Sentences with phrase «ferret life»

These, too, are part of ferret life, if you wish.

Another part of ferret life is participating in the ferret community, whether by joining a ferret club, helping out a ferret shelter, educating others about ferrets, going to ferret shows or more.

(The Ferrets live solely on prairie dogs.)

Here is an overview of the types of ferret play to highlight: Tunnel: Wild ferrets live in burrows, so tubes and tunnels are natural toys for domestic ferrets.

Many times, surgery cures this disease, and the ferret lives the rest of its life free of adrenal gland problems.

Now that doesn't mean your ferret can't live longer, there have been several cases of ferrets living to the ripe old age of 13 or 14.

A thought provoking article concerning a topic that most ferret owners will unfortunately have to face at some time in their ferrets lives.

Other changes in a ferrets life may result in a low glucose level but once corrected their levels should be normal.

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Please take note that ferrets live for a long time — 6 to 12 years!

How long do ferrets live?

According to the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), there are 748,000 pet ferrets living in 334,000 households across the United States.1

They also need constant access to food, and owners who have multiple ferrets living together should be encouraged to provide more than one food dish.

Wild ferrets live in burrows, so tubes and tunnels are natural toys for domestic ferrets.

Wild ferrets live in burrows, so digging is an instinctive behavior that can help keep ferrets occupied.

Not exact matches

A huge cage, almost shoulder - height, was installed in the corner of the living room to provide plenty of space for the ferrets during the day, and the kitchen had to be child - proofed to keep the animals from getting under the refrigerator or into the dishwasher.

The evidence already on hand was enough to have them shot, but Hitler desired to ferret out all conspirators, and this desire prolonged their lives.

To ferret out what the ethnic church means for civic life, Ecklund knew that she needed a point of comparison.

The infrequently voting partisan who happens to live among supporters of the other party can be ferreted out.

«Once again we are seeing the Tories fighting like ferrets in a sack rather than taking action to tackle the cost - of - living crisis facing hard - working people,» he added.

«Once again we are seeing the Tories fighting like ferrets in a sack rather than taking action to tackle the cost - of - living crisis facing hardworking people.

In fact, they do nt mind living with other ferrets as it has been -LSB-...]

While other papers have examined these mutations using expensive and time - consuming experiments on live ferrets and laboratory cell cultures, Deem and Melia Bonomo used the pEpitope method to rapidly calculate how much the egg - passage mutations would decrease vaccine efficacy in humans.

Black - footed ferret Population Advisor Colleen Lynch of Riverbanks Zoo and Garden conducted population genetic analysis to select pairings of deceased sperm donors with living females based on several genetic metrics including mean kinship of the parents and inbreeding coefficients of potential offspring to maximize the genetic benefit of successful pairings.

Evolution Diet, makers of completely vegetarian foods for cats, dogs and ferrets, says that its meatless offerings, on the market for 15 years, are healthy and nutritious, and, if anything, have extended the lives of many a feline and canine, even reversed chronic health problems.

In addition to halting H5N1 transmissibility research, «no experiments with live H5N1 or H5 HA reassortant viruses already shown to be transmissible in ferrets will be conducted during this time.

Now, with the whole genome sequences of four black - footed ferrets, two that were saved as living cells in San Diego Zoo's Frozen Zoo ®, and two living black - footed ferrets from the Black - footed Ferret Conservation Center in Colorado, we have information that can transform our understanding of aspects of black - footed biology.

Those who take at trip into the workings of the genomic biology of the black - footed ferret may find that, even picking a single gene or two, they tug on the entire fabric of life.

Thanks to geneticist Oliver Ryder, the Frozen Zoo at San Diego Zoo Global has living cell lines of two Black - footed Ferrets that died 35 years ago.

Gene variants that are now absent in the population might be recovered from the DNA of specimens in museums, and the living ferrets could get a booster shot from their ancestors.

It is estimated that all living Black - footed Ferrets today trace their ancestry to just seven founders.

That's why Revive & Restore is exploring with US Fish & Wildlife, the San Diego Frozen Zoo, and the biotech company Intrexon the possibility of cloning back to life two ferrets whose tissue was cryopreserved 35 years ago.

Cheerio died shortly after our genomic study, after a long and productive life siring 10 kits to continue Black - footed Ferret recovery.

Not all of these founders contributed equally to the genetic makeup of living ferrets, despite careful efforts to retain founding diversity.

All of the laboratory research can be completed in vitro without working with living Black - footed Ferrets.

But because all living ferrets share the same ancestry at a kinship level between first cousins and siblings, it very difficult to choose mate pairs.

A secondary analysis further confirmed that living ferrets have suffered a small degree of inbreeding.

Yet further genetic diversity might be mined from museum specimens that harbor healthy gene variants (alleles) now missing from living ferrets.

The Black - footed Ferret, Mustela nigripes, has lived on the great plains of North America for millions of years.

The DNA samples of two living ferrets born in captivity were provided by the Black - footed Ferret Recovery Team, while the Frozen Zoo provided the historic samples for the two individuals born in the wild.

A Species Survival Plan (SSP) was developed for the ferret, a living document designed to outline and assess recovery strategies and goals for the ferret.

One trainee conducts a live lesson with an individual child behind the glass, while the rest of the class looks on and, with the prompting and probing of the trainer, conducts an on - line critique of the lesson, trying to ferret out the bases of her / his decisions and alternative practices he or she might have tried at key points.

1908: Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. Montgomery «Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies» eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde's Hollow it was a quiet, well - conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde's door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had ferreted out the why and wherefores thereof.»

Besides the WWW team reaching out regularly to bloggers, social media followers, indie book stores, readers at book festivals and more, once every few months we circle back to the coolest source — YOU — to ferret out the latest live book clubs in cities around the world.

Dogs, cats, or ferrets rarely live beyond 10 days after the onset of signs, which is why they must be quarantined and observed after a bite incident.

Why not make your ferret toy department larger than life?

Ferrets like to dig, and they sometimes express this behavior on the living room rug.

«Odor control and cage cleaning are primary concerns in ferret care,» says Dave Hitsman, director of Ware Manufacturing Inc. «So, our new Clean Living cage series includes popular features such as a pull pan to make cage cleaning simple and easy, and clear scatter - proof guards to eliminate messes around the cage.»

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