Sentences with phrase «of catching rats»

This breed was developed during the 19th century for the purpose of catching rats in clothing mills — the Yorkshire Terrier was also used in the sport of rat - baiting until it became more popular as a companion pet.

In the century - and - a-half since its discovery, there have been sporadic reports of it catching rats.

Not exact matches

If we are to have a profound religion, we may indeed throw away our old, childish, anthropomorphic ideas of God, but we may not throw away God and leave ourselves caught like rats in the trap of an aimless, meaningless, purposeless universe.

Why get caught up in the rat race of having the new tech gadget?

Picente and Timpano noted that the raters rightly viewed tHe future with caution, noting that county governments across New York state are caught between the upward pressures of rising costs for state - and federally mandated programs and the local property tax cap New York State has implemented beginning next year.

Revealing the kills, Prime Minister David Cameron said that the tabby tom hasn't got it quite right yet — a criticism some may be levelling at Mr Cameron's coalition government — as he's been catching mice instead of the more muscular rats he was brought in to deal with.

ALBANY — Spineless Senate Republicans from around the state scrambled for cover yesterday — like rats caught in a floodlight — after they were asked to say whether Majority Leader Dean Skelos should disclose the names of his law clients that do business with the state.

And even if you couldconvince people to eat nutria — the South American swamp rat introduced in the 1960s to clear Louisiana's Mississippi Delta waterways of another invasive species, water hyacinth — there's no way they'd be able to catch up with the population, which has already wiped out whole swaths of native greenery.

No forests or rats in there — but those eye - catching images of Mars terrain do have some alien messages for us.

Here, a rat neuron from the movement - coordinating cerebellum was dyed green and caught in the act of communicating with another neuron (shown in red).

2 In the mid-19th century, Jack Black, the rat catcher for Queen Victoria, found several color variations of the brown rat and domesticated those he caught.

After implanting measuring devices to catch neurons firing in the hippocampuses of four rats, they let the animals run up and down a track with food at each end.

Velvet was one of the unlikely rats that succumbed to a tumor, but I will say this: She was a thousand times better as a pet than the frogs we got a year later, which insisted on eating only live crickets we caught ourselves every night.

This led to coconut water being dubbed as having an equal nutritional profile to human blood, or being a «blood replacement» and some gym rats caught on and theorised that it would have an optimal profile of nutrients for replenishing the electrolytes (sodium and potassium) lost in sweat.

In the strange simulacrum of London there in the sewers, he barely has time to get oriented to the ersatz Picadilly Circus before he gets caught up in nasty struggle between plucky Rita (Kate Winslet), a toothsome she - rat with an adventurous taste in accessories, and an evil toad (Ian McKellen), whose adventurous nature includes worshipping the royal family and plotting to wipe out the rat population.

In Rita Gray's Mama Mine, Mama Mine, illustrated by Ponder Goembel, the mother of each animal leaves her brood during the day to take care of her responsibilities: Cats must catch rats, pigs must eat and sheep must be shorn.

They sat for him in lieu of payment for his work catching rats.

She was looking for «the best and biggest cats, capable of catching mice» to be sent to the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg to protect the treasures contained within from rats.

They were thrown in pits against bears and bulls, hence the name «pit - bull,, they would also bet on how many rats the dog could catch and kill in a certain amount of time.

In addition to serving as a loyal companion, early Yorkshire Terriers were also used to catch rats in clothing mills — they were also used in the sport of rat - baiting.

They are the smallest of the English herding dogs and were also adept at hunting and catching both rabbits and rats.

In the early part of the 20th century, breeders in eastern England developed a small rat - catching, fox - chasing terrier called the Norwich Terrier.

In its most simple definition, a ratter is dog who was selectively bred for catching rats and other types of vermin.

The sport of ratting soon caught the eye of noble men and people of economic industry and wealth.

Because one of their many jobs has been to catch rats, Standard Schnauzers should not be trusted with small, furry family pets, such as hamsters, guinea pigs, and gerbils.

One of the theories about origins of the Maine Coon breed says that when the Vikings carried out their raids on the American continent they took cats with them to catch the rats in their stylized ships.

To further reduce the risk of your dog catching a contagious disease from mice or rats, you should practice proper rodent control measures.

The original Yorkshire Terrier, known as the «Broken - Haired Scotch Terrier» was a 12 - to - 14 pound dog with wire hair whose intended purpose was the catching of rats and other vermin that lived in small spaces.

Dogs can catch a wide variety of contagious diseases from wildlife and rodents, ranging from rats to raccoons to ticks and more.

Cats allowed outdoors have an average lifespan of only 5 years (vs. 15 for indoor cats) due to being hit by cars, injured or killed by dogs or wildlife, rat poison ingestion, diseases caught by fighting with other cats, and nameless other accidents.

I doubt if any Government, however foolish, however desirous of squandering the taxpayers» money, would perpetrate the absurdity of bringing cats from Siberia to a cat - infested country Even if each such cat caught daily three more rats than an ordinary cat, would the purchase be worthwhile?

In the book, «The West Highland White Terrier» by D. Mary Dennis and Catherine Owen, research found that ships of the Spanish Armada, wrecked off the Western Isles» had carried small white dogs to catch rats.

Unfortunately, not only does this type of poison kill rats, it can also kill dogs if not caught and treated in time.

This breed of dog originated from Yorkshire in England where it was kept in clothing mills to catch rats.

But my experience of one whose kitten we rescued but we could not catch her was that her catch was mostly rats (millions of feral rats as it is a pecan nut farm) and feral rabbits.

The foundation sire is Huddersfield Ben, a dog born in 1865 who became a popular stud dog because of his prowess in the show ring and in rat - catching trials.

The Yorkshire Terrier is a small dog breed of terrier type, developed during the 19th century in Yorkshire, England, to catch rats in clothing mills.

Not to mention that some are not very social, others are rather afraid of visitors, and still others are too caught up in the rat race of making a living to stop by and greet you.

The Captain event of the board features a race with a Scaredy Rat who challenges you to catch up with him before he runs into his rat hoRat who challenges you to catch up with him before he runs into his rat horat hole.

Andreas Slominski has set plenty of traps, in fact, and one of them pretends already to have caught a rat.

And this one is evidently «among the largest of all pitchers and is so big that it can catch rats as well as insects in its leafy trap.»

While paralyzing partisanship, elections and fiscal throwdowns had most lawmakers spending 2012 doing a good impression of rats caught in a coffee can, legislatures at the state level did appear to find a bit of unexpected common ground.

tech.slashdot.org - The Guardian just ran an article titled» «They'll squash you like a bug»: how Silicon Valley keeps a lid on leakers,» which begins with the story of an employee confronted by Facebook's secretive «rat - catching» team: They had records of a screenshot he'd taken, links he had clicked or hovered ov...

Trico is probably among the best - realized computer simulations of an animal ever created, and in The Last Guardian's game world, he's a lab rat caught in a maze.

I have to admit that I get caught up in the rat raise of wanting people to like my blog and then I feel like I'm back in high school and it's a popularity contest!