Sentences with phrase «like domestic dogs»

But different kinds of hamsters aren't different breeds of the same animal like domestic dogs are.

They're nothing like a domestic dog's.

Not exact matches

Still, one did not purchase very much food for domestic animals because what they did for us was to feed themselves by doing what cats and dogs did, like stalking birds and chasing rabbits.

But we think these infections have spilled over from a disease reservoir among domestic dogs, or common wild carnivores like badgers and foxes.»

Similarly, it could be difficult to control emerging pathogens transmitted by pets, which increasingly include exotic species along with traditional domestic animals like dogs and cats.

Wolves, just like any other wild canid — other than domestic dogs — are never dewormed, after all.

I liked Brian Hare's alternative theory on the origins of domestic dogs, in which «friendly» wolves that thrived on food...

Some people worry about domestic pets (especially small dogs, like terriers) being poisoned by cane toads — and this is indeed a very real problem not just in Australia but in other parts of the cane toad's introduced range (for example, in Florida).

I spent my weekend house and dog sitting for a friend and not being home forced me to not worry about domestic tasks like cleaning and doing laundry.

I like pekingese dogs, house plants, kids, lots of things.I am quite domestic.

With the aim of developing a domestic dog with fox - like tendencies Tollers were bred to entice ducks, dancing along the shores until the curious and bird - brained ducks swam close enough to be caught.

For a domestic dog, the trigger is much more likely to be something like a stranger, a loud noise, or an... Continued

Under amendments to the Victoria's Domestic Animals Act that came into effect on 1 Sep 2010, any dog that looks enough like the Government's description of an American Pit Bull Terrier will be deemed to be a Restricted Breed dog.

Like humans however, wolves and their domestic dog descendants can carry a genetic defect called achondroplasia that causes the affected animal to have disproportionately short legs.

Almost two months later our volunteer and Helping Lost Pets matchmaker, Sharyl W, saw a dog who looked like Charlie on the Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control Commission (MADACC) website.

Wild animals are the only remaining risks in the U.S. Rabies vaccination programs for domestic animals like cats, dogs, and livestock have become the norm around the nation, which eliminated the threat from their populations.

After almost 6 weeks of being missing one of our volunteers and Helping Lost Pets matchmaker, Sharyl W, saw a dog that looked like Whisky on the Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control Commission (MADACC) website.

I tell them that Shibas are domestic dogs that have NOT been selectively bred to be puppy - like as adults for thousands of generations, as have retrievers and poodles.

Baby wolves, like our domestic puppy dogs, have sharp baby teeth.

While the pointy ears, wolf - like facial structure, and eerily wolf - like coat, may fool you into thinking this breed was truly a wolf, the domestic dog temperament is a world away from a wolf.

Like many domestic breeds, the modern incarnation of the Caucasian Ovcharka was first given a written breed standard in the 1930s and it was first exhibited at a dog show in Germany around that same time as the «Trans - Caucasian Ovtcharka.»

Domestic animals like dogs and cats as well as people are most commonly exposed by being bitten by an affected animal.

Also like the Australian dingo, there is controversy around the classification — is it a primitive breed of domestic dog that found an ecological niche and returned to being wild, or a unique subspecies of wolf that evolved without human intervention, or somewhere in between?

The domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris or Canis familiaris) is a member of the genus Canis (canines), which forms part of the wolf - like canids, and is the most widely abundant terrestrial carnivore Cite journal The dog and the extant gray wolf are sister taxa as modern wolve...

Rather than being an agonistic display of territorial defense, urinary scent marking by domestic dogs appears to be a means to make a strange environment smell like home, by masking the unfamiliar odors with individual urine.

Purebred dogs are under assault from extreme animal rightists who would like to see all domestic animal populations managed to extinction.

Dogs, like many domestic animals, are highly adaptable, and most dogs with a normal nervous system can easily adjust to these environmental chanDogs, like many domestic animals, are highly adaptable, and most dogs with a normal nervous system can easily adjust to these environmental chandogs with a normal nervous system can easily adjust to these environmental changes.

Several tick species found in our region include the American dog (wood) tick that caries Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tick paralysis, the Lone Star tick that has gradually traveled to the eastern and southern regions of the country and carries Cytauxzoon felis, a life - threatening disease affecting domestic cats, and tularemia caused by direct with infected animals like rabbits and rodents from tick or fly bites, and the brown dog tick that carries babesiosis and ehrlichiosis.

Our domestic dogs have moved into our homes and sadly, much like us, they do not get near enough exposure to sunlight and its healing and life promoting benefits.

• We love all kinds of animals, but only domestic pets, like cats and dogs, are allowed to stay at La Quinta.

While throwing a dog a raw bone might seem like a harmless idea, bones can actually be quite dangerous for domestic pets.

PetravelR ™ notes that the policy doesn't limit the pets permitted to dogs and cats, it simply says «only domestic pets, like cats and dogs, are allowed,» so we're thinking you can probably bring your pair of house rabbits or guinea pigs, but not your pygmy goats.

This is one of the oldest herding breed of dog known and just like in the past, it is very efficient in herding sheep, horses, cattle and other domestic animals.

Domestic dogs are actually omnivores, just like their owners.

Domestic dogs are trained for handshake, like human beings.

«When a domestic animal that has been fed a commercial diet for years is switched to a raw diet, the digestive system is re-born — old dogs seem puppy - like and picky pets dance by the refrigerator door at mealtime.

Dogs and cats are by far the most loved animals across the board, receiving much more attention than other domestic animals like cows, pigs, chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys.

The point I'd like to make here is that the domestic dog evolves WITH US, and to lose the excuses.

So... what I'm getting at is, studies like these are fine, but they don't address perfectly normal, appropriate behaviour of domestic dogs raised to be productive members of human society. . .

Some like disease from domestic dogs or introduced wildlife are similar to lightning, they may initially strike in one place, but the consequences can quickly spread across an entire island.

(Wegman dresses dogs up as humans acting out domestic rituals, like baking a cake; Oursler renders the human body mystical and otherworldly by projecting blinking eyeballs and moving mouths onto orbs).

While naysayers like to point out that dogs lick because they like the taste of their owner's salty skin, with domestic dogs, licking is a sign of affection.