Sentences with phrase «between different breeds of dog»

These findings show that there are differences in urine composition between different breeds of dog fed the same diet.

The book explains Coren's theories about the differences in intelligence between different breeds of dogs.

Although adult height and body weight are strong predictors of bone sarcoma between different breeds of dogs, the association between skeletal growth or body size and bone sarcoma risk had never been analyzed within a breed.

Not exact matches

A: Individual dogs of the same breed can have very different activity levels and temperaments, so rather than focusing on a particular breed, I recommend that prospective dog owners look for a fit between an individual dog and the family's lifestyle.

When some breeders pursue traditional, function - based goals while others breed to produce show dogs, pets, or dogs used for a different kind of function a significant divergence in type and behavior can arise between the different strains within the breed.

There can even be variation between methods of training that work for different dogs within the same breed.

With the different wants of owners and the different traits and behaviors in different breeds, mixes or even different lines of purebred dogs, it is the unusual situation where the match between dog and owner is perfect.

Hi Sally, PRA is not breed specific, so yes, a mating between dogs of different breeds carries the same risk as a mating between dogs of the same breed.

If, as seems likely, different countries vary in the average relationship to be found between dogs of a specific breed then inbreeding will not be defined alike in each area.

Maternal antibodies weaken over time but the rate of weakening differs between different dogs and even different breeds.

As different as all of these dog breeds are, they all diverge from the same species which was domesticated somewhere between 14,000 and 17,000 years ago.

I am not biased against mixed - breed dogs in the least, but matings between very different breeds are the biggest cause of abnormalities in puppies and unwanted pets.

The fact of the matter is that all dogs have the same basic nutritional requirements — there are no major differences between different breeds.

A mixed - breed dog is a cross between two or more dogs of different breeds.

These so call «drover dogs» found their way to the town of Rottweil in Germany, and Rottweilers are likely a result of breeding between many different breeds from that region, including several mastiff breeds responsible for contributing the dense bone structure and solid musculature of these stout animals.

As defined, a «Designer Dog» is the resultant offspring produced by a cross between two different breeds of pure bred dogs.

We love pups of all different sizes — big, small, and somewhere in between — so we are pairing up with the pet food brand, Taste of the Wild, to discuss important factors in picking a dog food for your small breed dog.

Between 3 - 15 % of dogs have atopy; and the breeds with the biggest problems vary country to country, so you'll find a different list of British dogs with atopy than of American dogs with atopy.

Whereas most dogs show the same ophthalmoscopic abnormalities the age at which these abnormalities develop varies considerably between breeds and genetically different forms of PRA can be broadly divided into early - and late - onset forms.

This wide difference between the lifespan of different breeds is largely due to the health issues that we humans have created in our dogs.

The correlation between these two selection indexes (0.771 — 0.774) is sufficiently less than unity enabling the selection of dogs with different genetic propensity for laxity and for osteoarthritic CHD changes in GSDs; this may also be applicable in other breeds.