Sentences with phrase «by livestock breeding»

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Many of our ideas about domestication derive from Charles Darwin, whose ideas in turn were strongly influenced by British animal - breeding practices during the 19th century, a period when landowners vigorously pursued systematic livestock improvement.

Not only does this film look insanely original, but it looks like it's going to be one of those films that will shock and awe us into submission with each looming threat of OKJA getting eaten by a bunch of scientists breeding the perfect livestock.

With some breeds, such as Border Collies, biting or nipping is even more instinctive because of the nature of the breed - they're born and bred to herd livestock, and that's how a 50 or 60 pound dog will control a 1,000 pound cow - by biting at the heels or nose.

The complete history of the Rottweiler is unknown, although experts think that the breed comes from drover dogs used by the Romans to help move livestock.

Although the Russian Empire and its people made very extensive use of fierce hunting and livestock guarding dogs, most of the breeds available to them were not trainable enough be used effectively by a modern military.

Herding breeds that are used as working dogs round up their livestock by running circles around them, keeping great eye contact, nipping and snapping at the heels, and barking to steer them in the right direction.

Non-existent in European registries, where most of these breeds are classified as working dogs, this group was created in 1983 by the AKC to honor what is one of the oldest of dog professions: herding livestock.

As they were BRED to bark to herd livestock by barking at them (thus annoying them), they are very yappy guys.

There are a host of broad exemptions that will continue to allow breeding for (1) use of dogs as service, guide or therapy animals, by search and rescue, law enforcement and other government agencies; (2) use of dogs for herding or as livestock guardian dogs or hunting dogs; (3) dogs or cats registered with the American Kennel Club, the Cat Fancier Association or other recognized registry or trained and kept for the purpose of show, field trials or agility trials; and (4) dogs or cats whose owner has obtained an unaltered animal permit.

For the purposes of breeding, profit or commercial exploitation other than the herding and control of domestic livestock by the person adopting the dog.

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Due to the remoteness of the various areas of the Pyrenees Mountains and the rest of the region now known as Spain, the original molosser dogs developed divergently by region into several livestock guardian breeds, the Pyrenean Mastiff, the Spanish Mastiff, and the breed most closely related to the Pyrenean Mastiff, the Pyrenean Mountain Dog, which is also known as the Great Pyrenees.

Similar to the debate about livestock - farming conditions, foes of commercial pet breeding have said the minimum standards set by the federal government aren't strict enough and are poorly enforced.

This breed's name originates from the city of Bergamo where this dog was utilized as a herding dog and livestock guardian in the Bergamasco Valley by the Italian Alps.

The bill also failed to exclude dogs and cats from the jurisdiction of the Livestock Care Standards Board such as those kept or bred by commercial breeders, or other animals kept as pets.

Some behaviours are breed - specific, such as the livestock guarding by maremmas and flank sucking seen in Dobermanns.

Some behaviours are breed - specific, such as «livestock guarding» by maremmas and «flank sucking» seen in Dobermanns.

[5][6] Today, the breed has fewer than 200 animals remaining, and is considered «critical» by the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy.

East African Crowned cranes, a subspecies of the Grey Crowned cranes, are endangered due to habitat loss and degradation from human activities including due pesticide use, overgrazing by livestock, drainage of their wetland breeding areas and drought.