Sentences with phrase «for domesticated dogs»

Still today, wild dogs will eat vegetation such as fruiting plants, vegetation and grass, but for domesticated dogs the most convenient of these items to satisfy a natural drive is grass.

While food guarding is not acceptable behaviour for domesticated dogs, what most dog owners don't realise is that food guarding is a natural behaviour in dogs.

This predisposition for domesticated dogs to readily accept any sexual partner and be promiscuous is considered by many breeders as «a facet of domestication.»

The truth is that fiber is a part of a healthy diet for your domesticated dog.

Not exact matches

The 25 - person staff lets a variety of pets roam the office, including dogs, a cat who lived in - house for a year while its owners moved, and even a full - fledged, domesticated wolf.

Here's a nice example for you, the domesticated dog.

God is not domesticated and spoken familiarly about as, for example, about one's cat or dog.

New York State law requires rabies vaccinations for all cats, dogs and domesticated ferrets no later than four months after its date of birth.

Our results provide strong evidence for complex communication directed at humans in a species that was domesticated primarily for agricultural production, and show similarities with animals bred to become pets or working animals, such as dogs and horses.»

Dogs were domesticated around 16,000 years ago in China, perhaps for meat.

In dogs, which have been domesticated for over 17,000 years, there were 71 shared parasites and pathogens, and in the 11,000 year association between humans and cattle, 34 have accumulated.

Considering how long it took for dogs to be domesticated — the oldest doglike skeletal remains were found in central Russia and date to 15,000 years ago, perhaps a million years after the first wolves appeared — the foxes settled down quickly.

«Cats were not selected for a purpose like dogs and other domesticates,» Murphy speculates.

In May, Columbia University Medical Center pathologist W. Ian Lipkin and his colleagues identified a hepatitis C — like virus in dogs for the first time, suggesting the disease may have jumped to humans through contact with man's best friend 500 to 1,000 years ago, long after dogs were first domesticated.

A 2015 study in Genome Research, for example, estimated that 25 percent of modern Eurasian wolf DNA actually comes from interbreeding with domesticated dogs.

When talking about the reasons for domesticating animals, why assume that dogs were not eaten by early humans (28 May, p 32)?

When talking about the reasons for domesticating animals, why assume that dogs were not eaten by early humans (28 May,...

Prior work had suggested that domesticated dogs came from the Middle East based on archaeological evidence and domestication patterns for other animals.

The Maya cultivated many plants for food, but it has long been believed that they only kept one domesticated animal — dogs — for food during the early flourishing of their civilization.

In the second scenario, the Botai horses didn't survive, and were replaced by horses domesticated elsewhere, creating at least two centers of horse domestication (as there may have been for dogs, cats, and other animals).

So maize - raised dogs may have been a significant protein source for the Mayans before they domesticated turkeys, Sharpe says.

Based on where dogs and wolves searched for food after receiving some hints about its location, they showed that our domesticated, four - legged companions can not make the connection between cause and effect, but wolves can.

For example, a photo of a dog would be labeled as animal, canine, domesticated dog, and the breed of dog.

Once, researchers assumed that ancient humans domesticated dogs on purpose, adopting wolf pups and breeding them for useful traits.

By comparison, canine transmissible venereal tumor, a sexually transmitted form of cancer that only affects dogs, has been around for at least 11,000 years and is generally not fatal to domesticated animals.

They might all be related to the Israeli wolf, for instance, because maybe dogs were domesticated in the Middle East.

A similar question is raised in the animated feature The Secret Life of Pets: What, exactly, do dogs and cats and birds and other domesticated animals do when their human owners head out for the day?

These rats have been bred for favorable qualities, much like how dogs have been domesticated from wolves over hundreds of years.

«It is clear that specific physical features were actively selected for as wolves were domesticated to become dogs, but other features may have also been selected for unconsciously.

Co-author Paul Jones of The Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition, UK, said: «It's interesting to know the answer to the question of where dogs were first domesticated and this paper goes some way to giving us an answer.»

Unlike dogs, which have been bred for specific purposes, cats essentially domesticated themselves.

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.

However, a domesticated dog that shows food aggression poses the risk for the owner, children and even other pets to be bitten.

The widely perceived cuteness of domesticated animals, such as dogs and cats, may be due to the fact that humans selectively breed their pets for infant - like characteristics, including non-aggressive behavior and child - like appearance.

In the wild, after all, no one manufactured toys for the wolves, the ancestors of all domesticated dogs.

The top five domesticated breeds thought to have the strongest jaw are all large dogs known for their bite.

Since humans domesticated dogs about 10,000 years ago, and cats about 8,000 years ago, the bond between humans and animals has been growing, with powerful benefits for both.

The first dogs domesticated by man were used for two primary purposes — hunting and sledding.

During our long history with domesticated dogs, one characteristic has remained a constant for all dogs: they are instinctively clean animals, and will avoid relieving themselves where they sleep and eat.

Animal control agencies would classify dogs as dangerous if they aggressively have bitten or attacked a human, have killed or severely injured a domesticated animal or have been trained primarily for fighting.

From dogs saved from puppy mills, to rabbits rescued from laboratory testing facilities, and exotic animals freed from their lives as domesticated animals — the individuals who are removed from these horrible circumstances serve as an example for many other animals continuing to endure similar challenges.

In recent decades domesticated dogs have been introduced to processed diets and unfortunately these commercially manufactured foods have become the primary cause for the escalation in many canine health issues.

But, modern dogs need to have an understanding of where to practice playful hunting activities in domesticated settings, just as most humans go to their local butcher or grocery store for their sustenance.

In fact, some of the first domesticated dogs were likely bred to help assist humans in capturing and killing game for food.

Dogs have been domesticated for at least 15,000 years, although some historians think it may be longer.

The reason for this is that as a domesticated dog spends increasing amounts of time indoors, they are less exposed to extreme changes in temperature that prompts the coat to shed.

Pets are often abandoned in the forests by people who truly believe that these domesticated puppies and kittens, dogs and cats will revert back to the wild and learn to fend for themselves.

Dogs, cats, and other domesticated pet animals whose owners can no longer care for them are accepted on a space - available basis, provided that they are in good health and are of good temperament.

That said, for those of us who have heard again and again that dogs are just domesticated wolves living in a «pack» of humans — and who hasn't heard that more times than you can count, thanks to the popularization of the concept on TV — it might be helpful to learn all the scientific reasoning behind how wolves and dogs are different (and how we misunderstood wolves and their pack interactions for a very, very long time), why those «alpha dog» approaches aren't the best way to relate to your dog (and in fact, can even cause more problems), and why alternate approaches like positive reinforcement and reading the body language of a dog as a dog and not a mini wolf do work.

Inasmuch as humans are responsible for having domesticated pets, we have a moral and ethical obligation to care for the dogs and cats, especially those we have domesticated who are abandoned, unwanted, or otherwise in need.