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Dede

My friend and her husband had a very similar experience in Costa Rica about 4 months ago. They also were there on vacation. They've rescued and foster several dogs and remarked to me that the street dogs there looked so much healthier than the shelter dogs we see here in the US. I have no doubt that every creature is better off without vaccines and commercial pet foods. Nothing good comes from toxins, poisons and cells of other species being eaten or injected into the body.
All our pets have suffered vaccine damage. My family has decided that our next pack will come from a natural rearing breeder. God bless these wonderful people who are doing all they can to restore health to their chosen breeds.
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Will Falconer, DVM Moderator

Thanks for that perspective, Margaret. Certainly thought provoking, isn't it?
The dogs I saw there were certainly not in bad straits from what I could see, so I suspect there was a fair amount of selection at work: the strong, most adapted to street life thrived, while the weaker ones died off. That's how nature works, but that would be unacceptable to a large proportion of Westerners.
We in the West are far more attached to this species, much as we are to our own children. In India and most of the third world, they coexist in man's world, largely on their own but fairly dependent on man's scraps and waste to survive.

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