Advocacy & Government Booklets

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 OVMA Position Statement – Euthanasia OVMA supports policies to ensure that all animals find permanent homes as euthanasia is not an acceptable means of population control. However, when necessary, OVMA believes euthanasia must be performed humanely by properly-trained individuals. OVMA adopts the 2013 AVMA Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals to be used as a guideline for veterinarians. https://www.avma.org/KB/Policies/Documents/euthanasia.pdf (September 24, 2014 Board)

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• Animal Abuse
• Recommended Codes of Practice for the Care and Handling of Farm Animals
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• Cosmetic Surgery
• Debarking of Dogs
• Electro-Immobilization
• Euthanasia
• Extra Label Drug Use in Food Producing Animals
• Standard Operating Procedure "Handling of Game Birds at Field Trial Events"
• Keeping Other Animals as Pets
• Microchipping
• Off-Leash Dog Parks
• Partial Digital Amputation (Onychectomy or Declawing) of the Domestic Felid
• Pet Overpopulation
• Pet Spay and Neuter
• Pin Firing in Horses
• Rabies Clinics
• Recumbent Farm Animals
• Routine Surgical Procedures of Farm Animals
• The Use of Strychnine as a Pesticide
• The Trapping of Fur-Bearing Animals
• Use of Animals in Entertainment and Recreation
• The Use of Animals in Research, Teaching and Testing
• The Use of Coupons to Promote Pharmaceutical Products
• The Use of Pound Animals in Medical Research
• Vaccination
• Velveting of Deer
• Vicious Dogs
• Non-Domesticated Wild Caught Animals as Pets