Online stores specializing in activity and sports equipment should be submitted to Shopping: Pets: Dogs: Activities.

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 the appropriate group.

Submit your site to the Breeders, Pets, Rescue or Clubs 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]. Please include a location with your submission details.

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/Cats_and_Dogs/Dogs/.

Sites of businesses providing K9 dogs and supplies should be submitted to Business: K9 Dogs and Supplies.

Boarding kennels, grooming, training or pet sitting services, should be submitted to the proper locality in Regional. Your site will not be listed in Recreation/Pets/Dogs.

Please send sites that only offer puppies or dogs for sale to the appropriate location in Regional.

Recreational categories are intended for the hobbyist with a focus on the breed and showing the animals; on limited occasions litters or puppies may become available and offered to the public.

Websites whose primary focus is to sell puppies or dogs will be considered a business. Currently all businesses selling puppies or dogs as companions, pets, or show animals should be listed in Regional under the businesses physical location.

Thank you.

Sites for individual breeds should go to their respective categories under that breed in Recreation: Pets: Dogs: Breeds.

Sites about specific breeds or breed groups as well as breeder sites should be submitted to the appropriate category under Recreation: Pets: Dogs: Breeds.

If the club is an all-breed activity club, it should be submitted to the appropriate activity category under Activity Clubs.

If the club is for a specific breed, it should be submitted to the breed category. The breed categories are listed here.

If the website links to other websites about numerous dog-related topics, then this category is for you.

If the site links to sites about a variety of different animals, not just dogs, please submit the site to Recreation: Pets: Resources: Directories.

If the site addresses only one area of interest related to dogs, please submit to a more appropriate category. For example if the site is about dog training it should be listed in: Recreation: Pets: Dogs: Training.

Some other categories that may be more appropriate for the site are:

Recreation: Pets: Dogs: Rescue
Health: Animal: Mammals: Dogs
Recreation: Pets: Dogs: News and Media
Recreation: Pets: Dogs: Personal Pages
Recreation: Pets: Dogs: Hunting
Shopping: Pets: Cats and Dogs: Dogs
Shopping: Publications: Books: Pets: Dogs
Science: Biology: Zoology: Chordates: Mammals: Canines


When writing the description make sure it is easy to understand and to the point. Write a clear overview without making any claims about quality or using brand-names.

Please submit sites relating to canine genetics.

This category is for sites that provide information about dog grooming.

It is NOT for grooming businesses or for sites selling grooming products.

Grooming businesses and individual groomers are listed in Regional categories only. They will NOT be listed here.

Sites selling grooming products are listed in Shopping: Pets: Supplies: Grooming.

Sites about specific breeds belong in the appropriate breed category under Recreation: Pets: Dogs: Breeds.

Sites for training facilities and boarding/training kennels belong in the appropriate Locality category under Regional.

If you don''t see an appropriate category for the website you are submitting, please check the Society: Issues: Animal Welfare area before submitting the site to this category.

Certain commercial site will be accepted if not purely affiliates of others.

This category is for Mixed breed animals.

If your site is about a purebred pet, please DO NOT submit it here. Go to Recreation/Pets/Dogs/Breeds and find your breed. Submit your site to the Pets subcategory of that breed; if there is no Pets subcategory, simply submit it to the breed''s main category.

Please do not submit any breeder''s sites, or sites selling products to this category. Breeders are listed in the above referenced Recreation/Pets/Dogs/Breeds categories, and sites selling products are only listed in Shopping/Pets/Dogs.

Thank you.

This category lists rescue organizations which deal with all breeds of dogs only.

Do not list specific breed rescues here. They will not be listed.

Organizations which focus on a specific breed should be listed in the appropriate category under Breeds. Please see Recreation/Pets/Dogs/Breeds/Rescues and Shelters and search for the rescue subcategory under your specific breed category.

Shelters that deal with all kinds of pets are listed in Society/Organizations/Animal Welfare/Rescues and Shelters and will not be listed here.

General training information for experts and novice owners.

If your site is mainly about Obedience training, please send it to Obedience.

If you operate a commercial training school or consultancy, please submit your site to the proper locality in Regional. Your site will not be listed here.

If you are selling a training product, do not submit your site here. All such sites go to Shopping/Pets/Cats_and_Dogs/Dogs/Training/.

Web rings limited to a specific breed should be submitted to that breed''s category.

Web rings limited to a specific activity should be submitted to the appropriate activity category.