Sentences with phrase «years than larger breeds»

Notice, according to this chart, smaller breeds tend to mature faster in early years than larger breeds.

Not exact matches

The world's largest cockroach farm is breeding 6 billion adult cockroaches a year and using artificial intelligence to manage a colony larger than the world's human population — all for medicinal use.

Dredgers will this summer gouge a hole a kilometre wide in the middle of one of the North Sea's most important crab breeding sites, where researchers last year caught more than 8000 crabs — the largest haul ever taken in British waters.

As with other large dog breeds, the Great Dane breed experiences shorter - than - average lifespans and lives for roughly eight years.

Many vets recommend applying this premise by feeding large breed puppies puppy food only until 7 months of age, rather than 1 year of age, as most puppy food labels recommend.

Also, due to their large size, their lifespan is a bit shorter than other breeds at 7 - 10 years.

Most of the dogs she photographs are more than 15 years old, but LeVine says she makes exceptions for larger breeds, which often don't live as long.

These tiny dogs are thought to be 12 times more likely to have luxating patellas (MPL) than larger breeds; but they are often about three years old before their knees begin to lock up and owners become concerned.

Belgian Shepherds live about 13 or 14 years, which is longer than most other large breeds.

Bone Bone neoplasms are seen most often in large - breed dogs or dogs older than 7 years; they are rarely seen in cats.

The bill will not affect small breeders and hobby breeders who sell fewer than 50 dogs per year directly to the public, but is crafted to cover only large commercial breeding facilities.

Upgrade the current commercial dog breeder law, requiring larger enclosures that have solid flooring and are not stacked Require that commercial breeders provide basic care, including constant access to exercise areas, nutritious food and potable water, socialization with humans and other dogs, regular and proper veterinary care, and more Require those selling 15 or more dogs in Ohio each year, regardless of where they are located, to also adhere to Ohio's humane standards Hobby breeders (defined as breeders with fewer than 8 female breeding dogs) as well as animal shelters and rescue groups are exempt from coverage.

Unfortunately, this large breed has a particularly short lifespan of less than 10 years.

Although UKC registers more breeds, AKC is larger and has broader impact on the world of purebred dogs through its extensive network of education and legislative coordinators, free education program for students, contributions to canine health, administration of a microchip identification registry, and involvement in more than 15,000 dog shows, tests, and trials each year.

Would you believe me if I said that in the past 6 years I have adopted out more than 400 dogs and cats, 99 percent of them either adult cats — often very old cats — or large breed dogs, typically pitbull - type dogs?

It is as long as other large breeds (9 or 10 years) but still less than what the family will hope for.

Large and giant breed dogs greater than 5 years of age have a much higher risk factor than younger dogs.1

Large and giant breeds will reach their senior years much more quickly than smaller toy breeds (22).

In other words, you may love large breeds, such as Great Danes, but unfortunately, such big breeds typically live less than ten years, whereas smaller dogs, such as Fox Terriers, can live up to 14 years.

Most of the dog foods are not the best treats for puppies in their early ages, but this is specifically for larger breed puppies with less than 1 year of a lifetime.

Since 2006, that 287,000 per year puppy importation figure has more than doubled.The majority of dogs imported are puppies and small breeds that are far more acceptable to the general public than large dogs.

For more than 30 years, Best Friends has been working to end the killing by running innovative grassroots programs, supporting spay / neuter and trap - neuter - return (TNR) programs, promoting shelter adoptions, fighting puppy mills and breed - discriminatory laws, educating the public about animal issues, holding major adoption events, and conducting both large - and small - scale animal rescues.

The plates are expected to close at ages between 1 and 1 1/2 years with a breed as large as Labs (with larger dogs bones maturing later than smaller breeds) with 14 months being the generally accepted age for labs.

The Black Mouth Cur can live up to 16 years, which is much longer than average for a medium to large breed dog, who usually lives up to 12 or 13 years.

LARGE Breed puppies who are less than one year old (who will grow to be 60 lbs.

The AKC has «opposed more than 80 bills and proposals in the last five years that would have implemented common - sense, humane standards of care at large - scale breeding facilities.»

Bone neoplasms are seen most often in large - breed dogs or dogs older than 7 years; they are rarely seen in cats.

Puppies take a lot of time and effort; more than six litters per year, especially of large breeds or of breeds with large litters, are difficult to socialize and teach basic manners unless a breeder is home full - time or has a full - time kennel manager.

This is much more common than the congenital type of the disease — especially in mature animals between 3 and 10 years of age, depending on their breed (large and giant breed dogs tend to become physically «older» at a younger age than their smaller counterparts).

His decision to adopt a shelter dog to save his own life in fact saved two — his and that of a large mixed breed dog — and was more than two years in the making.

Large and giant breed dogs weighing more than 80 pounds can take up to two years to reach full maturity.

He will live, on average, twelve years, much longer than the average longevity of a large breed.

According to the American Kennel Club, small breeds are more popular than large breeds because most of the breeds registered each year are small breeds.

The dogs can be confined for years at a time, reduced to lives of constant breeding in dirty, stacked, wire - bottomed cages that are required to be only six inches larger than the dog on all sides, and with few, if any, opportunities to play, be walked, or receive basic grooming or veterinary care.

Check your pet's collars at least every week until it is full - grown (that can be more than a year for really large breeds of dog).

On average, dogs reach old age around seven to ten years old which depends on the breed and size of a dog — smaller dogs typically age slower than medium sized and larger dogs.