Sentences with phrase «rather than breed»

Its existence displeased UK breeders who saw it as a genetic «problem» or impurity to be weeded out rather than a breed opportunity.

Laws that focus on the behavior of the dog, rather than the breed of dog, will protect the public far more effectively without penalizing pets that don't represent a threat.

* The term «pit bull» or «pitbull» refers to an ill - defined type of dog, rather than a breed.

Wags & Walks» success can be credited to a team of dog - loving, loyal and intelligent people that share a can - do attitude as well as a strong network of partners, incredible alumni (as we call our previous adopters) and our value of choosing our dogs on temperament rather than breed.

They also said they believe that environment rather than breed is a factor in behavior development.Boonville resident Mike Kelley said he wanted the council to keep the ban on pit bulls, which he believed would be the right thing to do.

Some council members believe it makes more sense to have a ban on dangerous animals rather than a breed specific ban.

«Pit bulls» are the most frequent victims of breed - specific legislation despite being a general type rather than a breed, but specific breeds are also sometimes banned including Rottweilers, Dobermans and boxers.

The term «pit bull» refers to an ill - defined type of dog, rather than a breed.

Capron, who owns a 6 - year - old pit bull mix named Chief, said she believes owner behavior, rather than breed, affects how a dog acts.

«HB 97 is great for Utah because it finally means that dangerous dog laws can focus on behavior — both of the owner and the dog — rather than breed or appearance.

Many large breed dogs eat food that is designed for their size rather than their breed, and these work best because of the balance between carbs, fats and proteins.

The humane society hopes the change will encourage people to judge a dog by its behavior rather than its breed label.

its the way that their treated rather than the breed most of the time.

Earlier this year, officials began floating the idea of leaving out the «blanket» of uranium so as to create a reactor that consumes plutonium rather than breeds it.

When potential adopters arrive at the shelter, they read about the dogs» characteristics rather than their breeds.

rather than breeding more!

Not exact matches

Rather than trying to breed a hybrid from different varieties of the fruit, Gonsalves isolated a gene from the ring - spot virus and directly inserted it into a papaya chromosome.

Technology at this new breed of hotel is both pervasive and personal, with an emphasis on using your own devices rather than a provided (and oftentimes outdated and clunky) in - house device.

These results suggest that rather than lowering the opportunity cost of having children, recessions create the economic uncertainty that makes those about to undertake breeding much more skittish and therefore more likely to postpone childbearing.

The position taken in this book is that such a democracy is inherently self - defeating, in part because the unrestrained pursuit of satisfaction tends to breed conflict rather than harmony, but more importantly because human nature is such that persons and cultures do not grow in beauty, strength, and virtue when people strive only to get what they want.

Thank goodness — that's one pretty sick cult — the kids get raised to be breeding stock — girls to marry unquestioningly the old man being rewarded with another young bride, the boys to be very obedient in hopes they'll get a bride, rather than kicked out (when you have polygamy, you have to maintain a very high female to male ratio — guess how they do that).

Without the growth group, anxiety from direct encounters with injustice - bred rage often produces defensiveness rather than openness to new understanding.

Today all new viral strains used to make vaccines must be generated by specific artificial genetic modifications rather than by «breeding,» so as to prevent possible reversion back to a virulent form.

All pork products must be purchased from suppliers that house breeding pigs in groups rather than gestation crates by December 31, 2018.

A totally pure species would mean a value of 1.00, which is rather rare, as most cultivars (= cultivated varieties) contain genes from more than one species through breeding.

Experts advise vigilance to prevent the opportunity for an attack, rather than avoidance of any specific breed.

The bill targeted specific breeds of dog, running against much of the advice about dog behaviour, which found it was the actions of the owner, rather than the type of dog, which best predicts potential attacks.

Rather than penalising certain breed types, which compromises the welfare of the animal, Dogs Trust wants to see a clear legislative focus on «deed not breed» and a new dialogue on the social problem of «dangerous owners»..

More generally, our previous research has also found little evidence that the 2010 reforms had increased parliamentarians» engagement with the committee system in terms of attendance or turnover, nor that they had encouraged a new breed of parliamentarian (e.g. younger, less biddable, more rebellious, representing Parliament rather than government, and focused on scrutiny rather than climbing the ministerial ladder (see here, here and here)-RRB-.

«When those who are to supervise an election take over the process and turn themselves to interested parties rather than rise above board, then we breed nothing other than chaos, pandemonium, mayhem, confusion and disorganisation of the whole process.

Rather than wheat products, this large breed kibble uses oatmeal and rice as sources of carbohydrates and fiber.

These defects appear to be a result of the cloning process rather than the introduced gene, considering that team member Jing Kang of Harvard University has been able to breed and raise multiple generations of the mice without any such defects.

When looking at nests rather than the overall population, protection significantly improved breeding activity, with annual increases of 8 percent in nesting success (meaning the breeding pair had at least one young) and 13 percent in the average number of young per occupied nest.

When Komdeur moved the breeding birds from poor to rich habitats, they began to have females rather than males, and vice versa.

But a good third of them have legs almost as short as a dachshund's — though straight and lovely rather than crooked like those of most dwarf breeds.

«This discovery has allowed us to develop genetic markers that are being used to breed more salt - tolerant grapevine rootstocks, allowing new genotypes to be screened at the seedling stage rather than through lengthy and expensive field - based vineyard trials.»

Rather than searching for and counting each individual nest, researchers recorded how many oystercatchers they observed within suitable nesting habitat and then modeled the size of the breeding population from this data.

Based on previous studies of the life - history, physical and ecological aspects of fecundity, Dr Pincheira - Donoso's work also concludes that the theory should distinguish between fertility during an animal's lifetime and during one particular breeding season, rather than grouping all time periods together.

Blanco and his colleagues think male short - tailed opossums may have gained their large teeth initially for sexual display rather than for hunting: competition between males is particularly acute because these opossums breed only once in their lifetime.

Researchers at The Rockefeller University have shown that a new technique using RNA interference is able to find genes that cause epidermal tumor growth in months rather than the decades it may take using traditional methods employing specially bred, genetically altered mice.

Scientists studying whether wildlife can adapt to climate change should focus on characteristics such as what they eat, how fast they breed and how well they survive in different habitats rather than simply on how far they can move, a conservation biologist at the University of Exeter says.

Certainly possible in Australia where there are large areas of relatively undisturbed forest with plenty of potential prey... there have been consistent sightings in the Blue Mountains area west of Sydney over many decades which suggest that rather than just an isolated zoo escapee or over grown pet there may be a breeding population, which would be a bit of a worry for us bush walkers!

A possible confounding factor, he says, is that the motivation to find food varies between dog breeds and could therefore also vary between the tamed and untamed foxes: Rather than more clever, the tamed foxes might just be hungrier.

The U.S. government decided in 2008 that there were no discernable differences between cloned and noncloned cows, goats and pigs, so it allowed the process in those animals, although mainly for breeding rather than meat production.

«Captive breeding program are rather a conservation tool than a conservation goal.

The revised policy focuses specifically on primate stem cells and chimera breeding, and tightens previous rules rather than creating new ones.

For example, if I'm studying lymphoma, and I know that a subset of Asian breeds shares a common lineage, I could group data from those breeds together, rather than considering them separately, in order to gain more statistical power,» she said.

Most of the 30 - 40 cat breeds recognized today originated within the last 150 years, and were selected mainly for aesthetic traits rather than functional ones.

The mass production of our everyday foods has resulted in our many foods nutritionally lacking for reasons such as breeding for conformity and visual appearance rather than taste and nutrition.

But recent research suggests that their love - engineering is about as foolproof as flirting with random people at a bar, and a new breed of dating sites are using social networks, rather than science, to help singles find romance.