And he's housebroken.And he's housebroken house·bro·ken v. Past participle of housebreak. adj. 1. Trained to have excretory habits that are appropriate for indoor living: a fully housebroken dog. 2. Flea farming apparently isn't as simple as it sounds, soparasitologists at Cornell University Cornell University, mainly at Ithaca, N.Y.; with land-grant, state, and private support; coeducational; chartered 1865, opened 1868. It was named for Ezra Cornell, who donated $500,000 and a tract of land. With the help of state senator Andrew D. in Ithaca, N.Y., have developed an artificial dog to raise fleas in a closed environment where they can keep an eye on the pesky critters. A mongrel mongrel of mixed or uncertain breeding; said of dogs in particular but also used adjectivally to refer to any species. arrangement of tubing, sieves and glass jars, the "dog' carries its fleas near a plastic skin-like membrane, flooded on the other side by warmed blood circulating cir·cu·late v. cir·cu·lat·ed, cir·cu·lat·ing, cir·cu·lates v.intr. 1. To move in or flow through a circle or circuit: blood circulating through the body. 2. through the tubes. After feeding on the blood through the membrane, the contented fleas produce eggs, which fall through sieves and are collected. With several generations of fleas at hand, the scientists thus far have concluded that fleas actually prefer walking to hopping. |
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