Back to Basics
The 3Rs
What is replacement, refinement, reduction?
The name of the treaty that governs the international trade of wildlife.
What is CITES?
THIS accrediting body certifies sanctuaries while THAT accrediting body certifies zoos.
THIS: What is Global Federation for Animal Sanctuaries (GFAS)?
THAT: What is Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA)?
The full name of the PHS Policy.
What is the Public Health Service Policy on Human Care and use of Laboratory Animals?
The three federal laws we discussed related to support animal law.
What are the ADA, FHA, Air Carrier Access Act?
Shiz Zhu Emma
Who is the dog that was euthanized at the direction of deceased owner’s will?
The Act that enshrines CITES into US law.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
The three main pillars of AZA accredited zoos.
What is Education, Research, and Conservation?
The Act that established the PHS Policy.
What is the Health Research Extension Act (HREA)?
The term used under the Fair House Act to include both service animals and emotional support animals.
What is an assistance animal?
Agency capture
What is the term used to describe the exchange of personnel between industry and the agency that regulates that industry (and back)?
The agency primarily responsible for overseeing the implementation of the ESA for aquatic animals.
What is NOAA?
Cetacean
What is a marine mammal of the order Cetacea; e.g., dolphin.
The agency responsible for enforcing the PHS Policy.
What is the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW)?
A support animal related document that has no legal significance but may have practical effect.
What is a third-party service animal certification?
Steven Wise
Who is the founder of the Non-Human Rights Project (NhRP)?
The agency primarily responsible for overseeing the implementation of the ESA on land. (And freshwater)
What is US Fish & Wildlife Service?
This form of animal entertainment is prohibited by the Animal Welfare Act.
What is animal fighting?
The animal scope of the PHS Policy. (Aka the definition of animal in the policy.)
What are vertebrate animals?
The legal phrase that specifies the situation in which a public museum may legally ask a service dog to leave.
What is "out of control"?
"The Guide"
What is the welfare guideline mandated by the PHS Policy but developed by a third-party non-government body?
The US law primarily responsible for protecting aquatic mammals from being taken from the wild.
What is the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA)?
Five animals covered by the MMPA. Dolphins and whales are also covered.
Only entities that do this are covered by the PHS Policy.
What is receive federal funding (from a public service department) for research with animals?
What is Henderson v. Five Properties LLC (E.D. La, 2025)?