This stage focuses on
identifying different breeds of dogs and cats, recognizing normal and abnormal behavior in dogs and cats, identifying common diseases and medical conditions, and properly caring for the hospitalized patient in your charge.
Not exact matches
A research team led by Kerstin Lindblad - Toh at Uppsala University / SciLifeLab has used genetic analyses
of 25
different dog breeds to
identify genes that could have a role in the development
of brain tumors.
Of the 11 to which a breed definition could be reasonably assigned, 8 different breeds of dog were identifie
Of the 11 to which a
breed definition could be reasonably assigned, 8
different breeds of dog were identifie
of dog were
identified.
Dr. Victoria Voith
of Western University and the Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program conducted a survey in four
different shelters
of four
different staff members
identifying the primary
breed of 30
dogs per shelter, a total
of 16 staff and 120
dogs.
The population
of dogs coming into the sheltering population in Richmond, VA, may be
different than elsewhere, but at least at the Richmond SPCA, with a specific look and type, staff were quite good at
breed identification — correctly
identifying 96 %
of the
dogs in the study as having at least 25 %
of the
breeds noted above.
«It is certainly exciting to see this idea
of using molecular markers to
identify signatures
of different breeds — which had its origins in basic evolutionary genetics — make it all the way to a commercial product that has the potential to provide useful information to and satisfy the curiosity
of millions
of dog owners,» he said.
This report
identified that many
dogs of different breeds experience compromised welfare due to the effects
of selective
breeding practices.
Recently we have developed improved methods for
identifying the
different forms
of the DLA genes, in a large number
of dogs of diverse
breeds.
This means that if your
dog has an ancestry
of 20
different breeds and each
breed only makes up 5 %
of your canine's DNA, it may be very difficult to
identify every one
of the
breeds.
Because each
breed faces
different health challenges, the CHIC program
identifies health screening tests that meet the needs and concerns
of individual
dog breeds.
With smaller
breeds of dogs, if several vaccines are due at one time and we fell that they are at high risk for a vaccine reaction, we will time the vaccines being given at
different times to decrease the risk
of a reaction or to
identify which vaccine is causing a reaction.
Because Pit - Bull type
dogs are so difficult to properly
identify (the «bully
breed» category being composed
of more than 40
different types
of individual
breeds), they often get lumped together under this umbrella term.
For example, since 1965 - 2008, there have been 17
different breeds / types
of dogs have been
identified in connection with
dog bite fatalities in Texas.
At least 18
different breeds / types
of dogs have been
identified in connection with these incidents.
These needs were
identified through a review
of the WALTHAM ® Centre's robust body
of research studies on the requirements
of dogs of different breeds, sizes and life stages.
In reporting their findings, the researchers made clear that the
breeds of dogs said to be involved in human fatalities had varied over time, pointing out that the period 1975 - 1980 showed a
different distribution
of breeds than the later years.8 Subsequently, Karen Delise
of the National Canine Research Council reported that, in the decade 1966 - 1975, fewer than 2 %
of all
dogs involved in fatal attacks in the United States were
identified as
of the
breeds that figured prominently in the CDC study.
It even allows users to find a
different breed of a
dog by simply taking a photograph,
identifying plant life and even find historical facts about a less known landmark.
It uses image recognition algorithms to
identify things like the
breed of a
dog or
different kinds
of plants.