Purebred

It was the morning before the sheep show. I could not stop thinking about how much I wanted my dad to be there to watch me show. My dad was never able to come to the Iowa State fair with me because he always had football practice. I have shown at the state fair for four years. It has never really bothered me that my dad was never able to come, I understood why. For some reason this year I really wanted him to be there. I knew that he wouldn’t be coming thought and that made my heart break. The…

TIBETAN TERRIER ORIGIN AND HISTORY The Tibetan terrier is a native of the “Lost Valley” of Tibet where it is considered a prized companion and luck bringer to those fortunate enough to possess them. The breed has been raised in Buddhist monasteries for over 2000 years and is considered the “Holy Dog of Tibet”. The lamas kept the dogs as watchdogs, companions and good luck charms. The dogs also did some herding and retrieved objects that fell down the mountain. The Tibetan terrier is not…

Animal Farm Essay “I think it's just greed and power at its very worst,’’ said Senator Mary Lundby. Imagine a society of animals that have rebelled against the humans and after gaining power, Napoleon turned into a dictator, and corrupted the land whereby Napoleon and Squealer changed laws and adapted to human traits. Napoleon is a selfish leader who uses military force to intimidate animals and maintain his power. Animal farm is basically about animals that work together to defeat…

teachings, when Mirabella was not deserting her wolfish ways and was still travelling on all fours, the girls “could barely believe it… the shame of it, that [they] used to locomote like that.” (241) However, the wolf girls could not understand the purebred human girls they met. Claudette wondered what it would be like to be “always homesick for a dimly sensed forest, the trees you’ve never seen.”…

Feline Immunodeficiency VirusThe Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) was first isolated from cats in 1986 and wasdiscovered due to an outbreak of FIV infected cats housed together in several pens (Pederson112). FIV belongs to the family Retroviridae, the subfamily Orthoretrovirinae, and the genusLentivirus (Taniwaki et al. 551-552). Being that FIV is a lentivirus, this means that it’s a “slowvirus” with long incubation periods that could last for years (CFHC). FIV is present worldwideand “in the…

Our results found that populations 1 and 2 had similar means for tail shaft color, throat color, and malar stripe (see Table 1); however, the standard deviation for tail color between population 1 and population 2 greatly differs from the ones found in throat color and malar stripe. For the two populations (populations 3 and 4) on the edge within the hybrid zone, the mean greatly differ for all three traits with an average drop of 1.83 between the two populations for each of the three traits…

It is a wise thing to note the presidents, just as kings, emperors, prime ministers, sultans and warlords, are humans. Lyndon B. Johnson was susceptible to fault as any other human being who’s ever risen to power. LBJ’s desire to be great was bolstered and hardened by the tragic circumstances in which he was brought into office. The fires in which his mettle was tested was a country in dire need of civil reform and a country terrified by the looming, or at least intimidating specter of global…

In the beginning of the 20th century, the human mind was much more inclined to search for scientific answers to society’s problems by perfecting the human race by applying the laws of genetic heredity. In 1883, Sir Francis Galton, a respected British scientist, first used the term Eugenics, “the study of all agencies under human control which can improve or impair the racial quality of future generations.” He believed that the human race could help direct its future by selectively breeding…

shelter in Florida removed all breed specifications from their kennels, and the adoption of Pitbull’s went up by 75 percent. Even more, Wynne and Gunter tested the accuracy of “shelters breeding assignments”, and found that “only 12 percent were purebreds or a straight mix of two breeds. …staff only correctly identified all the breeds in a dog’s makeup in just a 10th of their animals”. Interestingly, Wynne and Gunter also found that…

great and not terrible, solidly middle-of-the-pack” (page 242). Claudette says that “by Stage 3 I wanted her gone,” which shows that as Claudette and the others are progressing, Mirabella is not. During Stage 3, the wolf-girls meet with a group of purebred girls and when it states that “it made us nervous to meet new humans” it shows that the wolf-girls were worried about how they need to act with these other girls which proves that they are progressing, and that they actually care about what…