Sentences with phrase «dog parents usually»

This means rescue dogs can get off of death row, because foster dog parents usually are committed to that dog until he or she finds a permanent home.

Not exact matches

Lunch Tray readers already know my feelings about most restaurants» children's menus: while they do offer parents convenience and lower prices, the menu items themselves are usually fat - laden and depressingly unimaginative, inadvertently teaching children that «their» food consist of only a handful of unhealthful entrees — mac - n - cheese, hot dogs, chicken nuggets and the rest.

She pines for her parents until one day, while chasing a stray dog she names Sandy, she is saved from certain death by Mr. Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx, who is usually more able to convincingly look like he's having fun), a cell phone mogul whose Bloomberg - like mayoral bid is floundering.

I grew up with a wonderful privilege: I had parents who let me take dog, horse, and go... if I was going to spend the night out, I had to let them know (and usually camping was a family activity) but now, I look back and am eternally grateful.

Designer dogs usually have purebred parents of two different breeds.

Since the mix breed dogs are usually more manageable than their parents, these dogs also are more flexible.

Usually hybrid dogs are healthier than their purebred parents.

Mix breed dogs usually inherit the various dominant characteristics of their parents.

Usually, crossbreed dogs take one or many of the markings of their parents.

While these programs usually have a primary focus on placing dogs looking for a home with foster families, that means they do have a roster of foster parents that are both trained to take care of pets and used to giving them up after a short period of time.

Since they are hybrid dogs, they are usually expected to be healthier than their parent breeds.

Usually the dogs have a combination of traits from both of the parents.

While most urban pet parents are responsible and do clean up after their pups, there are always a few bad seeds in the Big Apple — and there are certain blocks, usually on less densely populated streets, which seem to attract this breed of dog owner.

I have found when most pet - parents are asked if they brush their dogs» teeth the answer is usually something like «probably not as much as I should», and for cats more like «(s) he would NOT let me do that!».

These dogs usually take their excellent sniffing abilities from their Beagle parent, so expect them to always follow their nose wherever it should take them.

These foster parents have usually forged a bond with the dogs and can tell you a lot about their history and personalities.

Dogs usually grow out of submissive urination by the time they reach one year of age, even if their pet parents do nothing about it.

These dogs are known variously as crossbreeds, usually a mixture of two different purebred dogs; mixed breeds, dogs that may be of a recognizable type (terrier, spaniel, retriever, hound, etc.) but with parents of mixed heritage; mongrels, dogs of unknown parentage that tend to roam; and pariahs or curs, medium - sized generic dogs that live on the fringes of civilization.

Even mixed breed dogs can carry some of these behaviors, especially if they're a hybrid or designer dog breed (these are usually pups produced from two purebred parents from different breeds, such as a Labrador Retriever and a Poodle).

We find when people add an Italian Greyhound to a household with children, the parents usually have a dog and have kids, but the kids don't have a dog.

This is usually when a dog will start showing signs of slowing down in general and when the first signs of joint damage will become a parent.

Dogs like the flavor (usually) and «parents» love the quality of the formula.

Our foster parents need to understand that the dogs and cats we rescue have usually been through a lot and need time to decompress — often they come to us straight from the kill shelter where they were poked and prodded... before that they may have been in neglectful homes or turned out on the street when their former owners no longer wanted them.

A lot of people won't get rescue dogs because of their unknown history and they'd rather buy a puppy or an older dog that has been «run on» (to see if it is up to show or breeding standard) from a good breeder — because that breeder will know the temperaments of the parents and can also usually tell the character of the pup by the time they are ready to go to their new homes — and most certainly not at 8 weeks — mine NEVER leave until at least 12 weeks!

The dogs being auctioned off are usually the parents of the puppies that are sold in pet stores, online and thru newspaper ads throughout the country.

Dogs who have two merle parents and have inherited two copies of the merle gene (double merles) are usually mostly white.

When pet parents supplement their dogs» diets with biotin, it is usually to treat common and mild skin problems like itching, dandruff, and dull or coarse hair.

DeMeo told me that while it's common for dogs to travel with the child from home to home, cats usually stay with one parent or the other.