Health
AVMA Care for Pets – Care for pets, areas dealing with animal health, pet loss, buying a pet, animal safety, veterinarians, and other resources for general and specific pet health issues. http://www.avma.org/care4pets/default.htm
B-Naturals – Holistic, herbal and environmentally safe products for animals. Also lists seminars that deal with holistic programs and issues. http://www.b-naturals.com
Blind Dogs Website A website devoted to blind dogs and their owners- Lots of information support and links regarding vision and helping blind dogs cope in the world. www.blinddogs.com
Deaf Dog Education Action Fund http://www.deafdogs.org
Ehrlichia – Website dedicated to a specific tick born disease. This site is run by a man whose Border Terrier died of the disease. We put this on the site when a member’s sheltie was diagnosed.. This site is informative, but clinically intense. http://www.srv.net/~cdm/Dale/ehrlichia.html
Emergency info for Dog Owners – Quirky, left-coast site dealing with some good general health information, travel-specific information, and other things. There is a nice selection of recipes for dog treats here. How do they relate to a pet emergency? Well, that’s one of the things that makes it a quirky, left-coast pet site I guess… http://www.geocities.com/~olelo/shelties/emergencydoglinks.html#travel
Food Comparison Chart– If you want information about pet food, it’s probably here. Didn’t spend too much time on this one as I got hungry and had to throw a pizza in the oven. http://www.doberdogs.com/menu.html
Handicap Pet Supplies http://www.handicappedpets.com
Spay USA – They are a clearinghouse for low cost spaying/neutering or or for-free.You just enter a zip code and it gives you a list near your home of either vets or clinics or humane societies who do the surgery. have a suggestion for another link. www.spayusa.org
Training
Dog’s Best Friend, Ltd. Patricia B. McConnell, Ph.D. is a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist and Adjunct Assistant Professor, UW – Madison. She is a zoologist at UW in Madison who teaches Animal Behavior. She is also on public radio here in Wisconsin on a show called Calling All Pets – Saturdays with Larry Mueller
Dr. McConnell also raises Border Collies and is very familiar with the issues of the breed. She trains animals with behavior problems and in doing so, she has saved the lives of many animals. She uses and teaches non-aversive, non-invasive techniques for controlling animals.WBCR has worked with her and her staff for many years. They are very knowledgeable and have been instrumental in the rehabilitation of some of our rescue dogs.P.O. Box 447 1039 Mills Street Black Earth, WI 53515 Phone: 608 767-2435 FAX: 608 767-3726.. http://www.dogsbestfriendtraining.comPaw Law Dog Training Academy, Roselle, IL Positive reinforcement dog training in family companionship, as well as advanced classes in obedience, tricks, flyball, and agility. (Of potential interest… if you go to the blue bones at the bottom of the screen and click on “Laws”, there is a message from an attorney (Jan Hicks) www.pawlaw.com
Kindness K-9 Dog Behavior & Training (also Tellington TTouch), Neosho WI. Holistic approach to dog behavior originating in a system developed to resolve behavioral and performance issues in horses. Yes, horses. Promotes the “Tellington Touch” system. www.kindnessk9.com
Border Collie Temperament Page
A theory of temperament that is very interesting and helpful in working with this special breed . www.netpets.org/~temperament
Dr. P’s Dog Training For the most part, a directory of other links. I didn’t go to more than a few of them, but seems like a good way to find out cool stuff on a rainy day. http://www.uwsp.edu/psych/dog/work2.htm
Best Paw Forward – Family dog training site based near Orlando, FL. Emphasis on temperament and behavior work. Features AKC breed links, health information, and specific training methods. http://www.bestpaw.com/index.html
Other Rescues We Recommend
International Directory of BC Rescues List of BC rescues across US & Canada
Great Lakes Border Collie Rescue (MI, IN, IL, WI)
Mo-Kan Border Collie Rescue (MO, KS.)
The H.A.R.T. Sanctuary – A Non-Profit Senior/Disabled Dog Rescue and Adoption Organization http://www.hart4dogs.org
57, Market Place, Richmond
North Yorkshire. DL10 4JQ
01748 850025 – Fax 01748 8921246
Other links
BC Styleyes – Featuring the artwork of Raven O’Keefe on prints, note cards, and original works http://www.bcstyleyes.com
WI. Working Stockdog Assoc. http://www.wwsda.org
Border Collie in Action – Tons of links to BC groups across the country, upcoming events, books, and the best selection of BC-related merchandise I’ve seen so far. http://www.bordercollies.com/otherlinks.htm
The Border Collie Museum – Many pictures of the types, colors and variations of Border collies. A great deal of information is available here on the history of the Border Collie internationally www.gis.net/~sheepdog/BC_Museum/index.html
Pet portraits to Benefit Rescue http://www.arttotherescue.com
Dog Patch – Site filled with links to other sites featuring different breeds of dogs, training and obedience, resource, and other nice to know information. http://www.dogpatch.org/index.cfm
In the Company of Dogs – Merchandise relating to dogs and the people who love them. If your dog needs a new duvet, there are many here to choose from, as well as dog and cat chess sets, Dog-opoly, charm bracelets… get the picture? http://www.inthecompanyofdogs.com
Clean Run Productions – Dog agility site with information about agility events, merchandise, and magazine articles. http://www.cleanrun.com
K9 Calendar – Features upcoming events in agility and obedience, herding, earthdogs, tracking, and AKC shows. http://www.k9calendar.com
How to Love Your Dog – Kids guide to dog care. Excellent information, well-written and understandable with lots of good pictures. http://www.loveyourdog.com
AVMA Care for Pets – Care for pets, areas dealing with animal health, pet loss, buying a pet, animal safety, veterinarians, and other resources for general and specific pet health issues. http://www.avma.org/care4pets/default.htm
B-Naturals – Holistic, herbal and environmentally safe products for animals. Also lists seminars that deal with holistic programs and issues. http://www.b-naturals.com
Blind Dogs Website A website devoted to blind dogs and their owners- Lots of information support and links regarding vision and helping blind dogs cope in the world. www.blinddogs.com
Deaf Dog Education Action Fund http://www.deafdogs.org
Ehrlichia – Website dedicated to a specific tick born disease. This site is run by a man whose Border Terrier died of the disease. We put this on the site when a member’s sheltie was diagnosed.. This site is informative, but clinically intense. http://www.srv.net/~cdm/Dale/ehrlichia.html
Emergency info for Dog Owners – Quirky, left-coast site dealing with some good general health information, travel-specific information, and other things. There is a nice selection of recipes for dog treats here. How do they relate to a pet emergency? Well, that’s one of the things that makes it a quirky, left-coast pet site I guess… http://www.geocities.com/~olelo/shelties/emergencydoglinks.html#travel
Food Comparison Chart– If you want information about pet food, it’s probably here. Didn’t spend too much time on this one as I got hungry and had to throw a pizza in the oven. http://www.doberdogs.com/menu.html
Handicap Pet Supplies http://www.handicappedpets.com
Spay USA – They are a clearinghouse for low cost spaying/neutering or or for-free.You just enter a zip code and it gives you a list near your home of either vets or clinics or humane societies who do the surgery. have a suggestion for another link. www.spayusa.org
K9 Search and Recovery Excellent site! Lots of good information, pictures, and compelling reading about a local SAR organization http://www.911bc.org
Is your dog afraid of loud noises? – Good, well-written article on noise phobia and other behavior-related topics. http://www.doggiedoor.com/noise.shtml
Travel
Dog Park Map of the US – Guide to dog parks in your area, with information on rules, hours, and locations. http://www.thedogpark.com/index.html
Airline travel – Flying the Dog Friendly Skies http://www.companionair.com
Fido Friendly New Magazine which lists hotels and motels that allow dogs, dog events throughout the US and other helpful information about traveling with your dog(s) Every subscription includes a donation to the non profit organization of your choice. www.fidofriendly.com
Freestyle – Musical Canine Freestyle or just Canine Freestyle is simply dancing with dogs to music. It is a fun sport for the owners and dogs, and the audience. Based on basic obedience training, it adds other dimensions such as music, timing, costuming, routine development, showmanship.
For more information Click on the dancing feet to go to http://www.worldcaninefreestyle.org
Clicker Training One of our members has taken a number of classes from Shirley Chong and attended her dog camps. Check out her site: http://www.shirleychong.com/jack.html