Sentences with phrase «works against a cat»

In my experience neither works against a cat seriously determined to scratch or bite, but they can give you an extra second to get the cat in a cage.

Not exact matches

While both dog and cat owners experience the stress relief of petting their furry friends, the fur — and skin and saliva — can work against the feline.

So, we started working with MMRF on a campaign called Cats Against Cancer, because it really gives cat owners an opportunity to give something back.

Their powerful hind legs and strong muscular backs ensure that cats can propel themselves up a tree with ease, however they are not so good at climbing back down where the design of their bodies works against them.

We're scaling up our work to keep dogs and cats in homes, fighting against relinquishment, abandonment and deficient care for pets.

There is another parvo strain named CPV2b FP84 that provokes disease in a small percentage of domestic cats, but the common FPV vaccination seems to work against it.

The bowl you've chosen as your cat's water bowl may actually be working against you.

There are many reasons why trying to eradicate cats from the environment doesn't work: there are too many cats and not enough animal control resources, removing one set of cats from a location where food and shelter is available creates a vacuum for a new set of cats to fill, the people who feed and care for the cats resist their capture, and the public is against euthanasia.

Even when the same standard dose is administered to all cats, there can be large differences in the side effects that are seen and the drug may appear to work better against cancer in some cats than in others.

Uretic cat food helps keep urine pH - balanced, which works against many of bladder and urinary tract problems that some cats are prone to.

In early 2013 we worked with partners to successfully defend cats, birds, and people against a proposed state law that would have exempted TNR programs from Florida's animal abandonment prohibition.

Doctors who specifically work with HIV + clients strongly recommend against declawing, because declawed cats will often resort to biting as a defense.

Each chocolate product is named after a rescue issue, such as the importance of spaying and neutering dogs and cats, the lifesaving work of foster moms and dads for these animals, and the misguided breed - specific legislation aimed against my sweet pit bull and others like her.

If you are thinking of making a homemade raw diet for your cat, we strongly advise against it unless you are working with a veterinary nutritionist.

The Tulsa SPCA is founded by a group of Tulsa citizens who were concerned about homeless dogs and cats and wanted to protect against abuse of draft animals used to do tilling on farms and heavy work in the mines and oil fields.

Marc qualified from Edinburgh University and has since worked in small animal, mixed, and emergency practice, as well as volunteering oversees for animal rescue projects including vaccinating dogs against rabies in Mumbai, rescuing dancing bears in Ukraine, saving cats and dogs in post-tsunami Thailand, neutering pets in the Amazon, and operating on moonbears in Chengdu, China.

Offers eight months of protection against fleas and ticks in all life stages, two powerful active ingredients, sustained release technology for continuous protection, lightweight and easy to wear, adjustable for cats of all sizes, kills fleas in all life stages, fleas don't have to bite for it to work

Although TNVR was previously against Pinellas County code, she worked hard to set up systems that could prove TNVR was a humane and effective way to manage community cat populations.

Even if your cat doesn't actually scale the tree, he'll almost definitely rub against it, he might bump into it while playing, and he may decide to use it as a scratching surface (trees are nature's original scratching post, and they work as well as ever).

Unfortunately, cat vaccines don't work at once in protecting against illness or disease.

That said, if you are a vet tech, interact with stray cats often, or work or volunteer in a shelter (then you're awesome), keeping your cat protected against FVRCP is still recommended.

Learning to work with, rather than against, your cat's predisposition is the answer.

From the time I was five - years - old, growing up in eastern Pennsylvania, I can recall many rescue attempts made for in - need rabbits, birds, mice, squirrels, cats and dogs, which led me to early volunteer work with various wildlife rehabilitation organizations (I was vaccinated against the rabies virus by twenty - years - old!).

More than any other work, the «Wisconsin Study» (which is actually a series of articles, the first being published in 1993 [2]-RRB- has been used as «evidence» against advocates for free - roaming cats in general, and TNR in particular.

These two ever so manly men are working are working against one another which results in a game of cat and mouse that is tiresomely predictable, and sadly, not the worst thing about the campaign.

In Tomoko Nagai's works, various motifs including animals such as bears, cats, and horses; young girls and imaginary figures; and trees and mushrooms are scattered against backgrounds of forest or rooms which look precisely as if they were theater sets.

The critic Leo Steinberg described this effect in a famous line about Mitchell's work: «the artist's stroke — like a cat's paw on a truant mouse — descends again to score triumphantly for the willed act as against chance effect» (L. Steinberg, quoted in P. Albers, ibid., 2011, p. 239).

Plus, he's basically a scaredy - cat, who sees hobgoblins, bogeymen and (yes) even zombies around every corner, all working against his vision of a socially just world.