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The traders often hit their dogs, keeping them alive
with minimum effort and resources. I gave Puppy a
wonderful life, but by buying her it also meant that I
contributed to keeping the selling of the street trade
of dogs alive, which is wrong.

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how much they should give, what it does or what it
doesn’t to the animal!

As a comparison: a close Vietnamese friend
developed cancer and treatment in Vietnam was no
When Puppy was sick, the local Veterinarian visited longer possible. He weighed only 40 kg but when I
and gave my poor dog a “vitamin” injection which submitted his medical data from Vietnam to doctors
was far too big for such a small animal. A huge in Germany, UK, Italy and Australia I was told by
injection which you wouldn’t even give to an human each of them that the dose of treatment he received
adult! Since then, I have learned that most local in Vietnam was for a patient of more than 130 kg,
vets really only give a ‘cocktail of vitamins’ and and this dosage was destroying his body. A human,
other unknown medicines without actually knowing or a dog, should re