Not exact matches
When it comes to feeding
time, you are smarter
than the
average dog.
Additionally, the training is being performed by professional trainers, who should have better
timing and tactile skills
than the
average dog owner.
Rather, the other companies willing to insure high - risk breeds are also having to make more and higher payouts for attacks by pit bulls, Rottweilers, and
dogs of several other closely related but relatively scarce breeds, each of which pose more
than twice the actuarial risk of all other breeds combined and more
than 10
times the actuarial risk of the
average dog.
On
average, castrated
dogs are three
times more likely
than their intact counterparts to develop some type of prostate cancer.
The ten breeds on our list require less «formal introduction
time»
than the
average dog.
Heartworms live an
average of 2 to 3 years in the cat, and although this is considerably shorter
than their lifespan in the
dog (up to 7 years), this plenty of
time for severe disease to result.
That's 7.5
dogs and cats for every 1,000 human residents, about half the national
average and ten
times less
than successful No Kill communities.
Large
dogs are to be more at risk of developing bone tumours
than average dogs: up to sixty
times more likely if the
dog weighs more
than eighty pounds.
The American Veterinary Medical Association reports that
dogs see their veterinarian 1.5
times a year, while cats
average less
than once a year.
«Normal» is an
average of all
dogs that have been tested over
time; therefore, it is possible to have a result higher
than 100 %.
A recently published study in the Journal of Environmental Science and Technology revealed that the
average blood concentration of these PBDEs was as much as ten
times higher in tested
dogs than in humans.
Even though cat owners consider their cats just as much members of the family as
dog owners do, a 2006 study showed that
dogs were taken to veterinarians more
than twice as often as cats,
averaging 2.3
times a year, compared with 1.1
times a year for cats, and significantly more
dogs (58 %)
than cats (28 %) were seen by a veterinarian one or more
times a year.
Dogs that are housed in a kennel environment or attend a daycare facility are considered at a higher risk to exposure since they come into contact with more dogs than the average dog that spends the majority of its time at h
Dogs that are housed in a kennel environment or attend a daycare facility are considered at a higher risk to exposure since they come into contact with more
dogs than the average dog that spends the majority of its time at h
dogs than the
average dog that spends the majority of its
time at home.
Trupanion found that policyholders with obese
dogs or cats spend over 10
times more on diabetes treatment
than pet owners of pets at an
average weight.
Trupanion data reveals that policyholders with overweight
dogs or cats spend as much as five
times more
than policyholders with
average weight pets on veterinary expenses for musculoskeletal ailments such as cruciate ruptures, lameness, and limping.
The whole
time I was at Naughty
Dog — ten and a half years — I probably, on
average, I don't know if I ever worked less
than 80 hours a week.