Animal Care Organization:

• Map, addresses, e-mail, fax, and phone

Index Page and Highlights: (go to page)

• Federal Register Notices: (go to page)
  
• Press Releases: (go to page)
  
• 2000 Annual Report: (pdf)
• Questions and Answers: (go to page)
  
• Missing Pet Network: (go to page)
  
• Job vacancies at APHIS, and
  Govt. Wide
• USDA Web Site: (go to page)
• APHIS Web Site: (go to page)
• E-Mail Animal Care (ace@aphis.usda.gov)
• E-Mail AC Eastern Regional Office (aceast@aphis.usda.gov)
• E-Mail AC Western Regional Office (acwest@aphis.usda.gov)
• Find someone at USDA (go to page)
  

Publications: (go to page)

• Animal Care Annual Report of Enforcement:(pdf)
  
• Animal Care Quarterly Reports (go to page)
  
• Animal Welfare Act (AWA) (pdf)
  
• AWA Definitions: (Part 1.1)
  
• AWA Regulations: (Part 2)
  
• AWA Standards: (Part 3)
  
• AWA Rules of Practice: (Part 4)
  
• Dealer Inspection Manual (pdf)
  
• Elephant Guidelines for the control of TB: (Text)
  
• Elephant Necropsy Protocol: (text)
  
• Enviromental Enrichment for Non-Human Primates (Final Report)
• Fact Sheet: The Animal Welfare Act (text or pdf) Fact Sheet:Compliance Inspections (text or pdf) Fact Sheet:Dealers (text or pdf)
• Fact Sheet:Exhibitors (text or pdf)
• Fact Sheet:Safeguarding Pets (text or pdf)
• Fact Sheet:Traveling By Air With Your Pet
  (text or pdf)
• Farm Animal Guidelines - Proposed Notice (pdf)
• Forms used by Animal Care (go to page)
• IACUC one page checklist:(pdf)
• IACUC survey results (pdf)
• Innovative AWA Enforcement Efforts: Full Report for 1998
• Licensing and Registration Under the AWA (text)
• Lists of Facilities (go to page)
• Marine Mammal: Sterilization of Pool Waters: (pdf)
• Marine Mammal: Handling Fish Fed to Fish-eating Animals: (text)
• Ownership of Large Exotic Cats: Position Paper (text) or (pdf)
• Policy Manual (go to page)
• Tech Note:Ensuring Adequate Veterinary Care: (text) or (pdf)
• Understanding Compliance Inspections (pdf)
  • Letter to Licensees and Registrants about concerns with inspection reports (text)
• Traveling with your pet: Brochure (text or pdf)
• Traveling with your pet: Movie Public Service Film

Horse Protection: (go to page)

• Designated Qualified Person (DQP) List: (text)
  
• DQP List of Disqualification: (text)
  
• Fact Sheet: Horse Protection Act: (text or pdf)
• Horse Protection Act: (text)
• HPA Enforcement Report: FY 99 (pdf)
  
• HPA: Operating Plan for 1999: (text)
  
• HPA: Operating Plan for 2000: (pdf)
  
  • Op. Plan 2000 Explanatory Notes: (pdf)
• HPA: Regulations (go to page)
  
• HPA: Rules of Practice: (go to page )
  
• HPA: Strategic Plan: (text)
• Training Manual 2000 for DQP: (pdf)
  
• Training Manual 2000 for VMO: (pdf)

Animal Care Link Page:

• Links to other pages of interest (go to page)

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