I was raised in the 70's on a large ranch with several dogs that never had a health issue and lived to ripe old ages. One was even bitten by a rattle snake on the neck and simply laid down for three days, swelled up to a football, then the swelling went down and was fine. That was good health to be able to overcome such a problem.
Same went for the family working on the ranch, no cancer or other problems.
But now we see pets with diabetes, cancer, allergies and every other human type condition plaguing our society today. Could we learn something from this?
The old farm dog lived in a natural environment, ran at least ten miles a day, ate raw food it could find from old meat to ...well I hate to say it, raw cow pies (manure).
The domestic dog today lives on carpet fibers made from petroleum synthetic fibers. Eats man made processed food and is lucky to exercise an hour a day.
Not a surprise that dog health is starting to be like our modern human health.
Natural is a buzz word but do we really even want to go back to natural. I watched a friends 21 year old daughter picking fruit off a tree and throwing away the fruit because it had a hole in it, so it had to be all bad...the truth is there was a larvae probably in there but cut it out and eat the good part.
The girl had a fit when I said that. But she wants to go organic and natural. Natural is dirty, not McDonalds boxed and shiny. Working in the yard makes us sweaty and dirty. This is what we naturally came from just a generation ago, but our lives are so homogenized, we are going to have to adjust if we are truly going to go back to healthy.
Getting out of the house with it's latex paint, carpet fibers and microwaved food could be just the thing you and your pet need to get back into an environment you were supposed to be in.
