A list for people who live with pets and are concerned about animal welfare, pet care, and pet rescue issues in the Washington, DC metro area (including many counties in VA and MD).

List guidelines:

The following topics are examples of pertinent topics for this list:
- questions about pet behavior or health
- local pet-related events
- concerns about local pet-related problems
- announcements of new animal web sites or petitions
Do not post rescue needs on this list: please post announcements of animals in need of help to DC-Rescue@yahoogroups.com

No attachments are allowed on this list; you may, however, upload files or photos via the yahoogroups options at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/metropets/

Although you may use any email address to subscribe to this list, you must sign your posts with your real name.

Netiquette/List Rules:
-Place a clear and succint title in the subject line
- Before forwarding a message:
* ensure that you have obtained permission from the original writer to do so.
* remove the name of that group from the subject line.
* remove all the "junk" in the message, e.g. history of forwardings, email header information, etc. and simply provide the text of the message.
- Healthy discussions are encouraged, but no flaming allowed. Any personal attacks on members of the list will result in the flamer being removed from the list.

Helpful subject headers:
- For offtopic posts, please preceed your subject header with OT:
- For topics that do not pertain to the Washington, DC Metropolitan area, please preceed your subject header with: OUT OF AREA:

No spamming, flaming, solicitation, or promotion of commercial services shall be permitted on this list.
Participants who do not respect these guidelines may be placed on moderation and/or removed from the list at the discretion of the moderators.