Sentences with phrase «domestic dog breeds»

Many behaviours seen in domestic dog breeds do exist in their wolf ancestors, but artificial selection has refined and exaggerated some desirable companion qualities and specialist working skills required by owners.

They are reportedly the oldest and the fastest of all domestic dog breeds, and have been clocked at 45 miles per hour and reportedly have been able to clear 30 feet in a single jump.

Retinal detachment is reported in many domestic dog breeds.

Unlike humans, domestic dog breeds have been developed via heavy positive selection for specific traits.

Second, because questions that have evaded human genomicists for years have come relatively easy (or easier, anyway) to dog genomicists due to the incredible diversity and unique population structure of our domestic dog breeds.

An extensive number of domestic dog breeds were originally bred to work as farm dogs.

They're widely regarded as the most intelligent of all domestic dog breeds.

Domestic dog breeds are more varied in body size and shape — not to mention coat color and fur length — than any other land - based mammal.

The Border Collies is not your average domestic dog breed.

Not exact matches

SELECTIVE breeding of some domestic dogs has made their brains rotate forwards, and relocated one key component.

From the Chihuahua to the Great Dane, the domestic dog is the most diverse mammal species of all, with over 350 distinct breeds for hunting, pulling sledges, tracking, herding and, of course, companionship.

Such diversity led Darwin to think that domestic dogs must have evolved from several wild canines, such as jackals, coyotes and wolves, but in fact we now know that all breeds descended from one species, the grey wolf.

Domestic dogs, however, vary wildly in appearance as a result of selective breeding and yet their genome sequences are 99.85 % similar.

So a team led by Carlos Bustamante, a comparative geneticist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and Elaine Ostrander, a comparative geneticist with NHGRI, analyzed genetic information from 915 domestic dogs representing 80 different breeds.

Domestic dogs, who are descended from cooperatively breeding wolves, and elephants also perform better on socio - cognitive tasks, such as imitation, compared to other animals of similar brain size.

For example, the genus Canis — which is Latin for «dog» — includes all domestic breeds of dog and their closest wild relatives, including wolves, coyotes, jackals and dingoes.

The first detailed genetic comparison of purebred domestic dogs promises to rewrite the textbooks with new information about breed classification and insights that may improve canine health by boosting understanding of the more than 350 inherited disorders, including cancer, heart disease, epilepsy, blindness and deafness, which affect dogs.

Here we report a high - quality draft genome sequence of the domestic dog (Canis familiaris), together with a dense map of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across breeds.

Domestic dogs have been selectively bred for millennia for various behaviors, sensory capabilities, and physical attributes.

Visit to find information on dog breeds, dog ownership, health The origin of the domestic dog is not clear.

Over time and breeding, black became the «default» color for domestic dogs.

On the 27th May, the Victorian State Government fulfilled an election promise to hold an inquiry into those sections of the Domestic Animals Act which deal with restricted breed dogs (commonly called breed specific legislation (BSL).

Gender: Female Age: 9 months Breed: Domestic Short Hair; Brown tabby Spayed / Neutered: Yes Vaccinations: FRPP Other vet care: Anti-parasitic medicine Temperament: Very playful Other information: Previously fostered with a dog, cats and children.

The diverse genetic origin of the domestic dog has likely involved multiple gray wolf populations from breed inception that were even at later times backcrossed with wolves throughout history.

The St. John's water dog, also known as the St. John's dog or the lesser Newfoundland, was a landrace (a dog bred for a purpose, not pedigree or appearance) of domestic dog from Newfoundland.

With the aim of developing a domestic dog with fox - like tendencies Tollers were bred to entice ducks, dancing along the shores until the curious and bird - brained ducks swam close enough to be caught.

In the course of their quest to understand the domestic dog, Embark's founders have discovered many of the things that make every breed and every individual dog unique.

Determining laterality — or which side of the brain dominates the other — could change the way domestic animals are bred, raised, trained and used, including predicting which puppies will make the best service dogs, and which racehorses will race better on left - or right - curving tracks.

Shiba Inu is a breed of domestic dogs that draw their ancestry from Japan.

But different kinds of hamsters aren't different breeds of the same animal like domestic dogs are.

The Hare Indian dog is an extinct domesticated canid; possibly a breed of domestic dog, coydog, or domesticated coyote; formerly found and originally bred in northern Canada by the Hare Indians for coursing.

Since all domestic dogs come from three to five wolf lineages, you might expect the common ancestry to create disorders common to all breeds.

A study published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence showed a link between ownership of high - risk dog breeds and deviant behaviors, crimes against children and domestic violence.

It had taken a thousand years of careful breeding to create these specialized fighters / baiters that are so unlike any normal domestic dog.

Gender: Male Age: 3 years Breed: Domestic Short Hair; Black and white Spayed / Neutered: Yes Vaccinations: FRPP Other vet care: Anti-parasitic medicine Temperament: Friendly and affectionate Other information: Good with dogs.

Boer dogs are believed to be a combination of the native African Khoikhoi hunting dogs, African veldt dogs, and the domestic Great Danes, Greyhounds, Bloodhounds and terrier dog breeds brought to Africa by the Dutch pioneers.

Under amendments to the Victoria's Domestic Animals Act that came into effect on 1 Sep 2010, any dog that looks enough like the Government's description of an American Pit Bull Terrier will be deemed to be a Restricted Breed dog.

(It is impressive to be in the top 50 breeds, since there are nearly 200 kinds of domestic dogs recognized by the American Kennel Club!)

There ARE breeds of dogs, as there are of other domestic animals (as there are varieties of plants).

If you read the work of Konrad Lorenz, or even Charles Darwin, you will clearly see that aggression is a NECESSARY PART of being a pack oriented animal, and it CAN NOT be bred out of the domestic dog or they would no longer be dogs.

Evaluation of a behavioral problem is most effective if the behaviorist has a very good comparative understanding animal behavior, including, but not limited to that of wild and domestic canines, such as wolves, jackals, coyotes, foxes, African wild dogs, and domestic dogs (including a wide variety of breeds).

The Doberman Pinscher (alternatively spelled Dobermann in many states) or just Doberman, is a breed of domestic dog originally developed around 1890 by Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann.

An American breeder named Wallace Havens was the first to breed Puggles in the early 1980s but, since then an increased popularity means the breed has reached the status of common domestic dog.

In addition to canvassing community concerns about the management of dangerous dogs, the inquiry will inform proposed changes to the Domestic Animals Act 1994 with regards to the current moratorium on the destruction of restricted breed dogs.

Sometimes dog breeds that are known for being seasonal shedders in some parts of the world may not experience the same shedding patterns when living as a domestic house dog.

The Doberman or Doberman Pinscher is a breed of domestic dog.

Knowledge of the characteristics and appearances of common breeds of dogs, cats, and other domestic animals.

The Rottweiler is a domestic, powerful and large dog breed.

We have selectively bred our domestic dogs to look different and act different.

I tell them that Shibas are domestic dogs that have NOT been selectively bred to be puppy - like as adults for thousands of generations, as have retrievers and poodles.