Whether zoos should keep animals confined is a hotly debated topic, with both the public and animal experts having varying opinions.
To avoid the risk of injury to you or the pet, try to keep animals calm during nail trimming sessions.
The set is a re-creation of a meeting place in a small South African village with high walls to keep animals out.
The zoo uses so-called hot wires -- or electrically charged cables -- as training tools to keep animals away from such areas as plant beds.
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My place can be anywhere, even the place where they keep the animals ...
To make snares, the poachers tear down the wire fences that keep wild animals away from cattle farms.
While many owners choose to keep the animals as pets, the fate of some dogs continues to cause concern.
If you have to keep the animals healthy with drugs, I would argue you need to re-examine the system.
Herders, some on foot and some on stocky Icelandic horses, surround the flock, yelling and gesturing to keep the animals in a bunch.
This obliges them to keep their animals out of the tall, dense thickets to avoid losing sight of them during the rapid summer migration.
Stories of big cats in the UK go back to the 1960s and 70s when it was legal and fashionable to keep exotic animals as pets.
The animals that live in Africa's big game parks have been targeted by poachers for a long time, but wildlife experts don't agree on how to keep those animals alive.
The NFU has also taken the unusual step of asking its members to keep their animals in farm buildings rather than out in fields to help contain the spread of the disease.
In his grazing school and in demonstrations, he asks farmers to keep their animals in a given area for only a few days, then move them to a section where the grass is eight inches tall and has reached its highest nutrient value.
Several other farmers are keen to take slurry to spread on their own fields, and ways to deal with worries over water pollution are being squared with the EA. As for animal welfare, Peter Willes, one of the dairies' co-owners, points out that it is in his own economic interests to keep his animals happy and productive.
This is a sore point with some health experts, who say that America needs a better way to keep track of its animals.
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The problem will be worsened by global warming affecting the population balance of animal predators such as owls, snakes, birds and bats, animals that keep insects and rodents in check.
The logical thing it seems would be to keep the locations of the animals secret and some scientists do choose to do this.
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Dogs are believed to be responsible for the deaths at Cockington Country Park and visitors have been asked to keep a lookout for any animals not under control.
The state historical society petitions for a skeleton staff of 16 to keep its artefacts secure and the animals on a rural property fed.
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The upshot is that the programme of culling that the government embarked on was probably more aggressive than it needed to be, and that a system of quick detection and isolation of unwell animals might have been sufficient to keep the disease in check.
The creatures have strong front claws and will defend themselves if they feel threatened but a Dangerous Wild Animals Act licence is not needed to keep a one as a pet.
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They act as grazers on the ocean floor (manatees are the only other animals that do this), helping keep a balance under the sea for other creatures to live and breed.
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Park visitors must keep a minimum distance of seven metres from the animals at all times, and visits are limited to one hour in the company of one of three habituated families.
Last month EU farm ministers approved a programme to destroy all older non-BSE tested cattle to keep them out of the food chain, affecting up to two million animals.
In the U.S., partly in response to complaints by animal-rights activists, handlers at slaughterhouses are supposed to keep pigs calm by moving them along in small groups, and the animals are required to be rendered unconscious and unable to feel pain before they are killed.
Since transgenic goats, for example, are living factories whose worth depends on their producing as much milk as possible, every measure is taken to keep them happy, healthy, well fed and sequestered from non-transgenic animals.
But Hazara farmers in Behsood say that the Kuchis' own animals are stripping grasses that the locals need to cut and dry to keep their sheep and goats alive during harsh highland winters.
The land will be grazed by commercial animals, including Norfolk Horn sheep and Suffolk red poll cattle, who'll keep the vegetation in check.
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"There's a few key issues that keep coming up and one is the issue of fallen stock, so how to deal with our dead animals and that's something that's quite expensive, so that's one of the areas I'm bringing to the executive on Thursday, " she said.
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