Whois & Analysis for hillspet.com

Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc, marketed simply as "Hills" is an American company, a large scale producer of pet nutrition, e.g. dog and cat foods.

The company is a subsidiary of Colgate-Palmolive.

Cat food is food for consumption by cats.

Cats have requirements for their specific dietary nutrients.

Certain nutrients, including many vitamins and amino acids, are degraded by the temperatures, pressures and chemical treatments used during manufacture, and hence must be added after manufacture to avoid nutritional deficiency.

The amino acid taurine, for example, which is found within meat, is degraded during processing, so synthetic taurine is normally added afterwards.

Long-term taurine deficiency may result in retinal degeneration, loss of vision, and cardiac arrest.

The domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris or Canis familiaris) is a member of genus Canis (canines) that forms part of the wolf-like canids, and is the most widely abundant carnivore.

The dog and the extant gray wolf are sister taxa, with modern wolves not closely related to the wolves that were first domesticated.

The dog was the first domesticated species and has been selectively bred over millennia for various behaviors, sensory capabilities, and physical attributes.

A breed is a specific group of domestic animals having appearance (phenotype), homogeneous behavior, and/or other characteristics that distinguish it from other organisms of the same species.

Breeds are formed through genetic isolation and either natural adaptation to the environment or selective breeding, or a combination of the two.

Despite the centrality of the idea of "breeds" to animal husbandry and agriculture, no single, scientifically accepted definition of the term exists.

A breed is therefore not an objective or biologically verifiable classification but is instead a term of art amongst groups of breeders who share a consensus around what qualities make some members of a given species members of a nameable subset.

Adenosine monophosphate (AMP), also known as 5'-adenylic acid, is a nucleotide that is used as a monomer in RNA.

It is an ester of phosphoric acid and the nucleoside adenosine, which does not have the typical high energy bond of the so called adenosine monophosphate ("AMP") that arises on the hydrolysis of ATP.

AMP consists of a phosphate group, the sugar ribose, and the nucleobase adenine.

As a substituent it takes the form of the prefix adenylyl-.