Sentences with phrase «avoid animals acting»

Not exact matches

He ultimately argues that there was an original act of violence which ultimately led to the possibility of the destruction of all people in the community, and so to avoid the ever - increasing cycles of violence, the community selected a ritual victim (a human or an animal) that would both carry the guilt of the community as well as the violent tendencies into death, thus satisfying the demands for revenge and the blood lust that comes with it.

Thomas Aquinas noted that natural bodies act to obtain the best result An animal, for example, avoids danger and does not hurt itself on purpose.

Ben (voice of Sam Elliott) is a cow who for years has been the leader and sober voice of reason among the animals at a farm where the critters are a bit unusual — they can walk on two legs, talk, swim, and act like humans, though they have the good sense to avoid doing these things while humans are around.

Parvene Farhoody — an animal behaviorist who uses positive reinforcement methods — describes the act of «no action» to avoid aversives as a commonly misunderstood consequence of the old way of training:

The lawsuit makes clear that some commercial dog breeders would prefer to avoid compliance with even the very basic standards of care required by the Animal Welfare Act.

She also pointed to a fatal dog attack that occurred in January 2007 that could have been avoided if proper animal control protocol had been followed — however, when a woman was severely attacked by her son's dog that required her to be hospitalized, animal control did not act on the incident, and the woman was then killed by the same dog 3 weeks later.