Reference Sites in Animal Enrichment

Here are a few web sites you may find useful to the well being of your beloved animals. We will add more over time, if you have one we should include, don't hesitate, contact us now!

Animal Welfare Institute.
[http://www.awionline.org/Default.htm]
A non-profit charitable organization founded in 1951 to reduce the sum total of pain and fear inflicted on animals by humans.
    Comfortable Quarters for Horses...
    [http://www.awionline.org/pubs/cq02/Cq-horse.html]
    A page in the AWI site offering recommended and approved methods of quartering, socializing, and feeding horses not in the wild.

Animal Welfare Information Center
[http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/index.html]
A division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Center provides information for improved animal care and use in research, teaching, and testing.

The Animal Behavior Society
[http://www.animalbehavior.org/]
A non-profit scientific society founded to encourage and promote the study of animal behavior. ABS membership is global, but primarily from North, Central, and South America, and is open to all who are interested in the study of animal behavior.

The Equine Research Foundation
[http://www.equineresearch.org/]
A non-profit organization whose purpose is to further scientific and public knowledge about equine learning abilities, perception, behavior, training, care and welfare and, thereby, improve human/horse interactions.

Cherry Hill
[http://www.horsekeeping.com/]
Author and producer of books and videos about horses - a website filled with much useful and wonderful material about our favorite animals.

Applied Animal Behaviour Science
[http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/
journaldescription.cws_home/503301/description]
This is the official Journal of the International Society for Applied Ethology, an international scientific journal reporting on the application of ethology to animals used by humans, ethology being defined as the study of animal behavior with emphasis on the behavioral patterns that occur in natural environments. This journal publishes relevant information on the behaviour of domesticated and utilized animals.