Helpful Links
Explore our trusted resources selected by Wrightstown Veterinary Clinic. These carefully selected links provide reliable, veterinarian-approved information for all your pet care-related needs.
Helpful Links
The veterinary team at Wrightstown Veterinary Clinic recommends the following sites for additional pet care knowledge. We trust the information the listed websites provide to you, our client, and members of our family.
Animal Education
- American Veterinary Medical Association: This site is a good starting point to learn more about a variety of topics, including feline injection-site sarcomas and the latest subjects in veterinary medicine.
- Veterinary Partner: The most reliable up-to-date animal health information from the veterinarians and experts of Veterinary Information Network (VIN), the world’s first and largest veterinary database and community.
- Animal Poison Control Center: As the premier animal poison control center in North America, the APCC is your best resource for any animal poison-related emergency, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. If you think that your pet may have ingested a potentially poisonous substance, make the call that can make all the difference.
- Plants Toxic to Animals: Cornell University – information about toxic plants can be found here. You can search under the common name or scientific name of the plant.
- Canine Behavior Series: Unwanted barking, jumping up on people, pulling on the leash, mouthing and nipping, not coming when called… how many dog owners haven’t had to deal with at least a few of these common canine behavior problems? It’s never too late to train a dog or work on their behavior problems. Bad habits can be broken, good habits can be taught, and most importantly, with a little effort and love, you can make sure your dog stays a happy member of your family forever!
- Feline Behavior Series: Why does your cat do the things they do? Why do they scratch the furniture, urinate outside the litter box, fight with another cat, cruise counters, and destroy the trash? And perhaps more importantly, what can you do to change and shape your feline family member’s behavior when needed?
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Pets provide many benefits to humans. They comfort us and try to give us companionship. However, some animals can also pass diseases to people. These diseases are called zoonosis.
Animal Nutrition
Dog and Cat Foods
- Iams: Our mission, just like yours, is to help your pet live a long and healthy life.
- Eukanuba: From the beginning, Eukanuba has stood for producing our highest quality dog food product to help nurture the best qualities in dogs. When the Iams Company launched Eukanuba premium dog food in 1969, no one had ever heard of chicken parts in dry dog food. But that’s the kind of innovation and understanding it takes to make optimal health nutrition for the breeds we love.
- Royal Canin: All products manufactured by Royal Canin USA are guaranteed to meet your dog or cat’s nutritional requirements when fed according to suggested guidelines and by the “Best Used By” date. Should you not be 100% satisfied with the performance of our products, we will gladly replace the product or refund your purchase price. Simply save the unused portion, along with your purchase receipt, and contact us at 800-592-6687 or return the product to your local retailer or veterinary clinic.
- Hill’s Pet Nutrition: As the makers of Science Diet? pet foods, our mission is to help enrich and lengthen the special relationships between people and their pets.
Prescription Veterinary Diets for Dogs and Cats
- Iams Veterinary Diets: IAMS has worked with veterinarians to develop prescription-only products called Iams Veterinary Diets. If your pet has a special health condition, be sure to ask your veterinarian about this line. Available only through veterinarians, Iams Veterinary Diets are the results of the latest in nutritional research. These formulas can provide important nutritional benefits to pets with unique needs. Consult your veterinarian about the best diet for your pet’s condition.
- Royal Canin: The Royal Canin Veterinary Diet? range typifies a new approach to veterinary nutrition: “Treat the pet, in addition to the disease.” Every diet gives priority to the pet. All the nutrients required to minimize clinical symptoms or to promote recovery are taken into account. Prevention of associated risks, protection against oxidative stress, and the addition of nutraceuticals are considered for each diet. The diets also afford exceptional palatability and are veterinary-exclusive. We believe that pet health and good nutrition can only be achieved through a combination of innovative diets and professional veterinary counseling.
Pet Loss
- Association of Pet Loss and Bereavement: We have all experienced the pain of losing a pet. The Association of Pet Loss and Bereavement has set up this site for support during this most difficult time. You will find inspirational stories, grief counselling resources, hotline number and many other resources.
- Rainbow Bridge: Anyone who has ever lost a pet should visit this wonderful site. It is a terrific tribute to our lost family members.
Animal Rescue Groups
- Wisconsin Dog Rescue: A not-for-profit, self-policing rescue and adoption network comprised of Wisconsin animal shelters, humane societies, and Wisconsin Rescue groups.
- Happily Ever After Animal Sanctuary: Through the work of the sanctuary and its education, adoption, and spay/neuter programs, the mission of Happily Ever After is to provide both temporary and lifetime care to animals and bring about a time when all the companion animals born into this world will be guaranteed a high quality of life in a loving home.
- A.W.A.R.E. Alliance of Wisconsin Animal Rehoming Efforts: The mission of AWARE, Inc. is to foster cooperative relationships among animal welfare organizations and to improve the lives of companion animals in Wisconsin through Adoption, Wellness, Advocacy, Rescue, and Education.
- Petfinder: Every day, Petfinder.com finds thousands of loving families for homeless pets.
- Green Acres Boxer Rescue of Wisconsin: takes in Boxers from all areas of Wisconsin. Approximately half of the incoming dogs are surrendered directly by their owners for reasons including a new baby in the house, moving, no time for the dog, allergies, etc. The other half comes to them from shelters. Some shelter dogs are unclaimed strays and some are surrendered to shelters by their owners. They work closely with shelters and other rescue groups across the state.
- Eastshore Humane Association: The mission of the Eastshore Humane Association and Animal Shelter is to promote responsible pet (companion animal) ownership in Calumet County and to care for those animals without responsible ownership.
- Fox Valley Humane Association: FVHS serves the greater Fox Valley area as a resource for pets and people, providing protection and quality care for all animals as well as educational programs and animal welfare services for the community.
- Bay Area Humane Society: The Bay Area Humane Society & Animal Shelter, Inc. is a non-profit organization which promotes the humane treatment of animals, reunites pets with their owners, and provides protection, care, and shelter for unwanted and homeless companion animals.