Sentences with phrase «catching rats in»

Owners bred this spunky fellow for catching rats in clothing mills.

They were originally used for catching rats in clothing mills in the 19th century.

This breed was developed during the 19th century for the purpose of catching rats in clothing mills — the Yorkshire Terrier was also used in the sport of rat - baiting until it became more popular as a companion pet.

Because it caught rats in its early years, it has an active prey drive.

In addition to serving as a loyal companion, early Yorkshire Terriers were also used to catch rats in clothing mills — they were also used in the sport of rat - baiting.

Yorkshire terriers caught rats in clothing mills in the 19th century but later became European high society companions.

One of the theories about origins of the Maine Coon breed says that when the Vikings carried out their raids on the American continent they took cats with them to catch the rats in their stylized ships.

where they were originally used to catch rats in clothing mills.

The Yorkie is named for Yorkshire, England, where breeders developed them in the 19th century to catch rats in cotton and wool mills.

Named for the English county from which they originally hail, Yorkshire Terriers were used in the nineteenth century to catch rats in clothing mills.

Named for the city in England where they originated, Yorkshire terriers were used to catch rats in clothing mills in the 19th century.

The Yorkshire Terrier is a small dog breed of terrier type, developed during the 19th century in Yorkshire, England, to catch rats in clothing mills.

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This often leads to many entrepreneurs getting caught up in the rat race.

This is wise advise for so many reasons, but it's also key to avoiding getting caught up in the status rat race, according to Casnocha: «If everyone around you is on the more status, more status, more status track, and straining their necks to check the leaderboard, it'll be hard to resist doing the same.»

If we are to have a profound religion, we may indeed throw away our old, childish, anthropomorphic ideas of God, but we may not throw away God and leave ourselves caught like rats in the trap of an aimless, meaningless, purposeless universe.

Most honor codes at universities fall apart on the assumption that, although I do not want to cheat, if I catch someone else cheating, I will not turn in that person because I do not want to be someone who rats on other people.

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Why get caught up in the rat race of having the new tech gadget?

Revealing the kills, Prime Minister David Cameron said that the tabby tom hasn't got it quite right yet — a criticism some may be levelling at Mr Cameron's coalition government — as he's been catching mice instead of the more muscular rats he was brought in to deal with.

According to The Informer sources, Mr. Karbo, who was in the company with his inexperienced and noisy lawyer, Egbert Faibille Jnr., was as meek as rat caught up in a trap.

A player in Brooklyn livestreamed his tumble into a Prospect Park pond while catching a rat character late Monday, BuzzFeed reported.

ALBANY — Spineless Senate Republicans from around the state scrambled for cover yesterday — like rats caught in a floodlight — after they were asked to say whether Majority Leader Dean Skelos should disclose the names of his law clients that do business with the state.

And even if you couldconvince people to eat nutria — the South American swamp rat introduced in the 1960s to clear Louisiana's Mississippi Delta waterways of another invasive species, water hyacinth — there's no way they'd be able to catch up with the population, which has already wiped out whole swaths of native greenery.

Trappers have been sent in to catch rats, and spraying with pesticides such as DDT has begun to kill off the fleas that carry the bacterium.

In the century - and - a-half since its discovery, there have been sporadic reports of it catching rats.

No forests or rats in there — but those eye - catching images of Mars terrain do have some alien messages for us.

In 2007 the EPA finally acknowledged there was reason to believe that Sprague Dawley might be less sensitive to certain endocrine tests, which made critics like Spearow wonder what other toxic effects the rat had failed to catch all those years.

Here, a rat neuron from the movement - coordinating cerebellum was dyed green and caught in the act of communicating with another neuron (shown in red).

2 In the mid-19th century, Jack Black, the rat catcher for Queen Victoria, found several color variations of the brown rat and domesticated those he caught.

After implanting measuring devices to catch neurons firing in the hippocampuses of four rats, they let the animals run up and down a track with food at each end.

This led to coconut water being dubbed as having an equal nutritional profile to human blood, or being a «blood replacement» and some gym rats caught on and theorised that it would have an optimal profile of nutrients for replenishing the electrolytes (sodium and potassium) lost in sweat.

In the strange simulacrum of London there in the sewers, he barely has time to get oriented to the ersatz Picadilly Circus before he gets caught up in nasty struggle between plucky Rita (Kate Winslet), a toothsome she - rat with an adventurous taste in accessories, and an evil toad (Ian McKellen), whose adventurous nature includes worshipping the royal family and plotting to wipe out the rat populatioIn the strange simulacrum of London there in the sewers, he barely has time to get oriented to the ersatz Picadilly Circus before he gets caught up in nasty struggle between plucky Rita (Kate Winslet), a toothsome she - rat with an adventurous taste in accessories, and an evil toad (Ian McKellen), whose adventurous nature includes worshipping the royal family and plotting to wipe out the rat populatioin the sewers, he barely has time to get oriented to the ersatz Picadilly Circus before he gets caught up in nasty struggle between plucky Rita (Kate Winslet), a toothsome she - rat with an adventurous taste in accessories, and an evil toad (Ian McKellen), whose adventurous nature includes worshipping the royal family and plotting to wipe out the rat populatioin nasty struggle between plucky Rita (Kate Winslet), a toothsome she - rat with an adventurous taste in accessories, and an evil toad (Ian McKellen), whose adventurous nature includes worshipping the royal family and plotting to wipe out the rat populatioin accessories, and an evil toad (Ian McKellen), whose adventurous nature includes worshipping the royal family and plotting to wipe out the rat population.

As a result, murder for hire is almost always a sideline, and the people who engage in it are by and large stupid losers, quickly caught, and quicker still to rat out the idiots who hired them.

In Rita Gray's Mama Mine, Mama Mine, illustrated by Ponder Goembel, the mother of each animal leaves her brood during the day to take care of her responsibilities: Cats must catch rats, pigs must eat and sheep must be shorn.

They sat for him in lieu of payment for his work catching rats.

She was looking for «the best and biggest cats, capable of catching mice» to be sent to the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg to protect the treasures contained within from rats.

Originally used for catching rats and mice in textile mills, Yorkies are energetic and inquisitive.

They were thrown in pits against bears and bulls, hence the name «pit - bull,, they would also bet on how many rats the dog could catch and kill in a certain amount of time.

The Yorkie was originally employed in catching rats at the various clothing mills around Yorkshire, England.

While the call to fame for Yorkies seems to be that they were bred to catch and kill rats in factories and mines, they are now better known to be adorable, devoted and loving companions.

In the early part of the 20th century, breeders in eastern England developed a small rat - catching, fox - chasing terrier called the Norwich TerrieIn the early part of the 20th century, breeders in eastern England developed a small rat - catching, fox - chasing terrier called the Norwich Terriein eastern England developed a small rat - catching, fox - chasing terrier called the Norwich Terrier.

In its most simple definition, a ratter is dog who was selectively bred for catching rats and other types of vermin.

This little buddy's tiny paw had been caught in a rat trap and severely mangled.

«During years in the field,» wrote Leyhausen, «I have observed countless times how cats have caught a mouse or a rat and just as often how they have stalked a bird.

It has its origins in Yorkshire where it was bred to catch rats and other small animals.

In the early days, The Yorkshire Terrier was tasked to catch rats and mice around mills.

Both rat catching and guarding were characteristics fostered in the breed.

The original Yorkshire Terrier, known as the «Broken - Haired Scotch Terrier» was a 12 - to - 14 pound dog with wire hair whose intended purpose was the catching of rats and other vermin that lived in small spaces.

It's also sometimes caught by drinking water that an infected rat has urinated in or died in.

In the book, «The West Highland White Terrier» by D. Mary Dennis and Catherine Owen, research found that ships of the Spanish Armada, wrecked off the Western Isles» had carried small white dogs to catch rats.