Sentences with phrase «of village dog»
That's especially true of village dogs, free - ranging canines with no owners or training that make up some 80 % of the world's pooches.
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We also found that the effective population size of village dogs was 5 — 10-fold higher than that of the boxer.
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«It's been almost two years since we moved with our dog Sticks to the small, quaint, funky village of Placencia, Belize,» says Laura.
A church in the village of Bankfoot, Scotland, has today announced it will open a «Sunday School» for dogs.
But let me suggest that what was dismissed as an atypical, off - message gaffe was in fact an expression of Mrs. Clinton's true sentiments — just as Donald Trump's boorish crack about Senator John McCain being a loser for having been a POW spoke volumes about his fitness for the presidency (or indeed for village dog - catcher).
A month ago a huge red dog with one blue eye and one brown eye stole into our barn, grabbed Jack in his jaws and abducted him, taking him down to the center of Mill River, the tiny village in Massachusetts where we live.
A family outing to the historic Village of Long Grove will be worth the trip this weekend as many of the 100 merchants participate in «Dog Days of August,» an outdoor sale offering special discounts on everything from «good luck» trolls to Christmas goods.
(Sturbridge, Mass.) Sept. 17, 2012 — Old Sturbridge Village will host a PBS Family Fun Day on Saturday, Sept. 28, with free admission for members of public broadcasting stations WGBH - Boston and WGBY - Springfield (up to two adults and two children per member), and appearances by favorite WGBH children's TV characters Curious George and Clifford the Big Red Dog.
Some local dog owners have pushed for a dog park because of the village's long - standing ban on pets in parks.
Officials presented details of the dog park project, which will be undertaken jointly with the village of Arlington Heights, at a public meeting at Central Community Center in Mount Prospect on Jan. 9.
In a statement from the village, Trustee Pat Gira encouraged community members to come and share their opinions at the meeting on Monday at 6 p.m. at the Village Hall, 14700 S. Ravinia Ave.. The Chicago City Council passed an ordinance banning the sale of dogs, village, Trustee Pat Gira encouraged community members to come and share their opinions at the meeting on Monday at 6 p.m. at the Village Hall, 14700 S. Ravinia Ave.. The Chicago City Council passed an ordinance banning the sale of dogs, Village Hall, 14700 S. Ravinia Ave.. The Chicago City Council passed an ordinance banning the sale of dogs, cats...
Greg Hannon, the board's liaison to the commission, termed the dog park a much - demanded amenity, noting «the vast majority» of village residents also live within the park district borders.
Owners must have a valid village dog license and show proof of current vaccinations as well as proof of a fecal test for internal parasites.
OAK LAWN Dog park may still have its day An Oak Lawn Park District - owned piece of land on the village's west side may soon literally go to the dogs.
Dog licenses may be purchased in person at the Finance counter in Village Hall located at 33 S. Arlington Heights Rd.. For questions regarding dog licenses, contact the Village of Arlington Heights directly at 847.368.50Dog licenses may be purchased in person at the Finance counter in Village Hall located at 33 S. Arlington Heights Rd.. For questions regarding dog licenses, contact the Village of Arlington Heights directly at 847.368.50dog licenses, contact the Village of Arlington Heights directly at 847.368.5000.
Movies to be shown at Settlers» Park, south of village hall, 24401 W. Lockport St., are «Monsters University,» June 13; «Despicable Me 2,» June 27; «The Lego Movie,» July 11; and «Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days,»
In Palatine, meanwhile, the approach is a little contradictory: while the Park District is considering letting dogs back into certain areas of certain parks, the village is looking into tightening its animal - control laws.
Old Sturbridge Village extends to OSV members the privilege of bringing their dog to Old Sturbridge Village on select weekends throughout the year.
«We have more dog problems in the parks that don't allow dogs than at this facility,» said Dan Newport, director of the village Park District, adding, «The people who use it, don't want to lose it, so they police themselves.»
To the Winnetka Park District's astonishment, officials have taken in $ 6,000 as the result of 40 alien dogs, most from nearby villages, having joined this exclusive beach club.
«I see at least one dog bite a month, and it's often on the face,» says Tanya Remer Altmann, a pediatrician in Westlake Village, California, and author of Mommy Calls: Dr. Tanya Answers Parents» Top 101 Questions About Babies and Toddlers.
Erie County Legislator John J. Mills will be joined by Village of Springville and Town of Concord officials, along with library personnel, for the 9th annual Hulbert Library of the Town of Concord Hot Dog Roast Fundraiser.
Erie County Legislator Lynne Dixon announces a Hot Dog Roast Fundraiser will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22 at the Hamburg Library, 102 Buffalo St., Village of Hamburg, to support the library.
The Rensselaer County Village of Hoosick Falls is looking toward the future after being dogged by more than a year of negative headlines surrounding a water contamination crisis and most recent devastating flooding.
Fortunately, the researchers have narrowed down the source of the epidemic to dogs living in villages on the western edge of the park.
Last month, a team of vets from the Institute of Zoology in London and the Tanzanian National Parks Service vaccinated dogs in a handful of villages to see what chance they have of getting rid of the reservoir of disease before it flares up again.
«You had junky dogs living on the outside of settlements,» he says, «so a small mutation might be advantageous — you could get closer to a village without scaring everyone.»
The analysis also revealed that following domestication, village dogs rapidly fanned out to other areas of Asia, particularly India and south - west and east Asia.
These «village dogs» are more representative, genetically, of the species.
Village dogs therefore carry a more authentic genetic signature of original dog populations than the modern - day breeds created in the past 200 years, mainly in Europe.
However, our analysis of a more diverse sample set that includes village dogs confirms only 18 of these loci as putative domestication targets, the remainder are likely associated with breed formation (Supplementary Table 19 and Supplementary Note 14).
As expected, European dogs share more derived alleles with the ancient dogs than Indian village dogs, with ratios of 1.186 — 1.217 for HXH and 1.195 — 1.231 for NGD (Supplementary Table 17).
It is likely that these results are due to remnant postmortem damage artificially inflating variation in the ancient samples and elongating the branch lengths in the G - PhoCS analysis, as we detected an excess of private variants in all three ancient samples compared to European village dogs.
Traveling to all the villages within 10 kilometers of Serengeti National Park, Mzimbiri and his team notch up 45,000 dogs a year.
And yet, having lived through past pandemics, Mulembakani also believes that even a flicker of a chance to control an onrushing infection is reason enough for him and his dogged colleagues to push on, visiting obscure villages, unsanitary markets, and overcrowded hospitals, testing for the signature of worrisome pathogens.
This component appears only at very low levels in a minority of modern European village dogs.
By the third year, 65 % of dogs in the target villages had been vaccinated, on average.
He also has a network of dozens of paraveterinary assistants in surrounding villages who keep an ear out for reports of rabid dogs, conduct interviews, and, when possible, take brain samples of dogs suspected to have died of rabies.
Such «village dogs» make up the majority of dogs worldwide.
Genomic analysis of other village dog and gray wolf populations and additional phenotyping will no doubt further enrich our understanding of the process of domestication and artificial selection in dogs.
Although I travel to teach all over the world, I live in the middle of Ireland in the historical village of Fore with my husband, daughter and assorted hens, dogs and fish.
• Pages & Pastries - After spending a quiet afternoon exploring the dog - eared pages of classics at The Book Loft of German Village, walk a few doors down to charming pastry shop Pistacia Vera, where delicate Parisian macaroons and decadent, caramel - covered crème brulee eclairs pair perfectly with a warm cup of coffee and cozy conversation.
Poll description - Elliot becomes an exaggerated version of his female form in skimpy clothes with dog ears and a tail Welcome to The Roxbury, a boutique motel resort (no, that's not an oxymoron), nestled amongst the picturesque Catskill Mountains in the historic village
About Blog I live on the outskirts of the village of Methven in Perthshire with my wife, Jan, Molly the dog, 22 khaki Campbell ducks and 5 hens.
It tells of a priest in an Irish village who is the target of hatred from his neighbors because of the scandals that have dogged the church recently.
Producer and director Genlin takes you through the backstreets and rural villages of Vietnam, South Korea, Thailand and China to disclose the brutal violence of the dog meat trade.
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