Sentences with phrase «from human households»

Throughout all this time, cats were allowed to come and go freely from human households — even President Calvin Coolidge's cat had free rein to wander to and from the White House during the 1920s.

Not exact matches

The danger of such a reversion to the merely natural, shameless, and amoral — i.e., to the pagan — view of human affairs lurks in every household, both from the side of disreputable fathers and from the side of impious sons.
In Gall's case, this juxtaposition not only reduces philosophy and theology to mere «bluster,» thereby liberating us to act without thinking seriously; it suggests that none of the consequences that follow from, for example, the codification of same - sex marriage — the redefinition of kinship, the irrevocable technologizing of human «reproduction,» further expansion of the «new eugenics,» deliberate creation of three - parent households, and least of all, the fate of children conceived in this brave new world — even provoke questions of human import worth thinking seriously about.
Micah, the Ephraimite, had an image of Yahweh; (Judges 17:3 - 4) Gideon made one out of captured gold; (Judges 8:24 - 27) the teraphim were household gods, human enough in appearance to supply David with a substitute when he fled from his foes; (I Samuel 19:12 - 16 [cf. Genesis 31:17 - 35]-RRB- and, indeed, so customary were «graven images» that while early protests were made, as in the law of Exodus, «Thou shalt make thee no molten gods,» (Exodus 34:17.)
As far as ammonia in our foods; it's NOT household ammonia that is used in any food manufacturing process; it's a chemical called ammonium hydroxide (which, I guess, from what I've read is found naturally occuring in lots of things, including human beings).
California, Weston said, doesn't want to return to using organophosphates such as chlorpyrifos, which was banned from household use because of human health concerns, «but they want to control the use of pyrethroids to minimize the environmental effects we document.»
The scent samples came from the subject itself, a dog the subject had never met, a dog that lived in the subject's household, a human the dog had never met, and a human that lived in the subject's household.
They also believe that the broken pots had come from heaps of household waste, which were spread over the fields as fertiliser and would have contained human or animal faeces.
The researchers captured everything from a begging gesture that would suffice in most human households in the world to an oddly comic raising of the arms (and exposing of the armpits) to signal sexual interest.
Another booming area of the guggul gum industry is as an incense; local Indians believe that burning the raw gum over coal to create a thick dense smoke can drive evil spirits away from the household and remove the «evil eye» from nearby humans.
In this future world where robots routinely coexist with humans in their households and in society in general, David stands apart from all the other «mecha»: he is the first to be programmed with the ability to love.
Most models will sport at least one perch where your cat can roost and observe things from upon high, or just keep himself out of the way of humans in a busy household.
If weather or behavior prevents you from taking an animal outside, make sure to exercise the pet with creative games inside, such as chasing laser pointers, obstacle courses, and playtime with humans and other household pets.
The fact is that more pets end up in the vet emergency room from many common human foods right off your kitchen table and household plants.
These individuals will help the dogs from the dog shelter regain their trust in human households and the dogs will also discover how to socialize with loved ones members.
Ticks that bite dogs often migrate from the dog to humans in the household.
Although humans, particularly children, regularly suffer from giardia - related diarrhea, the source is usually contaminated drinking or standing water or daycare facility exposure — not household cats.
If your veterinarian has diagnosed your dog with ringworm, he or she will explain what you must do to prevent the fungus from spreading to your other pets — and to the human members of the household.
Most importantly, she has a keen understanding that dog training isn't just about the dog, and is able to communicate with and coach the human family, from adults to children, so they can better manage and train their dog as a household friend and companion.
In these cases it is believed that the cats caught the virus from humans in their households who were sick with influenza - like illness.
From household pets to horses that herd livestock to therapy dogs that provide comfort to victims of disaster and illness, the lives of both humans and animals are made better by our mutual bond.
Usually barking means that your dog is in need of something - she / he may be bored (especially in a one dog household with the guardians gone a lot of the time,) lack of exercise, lack of companionship from their own species or lack of human attention, anxiety, fear and stress.
Using data from the AVMA 2012 survey, a community's pet cat population can be estimated by dividing the human population (available at www.census.gov) by 4.1 (assuming 2.6 persons per household according to national census data; persons per household, household rate of pet ownership, and pets per household will vary by region, rendering this a rough estimate only).
As veterinary medicine continued to evolve and the human population moved from rural communities to urban and suburban ones, cats and dogs became more popular as household pets.
Anxiety can be caused by extremes such as physical and verbal abuse, or by seemingly small things like moving to a new home, separation from their humans, or another addition to the household.
If your veterinarian has diagnosed your cat with ringworm, he or she will explain what you must do to prevent the fungus from spreading to your other pets — and to the human members of the household.
Indoor hazards may be less obvious but they do exist, for example: household chemicals, human medications, eating dangerous objects (elastic bands, needle - and - thread), pull - string blinds, electrical wires, crush injuries from toppled items such as stepladders, caught in slammed doors.
See your vet immediately for medication to treat ringworm, both for your dog's sake and to prevent the infection from spreading to others (humans, too) in your household.
Her transformations of everyday household objects, from furniture to clothing, are infused with human emotion and rawness, and also show a playfulness of material and language that is both subtle and ambitious.
While abstract at its core, Von Rydingsvard's work takes visual cues from the landscape, the human body, and utilitarian objects — such as the artist's collection of household vessels — and demonstrates an interest in the point where the man - made meets nature.
The Oregon - based artist Jessica Jackson Hutchins transforms everyday household objects — from furniture to clothing — and infuses them with human emotion and rawness.
Josh Kline's surrealist 3 - D printed sculptures play cannily with branded surfaces, portraying an office cleaning trolley on which household detergents and the texture of cleaning tools slip from one surface to another, and human limbs are dismembered and folded in upon themselves, revealing linings of sponge or office uniform.
The new works, constructed from domestic objects such as furniture, mops, walking sticks, household objects, pots, planters and concrete, have a patina of age or human touch already and in carving these objects from their original skin Da Cunha is literally making a new object from an existing one.
Subtitle C: Consumer Assistance -(Sec. 431) Amends the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to formulate and administer the Energy Refund Program, under which eligible low - income households are provided cash payments to reimburse the households for the estimated loss in their purchasing power resulting from this Act.
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