Sentences with phrase «domestic animal populations»

In addition, domestic animal populations and their excreta are increasing, as diets change to a higher meat intake.

Purebred dogs are under assault from extreme animal rightists who would like to see all domestic animal populations managed to extinction.

Problem with domestic animal populations in this country?

Another great example is tuberculosis among elephants moving through populations now that the fences have come down around parks in South Africa and moving through human and domestic animal populations that are infected with tuberculosis or who could be infected with tuberculosis.

The May 29 - June 6 program combines classroom presentations with laboratory experiences and is designed to familiarize students with various foreign animal diseases that potentially threaten the U.S. domestic animal population.

H.E.L.P. is committed to educating the community on improving the lives of pets, and reducing the stray and abandoned domestic animal population as well as to promote spay / neuter programs.

Austin Animal Center (AAC) is dedicated to providing and promoting humane treatment of animals while protecting the public health by managing the domestic animal population.

Not exact matches

But if you look at distemper — canine distemper and feline distemper had been decimating lion populations for years and years and years, and it's from domestic animals infecting wild populations.

It has long been debated whether that change in subsistence strategy involved the mass migration of people from the Near East bringing innovative technologies and domestic animals to Europe or whether it was due to a transmission of cultural practices passed on from neighbouring populations.

There are also some animal species — such as Tasmanian devils and domestic dogs — that are known to have transmissible cancer cells circulating within their populations.

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We are dedicated to managing our domestic and wild animal population in a manner that provides a safe and healthy environment for both animals and people.

Wild animals are the only remaining risks in the U.S. Rabies vaccination programs for domestic animals like cats, dogs, and livestock have become the norm around the nation, which eliminated the threat from their populations.

Wildlife species are the only carriers of the disease, with occasional cases affecting domestic animal and human populations

The spaying and neutering of the animals in our care, thereby lowering the overall domestic and feral populations.

More than 80 million cats currently live in American homes, and veterinary epidemiologists estimate that 800,000 or more of these animals — one percent or so of the nation's domestic feline population — suffer from acute or chronic asthma.

Wild animals also avoid many of the degenerative health issues that plague our current domestic pet population.

Impacts of Free - ranging Domestic Cats (Felis catus) on birds in the United States: A review of recent research with conservation and management recommendations (2009) HAHF cites the 2009 paper co-authored by former Smithsonian researcher Nico Dauphiné (who resigned after being found guilty of attempted animal cruelty last year, after rat poison was found in cat food outside her apartment building) as evidence of «the incredible impact of free ranging cats on the bird populations of the U.S.» Among the many flaws in «Impacts of Free - ranging Domestic Cats» was the authors» estimate of «117 to 157 million exotic predators,» which was based on David Jessup's inflated (and, not surprisingly, unattributed) «estimate» of «60 to 100 million feral and abandoned cats.»

Along with the increase in human population in the Flagstaff area comes an increase in the number of domestic animals living and breeding in Northern Arizona.

«Identifying the threads that connect these parasites from wild and domestic land animals to marine mammals helps us to see ways that those threads might be cut... by, for example, managing feral cat and opossum populations, reducing run - off from urban areas near the coast, monitoring water quality and controlling erosion to prevent parasites from entering the marine food chain.»

IVDD is one of the most common neurological disorders in companion animals and reportedly affects 2 % of the domestic dog population.

The number of confirmed cases of H1N1 infection in domestic animals is quite small compared to the overall US pet population.

Because she felt so strongly that the huge feral cat population derived largely from an uncontrolled domestic cat population, she passionately believed that the establishment of low cost neuter clinics, such as those operating so effectively in Canada and the USA, would offer a humane solution to the ever increasing unwanted animal population in the UK.

Control of canine distemper outbreaks includes the removal of carcasses of animals which have died from the disease, vaccination of susceptible domestic species to decrease the number of susceptible hosts, and a reduction in wildlife populations which also reduces the number of potential hosts.

Changes to dn / ds in some of these domestic / wild animal comparisons may be the result of reductions in effective population size leading to relaxation in selective forces.

By sterilizing their pets, the community will become invested in the steps needed to control over population of domestic animals in San Pedro.

But will the stress on the planet of producing food for the growing human population change the way we view the ownership of domestic animals that serve only as companions?