Sentences with phrase «animal year you were born»

Chinese New Year: A fun spinner that shows you which animal year you were born in, according to the Chinese Zodiac.

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The site, which is best known for its power (and proprietary software) to render viral content like cute animal pictures and lists for the bored office worker, added some gravitas to the mix this year.

When my sister's first child was born, I showered her with gifts — 11 years later she still has the first stuffed animal I bought for her.

It's a greater fantasy NOT to believe that there is an all powerful invisible god somewhere in the universe who knows everything, can do anything, hears everyone's thoughts, etc, or that someone died and rose from the dead three days later (this same person was born of a virgin), or that someone spoke to god via a burning bush, or that one old man, who lived to be 900 years old, built a boat that held two of every animal on the earth to survive a worldwide flood?

Every year, millions of animals born into Australian care and protection are exported live, only to be killed in countries where there are no protections to safeguard their welfare.

The 37 - year - old Matola, who was born in the U.S. but became a Belizean citizen in 1990, is in the tradition of eccentric, fiercely driven Western women who left behind their home countries and devoted themselves to the animals of distant places.

If dozens of human and animal studies published over the past six years are borne out by large clinical trials, nicotine — freed at last of its noxious host, tobacco, and delivered instead by chewing gum or transdermal patch — may prove to be a weirdly, improbably effective drug for relieving or preventing a variety of neurological disorders, including Parkinson's disease, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Tourette's and schizophrenia.

Polar bears, the poster - child for climate change, are among the animals most affected by the seasonal and year - to - year changes in Arctic sea ice, because they rely on this surface for essential activities such as hunting, traveling and breeding.

Nine thousand years ago, they survived frigid year - round temperatures in animal - skin tents some 500 kilometers north of what is now the Russian mainland, and they were the only people ever known to hunt large numbers of polar bears without firearms.

The ambitious census was born 3 years ago, after marine biologists realized that new technologies — from sensors that can track individual fish and whales to genetic «bar code» readers that can speedily separate microscopic species — could revolutionize efforts to document the diversity, distribution, and abundance of ocean animals.

Egg and sperm - like cells have recently been derived from animal stem cells, and this year the first mice were born from lab - grown sperm.

Later, when their young are born, we take blood samples to see if the birds that we scared with the stuffed animal earlier in the year have mated with several males.»

Many animals test their legs and totter forth only hours after they are born, but humans need a year before they take their first, hesitant steps.

One warm and fuzzy note: an Icelandic team uncovered a polar bear jawbone from the Arctic's Svalbard archipelago that dated to more than 100,000 years ago, suggesting that the animals are capable of weathering prolonged warm spells.

Saber - tooth cats and short - faced bears were among the animals that disappeared from Patagonia 12,300 years ago.

Fish - eating animals like the otter, bear, osprey and dipper may have been involved, but the most likely theory is that hunters and fishermen who resided in the area 2,000 years ago played a part.

Mild oxygen levels in shallow seas but oxygen - poor deep oceans lasted for some 1.3 billion years during a time that has been dubbed the «Boring Billion» but eventually led to the development of mitochondria that now power multicellular planet and animal life (Nick Lane, New Scientist, February 10, 2010; Rachel Ehrenberg, Science News, September 29, 2009; Johnston et al, 2009; and H.D. Holland, 2006).

Intriguingly, animal bones from Dikaka, Ethiopia, which bear stone - inflicted cut marks, date to at least 3.39 million years ago, suggesting that stone tools were made and used even before the Lomekwi 3 items.

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However, this is a sort of reunion of sorts, as some of the actors (Christopher George and Richard Jaeckel), director and crew worked on Grizzly the year before, and they came back for more as they just couldn't seem to get enough of animals on a rampage - particularly bears on a rampage.

As a kid I found Harvest Moon boring, and even when everyone else at Kotaku was obsessing over Animal Crossing last year, I just couldn't play it for more than a couple of hours.

I even have a Let's Play of the game going on right now, so I am no where near as bored with this game as I probably should be xD Considering that this game is like four years old at this point (definitely the longest I ever played a Animal Crossing game.)

Jack doesn't have toys or animals because he was born in the room in which his mother, Ma, has been held captive for the last 7 years.

For the novel, all of this had to be simplified — a catastrophe years earlier, the company refusing to come to court, the factory still poisoning, people still ill, children being born with terrible deformities, politicians selling their own people down the river in return for dollars — hardly ever do these issues come into the foreground, and whenever they do, Animal is there to debunk and deride, dissolving polemic in the acid of his own cynicism.

For six - year - old Billy that connection exists with Ollie, the stuffed animal his mother made him when he was born.

Snif - Snax Miami - based Snif - Snax was born when a successful 35 - year veteran in the salmon industry was encouraged by his daughter — a longtime animal - rights advocate — to develop a line of high - quality dog treats.

Also included is a rope bone toy made out of part of your puppy's baby blanket along with a stuffed animal (a bear, elephant or froggie friend) what I love about these special toys is that your puppy will cherish these two items, sometimes years later my puppy people send photos of their puppies and that toy from their first home.

The Companion Animal Parasite Council (CAPC) provides great data each year on how tick - borne diseases impact dogs in each region of the United States.Take a look at your state to see which tick - borne disease your dog is most at risk for contracting.

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Team Member: Donna Position at our hospital: Senior Veterinary Assistant Years in the veterinary field: 15 years Favorite Animal (s): English Bulldog Her fur family: Izaiah a Pittbull, Ezekiel an American Bulldog, and Adin an Old English Bulldog A little more about Donna:» I was born and raised in Hanford, Ca and later moved to Fresno when I turned 18 where I first started working for a day pracYears in the veterinary field: 15 years Favorite Animal (s): English Bulldog Her fur family: Izaiah a Pittbull, Ezekiel an American Bulldog, and Adin an Old English Bulldog A little more about Donna:» I was born and raised in Hanford, Ca and later moved to Fresno when I turned 18 where I first started working for a day pracyears Favorite Animal (s): English Bulldog Her fur family: Izaiah a Pittbull, Ezekiel an American Bulldog, and Adin an Old English Bulldog A little more about Donna:» I was born and raised in Hanford, Ca and later moved to Fresno when I turned 18 where I first started working for a day practice.

ACE pays close attention to new publications that have a bearing on animal welfare issues, and compiling an annotated research library to post on the website is a project that we've undertaken this year.

The last orca has been born in captivity at a SeaWorld park in San Antonio, Texas, just over a year after the theme park decided to stop breeding orcas following animal rights protests and declining ticket sales.

Our fleet of mobile clinics has sterilized more than 102,000 animals — including thousands of feral cats and pit bulls — for free or almost nothing in the last 10 years, preventing tens of thousands of animals from being born into a world already bursting at the seams with unwanted and homeless animals.

Frustration over the program's persistent lack of transparency about the methods it uses to kill millions of animals each year, including coyotes, bobcats, otters, foxes, prairie dogs and black bears (and countless non-target animals) is growing and media attention, including a recent in - depth opinion piece in The New York Times, has begun to shine light on this federal program's shadowy activities with a call for reform.

The connection is made to the irrefutable, massive, negative impact puppy mills have on this country's pet population crisis and how our society deals with it — Millions of dogs are born in puppy mills every year, while, in the same period, millions are put to death in animal shelters across the country.

The last seven years have produced several high - impact, feature - length documentaries about the plight of animals, such as The Cove, Earthlings, Born to be Wild, Dealing Dogs, and Death on a Factory Farm.

You might remember Bear... a three - year - old Mastiff - mix who became the first animal adopted after Animal Rescue League of Boston (ARL) officials responded to the Westport Farm incident last July which resulted in more than 1,400 animals being reanimal adopted after Animal Rescue League of Boston (ARL) officials responded to the Westport Farm incident last July which resulted in more than 1,400 animals being reAnimal Rescue League of Boston (ARL) officials responded to the Westport Farm incident last July which resulted in more than 1,400 animals being rescued.

A wildlife center in Ramona that for 30 years has been caring for injured birds, bears, bobcats and other animals unveiled a new $ 1 million dollar veterinary clinic on Thursday.

-- Breed: Cavalier King Charles Spaniel — Age / Birthday: Emmie is 9 years old and born on December 19, 2007 — Where I Live: Emmie lives in Irving Park / Chicago — Joys in Life: Emmie loves giving kisses, her treats, people, her stuffed moose, more treats, barking at animals on the TV and snuggles on...

Billions of years of evolution have resulted in housecats who are essentially lions on a small scale: cute and fluffy, but born to thrive by consuming the flesh of prey animals.

The most common source of owned cats was from a friend or relative (42 % in 2005 versus 33 % in 1993), followed by being found as a free - roaming homeless cat (20 % in 2005 versus 32 % in 1993), a public or private animal shelter (16 % in 2005 versus 12 % in 1993), a breed rescue group (9 % in 2005 versus 2 % in 1993), a breeder (4 % in both years), an ad in a newspaper or adopted or purchased in a pet store (2 % in 2005 versus 6 % in 1993), a negligible percentage born at home (< 1 % in 2005 versus 6 % in 1993), and the remainder coming from various minor or unknown sources.

Each year, thousands of kittens are born during spring and summer — and many end up in animal shelters, waiting for loving homes.

Each year, thousands of kittens are born during spring and summer — and many end up in animal shelters, waiting...

It's estimated that in the USA every hour 12,500 puppies are born (while it's estimated between 6 - 8 million dogs enter the US animal shelter system each year).

We bear it with her, and we want very much to find just the right home for this lovely animal who is almost nine years old.

After a few years she discovered a keen interest in emergency medicine, from which her passion for small animal medicine was borne.

Spaying and neutering are routine, affordable surgeries that can prevent thousands of animals from being born, only to suffer and struggle to survive on the streets, be abused by cruel or neglectful people, or be euthanized in animal shelters for lack of a loving home.Spaying and neutering makes a big difference: Just one unaltered female dog and her offspring can produce 67,000 puppies in only six years.

That's nearly 3 million animals whose lives are ended each year, just because they were born.

Born in Brussels to British parents, she grew up with dogs and was already an animal activist by the time she was six years old.

The Companion Animal Parasite Council recommends that all dogs be tested yearly for tick - borne diseases and that all dogs be treated with effective tick - control agents year - round.