Sentences with phrase «dog populations in»

The virus is now enzootic in many dog populations in Colorado, Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.

«Evaluation of Yersinia pestis Transmission Pathways for Sylvatic Plague in Prairie Dog Populations in the Western U.S.,» EcoHealth, May 2016

The dogs are further threatened by rabies, parvo and canine distemper viruses, which frequently break out in domestic dog populations in rural areas and spread to wild dogs that encounter them.

«Reducing the stray dog population in Wales and throughout the UK is at the very heart of what Dogs Trust does, which is why we have committed a considerable amount of money to ensure no dog owners in Wales will lack the financial ability to microchip their dog.

Shortly thereafter, the species» survival was put to the test; a Sylvatic Plague epidemic swept through the local prairie dog population in 1985, infecting the population.

The College of Veterinary Medicine at Mississippi State University has conducted the most comprehensive survey and analysis of the animal shelter dog population in the United States.

The animal welfare organisation launched its project last May with its sister charity Mission Rabies to vaccinate and treat the dog population in Blantyre to prevent transmission of the disease between dogs and people.

The city of San Francisco may have a larger percentage of mixed bred dogs than the reported estimate of nearly 40 % of the dog population in veterinary caseload studies (4, 8).

By tracking the dogs this way, veterinarians have been able to vaccinate 70 % of the stray dog population in the city of Ranchi, India.

One of these studies involved a dog population in Europe5 and the other involved a dog population in America6.

The site says «We believe that 92 % of the mixed breed dog population in the USA is covered by our 58 validated breeds.».

It's small numbers compared to the total dog population in the UK, but still a worrying 157 per cent increase over just two years — and there are fears that the problem may be bigger than it appears.

Being a responsible dog owner means thinking farther than just your own dog, but thinking about the dog population in general, and what is good for all dogs as well as your own.

A survey performed by the World Health Organization estimates the dog population in Myanmar at approximately 3.48 million, of which fewer than 1 percent are vaccinated, for rabies.

Is the dog population in your community large and out of control?

The outbreak in the Midwest had been attributed to the H3N8 strain of virus, which was identified in the U.S. dog population in 2004 and has been circulating since.

Spaying and neutering your dog will not only help control the increase of the dog population in the area but it will also reduce the risk of serious diseases in your dog.

At NAVC, the College of Veterinary Medicine at Mississippi State University announced the findings of the most comprehensive survey and analysis of the animal shelter dog population in the United States.

We were unable to find any cases of RD in the German shepherd dog population in the scientific literature.

However, this may be explained by the younger age of French Bulldogs in the current study (median age: 1.3 years) compared with the overall dog population in the previous study (median age: 4.5 years).

Saga Society - A non-profit «humane society» to address the stray cat and dog population in San pedro.

Over 75 % of these deaths were caused by pit bulls even though they only make up 5 % of the dog population in the country.

The pit bull breed was responsible for 74 % of those deaths, although this particular breed makes up only 6.5 % of the total dog population in America.

Not exact matches

In addition to its hiring programs, Dave's Killer Bread provides financial help to area organizations that support ex-cons and other at - risk populations, including Lake Oswego - based Project Pooch, which teaches incarcerated kids to train shelter dogs for adoption, and SE Works, a Portland - based work - force - development program.

What's easy about getting into your car... heading back inside because you forgot your gate key... getting back into the car... adjusting EVERYTHING because your husband drove last... avoiding mass duck / chicken populations on the drive down the driveway... heading out the gate, driving 50 km to the city... taking the dogs for a walk for at least 30 minutes in the city because you can't leave them at home because they eat the furniture... leave the dogs in the car HOPING that you walked them enough so they don't eat the car.

Within three months coyotes were «no more to be seen» (to quote an exuberant Fish and Wildlife report), and «in Rumerosa a considerable portion of the dog population was poisoned.

Though he was criticized for the spike in the city's homeless population during his first campaign and dogged by corruption allegations, it was not enough to sway voters.

«Organisms can deal with these stressful transitions from warm to cold by either acclimating - think about dogs putting on their winter coats - or by populations genetically evolving to deal with new stresses, a phenomenon known as rapid climate adaptation,» said Alison Gerken, a post-doctoral associate with UF's Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the lead author of a new study, published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

If their suspicions are borne out, Ixodes scapularis and Amblyomma americanum are the primary ways that Lyme can enter human populations in the South, with three other species — the Gulf Coast tick (Amblyomma maculatum), the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis) and the brown dog tick (Rhipicephalus sanguineus)-- playing subsidiary roles.

Ultimately, the application will be limited — just selected populations of prairie dogs that are either in ferret territory or endangered themselves, such as the Utah prairie dog (C. parvidens).

Islands of wolf populations persist in remote highland areas surrounded by oceans of free - ranging dogs.

African wild dogs are one of the world's most endangered carnivores and their populations are in decline, with estimates suggesting that fewer than 700 packs currently remain in the wild.

Dear EarthTalk: Are as many cats and dogs being euthanized these days as back in the 1970s and 1980s when indiscriminate breeding led to explosions in pet populations?

«Thus, the use of small populations artificially bred for desired traits, such as smaller body size or coat color, may have led to an accumulation of harmful genetic variations in dogs.»

They found that domestication may have led to a rise in the number of harmful genetic changes in dogs, likely as a result of temporary reductions in population size known as bottlenecks.

Stray dogs are common and comprise approximately 42 percent of the total canine population in Tamil Nadu.

The scat detection dogs helped biology PhD student Alex Filazzola discover not only scat, but the importance of shrubs in preserving lizard populations in the face of climate change.

The research, published in the academic journal Scientific Reports, found that sperm quality in a population of stud dogs studied over a 26 - year period had fallen significantly.

«They are very different from pure - bred dogs genetically because they are free - breeding, so in a genetic sense, they are a natural population.»

Following the 1993 - 1994 outbreak, vaccination has successfully reduced the level of infection in the dog population around the Serengeti.

The same was true all along in the Jōmon populations to the north and south, which did not need dogs for hunting.

He found that the nation's dogs and cats eat about 19 percent as many calories as the nation's people, on par with all the calories consumed by the population of France in a year.

«The dog is an invaluable model for exploring hereditary copper - storage diseases, and observations made in this study will benefit both canine and human patient populations.»

Mi - Sook Min of Seoul National University in South Korea and colleagues have now examined raccoon dog genes to figure out how their populations have changed.

The analysis also revealed a «genetic bottleneck» in Western dogs — a reduction in genetic diversity typically tied to a sharp decline in a population's numbers, as can occur when a small band of individuals splits off from the main group.

Co-author Heidi Parker, a geneticist at NHGRI, says that because humans initially bred dogs for specific traits — say, smaller body size or calm temperament — selection created a population «bottleneck» that narrowed the genetic variation in offspring, leaving them with just a few specific clusters of variable genetic regions.

Throughout their analysis of plague in prairie dogs, they concluded that such diseases may «smolder» unnoticed in a population for years, rather than jump from species to species immediately before an outbreak.

Village dogs therefore carry a more authentic genetic signature of original dog populations than the modern - day breeds created in the past 200 years, mainly in Europe.

They've since been drafted to establish populations in seven more locations, all of them isolated to ensure that the birds stay out of the jaws of stoats, dogs, and cats.

Additional support for population structure comes from the clustering of all the ancient samples within C1 into a sub-haplogroup distinct from that of modern dogs, while it is also noteworthy that non-C haplogroups, including A, are more apparent in Southeast Europe in the archaeological record12.