Sentences with phrase «of hunting rodents»

Rat Terriers are capable of hunting rodents and vermin above and below ground.

Not exact matches

They told us the pendants were made of fibers from six different Andean animals — vicuña, deer, alpaca, llama, guanaco, and viscacha (the latter a common rodent hunted for food).

As fans of «Duck Dynasty» can attest, hunting for nutria — big, water - loving rodents with bright orange front teeth — is hugely popular in Louisiana.

About 10,000 to 9,500 years ago, African wildcats (Felis silvestris lybica) may have tamed themselves by hunting rodents and eating scraps from the homes of early farmers in the Middle East.

The National Park Service is using the map to identify places where humanmade noise is affecting wildlife — animals such bats and owls, whose ears are up to 20 decibels more sensitive than human ears, for example, are affected by humanmade noise because it drowns out the faint rustles of insects and rodents they need to hunt, they say.

Past evaluations of hunting pressures have covered animals like elephants and tigers, ignoring rodents and less colorful species.

The findings may finally resolve a debate that has raged in anthropological circles ever since the three - and - a-half-feet tall Homo floresiensis was discovered in 2003 on the island of Flores, where they are thought to have hunted small elephants and large rodents as recently as 54,000 years ago.

Engage your cat's natural abilities by providing opportunities to «hunt» for toys that mimic movements of birds or rodents.

Indoor cats pose less of a risk because they are not hunting small rodents while you sleep.

The Cairn Terrier does an excellent job at hunting rodents, and though they no longer work in the fields of Scotland - they still enjoy of guarding their owners and homes against pests.

Each of these dogs has been used to hunt small and large game and also to hunt for rodents and other pesky animals that carried disease.

While nowadays it is mainly used as a show dog, it originally found its place hunting small game, such as foxes, badgers, and a variety of rodents.

Undomesticated cats hunt, which results in a diet consisting of small animals such as rodents and lizards, insects, and small birds — prey that is high in fat and protein, and very low in carbohydrates.

People needed dogs for tasks around the home — often for protection, hunting, getting rid of rodents, etc..

The usual source of Y. pestis is the rat flea, but hunting pets can contract the plague from eating infected rodents or rabbits.

Pets can also become infected by ingesting another animal's feces or through hunting and ingestion of birds and rodents.

But before this, around a few thousand years ago, cats pretty much took care of their breeding themselves and people kept them only for one thing, hunting and killing rodents.

The natural place of cats in the food chain is as hunters of mice, rats, and other small rodents, who in urban habitat are themselves overwhelmingly of introduced species, and as scavengers of sick and injured birds who remain on the ground after dark, when healthy birds are roosting and cats do most of their hunting.

The smallest of all hunting breeds they are terrific rabbit and rodent hunters and enjoy hunting in small packs.

Prevention: The best recommendations for general prevention of parasites are restricting cats from roaming and hunting, and control of insect and rodent populations.

Pets that have a lot of outdoor exposure and hunt for rodents and birds can easily ingest parasites

In contrast, the eggs of Taenia taeniaformis are eaten by rodents (rats and mice) so other cats become infected during hunting by eating an infected rodent.

Instead of hiding and sleeping by day, hunting rodents by night, as true feral cats do, remaining invisible to most of the public, fed cats treated as outdoor pets tend to loiter in daytime awaiting their feeders, sometimes conspicuously hunting birds for sport.

The Snorkie is a mix of terriers (Miniature Schnauzer and Yorkshire Terrier) and originated in the U.S. Because his lineage was originally bred for hunting rodents — the Yorkie in English clothing mills and the Miniature Schnauzer on farms in Germany — the Snorkie will almost certainly exhibit some of these hunting characteristics.

This confident, active, tenacious little ragamuffin is the smallest of the Scottish terriers, and was originally bred for hunting rodents and small game like otters, foxes, and badgers.

Shown as the Scotch Terrier in 1861 and later becoming the Yorkshire Terrier, Yorkies were primarily known as a ratter - type of dog, hunting rodents.

Derived from the Latin word for Terra, many working terriers were selectively bred to hunt vermin, large rodents and foxes by «going to ground» in their underground burrows and dens and forcing them out of their habitats where the hunters awaited them.

They were bred for their abilities to hunt, guard, herd, get rid of rodents or pull carts.

Multiple references to use of ferrets in hunting and for rodent control are noted after the 13th century throughout Europe.

As hunting usually takes place when the natural prey of the cat (small rodents) are awake, this usually happens late in the evening or early in the morning.

Prey of feral cats (e.g. rodents) benefit from grass cover for protection from predators33, 34,35, and the complete loss of such would create ideal hunting areas for predators.

According to a SAGE press release, the study published in the current issue of Feline Medicine and Surgery (JFMS), the cats included in the study, and most of the cats with «staggering disease», are rural free roaming cats accustomed to hunting birds and rodents.

Cats do not only hunt undesirable wildlife unfortunately any creature of a suitable size will be seen as prey whether it's a rodent or a rare wild bird.

To decrease the risk of contracting plague in endemic western states, keep pets from roaming and hunting to limit their contact with rodent and rabbit carcasses.

A breed of dog originating in Finland, the Finnish Spitz was originally bred to hunt many forms of game, ranging from squirrels and other rodents to bears.

For example, for dogs that are digging in the yard, you'll hear ideas such as burying feces in the holes, or filling them with large rocks, or that the dog is «hunting» for rodents (in places of the yard where there aren't even rodent holes or tunnels) so you need to put out traps, and so forth.

This makes sense, as cats in the wild will hunt rabbits and large rodents and have no trouble making a meal out of a pretty big whole animal.

They hunt just about any kind of meat, from deer and rodents to water buffalo and even their own young, releasing a toxic venom that incapacitates the prey before eating hooves, hides, and even bones.