Last month I decided to purchase another standard poodle to add more color variations to what I already had. My first thought, after praying about it for several days, was to find a black and white parti colored puppy. Essentially what that means is the dog will be black and white with no particular markings.
I went on a puppy-find type of website to see if I could locate a breeder that didn’t vaccinate or use chemical dewormers on their dogs. I wasn’t in a hurry, so I was willing to wait until their next litter, if I had to, in order to get a puppy without vaccines or dewormer damage. After looking for three hours, through 61 pages of standard poodles, I had picked out twelve possibilities. Unfortunately, all of them had been vaccinated and dewormed, but with homeopathy I knew I could support their body in reversing most of the damage from those.
I decided to send a quick email to each of the twelve breeders that looked like a possibility, asking if they would consider selling a puppy to me from their next litter before they did any vaccines or dewormers on them. Then I went to bed while waiting their responses.
The next day I went on my email not knowing for sure what to expect, but hoped I would get some responses from the email inquiries. I got a number of interesting responses. Some of them said they would never sell a puppy without vaccines and deworming…no thank you…I didn’t want those.
One said the vaccines were required by law – which they are not. Only the rabies vaccine is state mandated, and never for puppies. One man asked why I would want to “endanger my new puppy” by not having it vaccinated- it was obvious he hadn’t read any studies, so I didn’t want one of his puppies!
One breeder said that although she did always vaccinate and deworm her dogs, she was curious about why I didn’t, and that if I did something different from the vaccines because she would be curious about what it was. We had a nice back-and-forth conversation, and she told me she had friends who also wouldn’t use vaccines on their dogs.
One other gentleman said that although he used these things on his dogs, he was willing to let me purchase one before any was given to it. He said he was old enough to remember a time when nobody did the vaccines or dewormer chemicals, and the dogs did just fine. In fact, they didn’t get the diseases that dogs so commonly get now. Finally, someone with commonsense!
Then there was the lady with a Tuxedo marked puppy, a pretty dog, that had minimal vaccines, didn’t dock tails or remove dew claws. I was elated! In addition to that, she did not vaccinate her adult dogs after their first puppy shots, and fed them only raw meat. This told me the sire and dam of the puppies would be healthier then the other breeders’ sires and dams. This was the breeder I wanted, she was the best I hoped to find.
Two weeks later, I had a puppy on its way. I knew I would have to address dewormer and vaccine damages, but a raw meat diet goes a long way to ensure the health and healing potential of a dog who has been exposed to these toxins, so my hopes were high.
My new puppy was picked up by, ironically, one of my puppy customers, who was on her way to my house to pick up the puppy she had purchased from me. She happened to live just minutes away from the tuxedo puppy’s breeder. She picked her up for me, then drove ten hours to my house to deliver her and pick up one of my puppies. When she arrived she told me she wasn’t fond of my new tuxedo puppy because her hind legs were somewhat bowed, and her personality was stand-offish, rather then cuddly or attentive as it should be for a puppy her age. She was right, and that told me what we were going to work on first.
I noted right away that this new puppy was also a good ten pounds lighter then my puppies of the same age, and the texture of her hair was unhealthy. Puppies store extra nutrients in their hair until about 3 ½ months of age, so this was a good indication about the diet of the puppy up to that point. I could tell she had great potential, but it was going to take some good nutritional support.
I immediately put her on an organic raw meat diet, and gave her a dose of Calc carb homeopathic for bone support. For her moodiness, she got the herb dandelion to support her liver, and a homeopathic to address parvo-distemper vaccine damage. These two vaccines I have learned are a common cause of liver stress (moodiness) and a dog’s dislike of other dogs and people. She certainly appeared to have this issue with people and children.
It’s been six weeks now, since our little Tuxedo standard poodle arrived, and she is no longer bow legged at all, she plays hard with the other dogs, likes to be held, cuddled and now licks my face. She also adores my grandchildren. We are thrilled with the very big improvements we have seen for this little one!