OVMA Handbooks
Issue link: https://publications.ovma.org/i/571762
OVMA 420 Bronte Street South, Suite 205, Milton, Ontario L9T 0H9 T. 905.875.0756 or 1.800.670.1702 (toll-free) F. 905.875.0958 or 1.877.482.5941 (toll-free) info@ovma.org www.ovma.org Table of Contents Animal Abuse ......................................................................................................................................... 1 Codes of Practice for the Care and Handling of Farm Animals .............................................................. 2 Complementary and Alternative Medicine ........................................................................................... 3 Cosmetic Surgery ................................................................................................................................... 4 Debarking of Dogs .................................................................................................................................. 5 Electro-Immobilization ........................................................................................................................... 7 Euthanasia .............................................................................................................................................. 8 Extra-Label Drug Use in Food Producing Animals .................................................................................. 9 Handling of Game Birds at Field Trial Events ....................................................................................... 13 Keeping Other Animals as Pets ............................................................................................................ 14 Microchipping ...................................................................................................................................... 15 Off-Leash Dog Parks ............................................................................................................................. 16 Partial Digital Amputation.................................................................................................................... 16 Pet Overpopulation .............................................................................................................................. 20 Pet Spay and Neuter ............................................................................................................................ 26 Pin Firing in Horses ............................................................................................................................... 27 Rabies Clinics ........................................................................................................................................ 28 Recumbent Farm Animals .................................................................................................................... 30 Routine Surgical Procedures of Farm Animals ..................................................................................... 32 Strychnine as a Pesticide ...................................................................................................................... 33 Trapping of Fur-Bearing Animals ......................................................................................................... 34 Use of Animals in Entertainment and Recreation ............................................................................... 35 Use of Animals in Research, Teaching and Testing .............................................................................. 38 Use of Coupons to Promote Pharmaceutical Products ....................................................................... 39 Use of Pound Animals in Medical Research ......................................................................................... 40 Vaccination ........................................................................................................................................... 41 Velveting of Deer ................................................................................................................................. 42 Vicious Dogs ......................................................................................................................................... 43 Wild Animals Caught as Pets ................................................................................................................ 45