Sentences with phrase «through animal feces»

Dogs can get hookworms through animal feces, small infected animals and insects, or when hookworm larvae penetrate the dog's skin.

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This was done through a combination of direct observation and recording evidence such as footprints and feces, as well as in - depth interviews with landowners and residents, who were quizzed about species presence through photographs, animal noises and local knowledge.

Events for the younger set included a tour of «the fourth dimension» — a room full of hypercubes and other higher dimensional objects that gave me a touch of vertigo; a chamber of robots that you could teach to play football; a demonstration of forensic science involving (real) guns and a (fake) cadaver in a staged crime scene; a live cooking show in which physicists, chemists, and anthropologists explained the science and origins of food; and a walking tour through the natural history of excrement featuring — you guessed it — a dizzying array of animal feces.

The virus, a relative of those that cause canine distemper and human measles, spreads through exhaled droplets and feces of sick animals; it causes fever, diarrhea, dehydration, and death in a matter of days.

A dog can become infected with CAV - 1 through direct contact with an infected animal or contaminated objects (e.g., food dishes or feces).

Taking these kind of measures are extremely important because when an animal is infected with parvovirus it lets off large quantities of the virus through its feces contaminating the whole environment it lives in.

The basic transmission of the canine distemper virus is spread through secretions of bodily fluids, such as urine, blood feces as well as airborne transmissions, such as coughing and sneezing by infected animals.

It is transmitted through the saliva, urine, and feces of infected animals.

Humans: People should take a conscientious approach to roundworm prevention through frequent hand washing and keeping yards and homes free of animal feces.

Panleukopenia is transmitted through contact with an infected animal's bodily fluids or feces, as well as by fleas.

It's a killer disease, highly contagious and particularly lethal to puppies, passed between animals through contact with feces — even a speck on fur.

If you suspect a breeder or business involved in animal production is polluting the land, water or air through improper disposal of feces, urine and carcasses (or causing noise pollution due to excessive barking), report it to the Environmental Services Department in your county.

Pets can also become infected by ingesting another animal's feces or through hunting and ingestion of birds and rodents.

And perhaps the most insidious one of all, the common Toxoplasma gondii parasite that they spread through their feces into all other animals and even livestock.

The larvae mature rapidly in the puppy's intestine; when the pup is 3 or 4 weeks old, they begin to produce large numbers of eggs that contaminate the environment through the animal's feces.

They may become infected with parasites at birth (passed from their mother through the placenta or milk) or become infected through contact with infected feces or other infected animals.

In particular, they occur when an infected animal passes on bacteria, parasites, fungi or viruses to humans through scratches, saliva, feces and urine.

Even the most housebound cat may venture outdoors at some time and can be exposed to diseases and worms through contact with other animal's feces.

Then there's cats» most insidious disease of all, their Toxoplasma gondii parasite that cats spread through their feces into all other animals.

These poisons absorb through the skin permeate the animal's system; while a portion of them is eliminated in through urine and feces, some components may not be fully cleared, and can contribute to the toxic sludge build - up in the extracellular matrix.

They can't get it from other dogs or other types of animals, from dog feces, or from their mothers while in the womb or through nursing.

While most of this hair eventually passes through the animal's digestive tract and is excreted intact in the feces, some of it remains in the stomach and gradually accumulates into a wet clump - the hairball.

Many worms are passed from animal to animal through feces containing eggs, which are then ingested by another animal causing infection.

Infection with parasites that encyst or migrate through the muscles of the body, such as trichinosis or toxoplasmosis, caused by eating the uncooked meat of infected prey animals or exposure to cat feces can also cause elevated CK levels (infectious polymyositis).

Larvae enter through the skin by migrating through the bloodstream to the lungs and throat and enter through ingestion if your dog eats dirty food, water, or feces, especially from an infected animal.