Sentences with phrase «with domestic dogs»

While naysayers like to point out that dogs lick because they like the taste of their owner's salty skin, with domestic dogs, licking is a sign of affection.

Elise began working with domestic dogs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the Veterinary Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in the Behavior Clinic.

Under the amabassador program, Safari Park officials pair cheetahs with domestic dogs, with the idea that they will be companions for life.

This is pretty easy to understand with domestic dogs.

Not only do black - furred dogs and wolves have the same gene variant, but the DNA surrounding the K locus is also quite similar — and quite different from that of gray wolves — suggesting that the variant was introduced when wolves interbred with domestic dogs.

Here was an island population of dingoes which experts claimed were the least contaminated of their kind by cross-breeding with domestic dogs.

The laboratory experiments also showed that the amino acid combination in the CDV - H protein typically found in domestic dog strains (519R / 549Y) was particularly good at invading cells with domestic dog receptors but far less efficient at entering cells with non-canid receptors, effectively making domestic dog strains less able to infect lions and spotted hyenas if they are exposed to them.

Furthermore, laboratory experiments demonstrated that strains with the rare amino acid combination 519I / 549H in the CDV - H - protein were significantly better at invading cells with lion or domestic cat receptors than cells with domestic dog receptors.

Ziesenis A, Wissdorf H. [The ligaments and menisci of the femorotibial joint of the wolf (Canis lupus L., 1758)-- anatomic and functional analysis in comparison with the domestic dog (Canis lupus f. familiaris)-RSB-.

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With the club still fighting on two fronts, and with a dog fight in the domestic top five sure to come, Rudi Garcia simply has to do a better job rotating between his top 11 to 15 playWith the club still fighting on two fronts, and with a dog fight in the domestic top five sure to come, Rudi Garcia simply has to do a better job rotating between his top 11 to 15 playwith a dog fight in the domestic top five sure to come, Rudi Garcia simply has to do a better job rotating between his top 11 to 15 players.

Similarly, it could be difficult to control emerging pathogens transmitted by pets, which increasingly include exotic species along with traditional domestic animals like dogs and cats.

It was considered native, wild, and associated with Aboriginal people as a domestic dog, perhaps as a guard dog or hunting dog.

Rare Amur tigers in Russia are succumbing to infection with canine distemper virus (CDV), a pathogen most commonly found in domestic dogs, according to the authors of a study published in mBio ®, the online open - access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

From the Chihuahua to the Great Dane, the domestic dog is the most diverse mammal species of all, with over 350 distinct breeds for hunting, pulling sledges, tracking, herding and, of course, companionship.

Glasgow's Dr. Mafalda Viana, who led the multi-author study with colleague Dr. Tiziana Lembo, pointed out that «These results suggest that the virus may now be maintained by a broader carnivore community, potentially involving wildlife as well as domestic dogs beyond the immediate vicinity of the Serengeti National Park.

Scientists examined the behaviour of dogs in response to emotionally significant images and sounds, and found that mouth licking in domestic dogs is not simply a response to food or uncertainty, but appears to be used as a signal to try to communicate with humans in response to visual cues of anger.

Domestic dogs have been closely associated with humans for about 15,000 years.

Geneticists have pinpointed the gene variant that imparts this black fur and determined that it comes from domestic dogs that interbred with their wily cousins thousands of years ago.

The study's co-lead author, doctoral researcher Jennifer Wathan, said: «Horses are predominantly visual animals, with eyesight that's better than domestic cats and dogs, yet their use of facial expressions has been largely overlooked.

«Dogs, together with pigs and chicken, were important domestic animals in the Austronesian culture,» he says.

So a team led by Carlos Bustamante, a comparative geneticist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and Elaine Ostrander, a comparative geneticist with NHGRI, analyzed genetic information from 915 domestic dogs representing 80 different breeds.

Wolves were domesticated more than 15,000 years ago and it is widely assumed that the ability of domestic dogs to form close relationships with humans stems from changes during the domestication process.

The ancestral wolves that evolved into domestic dogs may have carried genetic mutations that made them socialise more readily with people.

The largest ever study of howling in the «canid» family of species — which includes wolves, jackals and domestic dogs — has shown that the various species and subspecies have distinguishing repertoires of howling, or «vocal fingerprints»: different types of howls are used with varying regularity depending on the canid species.

But because canine distemper virus can infect so many different species of animals — including many that coexist with tigers as well as the domestic dogs often found on the edges of tiger territory — the big cats can have many opportunities for exposure.

The two species have lived together for more than 14,000 years, and in that time domestic dogs have changed themselves in fundamental ways in order to get along better with us.

Dr Kaminski said: «Domestic dogs have a unique history — they have lived alongside humans for 30,000 years and during that time selection pressures seem to have acted on dogs» ability to communicate with us.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), conducted genetic analyses of CDV strains obtained from a range of carnivores between 1993 and 2012 and discovered that lethal CDV infections in lions and hyenas during the 1993/1994 epidemic was caused by a rare and genetically distinct CDV strain with three rare mutations not present in any other Serengeti strain isolated from domestic dogs or wild canids.

The first detailed genetic comparison of purebred domestic dogs promises to rewrite the textbooks with new information about breed classification and insights that may improve canine health by boosting understanding of the more than 350 inherited disorders, including cancer, heart disease, epilepsy, blindness and deafness, which affect dogs.

Here we report a high - quality draft genome sequence of the domestic dog (Canis familiaris), together with a dense map of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across breeds.

The international study showed that around 60 per cent of Eurasian grey wolf genomes carried small blocks of the DNA of domestic dogs, suggesting that wolves cross-bred with dogs in past generations.

Researchers examined DNA data from grey wolves - the ancestors of the domestic dog — to determine how much their gene pool was diluted with the DNA of domestic canines, and how widespread the process of hybridisation is.

From the start, though, the use of dogs for violent laboratory experiments disturbed a bourgeois sensibility that associated them — or at least the purebreds — with family and the comforts of domestic life.

With the passing of a month, the domestic arrangement grows comfortable, with Melodie finding work as a dog walker, tolerating Boris» nighttime panic attacks, and even developing a crush on the embittered genius she sees himWith the passing of a month, the domestic arrangement grows comfortable, with Melodie finding work as a dog walker, tolerating Boris» nighttime panic attacks, and even developing a crush on the embittered genius she sees himwith Melodie finding work as a dog walker, tolerating Boris» nighttime panic attacks, and even developing a crush on the embittered genius she sees him as.

Throughout the course of the film, we see Bailey face all aspects of life from marriage, family life, domestic violence, animal abuse, crime... perhaps A Dog's Purpose has more in common with Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin than anything else.

Working with a suitably drab desaturated Super-16 palette, first - time director Fabrice Du Welz draws heavily on the macabre domestic slapstick of Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the rural paranoia of Straw Dogs and Deliverance for this unsettling male - anxiety fantasy, striking the right balance between grim sadism and grotesque comedy.

As the puppy develops in its third month, it has increasing social needs, which for the domestic dog includes being open to bonding with humans and developing human relationships.

On the 27th May, the Victorian State Government fulfilled an election promise to hold an inquiry into those sections of the Domestic Animals Act which deal with restricted breed dogs (commonly called breed specific legislation (BSL).

Gender: Female Age: 9 months Breed: Domestic Short Hair; Brown tabby Spayed / Neutered: Yes Vaccinations: FRPP Other vet care: Anti-parasitic medicine Temperament: Very playful Other information: Previously fostered with a dog, cats and children.

The diverse genetic origin of the domestic dog has likely involved multiple gray wolf populations from breed inception that were even at later times backcrossed with wolves throughout history.

I agree with you that rules are important for domestic dogs.

With the aim of developing a domestic dog with fox - like tendencies Tollers were bred to entice ducks, dancing along the shores until the curious and bird - brained ducks swam close enough to be cauWith the aim of developing a domestic dog with fox - like tendencies Tollers were bred to entice ducks, dancing along the shores until the curious and bird - brained ducks swam close enough to be cauwith fox - like tendencies Tollers were bred to entice ducks, dancing along the shores until the curious and bird - brained ducks swam close enough to be caught.

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Domestic dogs identify with their owners, who are in a sense, the leader of their pack, that is of course, if the owner is able to impose authority and set some living rules.

Gender: Male Age: 3 years Breed: Domestic Short Hair; Black and white Spayed / Neutered: Yes Vaccinations: FRPP Other vet care: Anti-parasitic medicine Temperament: Friendly and affectionate Other information: Good with dogs.

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They are domestic dogs that were initially used to herd cattle and other livestock or even pull carts that were usually laden with beef or some other kind of butchered meat to the market.

Dogs were most likely the first animal to be kept as a domestic «pet,» with human - dog relationships dating back over 12,000 years to Palaeolithic times.