The phrase
"intact animals" refers to animals that have not undergone any surgical procedures or cuts that alter their natural body parts or functions.
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There are increases in license fees to help pay for these new laws; fees
for intact animals will be more than twice as much as for those that are spayed / neutered.
This focus of care is most important not only to preventing litters and behavior problems associated
with intact animals, but also cancer and other diseases.
Remember, licensing fees for pets that have been spayed or neutered are substantially less than those
for intact animals.
Solving the Problem of Problem Owners The spay or pay ordinance in Springfield, MA, offers owners
of intact animals picked up by animal control a financial incentive to alter animals most at risk for breeding, biting and health issues.
In 2002, the strength of AWACF's purpose convinced the commissioners of Seminole County, in Central Florida, to eliminate the practice of adopting out
intact animals from the County Animal Shelter, a major step in cutting down the pet overpopulation problem.
Only animals with a valid
intact animal permit that was purchased prior to the animal's impoundment will be released intact.
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Releasing intact animals, whether it is to reduce euthanasia or just not wanting the headache of getting animals to clinics, makes the people who are working so hard to rescue animals spin their wheels,» Wilson said.
Plus, you won't need to worry about spending money on injuries incurred
by intact animals who get into fights because they're more aggressive or who run out of the house in an effort to roam and end up getting hurt in the process.
Consequently, the incidence of urine spraying is higher
in intact animals as a way of advertising their reproductive availability.
However, rural areas with the least access to spay / neuter clinics and the least access to sheltering are also the ones in
which intact animals are most likely to be released from the existing shelters with no follow - up to ensure they were altered.
Breeders would be required to keep health records and also submit an annual report to the Board that would include the number of
adult intact animals held at the facility.
But the transition from brain - cell cultures to the brains of
intact animals does not seem to bode well for astronaut resilience.
Intact animals make up a majority of the animals surrendered to animal control and animal sheltering facilities.
One critical limitation to the conclusions found is that although a large number of cases were viewed (> 700), the actual number of cases for each disease of neutered
vs. intact animals (females and males separately) is often in the single digits, with the highest number being < 20.
Intact animals often display negative behaviors that result in relinquishment to shelters (e.g., spraying, female estrus («heat») cycle, certain forms of aggression)
The intent of the ordinance is to address the variety of animal control concerns presented by
intact animal including the following:
The legislative backfire gallery — laws intended to achieve an admirable goal such as reducing neighborhood nuisances, stray cats or discarded dogs but which often achieve the opposite effect — include arbitrary pet limit laws, bans against specific breeds, penalties against feeding neighborhood cats, outlawing elective veterinary procedures like debarking and declawing or charging exorbitant licensing fees
for intact animals.
Martill, however, has uncovered all kinds
of intact animals and plants, and all in one place.
«Commercial breeder» means a person who possesses or has an ownership interest in animals and is engaged in the business of breeding animals for sale or for exchange in return for consideration, and who possesses ten or more
adult intact animals and whose animals produce more than five total litters of puppies or kittens per year.
• Doing your part to help the pet overpopulation problem and keeping your intact dog at home and away from
other intact animals, or neutering him or her to prevent future health issues.
Visibly fluorescent proteins (FPs) from jellyfish and corals have revolutionized many areas of molecular and cell biology, but the use of FPs
in intact animals, such as mice, has been handicapped by poor penetration of excitation light.
He has achieved fame by experiments in which, after removing the amygdalae from the brains of cats, he observed that the cats veered «helplessly from one inappropriate affect to another, boredom where there should be fear... sexual arousal where there was nothing that would stimulate
an intact animal.»
There we learn that when Dr. Starling removed the amygdala from the brains of laboratory cats, he observed them «to veer helplessly from one inappropriate affect to another, boredom where there should be fear, cringing where there should be preening, sexual arousal where there was nothing that would stimulate
an intact animal.»
A hallmark of long - term memory in
the intact animal is a requirement for transcription, and thus whether the late phase of LTP (L - LTP) requires transcription was investigated here.
Repeated high - frequency trains of stimuli induce long - term potentiation (LTP) in the CA1 region that persists for up to 8 hours in hippocampal slices and for days in
intact animals.
When the team compared brain slices from the two groups of rats, they discovered that in
the intact animals, more CREB molecules carried a phosphate group — a crucial step for their activation.
Subsequent experiments carried out at the Laboratory of Cell Biology in Rome by Luigi Aloe and one of us (Levi - Montalcini) demonstrated that this remarkable transformation can also take place in
the intact animal: repeated injections of NGF into rat fetuses, continued for two to three weeks after birth, resulted in the differentiation of chromaffin cells into sympathetic neurons in the core of the adrenal gland!
The American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology focuses on the physiology of the heart, blood vessels and lymphatics, including experimental and theoretical studies of cardiovascular function at all levels of organization ranging from
the intact animal to the cellular, subcellular and molecular levels.
However, a steady flow of
intact animals are released from shelters in rural areas that concomitantly have the least access to shelters overall, keep few records and have the lowest levels of income and law enforcement staffing per population; these areas lag far behind in terms of prevention, shelter access and animal welfare.
In Arkansas, a measure to charge an annual fee of $ 50 to pet owners of purebred dogs and cats that are not spayed or neutered —
an intact animal license — died in committee.
For example, the city of Durant releases
some intact animals for free and without a contract.
We must hold ourselves to the highest standard of reproductive control over
the intact animals we are responsible for.
If you own
an intact animal and need to make a spay / neuter decision, I encourage you to first learn all you can about surgical sterilization options and the risks and benefits associated with the procedures.
Intact animals may have a reduced incidence of autoimmune thyroiditis and hypothyroidism.
How unique these findings were to Portland, both in reducing intake generally and in identifying a level of spay / neuter to
intact animals that will allow a community to reduce shelter intake requires additional research.
Additionally, neutered dogs have been shown to have increased lifespan as compared to
intact animals by 13.8 and 26.3 % for males and females, respectively [11].
Intact animals may exhibit certain characteristics that can make assimilation of a new dog into a household difficult.
Neutered cats need less than
intact animals.
Spay / neuter provides a convenience to you, as well as protecting your pet from common cancers and illnesses associated with non-breeding,
intact animals.
In the US, ownership and maintenance of
an intact animal carries a stigma of irresponsibility while, in Europe, the opposite is true.