Resources
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
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)
American Veterinary Medical Association
United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
North Carolina Department of Agricultural & Consumer Services
- Emergency Programs Division - Veterinary Section
- NC Veterinary Response Corps
- NC Animal Disaster Sheltering Resources
NC State Animal Response Team (SART)
NC State University College of Veterinary Medicine
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