Sentences with phrase «cats than in people»

For this reason the doses of chemotherapy are lower in cats than in people and side effects are much less common.

Not exact matches

According to some sources, such as Myers, even though meat production in Costa Rica tripled during the period 1960 - 70 internal consumption fell to a point where each person ate «less meat than a domestic cat receives annually in the United States» (Myers 1981, 6).

I had foolishly assumed that whether I liked them or not, people in government were there because they knew how to do their job but the last 12 months alone have included the decision to hold a snap election that then lost them more seats than a bad IKEA intern, Brexit talks that have mimicked that track Paula Abdul did with a cartoon cat, an offensive defence secretary, an international development secretary who had to resign in order to spend less time on holiday, Boris Johnson sadly continuing to be Boris Johnson and all of that and more culminating in an assurance that everything is fine because now our passports will be blue to match the depression everyone will have in 2018.

In fact, dogs and cats are better than a lot of people because they just want to be loved and love you back.

Mark Serwotka was recently interviewed in The Guardian: «The most likely comment to exasperate Serwotka is the assertion that they're fat cats, a smug drain on the public purse: of 301,000 members «we've got 30,000 people earning just above the minimum wage, 100,000 earning less than # 15,000 [the average civil service salary is # 22,000].

«Most people who are real cat lovers elect to suffer some, or take medicines, rather than give up their pet,» said Dr. Robert Wood, division chief of pediatric allergy and immunology at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore.

It's clear that people are putting their cats (and dogs and other pets) first more than ever before, and Purrsonals has carved out an extraordinary place for those people to find exactly what and who they want in the dating world.

More than anything, Blair is under the presumption that the semblance of utter randomness in the characters and developments will produce comedy (tidbits like «cat meat makes a person invisible», a deadly snake confrontation, and other such kooky events), and while occasionally diverting, wittier laughs are sparse.

Forget Cat People with Nastassja Kinski and Malcolm McDowell — not that the two animalistic movies have much in common other than dangerous, large - fanged creatures and a bit of 1980s spandex.

Well... um... I have been accused in the past of having better relationships with my cats than I do with people.

It's hard to capture a dog's personality in a photograph; dogs suffer more from the flattening than people do, or cats even.

When you read blog posts and articles about people calling for lower eBook prices, remember that this is not a call to a universal 99 cents price point, but a wake - up call for the fat cats in the NY publishing houses, who still believe that having an illiterate like Snooki «write» a book is a better idea than giving an actual writer a chance.

We also took into account the number of veterinarians per 1,000 people in each city, because dog people go to the vet a lot more than cat people, according to the AVMA.

TULSA, OK — It is a heart - breaking fact: there are, literally, millions more dogs and cats in the United States than there are people willing to provide them with a loving home.

What started with three pets in the first year now shelters 150 — from hamsters and cats to horses and dogs — in kennels or foster homes, and provides relief for more than 1,000 people seeking safe temporary housing.

The cat does not care that they look different than other people, or that they are handicapped in some way.

Bones, appearing to be more than 5,000 years old, found in the Central China village demonstrated a close interaction between cats and the people of the area.

But regardless of what camp a person sits in, most people would probably agree that cats require a lot less maintenance than their canine counterparts.

easy going, friendly guy, gets along with others in the turn out pen, more interested in the people than the test cat

Allergies typically present in dogs and cats differently than they do in people.

Many medications that are safe for people are extremely dangerous to pets (the classic example is Tylenol toxicity in cats), and often safe medications have doses for animals that are vastly different than human dosing.

They try to solve this problem by encouraging or requiring people to spay or neuter their pets (to reduce the number of cats and dogs who need homes), 57 encouraging people to adopt animals from shelters rather than purchasing them from pet stores or breeders (to increase the number of people looking to provide homes to animals in shelters), 58 and donating money to shelters and foster programs that care for cats and dogs waiting to be adopted (so they can house animals for longer).59 Collectively, these solutions have greatly reduced the number of cats and dogs euthanized in shelters.60 The problem is well understood, although making further progress in solving it may be expensive in areas where all these solutions have already been implemented.

Today, we euthanize around 4 million animals while there are more than 135 million dogs and cats in people's homes.

If people have more than one cat in the household, which often they do, there may be a thin cat and an overweight cat and how we're going to help them to figure out the best feeding plan for that.

Infections: Bacterial abscesses in the pancreas are much less common in cats and dogs than in people.

Just as people are living longer than they did in the past, cats are living longer too, and there is every reason to expect that the «graying» cat population will continue to grow.

We are not using our initiative to market and promote adoptable animals in the media — the spca and humane society do not properly network with other animal rescue groups — The by - laws should be changed to more than 3 dogs or cats so that people want to care for more animals are able to do so — If the animals are well taken care of and arent a nuisance than badly needed homes from animal lovers should not be considered a crime — Imagine compassion and caring are the crime and yet you are weighing the pros and cons of murdering the animals and that is OK — Does anyone reading this see the insanity!!?? If the insanity wasnt so tragic it would be a joke!!

«WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 / PRNewswire - USNewswire / — An official report from People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), submitted nine months after a Virginia government agency's deadline, shows that the animal rights group put to death more than 97 percent of the dogs, cats, and other pets it took in for adoption in 2006.

(1) The number of dogs or cats in the possession of the commercial breeder on the date the report is filed; (2) The number of dogs and cats sold during the reporting period and the names and addresses of the persons to whom they were sold; and (3) The number of dogs and cats received by the commercial breeder other than those purchased and the names and addresses of the persons from whom they were obtained.

In some cases this may lead you to focus more on the people than the cats.

You are much more likely to catch an infectious disease from the person standing in line with you at the grocery store than from a cat.1 In fact, a 2002 review of cat - associated diseases published in the Archives of Internal Medicine concluded that, «cats should not be thought of as vectors for disease transmission.&raquin line with you at the grocery store than from a cat.1 In fact, a 2002 review of cat - associated diseases published in the Archives of Internal Medicine concluded that, «cats should not be thought of as vectors for disease transmission.&raquIn fact, a 2002 review of cat - associated diseases published in the Archives of Internal Medicine concluded that, «cats should not be thought of as vectors for disease transmission.&raquin the Archives of Internal Medicine concluded that, «cats should not be thought of as vectors for disease transmission.»

Although cats have no more germs in their mouths than dogs or people, researchers at the Mayo Clinic found that when cats bite, their sharp teeth can inject hard - to - treat bacteria deeply into the skin and joints, increasing the risk for serious infection.

«SARASOTA - Sarasota County commissioners heard more than 10 hours of public comment from over 100 people before voting 3 - 2 in favor of an ordinance Wednesday banning the sale of commercially bred dogs and cats in retail establishments.»

It should come as no surprise that dogs are more sociable than cats and they prefer to be in crowds of people, thanks to their pack mentality.

You are more likely to catch an infectious disease from the person in line with you at the grocery store than from a cat.

For all the people who were surveyed, the majority preferred to sleep with their cats than with their significant others, or with humans in general.

In 2013, The Mayo Clinic Center For Sleep Medicines administered a study discovering that slightly less than half of the people surveyed asserted that they were able to sleep better with their cats.

Older cats in particular can be the ideal companion for an older person as they are much calmer than a kitten and already house trained.

Dogs and cats were contaminated with 48 of 70 chemicals tested, including 43 chemicals at higher levels than those typically found in people, according to our study of plastics and food packaging chemicals, heavy metals, fire retardants, and stain - proofing chemicals in pooled samples of blood and urine from 20 dogs and 37 cats collected at a Virginia veterinary clinic.

Because the study shows that 62 % of unowned but fed cats are fed in people's yards, efforts should be intensified to sterilize cats living in close proximity to homes, rather than less accessible colonies.

Dogs and cats (and other pets) age far faster than people, so significant changes in your pet's health can happen in a short time.

In short, it looks as if the people responsible are far more interested in making scapegoats out of the cats than they are in any rigorous scientific inquirIn short, it looks as if the people responsible are far more interested in making scapegoats out of the cats than they are in any rigorous scientific inquirin making scapegoats out of the cats than they are in any rigorous scientific inquirin any rigorous scientific inquiry.

Many people adopt cats because they believe they are less labor intensive in terms of care requirements than dogs.

Other than those who will adopt from a shelter as a matter of course (those saved above), how many people in the U.S. are looking to bring a new dog or cat into their home next year but have not decided where they will get the animal and can be influenced to adopt from a shelter?

Due to the compressed lifespan of dogs and cats, cancer treatments like chemotherapy are administered in lower doses, so pets tend to handle these treatments better than people do, which allows them to bypass the illness and side effects humans typically encounter.

People are much more apt to walk by a homeless cat on the street than a homeless dog,» says Abby Smith, Executive Director of Felines Inc., a cage-less, no - kill cat shelter in Chicago.

Pets in general have a higher body temperature than people with Dogs and Cats at about 102 ° F. Though most healthy dogs are very well adapted to cold temperatures — provided they're not outdoors for too long — care must be taken with puppies, older dogs, and of course any sick or injured pets who can be vulnerable.

Another reason that a more hands off monitoring schedule for diabetic cats is preferred, is that cats are generally more tolerant to the adverse effects causes by spikes in blood glucose than dogs and people are.

«We found that people who do not own cats have a 40 % higher risk of dying from a myocardial infarction (MI) than people who do keep cats as pets,» said Adnan Qureshi, M.D., of the Minnesota Stroke Institute in Minneapolis, told attendees at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference.

In the U.S., people are more likely to become infected with toxoplasmosis by eating unwashed fruits and vegetables or raw meat than from handling cat feces.