The Journal of Equine Foot Science www.hoofcare.com Offers: An excellent source of new information and thoughtful articles intended to help veterinarians and farriers treat and prevent common lamenesses. Associated with the quarterly Hoofcare & Lameness: The Journal of Equine Foot Science, the site contains authoritative information on many of today's "hot" topics, including discipline-specific shoeing, laminitis, navicular, white line disease, barefoot horses and natural trims. Many horse owners are very enthusiastic about both the journal and the site, which offers a representative selection of the journal's indexed articles. The Horse www.thehorse.com Offers: Online access to articles in The Horse: Your Guide to Equine Health Care. All articles are available to readers who have either a paper or online subscription; some articles also are available to nonsubscribers. (For-pay sites offer "teaser"--a few full-text articles, plus article abstracts or first paragraphs. If a visitor wishes to read the entire article, he or she must either pay for each article individually or an annual subscription to the website. The Palmetto Equine Awareness & Rescue League www.equinerescuesc.org/EquineCare.html Offers: An excellent explanation of the Henneke Body Condition Scoring System, developed by Don Henneke, PhD, complete with photos and drawings that illustrate the various scores. (Body-condition scoring also can be found at www.shady-acres.com/susan/conditionscore.shtml.) University of California-Davis Center for Equine Health www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CEH Offers: Helpful horse tips, as well as ordering information for a 498-page book that should be on clients' shelves: UC Davis Book of Horses: A Complete Medical Reference Guide. Among many other topics, the book discusses equine systems, nutrition, reproduction and home care. Diagnostic tests are explained, and there's even a discussion of zoonotic diseases. The site also provides up-to-date information on UC Davis research projects. Veterinary Genetics Laboratory www.vgl.ucdavis,edu Offers: An abundance of horse-breeding-related information. A separate link to UC-Davis' Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, it offers a great deal of information on coat colors, genetic disease and diagnostic tests. Visitors can have tests run on their own horses for a small fee. The site includes forms and fees, parentage analysis, DNA testing and color testing.
American Quarter Horse Association
Wildlife Rescue League www.wildliferescueleague.org Offers: The Wildlife Rescue League is a non-profit organization providing care for sick, injured and orphaned wildlife in order to return them to the wild. Northern Virginia Reptile Rehabilitation www.boxturtle.org Offers: The Northern Virginia Reptile Rescue is a non profit organization dedicated to the conservation of native Virginia reptiles and amphibians. As a licensed wildlife rehabilitators for the Commonwealth of Virginia, they are permitted to take in, treat and, under the direction of the Commonwealth, release native species back into the wild. Equine Rescue League www.equinerescueleague.org Offers: Information on how to start an equine-rescue organization, as well as a list of rescue organizations by state. United States Eventing Association, Inc. www.eventingusa.com Virginia Quarter Horse Association www.vaquarterhorse.com United States Dressage Federation www.usdf.org United States Equestrian Federation www.usef.org United States Equestrian Team www.uset.com Virginia Horse Shows Association www.vhsa.com Links to Small Animal Associations or Clubs Loudoun County Animal Control www.co.loudoun.va.us/animals/ Offers: Is dedicated to serve and protect the public's health and safety and to assure the welfare of animals by promoting and providing for their safe, humane and lawful treatment. Humane Society of Loudoun County www.humanesocietyofloudoun.org Briggs Animal Adoption Center www.baacs.org Offers: The BAAC is a private, nonprofit animal welfare organization with a central mission to place companion animals into loving homes with compassionate people who will make a lifelong commitment to them by accepting them as a member of their family. Pet Finders www.petfinders.com Offers: Links to sites that offer pets for sale. Train like the pros. Dog behaviorists show how to fix everything from housebreaking to barking at http://www.dogtrainingbasics.com. And get expert help for kitty woes at http://www.perfectpaws.com Dulles Gateway Obedience Training Club www.dgotc.org Offers: A dog training club serving Fairfax and Loudoun Counties, in Virginia offering obedience and agility training as well as conformation handling classes. Bark Busters www.barkbusters.com Offers: Home dog training specialists that address problems in dog obedience, behavioral and housebreaking problems, dog training and puppy trainging. A Click Above www.aclickabovellc.com Offers: Quality training for students based ont he leading scientific method of dog training - Operant Conditioning. methods use positive reinforcement to facilitate and optimize the communication and relationship between canine companion and student. The Doggie Wash www.thedoggiewash.com Offers: Full grooming services for all dog breeds using the latest state-of-the-art gro9oming and bathing technologies. Activities for dogs www.dog-play.com/home.html#obedience Offers: This is a great site for finding out about activities/sports you can do with your dog. Also provides links to many therapy programs and some "just for fun" activities. Travel easier. Need a hotel or airline that'll welcome your pet? The travel experts at http://www.petsonthego.com can help, and even provide a pet-appropriate packing list!
Kitty Country http://www.kittycountryva.com Luxury Cat Boarding in Lovettsville, Va. 540 822-4484 e-mail: KittyCountryLLC@aol.com. 12 spacious suites with windows for your cat. 11474 Berlin Turnpike, Lovettsville, VA 20180 VIP Boarding Kennel www.vipboarding.com located 15 minutes from Leesburg in beautiful western Loudoun County. (540) 82-9909 Fax (540) 882-4034 e-mail: info@vipboarding.com. 39710 Rocky Lane, Lovettsville, VA 20180 Old Mill Kennel Services http://www.oldmillpets.com Offers boarding for both dogs and cats. Located at 91 Lawson Rd., Leesburg, VA 20175 (703) 777-4183 Kennels at Stoneleigh Offers boarding for both dogs and cats. Located at 14359 Mountain Rd., Purcellville, VA 20132 (540) 688-6100. Club Pet International http://www.clubpet.com Offers boarding for both cats and dogs. Located at 43743 John Mosby Hwy., Chantilly, VA 20152. (703) 471-7818 Fax (703) 327-3401. Aberdeen Acres Offers boarding for dogs, cat condominiums, obedience training, bathing, classes, grooming and heated kennels. Located at 667 Walters Mill Lane, Stephenson, VA 22656. (540) 667-7809
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