Sentences with phrase «human breeding practices»

A team of researchers from across Europe has found that human breeding practices, particularly during the Iron Age, are likely the cause of a lack of variability in paternally inherited DNA in modern horses.

Not exact matches

Furthermore, breeding across race lines has been practiced throughout human history; that is how we came to have such a motley assembly of peoples on the earth today.

In spite of the introduction of some bad breeding practices in the last 15 years or so, the vast majority of APBTs remain very human - friendly.

My study of dog bite - related fatalities occurring over the past five decades has identified the poor ownership / management practices involved in the overwhelming majority of these incidents: owners obtaining dogs, and maintaining them as resident dogs outside of regular, positive human interaction, often for negative functions (i.e. guarding / protection, fighting, intimidation / status); owners failing to humanely contain, control and maintain their dogs (chained dogs, loose roaming dogs, cases of abuse / neglect); owners failing to knowledgably supervise interaction between children and dogs; and owners failing to spay or neuter dogs not used for competition, show, or in a responsible breeding program.

Dog breeding has long been a practice by humans, but it was only in the 19th century that people started taking note of canine bloodlines.

Although most people in South Korea don't regularly eat dogs and the practice is increasingly unpopular with young Koreans, an estimated 2.5 million dogs of all types are still bred and killed each year for human consumption.

That variety in behavior is mostly man - made: Dog breeding practices developed to highlight certain behaviors or traits that humans found useful.

Others within Minnesota contend that dogs and cats are bred for human companionship, not food or fiber — and that breeding practices and conditions which could result in animal suffering should be a part of any inspections, evaluations or permit approvals.

Law firms have always been enthusiastic adopters of best of breed technology — practice management, document management, time and billing, expense, human resources and more.

The most dangerous dogs are those that fall victims to human shortcomings such as poor training, irresponsible ownership and breeding practices that foster viciousness or neglect and abuse.