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Veterinary Authority is a reference resource covering the full scope of veterinary medicine in the United States — licensing structures, specialty care, regulatory frameworks, animal welfare standards, and the practical realities of finding and affording care. The contact page exists for questions, corrections, and collaboration inquiries related to that content. It is not a veterinary practice and cannot provide medical advice about a specific animal.

Service area covered

The content published here covers veterinary medicine as practiced across all 50 U.S. states, with particular attention to federal regulatory bodies — the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine, and the Environmental Protection Agency for pesticide and antiparasitic product oversight — alongside state-level licensing boards governed by individual practice acts. The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) sets voluntary professional standards that are widely referenced across that regulatory layer.

Subject matter spans companion animals, large animals, equine care, exotic and zoo species, aquatic animals, and wildlife. It also extends into intersecting domains: zoonotic disease, food safety, public health, and the One Health framework that links human, animal, and environmental medicine. If a message concerns a topic that falls clearly outside that scope, a response will say so plainly rather than stretch for relevance.

For urgent or emergency animal care needs, the relevant resource is the veterinary emergency and critical care overview, not this contact form. No message sent here can substitute for a licensed veterinarian's clinical judgment, and response time is measured in business days, not minutes.

What to include in your message

A clear, specific message gets a faster and more useful response. The difference between "I have a question about dog food" and "I'm looking for a source on AAFCO nutrient profiles for senior dogs and couldn't find one on the nutrition page" is the difference between a back-and-forth that takes four exchanges and one that resolves in one reply.

Structure a message to include the following 4 elements:

1. The specific page or topic in question — a URL or page title is more useful than a general subject area.
2. The nature of the inquiry — factual correction, missing source citation, content gap, licensing question about a specific state board, or professional collaboration.
3. The claimed or preferred source — if a correction is being submitted, name the authoritative source (e.g., a specific AVMA policy document, a state veterinary practice act, an APHIS regulation under 9 CFR Part 1).
4. A contact email address — one that is actually monitored. Responses do not go to unmonitored addresses.

Messages that report broken links, outdated regulatory references, or gaps in coverage of a specific specialty — such as veterinary anesthesiology or veterinary ophthalmology — are genuinely useful and given priority. The content on this site is maintained as living reference material, and external eyes catch things that internal review misses.

Response expectations

The standard response window is 3 to 5 business days for general inquiries. Content correction requests with a named source citation typically receive a faster reply because they require less back-and-forth to evaluate. Messages without a return email address receive no response — there is no other channel to use.

2 categories of messages will not receive a response:

• Clinical questions about a specific animal — symptoms, diagnoses, drug dosages, or treatment decisions. These require a licensed veterinarian. The AVMA's veterinarian locator and the low-cost veterinary care resources page exist for exactly that reason.
• Legal advice requests — questions about a specific malpractice situation, licensing dispute, or regulatory enforcement action require a licensed attorney, not a reference website. The veterinary malpractice and liability and veterinary ethics pages describe those frameworks in general terms only.

Professional inquiries — from veterinary educators, researchers, or practitioners who want to flag a factual issue or propose a content collaboration — are welcome and handled with more depth than standard editorial corrections.

Additional contact options

For researchers or educators whose inquiry is specifically about regulatory compliance content, the primary public sources for that material are already linked throughout the site: the AVMA's policy library, the USDA APHIS Animal Welfare Act resources, and the FDA's Veterinary Feed Directive regulations. Those sources are the ground truth — the content here is a structured reference layer built on top of them, not a replacement.

For questions specifically about veterinary licensing requirements in a particular state, the authoritative answer comes from that state's veterinary medical board, not from this site. The American Association of Veterinary State Boards (AAVSB) maintains a directory of all 50 state licensing authorities and is the correct starting point for that kind of verification.

Practitioners looking for continuing education information should reference the AVMA RACE registry maintained through AAVSB, which lists approved CE programs across specialties including those governed by the American Board of Veterinary Specialties (ABVS). The continuing education for veterinarians page covers that structure in detail.