Sentences with phrase «more vulnerable animals»

Keeping family pets indoors, adopting from shelters and ensuring that cats are spayed or neutered can help lower stray populations and keep more vulnerable animals off of the streets.

Not exact matches

No members are more vulnerable and dependent than our society's domestic animals.

While previous scaling laws predicted that humans» brains would be more resilient to blasts than animals», Radovitzky's team found the opposite: that in fact, humans are much more vulnerable, as they have thinner skulls to protect much larger brains.

«The balance of relatively simple communities of plants and animals is more easily upset than that of richer ones,» he wrote, «and more vulnerable to invasions.»

An experimental drug that targets abnormally high levels of a protein linked to cancer growth appears to significantly reduce the proliferation of prostate cancer cells in laboratory cell cultures and animals, while also making these cells considerably more vulnerable to radiation, according to results of a study led by Johns Hopkins scientists.

When they do die, the cause is often an attack — hit by acar or mauled by a raccoon — or one of a number of infectious diseasesthat kill these turtles at all ages in seemingly equal proportions.While certain ailments, such as cancer and heart disease, strike olderhumans more often than they do younger ones, Congdon's animals don'tseem to become more vulnerable to disease as they grow older.

«These animals have been living on the edge and are highly endangered,» Mitani said, noting that «we're placing them in even more vulnerable conditions.

But the dogs had no major side effects from taking low doses of the drug, a worry because rapamycin impairs immune system function and could make animals (including people) who take it more vulnerable to infection or cancer.

Consequently, tropical ecosystems and animal populations may be more vulnerable to the effects of climate change.»

When the researchers vaccinated mice with the Dutch vaccine, the animals were more vulnerable to strains that had the mutations than to ones that didn't.

That can cause a problem, as inbred animals die younger, have poor fertility, and are often more vulnerable to environmental changes.

I was concerned for my own safety, but also the safety of those more vulnerable: animals not meant to survive in a hurricane zone, those without homes, those asked to rescue.

Pure muscle moving together for speed, with a man atop them, vulnerable, at the mercy of the animal's trust.There are few things more thrilling than being atop a galloping horse at full speed, the wind ripping past you, the pounding of the hooves in your year and rattling yoiur spine, but at that moment you become one with the horse, as though you had become an appendage.

Now unified as one organization, San Diego Humane Society is on track to help more than 15,000 vulnerable animals this year alone.

«We have been eagerly anticipating this day because we know how combining resources will save more of the most vulnerable animals in our community,» said Weitzman.

And all animals, even those with thick coats, have areas with less or light fur that are more vulnerable to the sun's damaging rays.

«As we reframe how we manage the vulnerable time around calving and make immune suppression a priority, we know that more than 80 percent of U.S. producers are looking to their veterinarians for help in protecting their cows» immune systems,» said Paul Rapnicki, DVM, MBA, Dairy Technical Consultant, Elanco Animal Health.

Last year, San Diego Humane Society cared for more than 16,000 vulnerable animals, with the average care cost per animal being $ 1,300, officials said.

However, young, elderly or pregnant animals are more vulnerable to viral diseases such as equine influenza, which can cause abortion in pregnant mares.

By providing a dedicated care space and caregivers, animal shelters can save vastly more lives for the most vulnerable animals among us.»

Foster families increase your capacity for care and keep vulnerable animals safe from transmissible diseases in the shelter, and this sample flyer might help you bring more into the fold.

So the invisible fence offered absolutely no protection for my dogs from other dogs (or wild animals or thieves), and actually made them more vulnerable, as they had no way to escape the attacking dog.

Maddie's Fund is piloting the subsidy program to give local shelters and rescues the means to find more homes for vulnerable shelter pets, strengthen the relationship between animal control shelters and adoption guarantee groups, and shift some of the burden of responsibility for these pets away from cash - strapped government agencies.

Animals are vulnerable, living and breathing creatures deserving of more than fleeting attention as a gift - wrapped surprise.

With continued support from friends like you, we look forward to doing more for vulnerable animals in 2017.

Foster families provide temporary shelter and save many lives, giving our most vulnerable animals more personalized care and the comforts of home.

However, there are some animals that are more vulnerable to the condition than others.

Puppies and kittens younger than six months are more vulnerable since they do not have the fully functioning immune system of an older animal.

Public animal places such as kennels and shelters make their pets more vulnerable to such bacteria.

Several studies suggest Dobermans and Rottweilers may be more vulnerable to this illness, and that non-neutered animals may be at greater risk than those that have been spayed or neutered.

The world has some rough customers and often offers some depressing headlines in the news, and but when you start looking at all of the ways you could help vulnerable people or animals, simply by donating your points and miles or cash back, and start thinking about what effort and energy it took to start these worthy causes in the first place, you might be reminded that there's still far more good in this world than bad.

A functioning ark was going to need more than just the plants and animals in order to bear the growing lists of the vulnerable into an uncertain future.

When we pump antibiotics into our domestic animals, to a great extent, a consequence of growing animals in higher densities to increase the efficiency of high - yield husbandry, we render ourselves more vulnerable to newly evolved pathogens.

Climate change not only threatens more people, animals, and ecological systems around the world than the Gulf spill; it promises to be a problem that will continually wreck havoc for centuries while harming the world's poorest and most vulnerable people with drought, floods, killer storms, rising sea levels, and vector borne disease.

A study published in Ecology Letters in January shows that animals like this particular hare, which have camouflage that changes to match the seasons, will now be much more vulnerable to their predators, thanks to later arriving winter snows and earlier spring melting.

But as long as the rich nations — and their big polluters — dictate the terms of the Paris accord, maintain unhealthy fossil fuel subsidies and refuse to establish a long - term market for renewable energy that includes putting a price on carbon emissions, a world that protects more vulnerable nations, humans, animals and plants from the impacts of climate change will remain a dream.

«We do think kids are more vulnerable, and animal models of melanoma agree with that,» says Dr. Lynn Cornelius, chief of dermatology at Washington University.