Sentences with phrase «removing dogs from the breeding»

It isn't necessary - or even desirable - to remove any dog from the breeding population.

It isn't necessary - or even desirable - to remove dogs from the breeding population.

With the other genetic tests currently available for Australian Shepherds, most notably MDR1, CEA and PRA, the answer to the «what to do» question is straightforward: Having a single copy of the CEA - CH or prcd / PRA mutations or even two of the MDR1 are not reasons to remove a dog from your breeding program.

Bad Genes, Babies, and Bathwater warns of the danger inherent in excessively rigid or broadly based efforts to eradicate inherited diseases and unwanted traits through removing dogs from breeding.

Not exact matches

For example: «Please place dog hair in a zip - locked plastic bag... Label each plastic bag of hair with the breed... Do not remove dog hair from the vacuum cleaner.

Puppy mill operators may fail to remove sick dogs from their breeding pools.

Stripping, or hand - stripping, is a technique for removing dead hair from the coat of a non-shedding dog breed.

«It is now generally agreed that the ancestor of the modern dog is the wolf... [the] process of domestication where our ancestors removed the «wildness» from the wolf, involved thousands of years of selective breeding... In this process, our ancestors produced hundreds of «different looking wolves»... our ancestors made only two basic changes to the wolf.

Minimizing intake includes things like low - cost spay / neuter clinics, targeted spay / neuter outreach in poor communities and minimizing laws that cause animals to be removed from homes unnecessarily because they are certain breeds of dogs, not altered, or over the pet limit.

A breed ban usually requires that all dogs of a certain appearance («targeted breed») be removed from the municipality wherein the ban has been implemented.

Breeders should not only test breeding stock annually and remove affected dogs from the breeding program, but track the heart health of all littermates throughout their lives to get a complete picture of heart health in the line.

They are instructions for permanently removing a recessive disease gene from any population of dogs without removing a single dog from a breeding program.

No dog worthy of breeding should be removed from a breeding program because of iris hypoplasia.

Remove from a breeding program any dog or bitch that is known to have repeatedly produced any significant condition that affects the physical or mental soundness of the progeny.

The prevalence of hip and elbow dysplasia alone removes many dogs from the breeding pool (statistically a quarter of them.)

In the meanwhile, we all might want to give careful consideration to the PLOS One study and possibly remove breed names from shelter kennel cards to allow the public to make choices based on interactions with individual dogs rather than sensationalist headlines.

A full breed ban requires dogs of a particular appearance to be removed from the municipality where the ban has been implemented.

Take your time to research the breed and look for breeders who are aware of the health problems these dogs face and work to remove affected dogs from their breeding programs.

According to current research, the best way to prevent hip dysplasia is to screen dogs and remove them from the breeding population if they have radiographic evidence of dysplastic hips.

By simply removing one breed from circulation, people looking to use dogs for poor purposes will simply move on to another breed.

People who do not follow laws will not surrender their dogs, thereby removing the good examples of the breed from the population and leaving the worst behind to continue to create more.

Earl is a clever name for an earth dog that was bred to remove animals from burrows.

DEFRA have removed «Pedigree Dog Breeding» from its list of items in AWA secondary legislation, replacing it with «Dog Code».

Dogs diagnosed with hip dysplasia should be neutered and removed from the breeding pool.

We have removed those particular dogs from a life of breeding and misery.

They were removed from the fighting pits in the 1930s and rapidly evolved as a different breed, finding plenty of other opportunities as a general - purpose work dog on farms.

Footnote: «All related dogs (for several generations) were removed from the breeding population and the disease has not been seen for years.

Apart from cross - breeding the purebreds in an effort towards gaining or removing certain characteristics, another popular motivation is the hypoallergenic or «Non-shedding» dog.

As evident from the seized Vick dogs — the further removed the less skilled they are at fighting or wanting to fight... Bait dogs are a new tool used by dogfighters as some pits today will not fight other animals w / o hesitation as those originally bred for fighting as late as the 1980s.

Two months later the facility was raided and all of the dogs were removed from the breeding facility.

While short hair breeds often don't suffer from mats and tangles - at least to the same extent as long haired dogs - a slicker brush is still useful for combing the undercoat and removing loose hair.

On April 9, 2012 authorities removed over 350 dogs from a commercial breeding kennel in Allegan County that had spiraled out of control.

MISSION HILLS, CA (FOX 11)- The city of Los Angeles Board of Animal Services met Tuesday night to discuss the possibility of removing dog breed labels from city shelters and adoption forms.

Often puppy mill operators fail to apply proper husbandry practices that would remove sick dogs from their breeding pools and they produce puppies prone to congenital and hereditary defects Puppy mills are not defined by the number of animals.

X-linked diseases are rarely common, so diligent use of the test combined with removing dogs with the mutation from the breeding pool should effectively eliminate the mutation from a breed.

Valuable dogs carrying unwanted genes which formerly might have been removed from breeding programs could be bred because breeders could determine the genotypes of prospective mates and eliminate the possibility of producing affected offspring.

More than a few people have questioned the wisdom of removing all HSF4 positive dogs from the breeding population, fearing that it could have a negative effect on the overall gene pool.

AB 485 would remove the only remaining source of warrantied puppies from licensed breeders and replace them with unaccountable suppliers that do not have the type of dogs — puppies from specific breeds — that consumers want.

The protocol recommends that susceptible dogs undergo a MRI and that they be removed from the breeding pool if they show signs of SM.

The Bull dog retained its protective and fearless nature, but aggressive and ferocious tendencies were removed from the breed.

The symptoms can usually be controlled by treating the dog with a variety of drugs to suppress the immune system (immunosuppresants), and these dogs too should be removed from the breeding pool.

If cruciate weakness proves to have identifiable genetic components, we may be able to remove the trait from our pets by breeding only dogs that do not carry the trait.

When breeds are singled out as dangerous or vicious, responsibility is removed from the dog owner which is where it belongs.

But these gentle giants are one of the best short hair dog breeds, and they are far removed from their war - loving ancestors.

This way, the dogs who carried the problem could be removed from any thoughtful breeding program.

Advocates of the breed would like to see the «Pit Bull» label removed from their dogs in favor of «Bulldog»

Unfortunately, what is being overlooked is this: if we remove the APBT from existence, another breed of dog would be selected by these bill proponents to take its place.

This would allow development of screening tests to identify carrier and affected dogs so they may be removed from breeding programs.

This dog would have been bred once upon a time but will be removed from a responsible breeding programme today.

Since it takes 2 recessive genes (one from the mother and one from the father) in the same puppy to produce a dog with PRA, this inherited disease is difficult to remove from a breed.