Sentences with phrase «small number of individual dogs»

It is unclear whether any East - European Shepherds have been imported to the United States, but if any have it is a very small number of individual dogs.

Not exact matches

BASC Scotland director Dr Colin Shedden said: «BASC and many other organisations and individuals made the case that the use of such remote training devices had been incredibly helpful in addressing problematic behaviour, such as sheep worrying, in a small number of dogs.

The analysis also revealed a «genetic bottleneck» in Western dogs — a reduction in genetic diversity typically tied to a sharp decline in a population's numbers, as can occur when a small band of individuals splits off from the main group.

In 1978 the Chinese Shar Pei was one of the rarest dog breeds in the world, and this means that every Shar Pei alive today comes from a small number of breeding individuals, so inbreeding had to take place in order to increase their population.

The small number of dogs and individual treatment can not be surpassed.»

In theory, then, a behavioral trait with a smaller heritability (closer to zero) will be more affected by environment in general (even if the exact heritability number calculated in a study can't tell us anything about the interplay of genetics and environment in an individual dog).

A dog's personality is made up of a number of smaller behavioral traits, but how to break personality down into individual behavioral traits is still a matter of much debate, as existing research on the heritability of canine behavioral traits shows.

Precise mapping of major loci responsible for trait variation has been accomplished with relatively small numbers of dogs as compared to the large numbers of individuals required for trait identification in genetically diverse human populations.