States, approximately 70-80 million dogs have homes. Despite the numbers sounding high, for every ten dogs born, only one of them will find a permanent home. Shelters are often overflowing with animals every year, mostly due to finding homeless animals on the streets. In America, of the 3.9 million dogs that enter shelters each year, 1.2 million of those dogs are euthanized due to lack of space, resources, and people willing to adopt. Each year 28 percent of the dogs in homes are obtained through purchase
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Ever since I can remember I’ve been asking my parents for a dog. Every christmas, every birthday, every chance I had, I would ask. The answer was invariably a no. Since I was a little girl, I dreamed about getting a dog: what breed, what I would name it and how I would spend my time with my new best friend. I tried everything from researching prices, looking at different shelters and showing my parents that I could be responsible for someone other than myself. It got to the point to where I had given
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Read each paragraph and choose the main idea. I have a dog named Boots. I taught him lots of tricks. When I tell him to, Boots will sit or lie down. He can also wave his paw to greet people. When I say, “Dance, Boots.”, he will stand up on two legs and walk. I don't know of many dogs that can do such amazing tricks. The main idea of this paragraph is: a. Boots is my dog. b. Boots can sit. c. Boots is very smart. d. Most dogs can't dance Yesterday was my birthday. When I woke
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purchasing a pet. It starts with a self-assessment on one’s life. Most of us have an idea of the type of pet that we want already be it a dog, a cat, or a bird, but before someone can even reach that stage, the prospective pet owner needs to look inward. Let’s say Joe wants a dog; specifically a Labrador. As a future pet owner, how much time does Joe have to care for a dog if he works 50 hours per week, golfs on the weekends and lives alone? What if Joe lives in a 400 square foot apartment in New York
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The changes in values and lifestyles may come from many sources: medical (smoking, healthy eating, exercise); science (global warming, going “green”); economic (people working longer, women in the workforce); cultural diversity (music preferences, foods, living accommodations, medicine); and technologies (Internet dating, biodegradable plastic) are just a FEW examples. Some changes in values and lifestyles will be important to the industry, but not to your business. For example, the current trend
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Mikey Warfield DE Comp II Ms. Casper Wolf Reintroduction In recent years the wolf has been forced onto the endangered species act from excessive poaching and extermination. In order to revive this species we must reintroduce it to its natural habitats including but not limited to Colorado. The last wolf in Colorado was believed to have been shot in 1943; seventy years excessively far too long to stand back and do nothing. I believe that a full wolf reintroduction to Colorado
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the usage of language that strikes a spark of interest, this is what television commercials try communicate to us. It could be a commercial about hunger displaying pictures of hungry children or animals that are in need of assistance with medical or food too. These touching images make us want to quickly open our wallets and donate or just makes us feel grateful for what we have. The big winners are during Super Bowl games. People are anxiously waiting just to watch those crazy Doritos or Sprite
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Our house pet “Princess” she is a very small dog or what other people might call a toy dog since they are so small and fragile. A house pet might be so simple but have so much to show to someone who doesn’t know very well. I’ve been observing our house pet “Princess” for quite a while now and I can say many habits or attitudes this dog has to show for it self really do make it seem different from other pets. Princess might seem like a very fragile dog that would like to be in ones arm and petted
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About six years ago, a neighborhood dog wondered up, hungry. Of course my grandmother fed her, and she kept coming back. We began to notice that she was very skittish. We found her owner and returned her to him every time she wondered up. But we noticed that she was not being Dog fed, she was having to stay outside on a chain with no shelter, and that she was getting abused every time she ran away. So my grandfather went to owner and asked if he could have her, and of course the owner said no. My
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The earliest known domestication of the canine The project I chose for my research paper was on the earliest known domestication of dogs and the divergence of their species from the grey wolf, which is believed to have been the first to be domesticated by early humans. In the research they sequenced the genomes of six canid individuals, which included three grey wolves as well as the Australian Dingo, Basenji, and the golden jackal. These three species were used to represent the broad regions of
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