Sentences with phrase «hunted rodents in»

Cats hunted rodents in return for basic shelter and the odd scrap.

Not exact matches

As fans of «Duck Dynasty» can attest, hunting for nutria — big, water - loving rodents with bright orange front teeth — is hugely popular in Louisiana.

About 10,000 to 9,500 years ago, African wildcats (Felis silvestris lybica) may have tamed themselves by hunting rodents and eating scraps from the homes of early farmers in the Middle East.

The findings may finally resolve a debate that has raged in anthropological circles ever since the three - and - a-half-feet tall Homo floresiensis was discovered in 2003 on the island of Flores, where they are thought to have hunted small elephants and large rodents as recently as 54,000 years ago.

The Cairn Terrier does an excellent job at hunting rodents, and though they no longer work in the fields of Scotland - they still enjoy of guarding their owners and homes against pests.

Developed in the United Kingdom, the Norwich Terrier is a small breed that was originally used to hunt small game and rodents.

Undomesticated cats hunt, which results in a diet consisting of small animals such as rodents and lizards, insects, and small birds — prey that is high in fat and protein, and very low in carbohydrates.

The Yorkshire Terrier has its roots in England, and it was designed to hunt down and kill rats and various other rodents in Yorkshire England.

Unlike other terrier types, they often get along well with cats and other dogs, but his vermin - hunting instinct will kick in if you keep rodents or rabbits as pets.

The natural place of cats in the food chain is as hunters of mice, rats, and other small rodents, who in urban habitat are themselves overwhelmingly of introduced species, and as scavengers of sick and injured birds who remain on the ground after dark, when healthy birds are roosting and cats do most of their hunting.

De-worming Cats When your cat hunts and eats a mouse, the tapeworms, roundworms and hookworms that reside in the rodent may relocate to your cat's intestines.

The smallest of all hunting breeds they are terrific rabbit and rodent hunters and enjoy hunting in small packs.

Not only was the Siberian Forest cat talked and written about, it was also highly revered for its natural hunting abilities in keeping the rodent population under control on the local farms.

Only cats hunt more rodents in human habitat than street dogs; no other species more effectively rousts monkeys, including macaques, who carry more than 100 infections transmissible by bite or through fecal matter that can kill humans.

In contrast, the eggs of Taenia taeniaformis are eaten by rodents (rats and mice) so other cats become infected during hunting by eating an infected rodent.

Tapeworms are fairly common in juvenile and adult cats, and are typically transmitted to cats that ingest fleas and cats that like to hunt and eat wildlife and rodents.

Instead of hiding and sleeping by day, hunting rodents by night, as true feral cats do, remaining invisible to most of the public, fed cats treated as outdoor pets tend to loiter in daytime awaiting their feeders, sometimes conspicuously hunting birds for sport.

The Snorkie is a mix of terriers (Miniature Schnauzer and Yorkshire Terrier) and originated in the U.S. Because his lineage was originally bred for hunting rodents — the Yorkie in English clothing mills and the Miniature Schnauzer on farms in Germany — the Snorkie will almost certainly exhibit some of these hunting characteristics.

They hunt these small rodents in the wild using their hearing and sight.

In the wild, canines were most likely to hunt on birds, rabbits, rodents, goats, and possibly, the occasional deer.

Shown as the Scotch Terrier in 1861 and later becoming the Yorkshire Terrier, Yorkies were primarily known as a ratter - type of dog, hunting rodents.

Derived from the Latin word for Terra, many working terriers were selectively bred to hunt vermin, large rodents and foxes by «going to ground» in their underground burrows and dens and forcing them out of their habitats where the hunters awaited them.

Multiple references to use of ferrets in hunting and for rodent control are noted after the 13th century throughout Europe.

As hunting usually takes place when the natural prey of the cat (small rodents) are awake, this usually happens late in the evening or early in the morning.

In ancient times, westies were utilized in Scotland for hunting foxes, badgers and rodentIn ancient times, westies were utilized in Scotland for hunting foxes, badgers and rodentin Scotland for hunting foxes, badgers and rodents.

According to a SAGE press release, the study published in the current issue of Feline Medicine and Surgery (JFMS), the cats included in the study, and most of the cats with «staggering disease», are rural free roaming cats accustomed to hunting birds and rodents.

To decrease the risk of contracting plague in endemic western states, keep pets from roaming and hunting to limit their contact with rodent and rabbit carcasses.

You might see such a dog dig holes as if it is looking for a rodent; hunt birds or bugs or toys in your yard; wrestle endlessly with you and / or other animals; get into your things around the home, such as pulling plants apart, beating up pillows, chewing up carpets for fun, destroying pool equipment, or grabbing a shoe and running all over the house with it.

In addition, cats can also become infected with tapeworms through hunting and ingesting small rodents.

A breed of dog originating in Finland, the Finnish Spitz was originally bred to hunt many forms of game, ranging from squirrels and other rodents to bears.

For example, for dogs that are digging in the yard, you'll hear ideas such as burying feces in the holes, or filling them with large rocks, or that the dog is «hunting» for rodents (in places of the yard where there aren't even rodent holes or tunnels) so you need to put out traps, and so forth.

This makes sense, as cats in the wild will hunt rabbits and large rodents and have no trouble making a meal out of a pretty big whole animal.

Talented at hunting and eradicating rodents from the workplace, barn, and basement, I started my career as a young kitten on a farm in North Carolina chasing and exterminating mice inside a large barn.