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Unique Blend

5/21/2018

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To the uninitiated a Bali Dog is at best nothing more than a mere nuisance.  At worst it’s a very unwelcome pest.  Of course these reactions are understandable. 

​Bali Dogs in their natural setting are not that attractive when their natural setting is overrun by tourists demanding a different setting.  In fact they can be completely ill mannered and annoying, especially around unnaturally occurring tourist areas.  One of the reasons why Bali Dogs have become a rarity is down to their way of behaving.  Their way of hanging around the perimeter of human gatherings has a way of unnerving people who are unfamiliar with the motivation behind such behaviour. 

Thankfully there are untold areas where the Bali Dog is not regarded as an unwelcome.  In locations numbering in the thousands they can be found guarding compounds in back street village locations, mingling with local people at early morning markets, following rice farmers to and from work, sitting with their human families in the coolness of dusk and attending ceremonies of every occasion.

They are still there in the multi-layers of Bali life.  Not hidden away or shunned, not unwanted or maligned.  Like a life between lives they move as if nothing has changed for thousands of years.  Thankfully in the shadows, in the backdrop and beyond the scenes of unrecognizable change, very little has moved for them and their human companions.

​Very little from what has always been to what will inevitably come.
                    
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margaret
5/22/2018 05:07:34 am

May the Bali dog continue to live forever, even if they are global travellers

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