Sentences with phrase «rely on breed»

Thomas says, «Many people rely on the breed of dog — «good family dogs» — and think they don't need training, or think that hanging out with the family is actually socializing their dog.

«It's really a disservice to public safety to try and rely on a breed ban, because what it does is it makes people think you've done something to solve the issue when in fact it hasn't,» Bradley said.

A dog's activity level is often determined by breed, but it does not mean you can rely on breed alone to determine how energetic your dog could become.

When selecting a family dog, it sometimes pays to rely on breed reputation.

The ordinance relies on the breed standards from these two kennel clubs for enforcement of a «licensing» provision for American Staffordshire Terriers, Staffordshire Bull Terriers, American Pit Bull Terriers and Rottweilers.

... Optimally, human services for the disabled should be improved rather than relying on the breeding and exploitation of animals.»

The final answer to «when do cats stop growing and when are cats fully grown relies on their breed, feeding schedules, and general way of life.

Cutting - edge research reveals that we should focus our efforts on breed - neutral best practices with proven effectiveness to make policy and adoption decisions, rather than relying on breed.

Not exact matches

They too seldom catch criminals to deter them; in order to catch them the courts must rely on heads of state, thus breeding unfair selectivity and, consequently, further social instability.

An advocate of many of Tesio's breeding theories, she still relies mostly on a set of her own rules for evaluating a horse.

«More than 2,000 threatened species rely on successful reproduction through captive breeding programs for conservation alone,» said Dr Grueber, from the University of Sydney's School of Life and Environmental Sciences and San Diego Zoo Global.

Polar bears, the poster - child for climate change, are among the animals most affected by the seasonal and year - to - year changes in Arctic sea ice, because they rely on this surface for essential activities such as hunting, traveling and breeding.

In order for the shorebirds known as red knots to survive their annual migration from the Southern Hemisphere to the species» Arctic breeding grounds, they rely on a series of site along the way to provide enough food for their stay and to fuel their onward flight.

An open North - West Passage may be good news for bowheads, which will have more places to feed, but many Inuit will struggle, since they rely on walruses that are running out of sea ice on which to breed.

The birds rely on crane flies for food during the breeding season, and the crane flies rely on the cool, wet conditions in blanket bogs.

The ongoing loss of juveniles could lead to a situation where the population crashes, since population growth and stability both rely on having enough calves survive to sexual maturity — so they, too, can breed and produce offspring of their own.

Yet although horse racing has grown into an international multibillion dollar industry, racehorse breeding still relies on the same tools as it has for the past 300 years: pedigree charts, and trial and error.

Animals that rely on river conditions at a certain time of year in order to breed or find food could be affected by surprise floods.

Agronomists went on to breed «semi-dwarf» rice plants using the same principles, fundamentally altering a crop that half the world relied on for daily sustenance.

These changes enlarged a cold pool of water the penguins rely on for food and breeding — an expansion that could continue as the climate changes over the coming decades, the study's authors said.

Some species win, others don't Meanwhile, the loss of sea ice is making life harder for some marine animals, including polar bears and walruses, that rely on sea ice to hunt, breed and rear their young.

The problem with today's mosquito control is that it suffers from too much talking and increasingly relies on «community participation,» which is difficult to sustain, Knols wrote in his book; he scorned Aruba, where during a dengue outbreak schoolchildren were given a note asking their parents to remove mosquito breeding sites around the home.

Successful plant breeding relies on thorough understanding of the whole organism's response to genetic modification.

Researchers are now reporting an advance in a NASA - inspired field known as «speed breeding» that relies on intense lighting regimes to raise crops several times faster, and boost their health at the same time.

In other words, the yield increases are really due to the old method of selection or population breeding, which farmers have relied on since agriculture began.

Also, many of the colonies where counts do exist were last counted several decades ago (Table 1), while other counts rely on estimates from late in the breeding season (i.e. after an unknown number of eggs and chicks had already been lost and adults may have already departed from the colony)[16].

Experts have raised concerns about farm raised fish, which in some cases are raised on unnatural diets and crammed into small enclosures that can breed disease, prompting aquaculture operators to rely heavily on antibiotics.

FThe global industrial food system relies on crops that have been bred primarily for higher yield and ease of transport, while farmers involved in local food systems often place a higher value on plant varietals that are more nutritious by virtue of their variety (i.e., not bred for yield alone) or by their method of production.

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In what became an unfortunate trend that continues to this day, the modern breed of animated features relies a bit too much on crude gags and up - to - the - minute pop - culture references rather than on a magical sense of eternal appeal — Shrek falls into that camp, and even a mere decade - and - a-half later, much of it feels dated.

A new breed of companies known as «robo - advisers» rely on algorithms to build low - cost portfolios of index funds or ETFs and in many cases charge 0.5 % a year or less.

But the truly wild dogs that rely on very demanding environments that weed out the weak, and allow only the strongest to do the breeding in the pack, are famously low in HD incidence.

Despite the frequency with which such identifications are made, this study suggests visual breed ID, even by presumed experts, should never be relied on as the basis of public policy.

Until such testing becomes available, rabbit owners must rely on other methods in order to determine the breeds that make up their bunny's heritage.

The core of the argument in favor of dog breeding relies on the premise that there is value in selective breeding.

In the more than 50 years that wolves were gone from Oregon, sheep producers here relied on great Pyrenees, akbash and Maremma sheepdogs, Young said, and often mixes of the sheepdog breeds.

You may be able to tell your dog apart from every other in his breed, but other people may need to rely on on his nose print for identification.

Dog breeding mechanisms rely on genetics and are the same for pretty much all dog breeds.

For those who rely on statistical data; Bill and I are owner - handlers who don't «network», have no dogs at public stud and keep fewer than four breeding bitches, yet we've had over half of the Akita Hall Of Fame Producers including the # 1 and # 2 Sires and Dams.

This kind of misidentification creates a feedback loop, as most studies of fatal attacks rely on media reports for breed identification.

«Outside of this, all we can rely on is the local authority licensing system for those that breed large numbers of litters, and the Kennel Club will not register the pups of breeders without this licence.

However, with a potential risk of more severe problems, and the lack of a normal tail raises serious questions as to whether breeds should exist which rely on such deformities.

With airline shipping costs going through the roof - the future of breeding dogs may rely on AI's - we need to learn about this.

The loveable domestic shorthair cat breed is a dependable cat that we can rely on to keep the bugs away.

[1] Breeding relies on the science of genetics, so the breeder with a knowledge of canine genetics, health, and the intended use for the dogs attempts to breed suitable dogs.

Originally they were bred by the Chukchi people, a hunter - gatherer culture that relied on the dogs for help.

For transportation and hauling materials, residents relied on dogs that were bred at the stations from the descendants of the early dogs brought to the continent.

This requires an open health registry, relying on an atmosphere of cooperation and understanding between breeders, for the benefit of the breed.

Grain free and with no artificial preservatives added, this dry dog food relies on duck protein and healthy potatoes for an energy boosting meal for dogs of all breeds.