Sentences with phrase «by domestic dogs»

Dog bowl aggression is one of the most common and most destructive negative behaviours exhibited by domestic dogs.

Rather than being an agonistic display of territorial defense, urinary scent marking by domestic dogs appears to be a means to make a strange environment smell like home, by masking the unfamiliar odors with individual urine.

Larger prey requires a different technique, but are rarely hunted by domestic dogs.

Root - Gutteridge is currently at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom where her next bioacoustics project, «How Dogs Hear Us: Human speech perception by domestic dogs,» explores what animals of the canine persuasion hear when humans speak.

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Still, one did not purchase very much food for domestic animals because what they did for us was to feed themselves by doing what cats and dogs did, like stalking birds and chasing rabbits.

Gordon's camp was dogged by the release to the media of a 911 from his wife reporting a domestic dispute.

Although the epidemic now seems to have fizzled out, the virus lingers disturbingly close by — in the domestic dogs living on the borders of the park.

Here was an island population of dingoes which experts claimed were the least contaminated of their kind by cross-breeding with domestic dogs.

Similarly, it could be difficult to control emerging pathogens transmitted by pets, which increasingly include exotic species along with traditional domestic animals like dogs and cats.

They are part of a long - running biological experiment to repeat domestication by turning a wild canid — from the family of animals including wolves, foxes, jackals and dogs — into a fox version of a domestic dog (SN: 5/13/17, p. 29).

The domestic cat is easily the world's most popular pet, outnumbering dogs by as many as three to one.

Glasgow's Dr. Mafalda Viana, who led the multi-author study with colleague Dr. Tiziana Lembo, pointed out that «These results suggest that the virus may now be maintained by a broader carnivore community, potentially involving wildlife as well as domestic dogs beyond the immediate vicinity of the Serengeti National Park.

Live births from domestic dog (Canis familiaris) embryos produced by in vitro fertilization.

She needed a farm to host an audacious experiment dreamed up by geneticist Dmitry Belyaev: to create a domestic animal as docile as a dog from aggressive, wily silver foxes.

So a team led by Carlos Bustamante, a comparative geneticist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and Elaine Ostrander, a comparative geneticist with NHGRI, analyzed genetic information from 915 domestic dogs representing 80 different breeds.

The dogs are further threatened by rabies, parvo and canine distemper viruses, which frequently break out in domestic dog populations in rural areas and spread to wild dogs that encounter them.

Marion L East, head of the research team, continues: «The results do not support the long - held assumption that the 1993/1994 epidemic was caused by a virulent CDV variant spilled over from domestic dogs to lions and hyenas in the Serengeti NP.»

An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), conducted genetic analyses of CDV strains obtained from a range of carnivores between 1993 and 2012 and discovered that lethal CDV infections in lions and hyenas during the 1993/1994 epidemic was caused by a rare and genetically distinct CDV strain with three rare mutations not present in any other Serengeti strain isolated from domestic dogs or wild canids.

The first detailed genetic comparison of purebred domestic dogs promises to rewrite the textbooks with new information about breed classification and insights that may improve canine health by boosting understanding of the more than 350 inherited disorders, including cancer, heart disease, epilepsy, blindness and deafness, which affect dogs.

Researchers found domestic dogs can tell the difference between a threatening and pleasant facial expression by gazing into one's eyes.

Some people worry about domestic pets (especially small dogs, like terriers) being poisoned by cane toads — and this is indeed a very real problem not just in Australia but in other parts of the cane toad's introduced range (for example, in Florida).

War Dogs spotlights the apolitical domestic greed of military - industrial cash grabbing, heartily represented by Hill's embodiment of same.

Previous research assumed this was an accidental by - product of humans actively selecting against aggression, but the new study supports the idea that childlike facial expressions in domestic dogs have arisen as a result of indirect selection by humans.

These wild animals are outdoors 24/7, so they're exposed to a much higher risk of being bitten by mosquitoes than our domestic dogs who spend most of their time indoors.

In nature, the front teeth would be cleaned by chewing on skin and hair of prey animals, which is not the case in domestic dogs.

The Hare Indian dog is an extinct domesticated canid; possibly a breed of domestic dog, coydog, or domesticated coyote; formerly found and originally bred in northern Canada by the Hare Indians for coursing.

The basic concept of using a dog crate evolved by studying wolves, which are the domestic dog's nearest relative.

Experiments, such as the silver fox domestication project [28] have shown that by selecting for friendliness in foxes, the resulting generations of foxes started exhibiting characteristics of domestic dogs, such as drooping ears, raised tails and mottled coats.

Play also helps domestic dogs stay fit by burning off calories while keeping muscles, bones and organs in top shape.

This is one reason why you will often find domestic cats stuck up trees having been chased up there by a dog.

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In domestic cats, the two most common infections are caused by Ancylostoma tubaeforme and Ancylostoma braziliense (which may also infect dogs and foxes).

Boer dogs are believed to be a combination of the native African Khoikhoi hunting dogs, African veldt dogs, and the domestic Great Danes, Greyhounds, Bloodhounds and terrier dog breeds brought to Africa by the Dutch pioneers.

(It is impressive to be in the top 50 breeds, since there are nearly 200 kinds of domestic dogs recognized by the American Kennel Club!)

In a 20 - year study by the department, cats not only exceeded dogs as rabies carriers by nearly four to one, but they were fourth on the list of all animals, domestic and feral.

While dogs are far and away the most common type of emotional service animals, any domestic pet is allowed — it's whatever is comforting to the owner (by contrast, only dogs and miniature horses can legally be service animals).

This small shelter is run by only five members of staff, they rehome various domestic animals including dogs, cats, rabbits, chickens and reptiles.

The Doberman Pinscher (alternatively spelled Dobermann in many states) or just Doberman, is a breed of domestic dog originally developed around 1890 by Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann.

We also assist dogs of the financially destitute and those affected by domestic violence.

One way to distinguish a coyote from a domestic dog is by the ears; coyote ears are pointed and stand erect, as opposed to the ears of a domestic dog, which usually droop.

Coat variation in the domestic dog is governed by variants in three genes.

The absence of a domestic environment can lead stray dogs, which are by nature gregarious, to form packs that can become aggressive and endanger other animals and even humans.

For anyone who's struggling with a new dog or simply wants to improve a situation with a current one, Kate's new book published by Penguin puts people and their pups on the road to domestic bliss.

It is the primary mission of CCHS to operate a «no time limits» shelter for domestic (non-feral) dogs and cats from Keweenaw, Houghton, and Baraga Counties and the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community in accordance with the guidelines set by the Michigan Department of Agriculture.

Any animal which, when unprovoked and off the property of the owner or keeper, inflicts less than severe injury on another domestic animal not owned by the owner would be treated differently than if there is a dog fight with an innocent strange domestic animal resulting in more severe injuries.

There can be fines to pay for the killing of wildlife, or fines for killing domestic animals, and you have a responsibility to pay the owner of another animal who has been killed by your dog.

Domestic animals like dogs and cats as well as people are most commonly exposed by being bitten by an affected animal.

Acetaminophen can also be toxic when a dog ingests too much of it by «getting into the drug bottle» accidentally; this route of exposure is the most common cause of acetaminophen overdose problems in domestic dogs.

Through the Animal Rescue Fund Program (ARF), the Orange County SPCA issues spay / neuter vouchers for domestic cats, dogs, and rabbits owned by Orange County, CA community members.

If your pet has been bitten by an unknown or unvaccinated animal (wild or domestic), your dog must, by law, receive a booster vaccine within 5 days, even if your dog's rabies vaccination has not expired yet.