Breeding Better Dogs 101...

Everything we are doing with dogs goes against mother nature. The hunt and prey drive we breed into them is unnatural. The dogs will run themselves to death or die latched onto a boar.
The kennels and small spaces they are raised in and live in is unatural.
The dog food we feed them is unatural and the good stuff is cooked out of it while we add stuff like cereals too it, preservatives, and other stuff. This alone taxes the immune system way beyond that of wild dogs yet we say we are gonna let mother nature take its couse. If we are not gonna feed the dog the nutrients it's digestive system was designed to function off of in the wild and then say we are gonna let nature take its course, we aren't really letting nature take its course. Your already starting the dog out with a taxed immunity making the dog at an increased risk of contracting illnesses it's body can't ward off like a well fed wild dogs immunity can. A wild dogs brain is stimulated daily through its life where as our dogs set in the pen for several days at a time and their entertainment and stimulation goes about as far as staring at flies. This adds stress to our dogs, lack of excercise, and so on. While genes play a part in the health of wild dogs, their diet is what I belive plays the most critical role.
What I'm saying is we are breeding dogs to do way more than their wild counterparts and giving them less to do it on. We breed into them a drive that doesn't switch off when they are in the feild, they work 100 times harder than the wild dogs but aren't in as good of physical shape as the wild dogs are. Our dogs aren't working to feed themselves. If so they would stop hunting after they caught the first pig. We have bred into them an unnatural desire and hunt drive that keeps going and going and going. Dogs will run themselves to death, run the pads off their feet, take lots of punishment from pigs, even hold till the death. This isn't natural in mother nature. The diet in which we feed them doesn't have what a dogs digestive system is designed to have no matter what the label tells you it has in it or how good they claim it is for your dog. We feed our dogs a sub par diet and expect them to go far above and beyond what nature's wild dogs do.
I subscribe to feeding a proper raw diet and excercise and stimulation and big pens to live in, run and play in, and live with other dogs in. I do what I can for their physical and mental health and do so in large part for healthier dogs and to put as much nature back into the dogs as I can. Going through all this, I will help my dog up when it's down. If it means giving antibiotics (which I hate) I will. I worm my dogs because of the unnatural environment they are in and because they are not products of wild nature and because I myself will go see a doctor now and then, my dogs are no more special than I am. I do my best to research treating things in my dogs and myself that don't involve anitibiotics. I research how to have naturally healthier dogs. Their diet is the first thing in this and this kinda natural diet can't be found in a bag or a can. I do my best to let mother nature take its course and work for my dogs by putting as much of mother nature into my dogs as I can
That's my take on the natural way. I like a little of both worlds.