Sentences with phrase «of racing dogs»

The canine flu (H3N8) aka «the dog flu» is a contagious respiratory infection that was first discovered in 2004 when the virus jumped from horses and began affecting several breeds of racing dogs.

Greyhounds as pets Information on Greyhounds from an owner who has adopted and fostered many of these racing dogs.

Soon, his dream of wealth turns to mush when he finds out he has been left a team of racing dogs.

The skeletal muscles of racing dogs are also enormous.

By this time they have been trained and are mature enough to now become part of the racing dog's fraternity.

Not exact matches

The current dog - approved collection includes Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Soldier Dogs by Maria Goodavage, A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron, and The Art of Racing in the Road by Garth Stedog - approved collection includes Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Soldier Dogs by Maria Goodavage, A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron, and The Art of Racing in the Road by Garth SteDog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron, and The Art of Racing in the Road by Garth Stein.

Nothing quite says winter like a 1,851 - kilometre sled - dog race spanning the mountains, forests, frozen rivers, desolate tundra and windswept coastline of the U.S.'s northernmost state.

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, dubbed the «Last Great Race on Earth,» kicks off in Anchorage, Alaska, on March 5 when thousands of people will line the streets to watch teams of 12 to 16 dogs embark on the 10 - to 17 - day adventure that will take them up to Nome on the western Bering Sea coast.

Statue of Balto The statue marks the Iditarod starting line but also pays tribute to the famed lead dog of the 1925 «serum run» to Nome that helped prevent a deadly diphtheria outbreak, upon which the race is based.

Since different races, like different breeds of dogs or horses, develop different capacities, it followed that distinct gradations in moral capacities would be found among human races.

Makes me think of the Rat Race movie where that guy is transporting a live human heart for a transplant and it accidentally gets tossed into some weeds and a dog finally ends up chewing on it... That has got to be the funniest comedy movie of all time!

In the struggle for life, the domestic dog species originated through means of selection as a favored race from the original wolf.

Of course, to put the human race down in its beginning — like a diseased dog — would have been far from glorious.

Luther described to Spalatin how a baby rabbit came racing up to him and he tried to save it: «I had rolled it up into the sleeve of my cloak... the dogs found the poor rabbit and biting through the cloak broke its hind leg and killed it by choking it.»

Like most of the old house clubs, Red Dog's a kaleidoscope of races, ages and lifestyles...» Annex plans to pick up where Red Dog left off.

Worse still is that some of these unwanted dogs are sent to countries where they are forced to race in even worse conditions.

No, this isn't some kind of new racing move that the FIA have clamped down on, but rather Lewis Hamilton has had his dog Roscoe neutered.

He prepares his dogs for anything: He might wake them up and feed them in the middle of the night to teach them that, during a race, the time to eat is whenever the food comes.

Dick Mackey was a founder of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, in 1973.

Within another two years these same racing fans, who keep their pari - mutuel machines ticking faster than those of any other state, may be able to make their bets and buy their hot dogs in approximately the same comfort as the folks in California and New Jersey, where you can lose your money amongst the finest of creature comforts.

Over the years Simont has illustrated a variety of subjects for us, including motor sports (I still happily remember the girl in the towering straw hat in his drawings of Nassau's race week), football, bullfighting, dog racing and golf, but the greatest part of his work for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED has been in and around baseball.

From being fastest by 11 seconds in a wet practice session, to driving his car flat out with three wheels, to managing to win races with an absolute dog of a car (and so much more), Gilles cemented his place as an all - time great.

Led by his team of nine dogs, Dallas Seavey made his way down a crowded Front Street in Nome, Alaska, to become the champion of the 2012 Iditarod, crossing under the famous «burled arch» — and the banner reading «End of Iditarod Sled Dog Race» — some 10 days after he left the ceremonial starter in Anchorage.

Seavey turned 25 during the race (March 4), making him the youngest champion in the history of the famous sled dog race (Carl Huntington was 26 when he won in 1974).

Clinton's reputation for being cozy with Wall Street has dogged her throughout the primary race, with Sanders attacking her time and time again for her bailout vote and her refusal to release the transcripts of her paid speeches to Goldman Sachs.

These two have been literally within spitting distance of each other for every League race this season and, on her last NorCal run of 2016, Keegan finally got the lead dog's view.

However for entertainment purposes it never hurts to have a few dogs in the fight and we previewed the race with the help of a valuable prop.

Ahead of Sunday's Derby della Madonnina, Joao Cancelo sat down with Gazzetta dello Sport this week to discuss how his first (and hopefully not last) season at Inter is going, as well as his affection for Milan (the city...), his thoughts on the Scudetto race and the unique bond he shares with his two dogs.

This is a big one for the Blaugrana, who could reach seven consecutive wins to start the league season and establish their position as the alpha dog of the title race before the real challenges begin.

A search party and dogs were sent out after her, and runners who had finished the race went back to retrace their steps for any sign of her.

As I drove out of my driveway this afternoon, I glanced up and saw The Avengers racing around my neighbor's yard, intent on fighting crime (or each other or the dog or some dragonflies, lol).

The political action committee that supports the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition of Democrats in Congress backed O'Halleran in his race.

We talk to him about what the code words are, how they may demean someone of a different race or culture, and what we can to decode dog - whistles.

That $ 12.5 million figure that dogged last year's budget and garnered plenty of debate in the Democratic primary race is back again.

What with kissing dogs, garbage collection, electric cars and a host of other issues, it's been a busy campaign week in the race for Ulster County executive.

State GOP delegates voted to place both David Malpass — former chief economist for Bear Stearns, president of an economic research firm, veteran of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations — and Bruce Blakeman — lawyer, ex-husband of Paul McCartney's current girlfriend, owner of terrifying talking dog — onto the ballot in the race against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, forcing the two into a primary.

Furious Muslim Tory peer Sayeeda Warsi tweeted: «Our appalling dog whistle campaign for #LondonMayor2016 lost us the election, our reputation & credibility on issues of race and religion.»

A Challenge to Canine Health The rigors of the Iditarod sled dog race, in which a musher and a team of 12 to 16 dogs cover some 1,150 miles in 16 days, takes its toll on the health of its athletes.

During race times, fat builds up in a sled dog's blood, most likely because of the high - fat racing diet.

During the first few days of racing, sled dogs draw energy from glycogen stored inside muscle cells.

«The bloodlines of my dogs date back 100 years,» says Lance Mackey, Larry's owner and legendary racing musher, the only person to win the long - distance Iditarod and the Yukon Quest in the same year with the same dog team.

Researchers first discovered the metabolic switch in 2005, when a team headed by Oklahoma State University's Michael Davis — who has been investigating the metabolic, gastrointestinal, respiratory and blood systems of sled dogs for 10 years — did a controlled study at a professional racing kennel in Alaska.

Hoffman also found that owners, regardless of gender, age or race, had a greater attachment to their dogs when the animals scored high on trainability and separation - related problems.

As scientists race to decode genomes — not just of humans but of bacteria, yeast, chimps, dogs, whales and plants — the number of DNA sequences available for analysis has grown 40,000-fold in the past 20 years, providing unprecedented insight into billions of years of species evolution.

Classification of humans began innocently enough with Carl Linnaeus and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, who simply classified humans into races in the same way they classified dogs or cats — by their physical characteristics.

Among large animals, the dog is an extraordinary species with an extremely high quantity of human - like pathologies, correlated with the large variety of races.

One study noted that giving greyhounds 1g of vitamin C before racing significantly slowed racing time relative to dogs that did not receive antioxidants (6).

See him playing hide and seek, or racing with the dog in this stylish pair of kids» sandals with shock absorbing feature, and lights at the mid-sole that blink at every step.

I rented a dress from them for a friend's wedding, wore one of their dresses when I went to the horse races for the first time, and rented a tulle skirt from them when I wanted something fun to wear to a dog prom.

I like motorcycles, fast cars, outdoors, curvy mountain roads, all types of racing, boating on the St. Johns River, reading good books, dogs, fishing, riding bikes at the beach, new adventures and tan lines or lack of.