Sentences with phrase «by ferret»

If a non-food item is swallowed by a ferret, the result is usually a severe intestinal blockage.

Ferret Tea Tree Spray, formulated by ferret experts specifically for a ferret's sensitive skin, is designed to deodorize, condition, protect and soothe a ferret's coat and skin.

A younger child could easily feel overwhelmed by a ferret's aggression or could take the animal's excitement as an invitation to join them, causing a child to become too frenzied and antagonistic towards the pet.

Most of the musky oils secreted by the ferret remain on cloth or bedding, so the best thing you can do to cut down on musky ferret odor is to launder these items regularly.

Articles written by ferret veterinarians and peer - reviewed by AFA's Health Affairs Committee can be found on the group's website, including pieces about adrenal disease, Aleutian disease, cardiac disease and inflammatory bowel disease.

Ferrets have a lower bite rate than other household pets - you are less likely to be bit by a ferret than by the family dog.

Among his many ferret patients, he treats all of the shelter and foster ferrets owned by the Ferret Association of Connecticut (F.A.C.T.).

«Ferrets have very thick skin, and so what is a painful bite to us would not be felt by another ferret.»

Knowing which medication is the best one for your ferret is something that can only be decided after a thorough physical examination done by a ferret - knowledgeable veterinarian.

If eaten by your ferret, they can cause intestinal blockage that warrants an emergency trip to the vet or emergency surgery.

When these changes first occur, they are easily overlooked by ferret owners.

When cleaning use mild detergent for hard surfaces, launder bedding and always sanitize all materials used by your ferret.

I was impressed by the ferret scientists» dedication and enthusiasm for this charismatic animal, although there clearly was a communication breakdown between the agencies.

So while you engage in a variety of missions, you get to meet a handful of historical figures like Queen Victoria, Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale in order to «help» shape London to what it has become today by ferreting out the nefarious Templars who have imbedded themselves into the architecture of London itself.

Spend 3 strategy packed days with us learning how you too can generate massive income simply by ferreting out real estate deals for deep - pocket investors.

Not exact matches

Forget kissing babies: Success on the trail is more about big data, online advertising, and ferreting out undecided voters by following a digital trail.

It was up to the buyer to ferret out the conflict - of - interest by itself.

Usually Jenny Lawson breaks the ice with a bizarre, profanity - laced story about a mummified bat (or peasant or ferret); then Scot McKnight jumps in with his thoughts on the latest biblical scholarship, followed by an update from NPR on today's news.

Not the former, as Ford went on to maintain after the publication of my book, because it succeeds only in ferreting out metaphysical doctrines once held by Whitehead, but ultimately rejected by him in favor of his final metaphysical position (RIWW 50).

Good for you young miss, now you are free to teach your children the truth: the universe was created by a giant purple banjo playing ferret known as Tim the Destroyer of Worlds.

But when historian Jan Tomasz Gross saw the photo, he was moved to write Golden Harvest, a controversial new book in which he argues that many Poles enriched themselves during the war by exploiting Jews, from plundering mass graves to ferreting out Jews in hiding for reward.

They say that the policy costs them time because to abide by it they are forced to weigh the State's monumentally large email retention policy against the purge policy, and then ferret out and save important emails.

All of them were also trustees of Banks» charity, the Love Saves the Day Foundation, which was recently wound up in the midst of an investigation by the Charity Commission — as exposed by Peter over at the Ferret.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo just unveiled Step One in what will be a multi-pronged reform proposal in the wake of last week's back - to - back corruption cases: Empowering local district attorneys to better ferret out and prosecute wrongdoing by dirty elected officials at all levels of government in New York.

A charity set up by Arron Banks, the biggest financial backer of Brexit, is being investigated by the Charity Commission, according to documents seen by our friends over at The Ferret.

The clinic, conducted by the Erie County Department of Health in association with the Niagara Frontier Veterinary Society, the Medaille College Veterinary Technology Department, and the SPCA serving Erie County, will provide free rabies vaccinations for dogs, cats, and ferrets.

Other reports described serious complications resulting from bites caused by small mammals and rodents such as ferrets, skunks, and squirrels.

These are subjected to so - called next generation sequencing, a technique that sifts the vast genetic composite, ferreting out sequence variants (or alleles) caused by mutations in genes.

Ferrets find their mates primarily by odor.

Combing the genetic data from a transmission study in ferrets, a team led by Thomas Friedrich, a professor of pathobiological sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, found that during transmission, when one animal is infected by another through sneezing or coughing, the process of natural selection acts strongly on hemagglutinin, the structure the virus uses to attach to and infect host cells.

To find out what impact this might have on a flu epidemic, Earn and his colleagues turned to a 1982 study which showed that ferrets, a common animal model for human flu, produced more seasonal flu virus if their fevers were lowered either with painkillers or by having their fur shaved off.

Michael Baum, a biologist at Boston University, got a more detailed look by studying ferrets, whose biology is well understood.

But even so, they make clear that, to ferret out that je ne sais quoi that foreshadows outstanding scientific performance, nothing compares to subjective judgments of quality by experienced researchers.

The sire, «Scarface,» as he is affectionately called by the team, was one of the last 18 black - footed ferrets to exist in the world in the 1980s.

Soker and his colleague Pedro Baptista built the livers by taking ferret livers and stripping them of all their native cells, leaving just the collagen «scaffold» of the organ, which they then filled with human liver cells.

Black - footed ferrets, a critically endangered species native to North America, have renewed hope for future survival thanks to successful efforts by a coalition of conservationists, including scientists at Lincoln Park Zoo, to reproduce genetically important offspring using frozen semen from a ferret who has been dead for approximately 20 years.

And by the way, I made sure your tenure review committee knows all about the black sable ferrets!»

By comparing the numbers of nerve cells, or neurons, among eight species of carnivores (ferret, banded mongoose, raccoon, cat, dog, hyena, lion and brown bear), researchers now have a better understanding of how different - sized brains are built.

The team decided to verify that finding by treating tissue slices from developing ferret brains with a chemical that blocks BDNF's activity.

To contain U.S. disease outbreaks spread by prairie dogs to ferrets, it's Kazakhstan's giant gerbils to the rescue

Insights into how the brain compensates for temporary hearing loss during infancy, such as that commonly experienced by children with glue ear, have been revealed in a research study in ferrets.

But a new tool developed by Portnoff and her colleagues can ferret traffickers out.

There's no treatment for measles, but an experimental compound might do the trick by bogging down a key viral enzyme, a study of ferrets finds.

«Pet ferrets could pose a risk to wild polecat species by introducing their poor genetic material into wild polecat populations,» Ernest explains.

The researchers recommend that breeding programs would benefit by incorporating genetically diverse ferrets from other countries into their breeding programs, including ferrets from Europe, where genetic diversity is much higher.

Wild H5N1 viruses can not latch on tothe cells in a person's nose and throat, but the mutant strains created by Fouchier and Kawaoka can spread between ferrets, which are viewed as a good animal model of flu transmission between humans.

«Any attempts to enhance the genetic diversity of ferrets by using wild polecats should be done ethically and legally, and should ensure that domestic ferrets do not breed into wild ferret or polecat populations.»

The majority of domestic ferrets contract cancer by age 5 or 6, but not all die at those ages, Gustafson says.

In past studies to develop a new animal model for the brain events that support motor development, neurophysiologist Martin Garwicz of Lund University in Sweden and his colleagues discovered that the schedules by which ferrets and rats acquire various motor skills, such as crawling and walking, are strikingly similar to each other; the progress simply happens faster for rats.

The Corpus was conceived in 1853 by Theodor Mommsen, a German historian who dispatched a small army of epigraphists to peruse Roman ruins, inspect museum collections, and ferret out inscribed slabs of marble or limestone wherever they had been recycled, including the tops of medieval bell towers and the undersides of toilet seats.