Sentences with phrase «percent of dog breeds»

Within nine of those ten categories, almost ninety percent of dog breeds have only appeared in the last hundred years.

«I'd say we currently present designs for about 90 percent of all dog breeds, including some very obscure breeds,» said Niemczyk.

Not exact matches

Be cautious of certain dog breeds (Rottweilers, pit bulls, German Shepards) that account for over fifty percent of fatal dog bites and closely supervise children when in the presence of animals.

Conversely, dogs lacking any genetic evidence of relevant breeds were labeled as pit bull - type dogs from 0 to 48 percent of the time, the researchers reported.

The researchers began their study by looking at dogs of one breed, the Portuguese water dog, and found that those with one type of mutation of IGF1 were 15 to 20 percent smaller.

Of the estimated 1 billion dogs in the world today, about 75 percent are free breeding.

Only 25 percent of the dogs and a very small percentage of cats will be purebred; 75 percent of dogs and nearly all of the cats will be mixed breed animals that originated in unplanned and largely unwanted litters.

Giant breed dogs require no more 2.5 percent of calcium a day.

Nearly half (40 percent) of cat owners and a third (28 percent) of dog owners chose «mixed - breed» as their favorite type of cat or dog.

Some breeders will try to breed two merle dogs together in order to increase the percent of merle puppies in a litter.

Moreover, only 10 percent of these owners could identify health problems related to such breeds, while many think that symptoms including snorting were «normal» and unalarming for such dogs.

Ninety percent of the dogs lived beyond 12 years, the typical lifespan of that breed, and 28 percent lived exceptionally long lives, meaning at least 30 percent longer than the typical lifespan.

With approximately 50 percent of the U.S. dog population composed of mixed breeds, it's a question many dog lovers hear.

For example, the Puggle, the offspring of a Pug / Beagle breeding will be 50 percent Pug and 50 percent Beagle, but any characteristic may resemble one parent dog more than the other.

As many breeds carry the proper traits to excel in schutzhund training, only the top few percent of dogs within the specific breed will excel as schutzhund candidates.

Dogs with pit bull heritage breed DNA were identified only 33 to 75 percent of the time, depending on which of the staff members was judging them.

The shelter points to a study cited by the Animal Farm Foundation, a nonprofit that works to promote pit bull dogs, that reports breed labels assigned to shelter dogs by staff members are incorrect at least 75 percent of the time.

Genetic defects like this one are avoided by utilizing selective breeding (hip dysplasia in dogs has between a twenty - five percent and eighty - five percent chance that it's hereditary), however, periodically, a puppy will contract the disorder even if there isn't a history of it in either parent's bloodlines.

With 25 to 30 percent of dogs in shelters being purebreds, there is a high chance that the breed you are seeking is available.

Hart said pit bulls are responsible for about 60 percent of dog attack fatalities each year, which is «way out of proportion» compared with other breeds.

During the last eight - year period that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied fatal attacks by breed (1991 to 1998), pit bulls were estimated at 1 percent of the U.S. dog population.

The San Bernardino County ordinance said pit bull breeds account for about 20 percent of the dogs at animal shelters and are put down more often than any other breed.

With appropriate treatment, 70 percent of dogs survive CPV, according to the Claws and Paws Veterinary Hospital website, which stipulates that Rottweilers and other breeds more susceptible to the virus have less than a 50 percent chance of surviving, even with treatment.

You don't have to buy a dog food with very high fat percentages but a fat percentage of around 17 - 18 percent DMB for small breeds would be good.

Now that we've met one of the world's least hairy dogs, the Peruvian hairless dog, it's time to meet the hairiest — the Komondor, a rare breed that, thanks to Kyra, a Komondor in the UK, has seen its numbers increase by nearly 25 percent.

«About 7 percent of a small or medium dog's weight is its GI tract, whereas a large or giant breed dog's GI tract is only 2.5 percent of its entire weight, so it doesn't have the same ratio as other dogs and generally has looser stools.

In fact, 75 percent of shelter dogs are mixed breeds, according to the Humane Society of the United States.

Among all of the breeds ATTS tested — over 30,000 dogs through May 2011 — 83 percent passed the test.

It is possible to have a dog with more or less than 50 percent of each parent breed in its heritage.

Feed any breed of dog a puppy formula appropriate for his breed until he reaches at least 80 percent of his adult size, usually around 1 year old.

Apartment dwellers with allergies seek out dogs who do not shed, and while no dogs have proven to be 100 percent non-shedding or hypoallergenic, numerous breeds shed only minimally, release small amounts of saliva and spread very little dander, the primary causes of dog allergies.

Overall, about 25 to 30 percent of dogs for adoption are purebred and 70 to 75 %, of course mixed - breed pups that can't wait to find their forever home.

There are 215 known diseases in mixed - breed dogs, with 71 percent of them having defective genes.

According to the latest survey from the American Pet Products Association, about 37 percent of households own a larger breed as a companion, a guard dog or just a big old puddle of love for their kids.

More than 66 percent of the 51 giant - breed dogs that bloated during the study were fed from raised bowls.

If you explore my Breeder's Ethics Page you will see that the lack of knowledge about the background of 99.99 percent of mixed breed dogs makes it nearly impossible to do a good job of avoiding genetic diseases.

About 70 percent of dogs with Addison's are female, although in some breeds, including Standard Poodles and Bearded Collies, males and females are equally affected.

The United States imports about 80 to 90 percent of their working dogs from Europe, which has a rich heritage for breeding and training dogs for police / military - style competitions and certifications.

According to the American Veterinary Dental Society, 80 percent of dogs and 70 percent of cats show signs of oral disease with periodontal disease — the most common problem in dogs, especially the smaller breeds.

These high - risk breeds (more than 10 percent dying of cancer) are: Boxer (36.9 percent), Giant Schnauzer (36.9 percent), Bernese Mountain Dog (32.7 percent), Irish Wolfhound (24.8 percent), Cocker Spaniel (22.2 percent), Doberman Pinscher (22.2 percent), Pomeranian (19.0 percent), Newfoundland (16.8 percent), German Shepherd Dog (14.8 percent), Saint Bernard (13.1 percent), Great Dane (12.3 percent), Greyhound (12.3 percent) and Basset Hound (percentage unknown, but the breed does have a genetic predisposition to lymphomas).

Of the dog attacks on humans reported in the study, a full 60 percent involved two breeds alone.

As we have already mentioned, of all of the dogs in animal shelters currently around 40 percent are classified as bully breeds, and 20 percent are classified as pit bulls.

Smaller dog breeds have more luck on their side with 40 percent of them living more than 10 years.

However, 40 percent of dogs in animal shelters are characterized as bully breeds, and 20 percent of those are called pit bulls.

These injuries are so prevalent today in medium to large breed dogs, some veterinary orthopedic surgeons report that ACL injuries make up well over 50 percent of their caseloads.

In the study, shelter staff identified the predominant breed of a mixed breed dog only 16 percent of the time, mirroring results of other studies.

For us, the poor treatment and killing of homeless pets by the millions in our country's shelters is the lens through which we view the commercial breeding industry that competes with the adoption of shelter pets on the front end and burdens public shelters on the back end, where an estimated 25 percent of impounded dogs are identified as purebred.

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Would you believe me if I said that in the past 6 years I have adopted out more than 400 dogs and cats, 99 percent of them either adult cats — often very old cats — or large breed dogs, typically pitbull - type dogs?

The German Shepherd Dog has a higher packed cell volume (number of blood cells per unit of blood) than do most other breeds, with 50 to 60 percent «solids» compared with 40 to 45 percent.