...I believe a dog park in Muscantine, Iowa would be a good idea. Many people are dog owners, and when living in the city, it sometimes makes it difficult for dog owners to excercise their dogs in such limited space. Not only will it be beneficial to the dog, but the owner as well, as he or she will also be able to get excercise with their dog and will create a stronger bond with the person and the dog. A dog park will help a dog burn off energy. This way the dog will not be so bored at home and become destructive and start displaying unwelcoming behavior. Most of the time when bad behavior is displayed dogs are given up and it does not have to be this way. Dogs need to run, play, and socialize with other dogs, it's in their nature as a pack...
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...In my opinion, all large cities could benefit from a dog park. Most dogs require a lot of exercise, especially bigger dogs. Cities are very congested and do not provide large areas for dogs to run freely. Lack of exercise and attention can actually cause a dog to become aggresive and act out with bad behavior. Studies have shown that 65% of people who have brought their dog to an animal shelter blame it on bad behavior that could have been prevented. Some people say that dog parks are a bad idea because dogs bark loudy, and that disrupts their sleep. An easy fix to this, would be to set a time schedule on the dog park. for example, 8am-8pm would be a good time. Myself being one of the estimated 37% of americans who owns a dog, knows...
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...Dog parks are good for dogs and the community all in one. Many people will find making a decision for a dog park hard. Dog parks have both advantages and disadvantages, but I mostly agree with having a dog park. I agree with having a dog park for many reasons. First of all, If a dog doesn't learn how to get along with other dogs it may attack a strange thing or person. I surely think that everyone will not want to be attacked or their pet to be attacked by an dog. When New York City started allowing dogs off-leash in dog parks, dog bite reports dropped from 40,000 to fewer than 4,000 per year. Excercise and Socializing is important to a dogs mental and physical health. Second Of all, bad behavior caused by dogs being lonely...
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...Yes, I think Dog parks should be built in the cities.The first reason is because the city is in desperate need of a dog park. Exercise is important to dogs mental and physical health. Dogs need to be able to have fun by exercising at least twice a week.Most people walk there dogs around the park or their Neighborhood at least once a week. The second reason there should be dog parks in the cities is because dogs being lonely or poorly exercised is what causes bad behavior. Researchers reported that 65% of the owners who left their dogs at shelters blamed it on the dogs bad behavior. Instead of taking there dogs to a shelter they could have tried something else. Like for example training them more often taking them...
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...When asked to build a dog park, you have to consider many factors that take place. For instance, what percentage of the city's people want the park to be built, how much taxes will be raied to provide the park, ect. I believe the city should have its own dog park for many resons, one being its good for the dogs to socialize and make friends! According to the first passage, it says, "When New York City started allowing dogs off-leash in dog parks, dog-bite reports went from 40,000 to fewer than 4,000 a year.". This alone should be enough to tell you that dogs socializing with other dogs is very important for their mental health. Although this does sound fantastic for the dogs and the owners themselves, it could be potentially very...
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...I think a dog park benefits all because it helps in many ways. I had a few dogs in my lifetime. They have a lot of energy built up, egar to get outside. In this essay I will talk about, how healthy dogs can get, the characteristics, and how much better the doggs will feel. First, I will talk about is how healthy dogs can get by going to a park. Some people say that all that running around will not get the dog any where, but If you think about it the dog will get stronger by exercising his or her legs. By this I mean as long as the dog moving aroud constantly, I think the dog will get stronger over time. This is a reason why I think a dog park benefits all. Secondly, I will talk about the behavior the dogs will obtain after...
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...Is a dog park really a good idea? In this essay I will explain why I do not think a public dog park is a good idea. A dog park would cost us taxpayers even more money. Dogs are not always obediant and can be a problem for public saftey. The responsibility should be the dog owner problem for their dog getting excersice. I for one am not a wealthy person and do not have any extra money to pay for something I wont even use. Money is a necesity and I do not want to spend my hard earned money on a public dog park, that a lot of non-tax payers will probably be using, more than those of us that do pay for it. Many dogs are very hyper active and get excited way too easy. When dogs get overly excited they tend to unintentionaly nip or bite. Also...
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...economy. In fact the New Forest has more visitors per square kilometre than any other national park (7.5 visits/km2). Leisure and tourism is the world’s second largest industry in terms of income generated. In recent years there has been an explosion of tourism in the UK. This is due to: • Increase in personal incomes • Increase in leisure time • Paid holidays as part of employment contracts • Shorter working week • Earlier retirement • Increased mobility • Improved availability of information (especially through the internet) This fact sheet looks at the number of people who visit the New Forest and how they spend their time when they get here. For further information on how the New Forest National Park Authority aims to identify and manage both the positive and negative effects of the number of visitors and the level of recreation within the Park see the Tourism and Recreation: Managing the Impacts fact sheet. The following facts and figures come from a result of a number of surveys carried out by Tourism South East Research Services, September 2005. Volume and Value estimates The total visitor volumes using the New Forest Park is estimated at 13,555,400 visitor days (excluding business tourists and personal and social visits to friends and relatives). Total spending associated with leisure visits to the New Forest National Park is estimated at around £107.6 million. Taking into account ‘leakage’, it is estimated that spending...
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...In African National Parks, the rangers usually have their hands full with trying to keep the poachers out of the parks and saving the animals. But they get some help from a few dogs and a few soldiers. They are known as “tracker dogs.” These tracker dogs are specially trained to track down poachers and bring them to justice. It’s extraordinary actually, the dogs that are trained are Alsatians, also known as German Shepherds. Alsatians are used instead of the bloodhound dogs because the Alsatians can handle the heat better and can track for longer periods of time (Steyn). Tracker dogs are trained to track down poachers for longer than 8 hours at a time, even in extreme weather conditions such as heat and rain (Steyn). These dogs have had successful tracks where they would chase down poachers for more than 12 hours and still be right behind the...
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...On November 5, 2013 the voters of Corpus Christi voted against the bond proposal Destination Bayfront. After doing research for this paper and learning about the proposal I disagree with the election results. I think that Destination Bayfront is just what the city of Corpus Christi needs and feel that the benefits of Destination Bayfront out weigh the cons. Destination Bayfront was a proposed plan to dramatically up grade the thirty four acre area along the Corpus Christi Bayfront just south of the downtown area. The proposal included building a large park that would be sectioned off into nine different areas with lots of shade and parking. Some of the areas were to include a boarkwalk along the seawall, a play area for children, improved beach access to McGee Beach, large family areas, a dog park, an area for restaurants and shops, a great lawn for festivals and concerts, and a memorial park for the veterans of Corpus Christi. “You may have been an avid supporter; you may have been a vocal detractor. All things considered, one thing is for certain; Destination Bayfront looked to be a game changer for the Costal Bend” (QTD. Jimmy Willden, The Heart of Our City). The site where the Memorial Coliseum once stood had garnered a lot of attention over the years as both private and public ventures alike put bids for their vision of what this site could become. In the end, deed restrictions that were put...
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...Windshield Survey Assessment Paper Windshield Survey Assessment Paper Physical The city of Victorville began in 1962 and started off with a population of 8,000 that has grown to be a population of 121,000, and continues to grow (92392 Zip Code Population and Races, n.d.). The condition of the houses appear to be in mint condition with the exception of some homes in the area of El Evado and Pacoima that have lawns that are dead and full of weeds. The paint on these homes are chipped and not well kept. There are many apartments in Victorville that appear to look old on the outside, but each apartment building has been renovated to look more twenty first century. There aren't many abandoned houses in the city of Victorville but there abandoned vehicles in front of houses that have oxidized paint and dust covering them. The houses in the neighborhoods are very similar in their layout, the only difference each house has is the color of the paint on outside of the house. Some residents have also added on additions to their homes such as extra rooms or in ground pools, which have raised the equity in these homes. There is one abandoned building that stands out in Victorville and that is because it is in a shopping center that has flourishing businesses within that same parking lot that use to be an Albertsons. This building has been empty for a couple years and is located on Bear Valley and Amargosa. There is a large number of stray dogs in Victorville due to the faulty wooden...
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...one of the scientists, Marino. In Blackfish, she states, “The orca brain screams out intelligence awareness. We took this tremendous brain and put it in a magnetic resonance scanner. What we found is just astounding.” They found enlarged areas in the brain that are associated with high emotional capacity. SeaWorld, however, reports differently: “This is misleading. The most recent scientific research demonstrates that cetacean behaviors used to argue that high levels of intelligence are found commonly across mammals and vertebrates, and that cetacean intelligence is qualitatively no different than other vertebrates” (“Truth About Blackfish”...
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...that involves directly watching and coding behaviors.” (26) Naturalistic study is a general research strategy used by developmental scientists, “typically during childhood but also with impaired adults.”(27) Naturalistic studies are conducted in order to watch the behaviors of people, as they exist their natural environment, with no attempts at intervention from the investigator. There are no attempts of intervention so that the situation is not manipulated or controlled by the investigator, and so the situation is not initiated or created by the investigator. Naturalistic observations are useful as they allow the observation of behavior exactly as it occurs in the real world. Naturalistic studies are also useful as they can help to establish the external validity of the research findings. If behavior is seen to be present in real life, it’s easier to say that the results from the study extend to the general population and that the conclusions drawn from the sampling of behavior also describe people outside of the sample. It can also be useful for researchers to study situations and variables that cannot be manipulated in a lab due to ethical concerns. For example, while it would be unethical to study the effects of a school shooting by actually causing the event to occur, researchers can gather information by using naturalistic observation when it naturally occurs. The aim of this paper is to use the naturalistic study method to describe the observations of children ages 1.5...
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...however, these are the main issues, in my opinion that contribute to their endangerment. My paper will discuss further the conservation issues observed, as well as implications and resources being done to find recovery solutions. Possessing genetic variation is crucial for population survival. When there is low genetic diversity observed in species, it indicates that they are becoming threatened, which can stem from multiple reasoning’s. Having low variation in genes is a characterization seen with Hawaiian monk seals. They are the only marine mammal specie to have the lowest genetic diversity of just three polymorphic loci (Schultz et al., 2010). Having this feature puts them at high-risk of being inadaptable to environmental changes that can occur suddenly or over time. A hypothesis for is that their genetic variation became lost in different regions via selective sweeps from incoming diseases of the first human settlers and mammals that came alongside them (Schultz et al., 2010). For example, in the coastal settings, Watson et al. suggests that dogs that came on the island were a major factor in affecting the prehistoric marine mammal population because of their harassment, hunting, and diseases they could have possibly brought from whichever they originated (Watson et al, 2011). This is evident through an observer that came after the initial settlements in the 1820s of Hawai’i: “the wild dogs had almost exterminated the sheep that Vancouver had brought with the cattle, pursuing...
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...SPECIAL PROJECT PROPOSAL TITLE: OPPORTUNISTIC SAMPLING AS A TOOL FOR SURVEILLANCE OF PARASITIC DISEASES IN WILD ANIMALS; A CASE OF MIKUMI NATONAL PARK STUDENT NAME: KIBONA, Juma A REG. NUMBER: WLM/D/11/T/0057 A SPECIAL PROJECT PROPOSAL SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE BARCHELOR OF SCIENCE IN WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT FROM THE SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE, MOROGORO – TANZANIA SUPERVISOR: Prof. E.K. BATAMUZI 2013/2014 0 Table of Contents 1.0 INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................. 2 1.1 BACKGROUND OF INFORMATION ............................................................................................. 2 1.2 Statement of the Research Problem .................................................................................................... 4 1.3 OBJECTIVE ....................................................................................................................................... 6 1.3.0 General objective ............................................................................................................................. 6 1.3.1 Specific objectives ....................................................................................................................... 6 1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS................................................................................................................. 6 2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW...
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