During the early
years of the breed there was no official breed standard so any small terrier having a long, silky, blue - and - fawn coat with docked tail and trimmed ears was considered a Yorkshire Terrier.
Not exact matches
Michael — I appreciate your sincerity, and won't dispute that
there may be some accuracy contained in Genesis, but I can't get past the obvious inaccuracies one will read as well; e.g. all decedents from a single
breeding pair (a.k.a. Adam and Eve), the extreme ages listed
of 700 to 900
years old, just to list two.
After that you must know how to angle; in what part
of the water, how deep, at what time
of day, for what kind
of fish, in what weather; how many obstacles
there are to this kind
of fishing called angling, and especially what bait to use for each kind
of fish in every month
of the
year; also how to make your baits
breed, where you shall find them and how you shall keep them; and the most skilled art
of all, how to make your hooks,
of steel or
of osmund, some to be dubbed and some for the float and the ground bait.
On his 2,000 acres
there he has 250 head
of registered Beefmaster cattle, a
breed part Brahman, part Hereford, part shorthorn that originated in Texas some 50
years ago.
There's no doubt that the three - sport athlete, especially one who competes in the big three
of football, basketball and baseball (or track and field), has been a dying
breed for many
years.
Terns meet every
year on six artificial islands off the German coast to
breed, and
there should be advantages
of mating with the same partner every
year.
Why was
there a 35 -
year interval between Gregor Mendel's experiments on pea
breeding and the realisation
of their importance by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns?
«Brahmans are adapted to tropical climates and
there have been more than 300,000
years of separation between Bos indicus cattle such as Brahman and the Bos taurus cattle
breeds that are important to temperate production systems.»
(Ill - fitting because humans have been indirectly, and much less precisely, modifying plant and animal genomes for thousands
of years via selective
breeding, and evolution has been doing it for as long as
there has been life on Earth.)
All
of the owlets subsequently fledged and returned at normal rates to
breed in the following
year, indicating that
there were no long - term adverse effects
of eves - dropping on their sleeping brains.
While
there seem to be many young Greenland sharks around, Nielsen believes many
breeding - age sharks were harvested for oil around the time
of the second world war, and because
of the time it takes them to mature sexually, the population will be recovering for another 100
years.
But in recent
years, a new
breed of astronomers — stellar archaeologists — has realized
there's a way to understand them by looking close to home, within and around the Milky Way.
In the extreme,
there is
bred in our culture
of science a level
of entitlement to public financial support for research.When members
of Congress fail to pass funding increase upon funding increase,
year after
year, the scientific community reacts with disbelief and indignation.
«It's noteworthy that reintroduction
of wolves to the northern Rocky Mountains started just three
years before the southwestern reintroduction, and at last count
there were 106
breeding pairs in the north.
Hi
there, so here's a little info about me: I'm a single parent dad (yep you heard that right, we're a rare
breed)
of an adorable 6
year son who's means the world to me!
As discussed on Cloaking Inequity recently in the post Taylor v. Dewey: The 100 -
year Trickle - Down vs. Pedagogical Debate / Fight in Education Reform,
there is a
breed of educational policy leaders in the mold
of Arne Duncan and Michelle Rhee that prioritize entering urban school district administrative positions to execute educational
Special versions
of the Mustang are a mainstay
of the
breed, and
there were several produced during the 15 -
year Fox era.
A few
years later my parents, in a surprisingly bohemian move, relocated from the Milwaukee suburbs to a farm in central Wisconsin, and
there my mother had a chance to fulfill a lifelong dream
of hers, to
breed dogs.
For
years, online marketers have piqued our interest with free ebooks, but now
there is a new
breed of marketer who is so interested in your success that they are willing to give you free business books directly to your physical mailbox for only the price
of shipping.
Currently, when you review America's best
of breed companies from the perspective
of operating results, i.e., earnings power, you will discover that in the aggregate,
there are a large number
of businesses that have performed extremely well in calendar
year 2011.
Because
of this, they have been
bred in abundance over the
years, which has ultimately resulted in
there being more APBT's and subsequent mixes than
there are homes.
Over the past few
years there has been a lot
of talk about specific dog
breeds that are «hypoallergenic» and perfect for families with members who have pet allergies.
It is now over 10
years since the Kennel Club carried out its «Health Survey
of Pedigree
Breeds», the results being published at the beginning
of 2004, and it was felt that
there was a need to carry out an «updating survey» in order to monitor / determine the current health status.
There are some great networks but until we get the numbers
of unwanted animals down by more spaying and neutering and less
breeding of dogs and cats, etc. the need for a long - term facility that gives these animals a quality
of life similar to Best Friends is necessary unless more people can foster these animals because right now the reality is that some
of these dogs and cats are being fostered for
years because they have one or two issues that keep them from being attractive to being adopted.
For both male and female Rotties spayed or neutered before one
year of age,
there was a one in four lifetime risk for bone cancer, and the sterilized animals were significantly more likely to develop the disease than intact dogs
of the same
breed.
For
years there existed within this
breed two types
of coats; the long harsh haired coat and the long silky coat.
The Paternal Haplotype refers to a dog's deep ancestral lineage stretching back thousands
of years, before
there were any distinct
breeds of dog.
However,
there are certain dog
breeds known for excellent guard dog traits that come from
years of careful
breeding.
(For some
breeds,
there is the additional expense
of a professional groomer 8 - 9 times a
year.)
According the the CDC,
there is no one
breed of dog that is likely to bite — 25
breeds of dogs were involved with the bites reported last
year.
Appearing at around 3 to 4
years of age, Progressive Retinal Atrophy (PAR) is the most common eye condition for Papillons and many other dog
breeds out
there.
Meanwhile, as this excellent article by Craig Koshyknotes,
there are about 550 Weimaraner puppies born in Germany each
year — almost all
of them
bred by Weimaraner breeders who are hunters, and for hunting homes.
We all want to think our dogs are perfect; we don't want to be criticized by our peers; and admitting
there is epilepsy in your bloodlines could mean losing
years of your life spent in dogs if you have to stop
breeding your current dogs.
Due to good acceptance and demand
of Rottweiler,
there have been a lot
of new twists and variations to the
breed in the recent
years.
Jessie Smith claims the mother dogs will only be on the painful wire, locked away inside, for one week prior to giving birth and for the time it takes to wean their puppies — since the dogs in these facilities are
there for the sole purpose
of breeding, the mother dogs could spend half
of the
year facing conditions we all thought we abolished by pushing through the new dog laws.
With millions
of dogs and cats entering shelters each
year,
there's really no reason to be
breeding more dogs or cats at all.
Millions
of wonderful cats enter animal shelters each
year, but tragically, 71 percent are euthanized because
there are simply not enough homes for them.2 A wide variety
of cat
breeds, sizes, colors and personalities can be found at any animal shelter, which gives you a lot
of options to choose from.
There are more dogs and people then ever, but if you compared the rate of dog attacks today compared to 50 years ago, there are a smaller percentage of attacks.One thing you are ignorant to, is the fact that pit bull is not a breed, but a term for the description of a
There are more dogs and people then ever, but if you compared the rate
of dog attacks today compared to 50
years ago,
there are a smaller percentage of attacks.One thing you are ignorant to, is the fact that pit bull is not a breed, but a term for the description of a
there are a smaller percentage
of attacks.One thing you are ignorant to, is the fact that pit bull is not a
breed, but a term for the description
of a dog.
While it's thought that this
breed is hundreds
of years old,
there is no solid proof to back up this claim.
Results
of mandatory
breed - specific S / N in SF: success in San Francisco, where in just eight
years there was a 49 % decline in the number
of pit - bulls impounded, a 23 % decline in the number
of pit - bulls euthanized, and an 81 % decline in the number
of pit - bulls involved in fatal and disfiguring attacks.
Being family - friendly, fun and easy - going are just some
of the criteria that put certain
breeds in the top half
of the popularity poll and keep them
there year after
year.
Jenna, she is a
breed of pig who has been genetically modified to be obese -
there is really nothing anyone can do about that: - / those type
of pigs are not expected to live longer than 1,5
year.
There are no limits on the numbers
of dogs a commercial breeder can sell each
year or keep for
breeding.
One
of the longest living
breeds of dogs
there are, it isn't at all unusual for a Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier to live anywhere between 11
years and 15
years — with some living even quite a bit longer than that.
Due to the high volume
of puppies and kittens
bred in puppy mills each
year there is not much space left for them to stretch and get the exercise they need and deserve.
According to statistics from the Missouri Department
of Agriculture,
there are now 50,000 fewer
breeding dogs confined to a lifetime
of misery in a puppy mill, and over 300,000 fewer puppies being churned out every
year in Missouri mills.
Nevertheless, Mead concludes, «
there is no clear evidence
of cats threatening to harm the overall population level
of any particular species... Indeed, cats have been kept as pets for many
years and hundreds
of generations
of birds
breeding in suburban and rural areas have had to contend with their predatory intentions.»
Origins Although
there has been some discussion through the
years about the origin
of the Staffordshire Bull Terrier, authorities generally agree that the
breed can be traced back to the Mastiff - like dogs through the old Bulldog which, when crossed with British terriers, produced the first «Bull and Terriers.»
Another reason for not
breeding your mixed
breed is quite simply that
there are millions
of dogs dying in shelters every
year.
Breeding is recorded
year - round, but
there is evidence
of some seasonality with laying increasing from May and peaking in October, then declining to a minimum in February - April (Ashmole et al. 1994).