Sentences with phrase «like other companion animals»

Foster animals, like any other companion animal in your home, may destroy carpeting, drapes, clothing and other valuable items.

Introduction Many pet rabbits suffer from being overweight or obese, just like other companion animal species.

Many pet rabbits suffer from being overweight or obese, just like other companion animal species.

Not exact matches

According to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, companion animals — like dogs, cats or the guinea pigs in the study — may prove to be a helpful addition to treatment programs designed to help children with ASDs improve their social skills and interactions with other people.

To others, they may be «just animals,» but for many of us, our companion animals are like our children.

While not all animals get along that well with each other (like these dogs who are afraid to pass their feline household companions), special interspecies friendships show us the unconditional acceptance and love two species can share with one another, often unexpectedly, making them all the more remarkable.

While companion dogs are usually kept indoors and often do not come into contact with tainted meat or other wild animals that may have worms, contact with other dogs or feces in the park may cause transmission of parasitic worms like heartworm, tapeworm and roundworms.

But maybe Judge Dunbar and others like him will not be so quick to «sneer -LSB--RSB-» at cases that seek to place a value on companion animals» lives.

They are experts in dog and cat behavior and often in the behavior of other companion animal species as well, like horses and birds.

Like social cats, semi-feral working cats make good companions for other outdoor animals, but will likely spend more time hunting for rodents and less time with humans.

Fortunately, national animal groups and research - focused organizations conduct studies and share results on important topics like the public's knowledge of companion animal issues, support for stricter laws and perceptions of spay / neuter and other issues.

The research suggests that companion animals — like dogs, cats or the guinea pigs in the study — may prove to be a helpful addition to treatment programs designed to help children with ASD improve their social skills and interactions with other people.

As a result, the definition of the companion animal breed is a breed whose members can not perform any utilitarian function for themselves or their human owners — they're simply too weak to pull their own weight anymore — and they also suffer from a much wider array of painful maladies than their larger cousins; painful and unnatural medical problems like the tendency of certain joints like knees and hips to pop out of their sockets far too easily, among many others.

Like the death of any other member of your family, losing a companion animal is devastating, and mourning is necessary.

Our hope is that by providing financial assistance in times of critical need, Dylan's Hearts will perpetuate the bond that exists between humans and their animal companions, and provide others with the wonderful opportunity to experience a love like Dylan's!

The charge of kicking the bill's meager provisions into action falls to the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA), a monolithic group that oversees state crop production, livestock and many other industries far removed from companion animals like puppies.

«Again, like humans and the human diet, adding vitamins, enzymes and other healthy ingredients, in addition to a premium food, only increases the overall health and longevity of our animal companions.»

We must seize the grass roots momentum that started last year, and like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the grass roots organization that placed the wrongfulness of drunk driving into the minds of everyone, we must let legislators and other elected officials know that we do not want lip service and a mysterious end to animal welfare legislation; we want meaningful change for companion animals in Oklahoma.

In the spring of 2004, the SPCA opened the Dorothy and Roy Park Pet Adoption Center, a sheltering facility that provides dogs, cats and other companion animals with comfortable, healthy, home - like settings.

And rightly so: unlike animals used for entertainment, research and cosmetic testing, and other forms human consumption, most of the American public has a shared reverence and respect for companion animals like cats and dogs.

dolls or animals rather than other humans feature as companions with their almost human - like but dumb, false understanding.