Spring Hill Horse Rescue Farm A horse rescue in Vermont, all breeds, all situations including PMU foals.They also host Natural Horsemanship clinics....where we adopted Saorsa!

Standardbred Pleasure Horse Organization of NH Promotes the diversity of this racing breed, showing ex-racers can be "retired" to trail, show, pleasure driving, cow working, hunting/jumping, and so on. Not an adoption group they do offer a listing of available Standardbreds. It is a "well kept secret" that these horses make GREAT riding horses...a secret we want revealed!

Standardbred Pleasure Horse Organization of Maine Ditto, Maine branch (their links pages has links for other states)

Anti- Premarin Information

Premarin (Premarine) ERT/HRT & PMU Farms Controversy: The "yellow pill"

United Animal Nation's Anti-Premarin Campaign information, "I've Switched" button campaign, foal and mare adoptions. Links to other animal welfare causes

Anti -Slaughter

Americans Against Horse Slaughter

Animal Welfare Insitute's Horse Slaughter Factss and FAQs

Habitat for Horses

Horse Slaughter, An Unnecessary Evil by Raymond Goydon and Stephen Kindel

HorseTalk's Horse Slaughter Debate: Separating Fact from Rhetoric

HOOFPAC Political Action Committee

Relationship Between Abuse to Slaughter by John Holland

Stop Horse Slaughter

When Horse Slaughter Comes to Town

Older Horses

Traveller's Rest Equine Elders Sanctuary Promoting humane treatment of elder equines... Saoradh is their dental care poster boy!

Training/"Natural Horsemanship"

Dennis Reis

Leslie Desmond

Other

Winds of War ---recognizing and honoring the horses who served humans during war, form ancient times to recent.

The Horse in Human History

New Hampshire Equestrians Online

Breeds of Livestock --Horses

Medieval Horse Guild Equine reenactment

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Dog Sites

Dog commands in Gaelic

Greyhound Adoption

NH Greyhound Placement Service This is the wonderful adoption service in New Hampshire where we got Irony, Bran, Scolaighe, Òrlaith and Cù from....if you live in NH and are looking for a great dog, they left behind a lot of friends and there are always new Greys arriving

The Greyhound Project's Adopt a Greyhound page Information on adopting and on kennels in various locations.

Greyhound Rescue Groups in the UK Several Greyhound organizations in the UK with information on rescue and adoption in the UK and Europe.

Fewterers Guild ---not an adoption group but an effort to promote adoption at Renn. Faires and similar events. A fewterer is a "keeper of hounds."

Other services

Winning Hearts Gifts --the GPS Catalog New and revised, now with online shopping! Get cool stuff while helping the hounds at GPS

Greyhound Protection League

Other Sighthound sites:

Gazehounds Of New England ---NE Lure Coursing and Large Gazehound Racing Association club

American Sighthound Field Association

Scottish Deerhound Club of America ---information on history, lure coursing, breed standard, rescue and placement.

Irish Wolfhound Association of New England ---includes information on rescue and adoption as well as breed standard, membership, events.

The Official Lurcher Web-site ---Lurchers are various crosses of Sighthounds and other breeds, usually herding dogs bred for hunting in the British Isles....Longdogs are mixes of Sighthounds for the same purpose.

Little Lobito Galgo Español ---"Spanish Greyhounds" Descended from the Sighthounds of Gaul, these hounds may show more of the original ancestry they share with Greyhounds, Deerhounds, and Wolfhounds.

Border Collie and Other Working Stock Dog sites:

All About Border Collies

The Border Collie Museum

Collie Rescue League of New England

German Shepherd Rescue of New England, Inc.

Herding Dogs in Prince Edward Island ---"Dances with Sheepdogs" trainer and clinician Lorna McMaster

Other Dog Rescues in NE

For The Love of Dog ---Rottweiler, Pit Bulls and other breed rescue in NH

General dog sites

Chazhound's Free Dog Site Dog and pet care resource including games, postcards, and The Doggie Directory.

The Dog Hause "A play ground for pets and pet lovers" Spay/neuter information, fun facts, superstitions, fonts, clip art and lots more!

Dogs -The Poop.com "The site where a dog can have its day"

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Cattle Sites

American Dexter Cattle Association ---A small dual purpose cow that originates in Ireland....one of the breeds we'd consider if we felt we could afford cattle.

Baum Farm --- Raw Jersey milk in north-east VT, where we get our milk.

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Poultry Sites

Dorking Chickens ---an old breed that the Romans are said to have introduced to Britain and is the oldest non-game chicken there. We now raising Silver Grays and will eventually be raising Reds as well.

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Goat Sites

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Rats!!

The Rat Fan Club On line home of The Rat Lady and the Rat Report, best information on Rats as pets out there. (we had rats, we may have them again... we will always promote them as one of the best pets there is, especially for anyone living in an apartment)

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Wolf Sites

Wolf Education and Research Center

Wolf Park Web Site Non-profit organization for research and education on wolves and wolf behavior.

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Corbie (Crow, Raven) Sites

American Society of Crows and Ravens

Raven's Aviary Information about all Corvidae, lore, stories, pictures, more

Homesteading Sites

Mother Earth News ---"The Original Country Magazine"

Countryside & Small Stock Journal ---"The magazine of modern homesteading"

Backwoods Home Magazine ---"practical ideas for self-reliant living" A bit more right wing in tone than the others, but always a good reminder that not all you might meet in the backwoods are "tree huggers."

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