Sentences with phrase «works for rodents»

What works for rodents, de Grey hopes, will someday work for humans.

Not exact matches

«This saved us money, makes rooms that are easy to clean, makes rooms for us that are easier to keep rodent and vermin free, and rooms that will be better, cleaner, brighter and safer for our families,» she said, apparently getting him to commit to financing the same work at other WIN facilities.

This isn't the highest coverage so it may not be a whole - house solution, but could work well for a basement or garage with a few more rodents or insects than you're comfortable with!

These devices repel rodents and insects, and work well for mild annoyances like that squirrel trying to move into your attic!

The oldest studied rodent fauna in this work, which inhabited the Iberian Peninsula from twelve million years ago, progressively shifted north looking for humid environments to survive climate change that caused prominent dry and cold environments in central Iberia.

But for reasons unknown, it works: in 50 years of research on the rodents, none has ever spontaneously developed cancer.

«If we apply the same technique that works for 20 other species of rodent, for some reason that's not good enough for blind - mole - rat cells — they always die,» says Gorbunova.

Charged with finding a new remedy for malaria, scientists working for Mao Tse - tung and Chou En - lai decided to test Ge Hang's ancient wormwood recipe in mice infected with a malarial strain that is lethal in rodents.

Although the implications for childhood development and adult health have yet to be understood, this finding builds on similar work in rodents.

That preference works out nicely for the chili plants — because the seeds break down in the rodent gut, but not in the avian gut, birds are better at dispersing the seeds.

«The work clearly shows that, despite their size, small rodents play a much larger role in seed dispersal for some tree species than previously recognized,» says Joshua Plotkin, a population biologist at the University of Pennsylvania who mathematically models evolutionary and ecological questions.

Working toward a shared goal of «getting to zero» euthanasia for healthy and treatable animals, the El Cajon Animal Shelter is an open - admission shelter that houses stray or relinquished animals within its jurisdiction; dogs, cats, rabbits, reptiles, rodents, and birds are all up for adoption.

I worked at NIH from 1987 to 1997, starting as a rodent and rabbit colony veterinarian at the Veterinary Resources Branch of the National Center for Research and Resources.

While most other terriers, and Australian breeds for that matter, were working dogs, the Silky Terrier, while good at killing small rodents, was bred primarily for companionship.

Human lice treatments are far too strong for a small rodent and pet store treatments can be dangerous in their own right, causing seizures or simply not working.

Our spayed / neutered and vaccinated «working cats» are adopted for free for organic rodent control.

Like social cats, semi-feral working cats make good companions for other outdoor animals, but will likely spend more time hunting for rodents and less time with humans.

There are even programs in Washington, D.C., and Chicago that allow business owners to adopt and care for these cats, who go to work controlling rodents when they might once have been brought to the shelter and euthanized.

Our working cats, who aren't suited for indoor living, would love to spend their lives helping to control your warehouse, ranch, mill or barn's rodent and pest population.

Today the breed is used mostly for companionship but some working Airedale Terrier lines are used for police and military duty, search and rescue, guarding, hunting, tracking, and rodent control.

For the price of daily cat food, they will keep your out - buildings or barn rodent free while enjoying a working life outdoors.

Obviously, if you have a working farm and have a cat specifically for rodent control, the outdoor life is the only one that is workable.

The working cat adoption program aims to find adopters who are looking for natural rodent deterrents for enclosed properties such as barns, warehouses, churches, factories or other facilities.

Since graduation, I have worked in small animal practices caring for dogs, cats, hamsters, guinea pigs, rodents, and other small pets.

Derived from the Latin word for Terra, many working terriers were selectively bred to hunt vermin, large rodents and foxes by «going to ground» in their underground burrows and dens and forcing them out of their habitats where the hunters awaited them.

She is constantly working with her family's veterinarian to come up with new and innovative ways to love and care for the most often misunderstood rodent in the pet world.

The Working Cats program of Voice for the Animals, a Los Angeles - based animal advocacy and rescue group, has placed feral cats in a handful of police stations with rodent problems, just as the group placed cats in the rat - plagued downtown flower district several years ago — to great effect.

Wood has been the traditional material used to make chew toys for rodents and rabbits, and it works well.

For those that use an exercise wheel, which includes all the small rodents, chinchillas and hedgehogs, a wheel in the travel cage will help give them the opportunity to work out.

OCoP pairs people in Oakland (and beyond) who need eco-friendly rodent control with two or more feral cats looking for mousing work and a safe outdoor place to call home.