The Pet Poison Hotline (800)213-6680 This is a nationwide 24-hour service available to help pet parents with a potentially poisoned pet. Be advised that there is a $35.00 per incident fee, payable by credit card.
ASPCA Pet Poison Hotline (888)426-4435 This premier animal poison control center in is one of the best resources for any animal poison-related emergency, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Be advised that there is a $60.00 fee, payable by credit card.
Animerge - Emergency Vet Care 24/7 (908)707-9077 Animerge is a fully staffed veterinary emergency and specialty hospital. They are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week for your pet’s medical emergencies and specialty cases. Animerge is located 1/4 mile south of the Somerville circle.
Emergency & Disaster Planning - ASPCA Emergencies come in many forms, and they may require anything from a brief absence from your home to permanent evacuation. Each type of disaster requires different measures to keep your pets safe. The best thing you can do for yourself and your pets is to be prepared.
Locate Your Lost Pet This link provides a "Lost Pet Flyer" that you can complete on-line, including adding a photo of your pet.
Coping with the Loss of your Pet Anyone who considers a pet a beloved friend, companion, or family member knows the intense pain that accompanies the loss of that friend. This brochure provides some tips for coping with that grief, and the difficult decisions that one faces upon the loss of your pet.
Other Interesting Information
Luv My Pet - Low Cost Vaccinations LMP provides low-cost vaccination clinics for your pets each weekend in 23 states in the USA. Licensed veterinarians administer all pet vaccinations (at Petco locations).
Friends of Animals (FOA) Low Cost Spay/Neuter From 1957, FoA has assumed a leadership role in advocating low-cost spaying and altering as the most effective means of preventing the births of unwanted dogs and cats, and their subsequent abandonment, suffering and mass killing. Pet parents may purchase a certificate from Friends of Animals (online or by mail) that can be used for a routine spay or neuter surgery at any of FoA’s participating veterinary hospitals.
Micro-chipping is a simple and effective way to make sure that your pet can be easily identified should you become separated. A small microchip, (about the size of a grain of rice) is inserted under the loose skin on the back of your pet's neck. This coded inserted chip remains a permanent means of identification of your pet. Your pet is registered on a national database, and a hand-held scanner at the nearest veterinary surgery or dog pound can easily read the chip when your pet is found and you will be reunited.
American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) There are many educational brochures listed below on this site and are available online in dual formats (HTML and PDF) to allow easy on-screen reading as well as a view of each brochure as it appears in print.
Air Travel with your Pet This site provides general guidelines to assist pet parents with safely transporting their pets by air.
New Jersey Dog Parks Although this is a great website in general for fun stuff in NJ, here's the link for the dog parks. Dog parks are great, if your dog is sociable (and vaccinated). Even so, it is important to pay complete attention to your dog's interactions with others, as you never know who might be having a bad day.
"Paw It" Forward - Charities
Teaching Kids to Read with your Dog This sounds like such a great program to me. Click on 'R.E.A.D. Program' to get more information about teaching kids to read with the assistance of a good dog. I don't know if there's a program here on the east coast. Maybe we can combine good shelter dogs with this program?
Adopt a Pet A wonderful website for locating shelters in your area. Thank you Petfinder.com!
The Hounds and Harriers 3-mile Run I wasn't sure whether to put this under FUN with your dog or "Paw It" Forward. It is both fun and an annual fundraiser for St. Hubert's Animal Shelter. It is a 3-mile run WITH YOUR DOG. Check out the videos - do you think these dogs are having fun??? Also if you don't have a dog, they're always looking for volunteers - it's a fun day!
St. Hubert's Animal Shelter St. Hubert's Animal Shelter is wonderfully creative with their fundraisers. Check this site out regularly for fun and charitable things to do with your pets and for their shelter animals. For example, there's a wonderful wine tasting event in November at the Morris Museum.
