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 – Routine Surgical Procedures of Farm Animals Regarding castration of cattle, swine, sheep and goats; tail docking of swine and sheep; and dehorning of cattle and goats; OVMA recommends that if necessary these procedures be performed at the earliest age practicable. Where indicated, appropriate analgesics and/or anaesthetics should be used. (February 16, 1995 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