Sentences with phrase «not alter the animals»

1) The primary reason that most people say they don't alter their animals now is because of the cost.

Director Diana McGuire says too many people «do not alter their animals.»

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A large area of historic Christian theology would have been completely altered if ideas of atonement, especially as related to the blood of Christ, had not been carried over from primitive concepts associated with animal sacrifice.

Whitehead notes that the upward thrust of evolution has produced animals increasingly able to adapt the environment to themselves (FR 4 - 5), and this suggests that «adaptation» concerns not only an occasion's mode of responding to a given world but also its mode of altering the world beyond itself.

Scientists are forced either to experiment on whole animals, which is expensive, raises ethical issues and may not predict effects in humans, or to perform tests on microscopic human cells found in tissue cultures, which have been altered to live forever and bear little relation to actual living, breathing people.

Global loss of vagility alters a key ecological trait of animals that affects not only population persistence but also ecosystem processes such as predator - prey interactions, nutrient cycling, and disease transmission.

And the outcomes «may alter the view of hybridization in animals as some form of mistake,» comments Loeske Kruuk of the University of Edinburgh, «because it is now clear that we can not take the consequences for fitness at face value.»

Because Zika typically has trouble establishing infections in mice, the researchers used animals that were genetically altered so that they could not produce interferon, a key immune system signaling molecule, thus dampening the animals» immune response to the virus.

The result was striking: T cells from mice given virus containing native UL6 protein caused disease, while T cells of animals given the altered virus did not.

Numerous experiments with genetically altered mice and rats have shown that when natural brain compounds, called endocannabinoids, are missing or their receptors are blocked, the animals are more susceptible to pain, can not control their appetites, have trouble handling anxiety and are less able to cope with stress.

One theory for the spread of the deadly fungus is that «pollutants alter immune function of the animals, and then they're not able to fend off disease pathogens properly,» Cary said.

Although the substance did not provoke the symptoms seen in the previous experiment, Hsiao says that the animals» altered response suggests that the substance could play a role in the disorder.

From a conservation and management perspective, this means that when studying animals that may not live in obvious groups, we need to still consider traits within things like social neighbourhoods because these traits can alter how an animal responds to selection pressure.»

Examples of funding areas include but are not limited to molecular genetic analysis of relevant neural circuit assembly and function; genetic and epigenetic research; animal models created by genetically altering neural circuits; and testing of new chemical entities that might be used in animal models as exploratory treatments.

This distinction is crucial: If the brain can not learn to alter its computations based on new or unexpected information, the animal is unlikely to survive.

Humans have been altering animals and plants through selective breeding for millennia; but, because these changes typically reduce the capacity for survival and reproduction in the wild, they do not spread to wild populations.

«We have found that the same genes responsible for tamoxifen resistance in our animals are also turned off in human breast cancer cells that do not respond to the drug,» she says «Because these genes were epigenetically silenced — meaning they were not irreversibly altered, just switched off — it was possible to turn them back on.

42.4 % of animals were genetically altered, compared with 63.6 % which were not.

Since most CAFOs feed animals genetically engineered (GE) grains (primarily corn and soy), there's also the issue of whether or not such feed might alter such meats in ways we still don't fully understand.

I am not a self - proclaimed authority by any means on this topic but I can say from the personal experience of drastically altering my diet from very animal based to plant based I have seen incredible results.

Not that this this would alter your recommendations about how to eat in order to minimize the risk and / or abate the effects, but I was just wondering if you knew of any evidence to support this idea, or if it might have just been junk science aimed at promoting animal - based foods.

No specific group of protein sources was accountable for the positive association between animal protein and type 2 diabetes; excluding protein from dairy, fish, or meat from total animal protein did not alter the association.

The word «natural» is a food package term, also regulated by the FDA, but mostly refers to foods that are not altered chemically or synthesized in any way as well as derived from plants and animals.

During Dōbutsu no Mori +'s localization process overseas as Animal Crossing, there were many changes that not only involved immense translation from Japanese to English, but also replacements of many cultural references as well as brand new content, including new holidays, new items and new or altered events.

If they don't succeed, they will be «altered» and turned into animals.

Noting that Spencer compared the role of Parliament to that of the «cerebral masses in a vertebrate animal,» Huxley applauded Spencer for the biological analogy, but criticized his conclusion that just as the brain «averages the interests of life, physical, intellectual, moral, social,» the appropriate sphere of government is to average the interests of various classes in society, not to do anything to improve or alter their relations.

Similarly, regulations from the HDB require higher fees for licensing animals that are not «fixed» as compared to those that are altered to prevent unnecessary breeding that leads to overpopulation.

They show less aggression than animals that have not been altered.

I know SO many people who do nt have their pets (mostly males) altered because they want them to have a litter, or they think it's wrong to take a dog's manhood, or, and this one really shocked me, «How can you say you believe in animal rights and then deny them the most basic right of procreation?»

Minimizing intake includes things like low - cost spay / neuter clinics, targeted spay / neuter outreach in poor communities and minimizing laws that cause animals to be removed from homes unnecessarily because they are certain breeds of dogs, not altered, or over the pet limit.

Until feral cat caretakers can live without fear... until we quit killing animals just because they're not altered... until we quit ripping dogs out of their homes for having a blocky heads... until we end the killing IN OUR ENTIRE METRO we have not reached our goal.

This bill doesn't take into consideration the health of an animal by requiring at 4 months to be altered.

We at KCDA keep hearing stories of animals getting confiscated from owners due to inadequate housing (even though Spay / Neuter Kansas City's outreach program has free dog houses available to needy families), animals confiscated from owners because they are not altered under the mandatory spay / neuter ordinance for pit bulls, and others that are confiscated because they can not afford the fine associated with having not licensed their dog.

The fact that altering an immature animal is not good in the long run for the animal is being suggested, theorized and being further reaserched... you may wish to research this yourself if you are a breeder and have your pets sold altered once they are sexually mature.

No You can and should mandate altering of unowned cats and dogs in the custody of the county / state, you can't mandate it for priviatly owned animals.

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This is inconsistent with the assumption that pit bull owners simply do not want their animals altered, and more consistent with a humane community outreach approach to encouraging spay and neuter in underserved areas — for all pets.

* Animals not required to be altered for grooming services.

People who agreed to be questioned were asked whether or not they owned dogs or cats, fed stray dogs or cats, whether or not the animals had been altered, if they had reproduced, if cats had been declawed, how they obtained their pets, whether or not cats were allowed outside, purebred status, city of residence, and residence type.

They need to be able to tell if an animal has already been altered, so that they don't trap cats and take them for unnecessary surgeries.

Neutering an animal does not change or alter his instinct to defend his turf.

A responsible breeder will health and temperament test their animals, and those that don't make the cut will be altered before placement.

How to determine a shelter's current capacity to provide S / N, plus strategies to increase the number of animals altered

Companion Animal Diagnostics receives samples from all over the world for FCoV antibody testing — the sample being in the post for several days does not alter a kitten's antibody titre.

The ear is tipped to help easily identify those altered feral animals at a distance, so that they do not need to be anesthetized again in the future in order to determine if spay / neuter has been performed.

For a significant proportion of these animals, neutering does not alter the symptoms and in some cases the behaviors intensify.

«Don't Shoot the Dog: The New Art of Teaching and Training» is concerned with altering animal behavior without being coercive.

The ear is tipped to help easily identify those altered feral animals at a distance, so that they do not need to be anesthetized again in the future in order to determine if a spay / neuter has been performed.

Whether it is because we don't have enough volunteers, enough foster homes, a lack of willingness to educate the community, too many animals coming in to have time to target and educate the owners - whatever the excuse; not having those dogs and cats altered b4 placing them is 100 % fatal for far too many others every day of the week.

As part of their clever messaging, Outer Banks SPCA is reminding folks that all their animals are altered — so when females are adopted, they get to be the baby and not the mama.