Sites offering online consumer sales of pet-related merchandise should be submitted to the appropriate breed/species category under Shopping/Pets

Commercial sites will only be listed if they include substantial non-commercial content.

Recreation/Pets/Animal_Assisted_Therapy is for sites dealing with the concepts and methodologies of this field or for national organizations. Local groups should submit their sites to the appropriate Regional/ locality.

Breeders' sites should consist of more than just contact information.

Recreation/Pets/Sitters_and_Walkers is for informational sites only about the practice of professional animal caretakers. Services should submit their sites to the appropriate Regional/ locality.

Recreation/Pets/Travel is for sites about traveling with pets. Transportation agencies and boarding facilities should not be submitted here.
Recreation/Pets/Travel/Transportation is for pet transportation and quarantine sites.

Boarding facilities should submit their sites to the appropriate Regional/ local category.

Pet sitters, small-animal trainers and other local businesses or groups that provide pet services on a strictly local basis and are primarily of local interest should submit their sites to the appropriate Regional/ local category.

Pet health sites with content of a general nature or diseases, conditions and treatments should be submitted to Health/Animal/Pets

Veterinarian practices may submit to Regional/ and Health/Animal/Veterinary_Medicine/Veterinarians

Pet franchises should submit their sites to Business/

Submit Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) sites about programs that provide support for patients and shut-ins through visits by selected and trained animals and their handlers. Also submit Animal Assisted Activity (AAA) sites about physical therapy through interaction with specially trained animals. This category does not include Service Animals (such as Guide Dogs) or Theraputic Riding for the Handicapped.

Please also go through the subcategories and select the most appropriate category to submit your site to, and submit your site ONCE. Sites with only one page with little or no information and/or under constuction sites or multiple subpages from the same site will NOT be listed.

Please submit all sites to their correct category and location.

Non-English language sites should be submitted to the corresponding subcat in World.

If you are selling a cat-related product, do not submit your site to Recreation/Pets/Cats. It will not be listed here. Submit instead to Shopping/Pets/Cats_and_Dogs/Cats .

This category is for general pet discussions only.

Breed-specific discussion sites should be submitted at the breed level. (for example - Border Collie discussion sites should be submitted to Recreation/Pets/Dogs/Breeds/Herding_Group/Border_Collie/Chats_and_Forums/ ) If there is not an existing Chats and Forums category, then submit to the specific breed.

Species specific sites should be submitted at the species level. (for example, general dog discussion groups should be submitted to Recreation/Pets/Dogs/Chats_and_Forums/ )

This is where you list your site if you offer a photo contest for pets.

If your site is about your breeding operation, your purebred pet, a purebred breed-specific rescue service or a single-breed club, please find your breed in Recreation/Pets/Dogs/Breeds.

Submit your site to the Breeders, Pets, Rescue or Pets subcategory of that breed's category. [some more unusual breeds do not yet have such subcategories; submit your site to that breed's main category].

If you are selling a product, do not submit your site to Recreation/Pets/Dogs. It will not be listed here. All such sites are listed in Shopping/Pets/Dogs.

If you have a boarding kennel, grooming, training or pet sitting service, please submit your site to the proper locality in Regional. Your site will not be listed in Recreation/Pets/Dogs.

Thank you.

If your site focuses on online sales, please submit it to Shopping: Pets: Exotic or a more appropriate category under Shopping: Pets.

***If you are seeking a description change, be sure the description you are submitting meets ODP guidelines. We will NOT change the site description to your slogan or write it in pitchman's language.

1. Before you submit your site, look for a subcategory. Information about this hobby is often very specialized; submitting your site to the proper subcategory will help your information reach the right people. It's also easier on the editors and may result in your site being listed faster.

2. If you are selling a particular product or product line, or are running a site of which the main function is product sales _do not_ submit here. Submit to Shopping/Pets/Fish instead. Submitting here *will not* get your site listed in this category, and repeatedly submitting to this branch of the directory may result in your site being removed altogether.

3. If your site is not in the English language, do not submit here. Submit in the appropriate category of World/; you will find links to aquarium categories in various languages on the main Recreation/Pets/Fish_and_Aquaria page, near the top. If yours is a bilingual site submit the English index page and not a front language-selector page.

4. Redirect URLs, such as *.de.vu or *.come.to, especially those which use a frame as their backend, will be changed to refer to the proper URL, for many reasons.

5. If your site is a chat, submit to Chats and Forums. Similarly, if it is a directory, freshwater specific, or marine specific submit to the proper category.

By the Terms of Service, the editors and staff reserve the right to place pages in categories they deem most appropriate, and to describe them as we see fit. Submitting to (or near to) the proper category generally results in faster placement of your site in the ODP. Placement of sites in subcategories makes the directory more user-friendly and thus (ideally) brings you more hits.

Before you submit your site, follow this checklist.

• Is the site complete? Are there dead links? Do most of the pages say "Coming Soon"?
• Does your site offer English-language content, and are you submitting the English page?
• Will some subcategory better characterize the site?
• Does your site offer unique content, and is said content accurate?

-Ben K, et al (The ODP Fish and Aquaria editors)

No sites are listed in this category.

Sites about horses as pets should be submitted to Sports: Equestrian: Personal Pages.

Sites covering the equestrian arts should be submitted to Sports/Equestrian.

Sites covering breeding should be submitted to Sports/Equestrian.

Sites covering business aspects of horses should be submitted to Business/Industries/Agriculture_and_Forestry/Livestock/Horses_and_Ponies .

This category includes sites offering photo collections of pet images and photographs. These photo collections should include more than one type of pet. Generally, photos should be of professional quality. Sites that include personal photograph collections of your pets should be submitted under Recreation/Pets/Personal_Pages/

Image Galleries devoted to a specific type of pet (e.g., dogs, cats, etc.) should be submitted under the specific category for that pet.

If the site's focus is a particular pet or topic, it should be submitted to a more appropriate category.

If your site is about Pets themselves, please check out Recreation/Pets before submitting here.

If your site is a Home Page about pets, please check out Home Pages before submitting here.

Sites selling homemade diets for pets should be submitted to Shopping: Pets: Food.

Sites should be primarily concerned with pigs as pets.

For sites pertaining to pigs used for food, see Science/Biology/Genetics/Eukaryotic/Animal/Mammal/Swine or Business/Agriculture_and_Forestry/Livestock/Swine

Sites offering online consumer sales of pig-related merchandise should be submitted to the appropriate category under Shopping/Pets

Commercial sites will only be listed if they include substantial non-commercial content.

For Rescues and Sanctuary sites, see Recreation/Pets/Pigs/Rescues_and_Shelters

For Organizations other than rescues and sanctuaries, see Recreation/Pets/Pigs/Organizations

For sites about an individual's pet pig(s), see Recreation/Pets/Pigs/Personal_Pages

For sites offering pigs for sale, see Recreation/Pets/Pigs/Breeders

Breeders' sites should consist of more than just contact information.

This category lists rescue organizations and clubs which are involved in helping rabbits.

Please submit the main URL for the site and include a brief description of the site's features and content.

• Submit your site using your main url.
• Use your site's actual title.
• Create a brief description, under 25 words, listing the current content of your site (not the future content)
• Do not use first person verbiage (we, our, us).
• Do not use marketing verbiage. (We're the best!, Most awesome site, Check it Out!)
• Avoid using terms such as much more, lots, more, or anything else that would indicate that there is more to your site than what is in the description. Take the time to list out what the site has instead of using these terms.
• Your description should look like the ones in the rest of the category. If they don't you did something wrong and you need to fix it.
  

  All sites dealing primarily with herpetology (reptile and amphibian study) can be submitted to this category.

  Description Examples:

  1. Education, breeding, feeding of reptiles. Includes frog gallery and MIDI files.

  2. Images of iguanas and corn snakes with background information, care sheets and related links.

  3. General husbandry advice for new herpetologist. Features chat room and FAQs.

  If the site has frames you may also want to add that to the description. If the site requires components such as Shockwave add that to the description as well.

  Claiming to have anything in the description that your site does not have may result in your site not being listed. Not following these guidelines will result in your site not being listed.

This category lists directories or sites with comprehensive lists of links that are related to a variety of different species of pets or pets in general.

Sites offering links for a single specific species of animal should be submitted to the appropriate category for that animal.

Submit sites about rodents, including: Chinchillas, Chipmunks, Degus, Gerbils, Guinea Pigs, Hamsters, Jirds, Mice, Prairie Dogs and Rats.

Directory sites should have a substantial number of listings to be considered for an ODP listing. When a site has, say, two or three petsitters for all of Texas, then the site isn't going to be listable.

If you submit a pet sitting service site to this category, it won't be listed here. It will be moved to the appropriate Regional category. Directory sites that are specific to a small region, say a single state or a single city, should be submitted to that state of city's Regional category.

Note that there is NO Recreation/Pets/Kennels category. Kennels should be submitted to the locality where they do business.

Sites selling book about "how to be a pet sitter" should go to Shopping/Publications/Books/Personal_Growth/Career_Planning/

Note that there is NO Recreation/Pets/Dogs/Walkers category. Dog walkers should submit their sites to the locality in which they do business.

Submissions for individual petsitting services should be submitted to the approprite Regional area - these services are not listed here.

Those of you submitting a site for a single property which happens to allow pets will be referred to the appropriate Regional category. In order to target those people looking for pet-friendly lodging you should consider submitting your site to several of the guides and directories found in this category.

Thank you, lindyhop123