Saturday, October 22, 2005

What to Do, When Dog Attack You?

There some ruels for this case:
1) DO NOT RUN.
2) You must stand and do not move.
3)Do not look in to dog's eyes. They can understand this sign as an "attack invitation".
4) Do not laugh. This mean that you want him to see your teeth. And dog can understand it as if you wanted to seem more strongly than it.
5) Try to use some training commands, this can mess the dog.
6)Your voice must be calm and not loud.
7) If the dog attacking you, try to protect your neck.

Friday, October 07, 2005

Cloned cats has kitten!

8 kittens borned during last month! They feel good. Two wild cats has this kittens, but there is one father. On the 26 Of July Mudge borned 5 kittens and on the 2 of august Katie 2 more kittens. This cat are clones of the wild cat Nancy. This fact is very important, and has big value in the saving dying animals researches.

How Animals Return Home?

A large variety of animals has the ability to sense the geomagnetic field and utilize it as a source of directional
(compass) information. There are a lot of stories about how dogs, cats and other animals found a ways to go to return home. It is not known by which biophysical mechanism this magnetoreception is achieved. We investigate
the possibility that magnetoreception involves radical-pair processes that are governed by anisotropic hyperfine coupling
between (unpaired) electron and nuclear spins. We will show theoretically that fields of geomagnetic field strength and weaker
can produce significantly different reaction yields for different alignments of the radical pairs with the magnetic field. As a
model for a magnetic sensory organ we propose a system of radical pairs being 1) orientationally ordered in a molecular
substrate and 2) exhibiting changes in the reaction yields that affect the visual transduction pathway. We evaluate threedimensional
visual modulation patterns that can arise from the influence of the geomagnetic field on radical-pair systems. The
variations of these patterns with orientation and field strength can furnish the magnetic compass ability of birds with the same
characteristics as observed in behavioral experiments. We propose that the recently discovered photoreceptor cryptochrome
is part of the magnetoreception system and suggest further studies to prove or disprove this hypothesis.
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Thursday, October 06, 2005

COMMERCIAL PET FOODS - COULD THEY BE HARMING YOUR PETS?

Recent studies show that many commercial pet foods may contribute to pet disease because of their poor nutritional value. But, by reading and understanding the labels, you can decide what is best for your pet.
Did you know commercial pet food also can contain condemned parts of animals that are not fit for humans to eat? These foods may contain moldy or spoiled food that is full of carcinogens. Some pet commercial foods can contain dirt, rocks and even wood shavings.
And, just because the label says there are no preservatives, doesn¹t mean that its true. If the preservatives are in the food before the pet food manufacturer receives it, they can say it has no preservatives as long as they did not add it.
Try to avoid ingredients called BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) and BHT (butylated hydroxytolulene). These are both known to cause liver and kidney disease.
Also be aware of ingredients that have been listed more than once. For example, manufacturers can hide the fact that the main ingredient is sugar, if they ³split it² by calling it high fructose and also corn syrup.
The main thing is to make sure that the first four ingredients that are listed in your pets¹ food are meat products and not grains. Pets are carnivores and get their nutrition from meat. Most grains have little or no nutritional value and your cat or dog cannot digest them very well.
Following is some information about what the label says and what it really means:
IF THE LABEL SAYS:
Chicken and/or chicken by products; beef and meat by products
IT MEANS
It contains condemned and contaminated meat which is unfit for humans, and it is ground rendered parts of the carcasses, bones, necks, feet, undeveloped eggs, intestines, fat, water, hydrolyzed feathers, poultry and pig waste containing undigested plant material and bacteria
IF THE LABEL SAYS: Vegetable fiber
IT MEANS It contains corn husks and peanut shells
IF THE LABEL SAYS: Poultry digest
IT MEANS It contains material from chemical or enzymatic hydrolysis of poultry tissue
IF THE LABEL SAYS: High fructose, corn syrup or fructose,
IT MEANS It contains sugar
IF THE LABEL SAYS: Brewers rice
IT MEANS It contains polished rice sections discarded from human manufacturers for no nutritional value
IF THE LABEL SAYS: Ground yellow corn, corn grit, corn meal, cracked corn or corn germ meal

IT MEANS It contains the lowest nutritional variety of corn that is not digested well by dogs or cats and may cause allergic reactions
By carefully reading and understanding the labels, you can find out a lot about the food your pet is eating and he can live a longer healthier life.
Information are here

Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Boffins Create Zombie Dogs

SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years.
Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject's veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution.
The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity.
But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock.
Plans to test the technique on humans should be realised within a year, according to the Safar Centre.
However rather than sending people to sleep for years, then bringing them back to life to benefit from medical advances, the boffins would be happy to keep people in this state for just a few hours,
But even this should be enough to save lives such as battlefield casualties and victims of stabbings or gunshot wounds, who have suffered huge blood loss.
During the procedure blood is replaced with saline solution at a few degrees above zero. The dogs' body temperature drops to only 7C, compared with the usual 37C, inducing a state of hypothermia before death.
Although the animals are clinically dead, their tissues and organs are perfectly preserved.
Damaged blood vessels and tissues can then be repaired via surgery. The dogs are brought back to life by returning the blood to their bodies,giving them 100 per cent oxygen and applying electric shocks to restart their hearts.
Tests show they are perfectly normal, with no brain damage.
"The results are stunning. I think in 10 years we will be able to prevent death in a certain segment of those using this technology," said one US battlefield doctor.
Information is here

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Arabian Horse

Arabian horses are one of my favourite. They are amaizing!
The Arabian horse is debatably the most gorgeous of all horses. It is instantly recognizable in personality and appearance. The Arabian had been carefully bred for thousands of years and is the purest and oldest of all breeds. The influence of the Arabian's is obvious in the larger part of the world's equine population. It is the foundation of the Thoroughbred, which goes beyond the Arabian in size and speed but cannot measure up to it in terms of soundness and endurance.

There is evidence from art shows that a breed of horses of fixed Arabian type were in existence on the Arabian Peninsula around 2500 B.C. The Bedouin people can also trace close associations with these "desert horses". The exact beginning of the Arabian is not clear, although it can be traced back to 3000 B.C. to a foundation mare (Baz) and stallion (Hoshaba). Bax the tamer of wild horses, the great-great grandson of Noah, claims to have captured Baz in Yemen. In the seventh century the spread of the Arabian blood throughout the world can be credited to the Muslim conquests, which swept through Iberia into Christian Europe.
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