How To Use Domestic cat In A Sentence
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Bengals, because they have pelts and not coats like domestic cats, shed very little, and cause less allergic reactions.
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Common around outlying human settlements, the bobcat will sometimes take small farm animals including domestic cats if easily accessible.
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Interbreeding with domestic cats has made it difficult to know whether conservation would protect the wildcat or a crossbreed.
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As indeed is the lion, the otter or the domestic cat when they are out a-hunting.
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This snake-mimicry is employed by many species, from the familiar domestic cat to less familiar finches.
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Because it is similar in taste and texture to domestic catfish, the pangasius has aroused the ire of American catfish farmers who have persuaded Congress to erect stiff nontariff barriers to pangasius imports.
Fishing For Trade
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Their coloration is similar to that of a tabby domestic cat and makes them difficult to see in their forested habitats.
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This is borne out by him in his famous book on Otters, Ring of Bright Water where he writes, ‘They bear as much relation to a domestic cat as a wolf does to a terrier and they are reputedly untameable.’
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This short gestation means that, like the kittens of a domestic cat, the cubs are born blind and helpless.
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The cross-breeding of domestic cats with more exotic species is not new.
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Unfortunately, because of the threat from human beings and domestic cattle, the barasingha migrated from Kanha.
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As indeed is the lion, the otter or the domestic cat when they are out a-hunting.
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Their diseases were then passed on to domestic cattle with catastrophic effect.
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The list contains red kites, golden eagles, ospreys, goshawks and even domestic cats.
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People, domestic cattle and wildlife all share the land.
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Further inquiry made it apparent that the real enemy of these birds was the feralized domestic cat which has gone wild from the households, especially from the many homesteads that have been abandoned.
Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization
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Kellas cats, only discovered in 1984, are introgressive domestic cat x wildcat hybrids that appear to be evolving their own unique behaviour and morphology and, by inference, into a new species (Shuker 1990).
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In fact, house rabbits are in vogue all over the world, ranking in ‘pet’ value along with domestic cats and dogs.
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These are the seven most important sound messages made by domestic cats.
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In addition to deer, chital and wild boar, domestic cattle are now an important item on the tiger's menu in several areas.
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This germ is often acquired before birth, but is sometimes passed on by domestic cats or acquired by eating undercooked meat from infected animals.
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Domestic cats are highly valued as pets and as working animals throughout the world.
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It was half the size of a domestic cat and probably hunted and ate whatever it could for its size, " said Nick Longrich, a palaeontologist at the University of Calgary, who led the expedition.
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It is a fact that the single most devastating killer of small birds is the domestic cat.
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And whereas other domesticates, like dogs, look quite distinct from their wild ancestors, the average domestic cat largely retains the wild body plan.
Hard wired to the past | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
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Scottish wildcats have dwindled in recent years due to loss of habitat and cross-breeding with domestic cats.
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As I prepared to write this review, I learned Manxes are domestic cats with no tails bred on the Isle of Man.
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Currently there are four handmade spotted domestic cats: the Bengal, the California spangle cat, the ocicat, and the Savannah.
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Domestic cats are thought to have descended from the African subspecies of the wildcat.
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These are special breeds created from domestic cattle and horses that are similar to aurochs and tarpans that once roamed in the wild in park-like forests and meadows.
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Precise numbers are unknown because of the cats' cryptic nature and difficulties caused by cross-breeding with domestic cats.
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Loss of beachfront habitat and predation by domestic cats and introduced red foxes pushed the least tern to the brink of extinction.
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It is now accepted that all humpless domestic cattle are of a single species, Bos taurus, and that they all descend ultimately from the aurochs, Bos primigenius.
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However, there are certain points of similarity between the Cheshire Puss and domestic cats that keep us on our toes: For example, cats do get angry and, when provoked, horripilate, that is, make their fur stand on end so they look bigger and more threatening.
The Cheshire cat
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Hunting the eland is a common pastime; and no craft is required to insure success, since these creatures are almost as tame as domestic cattle; so tame that the horseman usually rides into the middle of the drove, and, singling out the fattest bull, shoots him down without any difficulty.
Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
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Loss of beachfront habitat and predation by domestic cats and introduced red foxes pushed the least tern to the brink of extinction.
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This is borne out by him in his famous book on Otters, Ring of Bright Water where he writes, ‘They bear as much relation to a domestic cat as a wolf does to a terrier and they are reputedly untameable.’
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After all, they're treated in rather the same disgraceful way as domestic cats.
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Many small birds and rodents fall prey to the domestic cat.
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A zho or dzo is a hybrid of domestic cattle and which animal?
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She is a cross between a British short-haired and an ordinary domestic cat.
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These felines are hybrids first bred from crossing a wild small leopard cat of Asia with a domestic cat.
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No one knows for sure why a domestic cat purrs, but many people interpret the sound as one of contentment.
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The explanation is that the domestic cat uses two vocabularies at once.
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Some are raised even in areas where domestic cattle cannot survive because of afflictions such as trypanosomiasis and foot-and-mouth disease.
5 Chicken
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On a visit to a zoo in Delhi, India, in 1980, Mill spotted a feral, orange domestic cat with deep brown rosettes that lived in the rhinoceros compound and earned its keep as a ratter.
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Domestic cats may breed much more frequently, as often as 3 times a year, as they are not typically limited by nutrition or climate.
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There is a guy in Bedfordshire who has sold the world's most expensive cat - a cross breed between a domestic cat and a feral one.
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The wild ancestors of our domestic cats liked to eat freshly killed prey - they were not scavengers.
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Of the 15 cases following exposure to domestic cats with plague, 4 were primary pneumonic plague.
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Preyed upon by hawks, foxes, and weasels, they may also fall victim to domestic cats.
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It is declining because of interbreeding with domestic cats and exposure to disease.
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The predators included 13 raptors, ranging from great-horned owls to the American kestrel, and a domestic cat and a ferret.
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Now scientists are turning their attention to the genome of the domestic cat, and it is Cinnamon's turn to donate a blood sample.
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Nowadays, as a conservation measure, local councils have imposed curfews for domestic cats and begun impounding felines found wandering the streets at night.
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As with most small cat species, the diet of wild cats, or domestic cats, is mainly made up of small rodents, such as mice and rats.
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In other words, there's little evidence that the feline is anything more than a very large (feral?) domestic cat.
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A zho or dzo is a hybrid of domestic cattle and which animal?
Times, Sunday Times
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In addition to deer, chital and wild boar, domestic cattle are now an important item on the tiger's menu in several areas.
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Wild ancestors of domestic cattle, donkeys, pigs, dogs and domestic cats were native to North Africa, Southwest Asia and most probably India.
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Behaviourally, they are solitary hunters, which is probably one reason we see so many psychological problems in domestic cats.
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Wild ancestors of domestic cattle, donkeys, pigs, dogs and domestic cats were native to North Africa, Southwest Asia and most probably India.
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A local woman saw the animal, which she described as about five times the size of a domestic cat, among a flock of sheep.
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The opossum, colloquially known as a possum, is about the size of a domestic cat.
BBC - Ouch
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What does appal me is when overfed and bored domestic cats torture and kill birds for pleasure.
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One possible threat is bovine tuberculosis, a disease probably introduced to South Africa through domestic cattle brought in by European settlers at the end of the 18th century.
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Their diseases were then passed on to domestic cattle with catastrophic effect.
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