Ag Links - Small Animal/Companion Pets

BREED AND INTEREST GROUPS

• American Fancy Rat and Mouse Association
• American Fancy Rat and Mouse Association - General Care
• American Ferret Association
• American Gerbil Society
• American Kennel Club
• American Miniature Horse Association
• American Rabbit Breeders Association - information about ARBA standards and shows
• American Racing Pigeon Union
• Cat Fanciers' Association
• House Rabbit Society
• National Gerbil Society
• Pennsylvania Ferret Rescue Association
• Rat and Mouse Club of America - Rat and Mouse FAQs
• Simian Society of America, Inc.

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GENERAL SMALL ANIMAL INFORMATION

• American Pet Producers Manufacturers, Inc. - industry statistics & trends
• AvianWeb - bird healthcare
• AvianWeb - bird diseases
• Birdcraft
• Birdmart.com - Housing and Toys
• Black Jungle Terrarium Supply - introduction to terrarium & vivarium keeping
• Cafe Bongo - true stories about two hamsters
• California Chins
• CavyInfo.com International
• Cleaning and Maintaining Your Fish Tank
• Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International
• Duke University Lemur Center - information about lemurs
• Everything Ferret - ferret behavior
• Feathered Follies
• Ferret Central
• Fish Information Service
• Fish Information Service - aquaria FAQs
• FishLore - freshwater fish disease
• Frogland
• Gerbil Ailments
• Gerbil Behavior
• Gerbils Color Palette
• Guinea Lynx - cavy health care online
• Hamster Hideout
• Hamsterific
• Irene's Chinchillas
• Jane Goodall Institute
• Kings Cages
• Kintaline Farm Plant and Poultry Centre
• The Krib (Aquaria and Tropical Fish) - diseases
• The Krib (Aquaria and Tropical Fish) - fish food
• Long Beach Animal Hospital - reptile diseases
• Melissa Kaplan's Herp and Green Iguana Information Collection
• Miniature Donkey Talk
• Mississippi State University - breeds and varieties of chickens
• HHMI Biointeractive - Salamander Limb Regeneration
• Oklahoma State University - poultry breeds
• Oregon Small Farms - poultry
• Petco - Pet Resource Center
• PetCoach - discusses wet tail, a hamster ailment
• Pet Food Institute
• Pet safety while driving
• PetSmart - birds
• Petsmart - reptiles and amphibians
• Public Broadcasting System - The Life of Birds video set
• The Raptor Center
• Smokey Valley Farm - polled miniature Hereford cattle
  
• Southern Mountain Horse Company
• University of California - Museum of Paleontology - introduction to the amphibia
• University of California, Berkeley - Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
• University of Michigan - Green anole
• University of Saskatchewan - Ratite Bibliography and Database
• University of Wisconsin - Amphibian Embryology Tutorial
• Veterinary Partner - hamsters
• Virginia's Rat Page
• Arkive - alpine salamander

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GOVERNMENT INFORMATION

• National Center for Biotechnology Information
• National Institutes of Health - Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals
• National Institutes of Health - Photo galleries
• USDA - Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service - Animal Welfare
• USDA - Animal Welfare Act
• USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service - Ratites (emu, ostrich, and rhea)

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SMALL ANIMALS IN RESEARCH

• American Association For Laboratory Animal Science
• American Association for Laboratory Animal Science Inc. - Caring for Animals: A Guide to Animals in the Classroom
• Carolina Biological Supply Company, Inc. - for frog and frog egg supplies
• The Jackson Laboratory - an independent nonprofit mammalian research laboratory
• Laboratory Primate Newsletter
• Maryland Small Ruminant Page
• Oregon State University - Oregon Small Farms
• Sinclair Research - miniature swine
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Black-Footed Ferret

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