She came to the ARL from another shelter and it seems like she never had
much contact with other dogs.
Not exact matches
You would not have to give a small breed country house
dog that is never around
other dogs, the same variety of vaccines and preventatives that you would give a
dog that travels extensively to various provinces or goes to
dog shows or
dog parks where
contact with innumerable bacteria, viruses, parasites etc. is
much more likely.
Temperament isn't just something that is bred into a
dog, it is something that is taught, how a
dog is socialized, how
much contact with humans and
other animals it has, bio-sensoring.
There is nothing
much to say to conclude this short passage
other than, saying that both the
dog and his handler are on duty and you should avoid any
contact with them in order not to arouse any curiosity towards you.
But where Bentley will reside; how
much, if any,
contact he'll have
with humans and
other dogs; and how long his isolation might last are questions public health officials aren't answering — primarily because they don't have those answers.
If your
dogs are staying healthy without vaccines it is probably as
much because most the
other dogs they come in
contact with are vaccinated; if your
dog is never exposed through
contact with an infected
dog or its excretions you can't really know if it has high natural immunity or not.
My family always had female
dogs and we never were really concerned
with them reproducing because they had very limited
contact with other dogs in general, but we did it anyway because it made them so
much calmer and more easy to predict from a behavioral standpoint.
If your
dogs are staying healthy it is probably as
much because most the
other dogs they come in
contact with are vaccinated as anything else.