Sentences with phrase «of street dogs»

The average life of a street dog is just two years.

While this may be true of street dogs allowed to breed freely, it is not necessarily true of a so - called «designer» dog.

The average life of a street dog is roughly three years.

I also have fostered a number of street dogs from other countries, and in the main they have coped incredibly well, sometimes a lot better than relatively well socialised local pet dogs.

Given the incubation period for rabies, from five days to several years, with 20 - 60 days being the norm, unquarantined importation of street dogs from poor countries with low rates of vaccination for rabies, is a disaster waiting to happen.

Spay and neuter procedures and health checks have been provided to more than 80,000 street dogs in their area resulting in a smaller, healthier and ever shrinking population of street dogs due to their wonderful efforts.

Vilks produced three pencil sketches of street dogs with human faces, the face (Vilks said) of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.

Preventing unwanted litters by sterilizing owned females obviously halts the main source of street dogs.

It's a consequence of having a lot of street dogs from East Asia that were sampled, compared to elsewhere.

Grew up in NYC with guard dogs in home, and then had a pack of street dogs i fed and helped to find homes (always more street dogs showing up.

From pint - sized portable pooches to true life Cinderella stories of street dogs turned agility stars, Instagram has made itself a storybook full of wonderful adoption tales about dogs rescued, fostered and adopted through Dallas Pets Alive!

But overall, the authors called the program is a «promising step toward improving the welfare of street dogs,» concluding:

To me, this screams of their genetics coming through — not positive genetics liking breeding for desired behaviours but genetics from generations of street dogs being afraid, mistreated, malnourished.

Because dog fighting is an underground activity it is difficult to determine how many dog fighting operations there are in the U.S.. However, based on reports of dog fighting and evidence found on local and state levels, it is estimated that there are tens of thousands of organized dog fighters and hundreds of thousands of street dog fighters.

Their mission started on Isla Mujeres, Mexico in 2008, where they witnessed the plight of street dogs that were struggling to survive on the streets.

By vaccinating and performing sterilization surgery, they can keep existing animals healthy while also controlling the growth of street dog populations.

I got an email from Ms Haley Williams who is the director of the Street Dog Dash and wanted to have an interview so I could let everyone know about this 5 km run and why she is organizing it, which is to bring attention to the dog meat trade in Asia and how we can help to stop it.

After witnessing the suffering of street dogs in South America, Courtney Dillard and Matt Webber became determined to return to Huanchaco, Peru to help these animals in any way they could.

Founded in 2001 after co-founder Christi Payne witnessed the horrific conditions of street dogs in Mexico: starving, disease - ridden, terrified, packed into filthy shelters as dead dogs decomposed amongst them; the group believes that compassion knows no borders.

These are the faces of the street dogs of Costa Rica, encountered on our adventures through anywhere from busy towns to quiet, rural villages.

«Selling only shelter or rescue dogs creates a perverse incentive to import greater numbers of street dogs and dogs of unknown origins for U.S. retail rescues,» Goffe, who is the AKC's vice president for government relations, wrote.

It's meant to serve as a thought - provoking glimpse into the life of a street dog in India.

The gist of their findings was that cats were occupying habitat left by a declining population of street dogs, at the rate of about three cats moving in to replace each dog who could no longer make a living after refuse was mostly buried or burned, sewers were enclosed, and automobiles replaced animal - powered transport, resulting in an urban environment much less congenial to dogs.

In voicing its opposition to a California bill that would prohibit the sale in pet stores of dogs sourced from professional breeders, the AKC says the law would create a «perverse incentive» to import «greater numbers of street dogs and dogs of unknown origins.»