Sentences with phrase «risk of biting»

Neutering has been associated with alterations in dog behavior, reducing the risk of biting in certain breeds of dogs [8] and neutered dogs are at reduced risk for relinquishment presumably due to improved behavior [10].

What should dog owners do when they have a dog at risk of biting?

Training your hamster to be held can reduce the risk of biting.

If your dog has an obedient nature, you will substantially decrease the risk of biting someone and misbehaving.

Sharpen Your Observational Skills In order to minimize the risks of a bite, practice good observational skills and safe, lowstress handling techniques.

Two recent publications, one from the human side (The Lancet, Infectious Diseases, July 2009) and one from the veterinary side (Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, February 2009) have highlighted the risks of bite injuries from pets.

Decreased roaming and territorial behavior also lowers the risk of bite - wound abscesses.

Although risks of biting can not be entirely eliminated, «Look» can be a useful tool for defusing a situation involving aggression to you or another family member.

Because of the risk of a bite it is unwise to test this and let a dog off leash when it has exhibited aggression on leash.

For example, an aquarium introduces a risk or water damage, dogs carry the risk of bites, and cats are notorious for scratching furniture.

Not exact matches

«When you're in your 30s, you still have a long flight path... so you still have quite a bit of time to take measured risks, at least when it comes to markets, to be able to build your portfolio and have more growth,» Snider said.

The longer you wait, the further you'll have to fall if you fail, and if you're going to succeed, you'll need to be comfortable with a bit of risk anyway.

«It's a bit of an investment, but we felt it was a long - term investment that's pennies on a piece, but the right thing to do,» said Ann Ardizzone, Alaska Airline's vice president of supply chain and risk management.

Aren't these folks a bit loopy (quite literally, in Davis's case), risking life and limb just for the thrill of it?

In other words, I was risking an unlikely and temporary 3 or 4 for a probable and permanent 9 or 10, and I could easily recover my baseline workaholic prison with a bit of extra work if I wanted to.

«I do think that's a bit of a risk, because until we know who this person is, it's hard to know what kind of strategies they'll want to put in place.»

Are you risk averse, or a bit of a risk seeker?

Starting a new business requires a lot of money up front, and thus, often involves quite a bit of financial risk.

CDC Director Tom Frieden says pregnant women all over the South should protect themselves against mosquito bites because of the risk of Zika.

But the cynic in all of us may still look at all those super-rich sharks, sitting atop their gilded thrones telling struggling entrepreneurs to take risks, as a bit, well, callous.

«In the area of trading, it is now an academically demonstrated fact that women tend to be a little bit more risk - averse,» Lagarde told me in September.

«There is a bit of a risk - off undertone to markets here,» said Shaun Osborne, currency strategist at Scotia Bank in Toronto, referring to the yen's performance against the greenback.

«This is the one that has a little bit of idiosyncratic risk going on.»

«They'll essentially book their [higher - than - projected] returns and take a little bit of risk off the table.»

When evaluating an opportunity, VCs do quite a bit of math to calculate the degree of risk in the deal.

Again, putting money into the market involves taking on a certain amount of risk so this isn't a strategy you should jump into if you're not comfortable with the possibility of losing some of your money or waiting a bit longer to see a return.

«You are seeing manufacturers taking a little bit more risk and launching vehicles that wouldn't have been able to make it in the past,» said Jeff Schuster, senior vice president of forecasting at LMC Automotive, which tracks the auto industry.

There's quite a bit of research, based on historical returns, that finds if you retire at age 65, you can withdraw 4 % a year (plus inflation adjustments) from your nest egg with only a small risk of outliving your money.

Being innovative takes a lot of hard work and little bit of risk.

No risk of bad link building biting you in the butt.

The most severe return / risk profiles we identify have sometimes persisted for several months without a material market correction... The perception of a Goldilocks economy may drag that out for a bit longer here, so again, we can't be impatient, and we'll take our evidence as it arrives.

Even if you had, say, $ 5 million, and were willing to take a fair bit of risk and put it all in the stock market where it might (with real luck) generate 5 % as a sustainable annual withdrawal, you'd still be making «only» $ 250,000 a year.

I stuck it out in a crazy business that has robbed me of any normal social life (constantly moving around the country), worked my tail off and risked it all and was fortunate enough to be in a good place at the right time and take advantage of an opportunity with every bit of energy I could muster.

This mistake represents a) precisely the amnesia about reckless finance that repeatedly shows up years after the last crisis, b) an underestimate by the Senate Democrats signing on to the measure of the risk brought back into the system, and c) an almost completely unnecessary bit of work.

Its expense ratio falls in line with the segment and tracks well, while receiving a bit of extra revenue from securities lending in exchange for slight counterparty risk.

In a bit of a surprise, he said he is not as yet convinced the recent cooling in housing activity in Canada, and slowdown in credit accumulation, represents a fundamental shift, indicating he remains concerned about the downside risk of keeping rates low for a very long time.

«Portfolio strategies should acknowledge bite - sized future returns and the growing risk that the negative consequences of misguided monetary and fiscal policy might lead to disruptive financial markets at some future point,» he concludes.

Hedging your bets with a bit of traditional link building and a focus on earning links through quality content can get you the best of both worlds — you'll get the value and low risk of content - based links, but the stability and predictability of lower - cost traditional links.

He's a bit of a gambler and a bit undersized, so he presents some high risk, high reward.

-- even if it's a bit more affordable — then you risk getting «stuck» in a cycle that can be hard to climb out of.

Remote employees can be every bit as committed and productive as their onsite counterparts, but there is a risk of isolation for people who work at home, says Miles.

The modest change to our hedge is intended to maintain our downside protection while hopefully producing a little bit less day - to - day discomfort on days when Wall Street suddenly goes «risk on» and chases banks, financials, materials, and high - debt cyclicals, all of which we hold with smaller weight than the major indices reflect.

Though steep market declines tend to be indiscriminate (with even defensive stocks often acting as if they have a beta of 1.0), we recognize that «risk on» days can also be very uncomfortable when defensives lag the market and our hedges bite with full force.

Yes the government regulations are a bit of a risk.

In addition to the U.S. stock market being more fraught with risk that in 2000 and 2007, there's a bit of a 1997 - 1998 feel to the big picture.

The regulators judged that more targeted action was needed to address the risks — to put a bit of sand in the gears.

There is a bit of a balancing act between yield and risk.

I want to bring this up a bit more to reduce the risk of all dividends coming from the US markets.

Its stock selection process is a bit opaque beyond the broad descriptions of its screens: fundamental, timeliness, valuation and risk.

But I am keen to avoid tail risks of now being a low water mark for sterling and of the bond market unraveling a bit over next few years.