curecaninedisease.com: Outreach & Community Kit
Both open questions are closed. Annette confirmed on 16 July 2026 that the shelter is Bone Voyage Dog Rescue in Ajijic, which she directed until 2024, and that the 4,000+ dogs flown to adopters in the US and Canada figure is hers to use. The [SHELTER NAME] placeholder is gone from every draft below.
Those two facts are the only shelter facts on this page. No intake rate, no parvo case count, no survival or mortality percentage, no staff or budget number, no dog count other than the confirmed 4,000+. If one ever shows up in these drafts, someone invented it. Check it against the real record before it goes in an email.
Going global? This page covers the close-to-home targets. The Worldwide Outreach Targets page covers the rest of the world: CPV and CDV researchers on six continents, the international veterinary federations, the global shelter and rescue networks, the veterinary press outside the US, two personal bilingual emails for the Spanish-speaking Tier 1 researchers (Murcia and La Plata), and four more templates (international associations, global rescue networks, press, and a Spanish and English pair for Latin America).
1. Four personal outreach emails
Each one is written for that specific person's actual research, not a template with a name swapped in. Subject lines are 6-9 words, bodies run about 150 to 200 words, and the ask is soft: take a look, and share it if it's useful to you or your students. Annette signs every one as a medical technologist organizing research, not a vet, and every one leads with the shelter she directed in Ajijic until 2024. That's the part that explains why the site exists and why her read on what shelter vets actually need is worth anything.
All four now carry the scale: Bone Voyage flew over 4,000 dogs to adopters in the US and Canada, and parvo still killed puppies who already had a family waiting. That's the difference between a woman with a website and someone who ran the problem. The two Guadalajara emails name Bone Voyage outright, because 40 minutes away the name means something. Sullivan and Decaro get the number without the name, because in Fort Collins and Bari the name means nothing and the number means everything.
The two emails going to Guadalajara appear in Spanish first and English underneath. That's one email to one person in two versions, not two targets. Send the Spanish, and keep the English below it if you want him to have both.
Pedroza-Roldán and Realpe-Quintero are co-authors on the same two papers, in the same department, and they will very likely compare notes. So their emails are deliberately built to survive sitting side by side on a desk: different subject lines, different openings, and a different question at the end. César gets the epidemiology, and the CPV-2c finding is named only in his. Mauricio's leads with the fact that his name is on both papers, asks about the maternal-antibody window instead, and says outright that she also wrote to César. Don't edit them back toward each other.
1. César Pedroza-Roldán, Universidad de Guadalajara (CUCBA)
One recipient, two versions of the same email. Spanish is the one to send.
EspañolAsunto: Un recurso sobre parvovirus, de su vecina de Ajijic
Hola César:
Me llamo Annette Thompson. Hasta 2024 dirigí Bone Voyage Dog Rescue, un albergue y refugio canino grande en Ajijic, a cuarenta minutos de Guadalajara. Volamos más de 4,000 perros a familias adoptivas en Estados Unidos y Canadá, y aun así el parvovirus nos ganaba cachorros que ya teníamos comprometidos: vacunación incompleta, en una ventana de anticuerpos maternos que nadie les explicó a sus dueños.
No soy veterinaria, soy tecnóloga médica. Así que lo que hice fue pasar los últimos meses leyendo y ordenando la investigación actual sobre parvovirus y moquillo en un solo lugar: 28 artículos de acceso abierto, síntesis de tratamiento en inglés y español, y un grafo de conocimiento interactivo. Está en curecaninedisease.com.
Su estudio de cinco años en Guadalajara, ese donde los 90 positivos resultaron todos CPV-2c sin un solo 2a ni 2b, está en la biblioteca, junto con el artículo de 2026 sobre citocinas. Me encantaría que le echara un ojo y, si le sirve a sus estudiantes o como referencia propia, que lo comparta. También agradecería que me dijera en qué me equivoqué. Prefiero que esté correcto a que esté bonito.
Gracias por el trabajo que hace en esto.
Annette Thompson
EnglishSubject: A parvo resource from your Ajijic neighbor, 40 minutes down the road
Hola César,
I'm Annette Thompson. Until 2024 I was the director of Bone Voyage Dog Rescue, a large dog shelter and rescue in Ajijic, close enough to Guadalajara that I watched the parvo problem from the intake floor rather than from a literature review. We flew over 4,000 dogs to adopters in the US and Canada, and parvo still took puppies we'd already committed to: incomplete vaccination in a maternal-antibody window nobody warned their owners about.
I'm not a vet, I'm a medical technologist, so what I've done is spend the last few months reading and organizing the current parvo and distemper research into one place: 28 open-access papers, treatment syntheses in English and Spanish, and an interactive knowledge graph. I built it at curecaninedisease.com.
Your five-year Guadalajara study, the one where all 90 positives typed as CPV-2c without a single 2a or 2b turning up, is in the library along with the 2026 cytokine paper. I'd love it if you took a look, and if it's useful for your students or your own reference, please pass it along. I'd also genuinely welcome you telling me what I've gotten wrong. I'd rather it be right than polished.
Gracias for the work you're doing on this.
Annette Thompson
2. Dr. Lauren Sullivan, Colorado State University (Fort Collins)
Subject: Built a home for the POPS protocol and the parvo research around it
Hi Dr. Sullivan,
I'm Annette Thompson, a medical technologist who splits time between Boulder and Ajijic, Mexico. Until 2024 I was the director of a large dog shelter and rescue there, and we flew over 4,000 dogs to adopters in the US and Canada, so a good number of the dogs your neighbors adopted came through my intake floor. That floor is where I learned what parvo does to a population of unvaccinated puppies and how fast the situation turns when hospitalization isn't on the table. It's what got me reading everything I could find on treatment, and CSU's outpatient work kept coming up as the protocol that actually changes outcomes for shelters that can't hospitalize every case.
I ended up organizing what I found into a free research hub, curecaninedisease.com: 28 open-access papers, a synthesis of current outpatient and inpatient treatment options, and an interactive knowledge graph connecting the research. The POPS protocol is central to the outpatient page.
I'd love your eyes on it, both to check I've represented the protocol accurately and in case it's a useful reference to point students or shelter partners toward. No agenda beyond wanting this information to actually reach the people treating these dogs.
Thank you for the work you've done on this, it's saved dogs I'll never know about.
Annette Thompson
3. Mauricio Realpe-Quintero, Universidad de Guadalajara (CUCBA)
To: [confirm current email via UdG CUCBA faculty directory]
One recipient, two versions of the same email. Spanish is the one to send.
EspañolAsunto: Sobre la ventana de anticuerpos maternos y las vacunas
Hola Mauricio:
Me llamo Annette Thompson. Hasta 2024 dirigí Bone Voyage Dog Rescue, un albergue y refugio canino grande en Ajijic. Volamos más de 4,000 perros a familias adoptivas en Estados Unidos y Canadá. Soy tecnóloga médica, no veterinaria.
Le escribo porque su nombre está en los dos artículos que más me sirvieron: el estudio de vigilancia de cinco años en Guadalajara y el de 2026 sobre desregulación de citocinas. Los dos están en la biblioteca del sitio que armé, curecaninedisease.com: 28 artículos de acceso abierto sobre parvovirus y moquillo canino, síntesis de tratamiento en inglés y español, y un grafo de conocimiento interactivo. Es gratuito, sin anuncios y sin contenido restringido.
A usted le escribo por el lado de las vacunas en particular. En el albergue, los cachorros que perdíamos casi siempre caían en el mismo hueco: todavía con anticuerpos maternos suficientes para bloquear la vacuna, pero ya no suficientes para protegerlos del virus. Ese hueco no es un problema de vigilancia, es un problema de vacuna, y es justo donde está su trabajo. Me interesa saber si la manera en que lo planteo en el sitio se sostiene, o si estoy simplificando algo que no se debe simplificar.
Para ser transparente: también le escribí a César, sobre el lado epidemiológico. No les estoy mandando el mismo correo a los dos, a cada uno le pregunto algo distinto.
Gracias por la investigación en sí.
Annette Thompson
EnglishSubject: On the maternal-antibody window and your vaccine work
Hola Mauricio,
I'm Annette Thompson. Until 2024 I directed Bone Voyage Dog Rescue, a large dog shelter and rescue in Ajijic. We flew over 4,000 dogs to adopters in the US and Canada. I'm a medical technologist, not a vet.
I'm writing because your name is on both of the papers I leaned on hardest: the five-year Guadalajara surveillance study and the 2026 cytokine dysregulation paper. Both are in the library at curecaninedisease.com, a free site I built: 28 open-access papers on canine parvovirus and distemper, treatment syntheses in English and Spanish, and an interactive knowledge graph. No ads, nothing gated.
The reason I'm writing to you specifically is the vaccine side. The puppies we lost at the shelter nearly all fell into the same hole: still carrying enough maternal antibody to block the vaccine, no longer carrying enough to stop the virus. That gap isn't a surveillance problem, it's a vaccine problem, and it's where your work sits. I'd like to know whether the way I've framed it on the site holds up, or whether I'm flattening something that shouldn't be flattened.
To be upfront: I also wrote to César, about the epidemiology side. I'm not sending the two of you the same email, I'm asking each of you something different.
Thank you for the research itself.
Annette Thompson
4. Nicola Decaro, Università degli Studi di Bari
Subject: A CPV research library built around your CPV-2c work
Dear Dr. Decaro,
My name is Annette Thompson. I'm a medical technologist, not a veterinarian, and until 2024 I directed a large dog shelter and rescue in Ajijic, Mexico, where CPV-2c is essentially the only circulating strain. We flew over 4,000 dogs to adopters in the US and Canada in those years, so I've seen what CPV-2c does to unvaccinated puppies from the receiving end of it rather than from a literature review.
That experience sent me into the literature, and your work discovering and characterizing CPV-2c came up constantly. I ended up organizing what I learned into a free, open, ad-free research hub at curecaninedisease.com: 28 open-access papers, treatment syntheses in English and Spanish, and an interactive knowledge graph of how the research connects, with a section specifically on CPV-2c's spread through Mexico.
I know your time is in enormously high demand, so I'll keep this simple: I'd be honored if you took a look, and if you ever spot something inaccurate or outdated, I'd welcome the correction. A note from you would mean a great deal to how seriously the site gets taken by other researchers.
With real respect for your work,
Annette Thompson
2. Org outreach templates (with merge fields)
These are for batches, one template per org type, not one-off personal notes. Fill the bracketed fields before sending each one. The two templates aimed at Spanish-speaking recipients (A and B) carry a Spanish version and an English version of the same email. Send the Spanish.
One bracket is worth a second look: [RECIPIENT SHELTER] in template C means the shelter Annette is writing to, not her own. Her own is named outright now, so there's nothing left to mix up.
A. Latin American veterinary school (shelter medicine / infectious disease program)
One recipient, two versions of the same email. Spanish is the one to send.
EspañolAsunto: Recurso gratuito sobre parvovirus y moquillo para estudiantes de [ESCUELA]
Hola [NOMBRE DEL CONTACTO / Departamento de Medicina Veterinaria]:
Me llamo Annette Thompson. Hasta 2024 dirigí Bone Voyage Dog Rescue, un albergue y refugio canino grande en Ajijic, Jalisco, así que vi de primera mano lo que la vacunación incompleta le hace a la población de cachorros callejeros. Soy tecnóloga médica, no veterinaria.
Construí un sitio gratuito y sin publicidad, curecaninedisease.com, que organiza 28 artículos de acceso abierto sobre parvovirus y moquillo canino en síntesis legibles, en inglés y en español, además de un grafo de conocimiento interactivo que muestra cómo se conecta la investigación. Dado el trabajo de [ESCUELA] en [PROGRAMA ESPECÍFICO, p. ej. medicina de albergues / enfermedades infecciosas / medicina interna de pequeñas especies], pensé que podría servir como lectura complementaria para estudiantes o residentes.
No tiene costo ni contenido restringido. Si les resulta útil, me daría gusto que lo agregaran a cualquier lista de recursos que mantengan para estudiantes, y agradecería cualquier corrección si algo está mal planteado. Con gusto respondo preguntas.
Gracias por su tiempo,
Annette Thompson
Subject: Free parvo/distemper research resource for [SCHOOL] students
Hello [CONTACT NAME / Department of Veterinary Medicine],
My name is Annette Thompson. Until 2024 I was the director of Bone Voyage Dog Rescue, a large dog shelter and rescue in Ajijic, Jalisco, so I watched what incomplete vaccination does to the stray puppy population firsthand. I'm a medical technologist, not a vet.
I've built a free, ad-free research hub, curecaninedisease.com, organizing 28 open-access papers on canine parvovirus and distemper into readable syntheses, in both English and Spanish, plus an interactive knowledge graph showing how the research connects. Given [SCHOOL]'s work in [SPECIFIC PROGRAM, e.g. shelter medicine / infectious disease / small-animal internal medicine], I thought it might be useful as supplementary reading for students or residents.
There's no cost and nothing gated. If it's helpful, I'd be glad to have it added to any resource list you keep for students, and I'd welcome any correction if something's off. Happy to answer questions.
Thank you for your time,
Annette Thompson
B. Mexican / Ajijic-area rescue
One recipient, two versions of the same email. Spanish is the one to send.
EspañolAsunto: Protocolo ambulatorio de parvo, gratuito, de una vecina en [AJIJIC/CHAPALA]
Hola equipo de [NOMBRE DEL RESCATE]:
Soy Annette Thompson. Hasta 2024 dirigí Bone Voyage Dog Rescue aquí en la ribera, así que no les voy a explicar lo que ya saben: los cachorros que llegan sin vacunar o vacunados a medias son los que se mueren, y casi nunca hay manera de hospitalizarlos.
Armé un sitio gratuito de investigación, curecaninedisease.com, que incluye una página de tratamiento ambulatorio hecha justo para cuando hospitalizar no es una opción real. Está en inglés y en español, sin costo y sin publicidad.
Si le sirve a su equipo o a su red de casas hogar, úsenlo y compártanlo con toda libertad. Si en algún momento quisieran una versión imprimible en español para adoptantes, díganme y con gusto la hago. Y si ven algo que no coincide con lo que están viendo en la calle, por favor díganmelo. Eso me importa más que cualquier otra cosa.
Gracias por lo que hacen,
Annette Thompson
Subject: Free outpatient parvo protocol resource, from a neighbor in [AJIJIC/CHAPALA]
Hola [RESCUE NAME] team,
I'm Annette Thompson. Until 2024 I directed Bone Voyage Dog Rescue here on the lakeshore, so I won't explain to you what you already know: the puppies who arrive unvaccinated or only partly vaccinated are the ones who die, and there's almost never a way to hospitalize them.
I put together a free research hub, curecaninedisease.com, that includes an outpatient treatment protocol page built specifically for situations where hospitalization isn't realistic, which I know is most days for a rescue like yours. It's in English and Spanish, no cost, no ads.
If it's useful for your team or your foster network, please use it and share it freely. If you'd ever want a printable Spanish-language handout version for adopters, let me know, I'm glad to make one. And if you see anything in it that doesn't match what you're seeing on the ground, please tell me, that matters more than anything else.
Gracias for the work you do,
Annette Thompson
C. US shelter / municipal animal control
Subject: A free CPV/distemper research library for [RECIPIENT SHELTER] staff
Hello [CONTACT NAME],
I'm Annette Thompson, a medical technologist based in [Boulder, Colorado]. Until 2024 I was the director of a large dog shelter and rescue in Ajijic, Mexico, so I've run parvo cases with the budget and the staffing you actually have rather than the ones the literature assumes. I built curecaninedisease.com, a free research hub on canine parvovirus and distemper: 28 open-access papers, plain-language treatment syntheses (including the CSU outpatient/POPS protocol), and an interactive knowledge graph.
I know shelter staff and techs are stretched thin and don't have time to chase down primary literature, because I was the person who didn't have time either. So I built this as a shortcut: current research organized in one place, free, no ads, nothing gated. It might be a useful reference for your medical team or a CE-adjacent resource for new staff.
If you think it's worth passing along internally, I'd be grateful, and if anyone on your team has feedback on what's missing, I'd love to hear it.
Thank you for the work you do,
Annette Thompson
D. Shelter-medicine academic program
Subject: Resource-list suggestion: a free parvo/distemper research hub
Hello [PROGRAM NAME] team,
My name is Annette Thompson. I'm a medical technologist, not a veterinarian, and until 2024 I directed a large dog shelter and rescue in Ajijic, Mexico. Shelter medicine was my job before it was my reading list, and the parvo toll on unvaccinated puppies there is what pushed me to spend the past several months organizing the current parvovirus and distemper research into a free public hub, curecaninedisease.com.
The site includes 28 open-access papers, treatment syntheses (including outpatient protocols) in English and Spanish, and an interactive knowledge graph. I built it to be a citable, sourced reference, not clinical advice, and every page links back to the original papers.
I'd be grateful if your program considered it for any student-facing or public resource list you maintain, and I'd welcome feedback from your faculty on where it could be more accurate or more useful.
Thank you,
Annette Thompson
3. Community seeding drafts
Rule for all of these, repeated from the strategy doc because it matters: never lead with the link. Answer the actual question first with real information. Only mention curecaninedisease.com when it's genuinely the fuller answer, and always disclose she built it.
These aren't emails, so the shelter credential works differently here. In a comment thread it's the thing that stops her reading as a random person with a website, so it goes in once, plainly, as the reason she knows the answer. It shouldn't be repeated in every post in a community.
r/AskVet (Reddit, general public asking working vets)
Self-promo risk: MEDIUM. Community rules restrict direct medical advice and are moderator-enforced; check the current sidebar/wiki before every post, several vet subreddits require flair or pre-approval for any link.Where it fits: a real outpatient-parvo or post-distemper-myoclonus question, answered with substance, link only if it adds real depth.
r/vettech (Reddit, working vet techs)
Self-promo risk: MEDIUM. Practitioner-only community, skeptical of outsiders; credibility comes from being useful repeatedly before ever mentioning a link.Where it fits: a thread on parvo isolation protocols, ward setup, or triage workload.
The two tests aren't answering the same question, which is the part worth being careful about. Virus isolation is asking whether there's infectious virus in the sample. PCR is asking whether there's viral DNA in the sample. DNA sticks around a long time past the point where a dog is likely putting out anything that can infect the next kennel. So a PCR-positive dog three weeks out isn't necessarily an infectious dog, and if you're clearing iso on PCR you can end up sitting on a kennel for a month over a signal that isn't telling you what you're asking it. The ~2 weeks post-recovery most of us already run on lands about right. It's the testing method that trips people up.
For context on why I've got this in my head: I'm not a vet, I'm a med tech, and I directed a dog rescue in Ajijic, Mexico until 2024. When you have one iso ward and a waiting list, a month of kennel time isn't an abstraction.
I keep the shedding papers collected in one place if anyone wants the primary sources, free and linked back to the originals. Happy to drop it if it's useful."
r/rescuedogs (Reddit, rescue operators and fosters)
Self-promo risk: LOW-MEDIUM. Less clinical, more operational; still verify current self-promo rule in the sidebar before posting, and don't post as a first action in the community.Where it fits: foster/rescue asking about parvo costs, vaccination timing, or a puppy exposure scare.
Relief Veterinarians (Facebook group)
Self-promo risk: LOW, if earned over weeks. Working-vet group covering shifts across many practices; be a known helpful presence first, one link mention per month at most.Where it fits: a relief vet asking about walking into an unfamiliar shelter's parvo caseload cold.
dvm360 (trade publication, guest contribution route)
Self-promo risk: N/A, this is a formal submission, not a community post. Author guidelines: 800-1,200 words preferred (1,800 max), Word-doc attachment, cover letter in the email body, full author credentials and affiliation, references cited, financial-disclosure statement required, submit to the dvm360 Associate Editorial Director. Annette should state plainly she's a medical technologist, not a DVM, and frame the piece as a research synthesis, not clinical guidance. Her author credentials line should name the Bone Voyage Dog Rescue directorship through 2024, since that's what makes a non-DVM byline defensible to an editor.Where it fits: a pitched short article, not a comment or post.
4. Target list
| Name | Type | Why it fits | Contact / submission point |
|---|---|---|---|
| César Pedroza-Roldán, UdG CUCBA | Individual researcher | Five-year CPV surveillance study in the Guadalajara metro, all 90 positives typed CPV-2c, 40 min from Ajijic | [email protected] |
| Dr. Lauren Sullivan, CSU Fort Collins | Individual researcher | Author of the outpatient/POPS protocol central to the site's treatment page | [email protected] |
| Mauricio Realpe-Quintero, UdG CUCBA | Individual researcher | Co-author on both Pedroza-Roldán CPV papers (2022 five-year study, 2026 cytokine study); own emphasis is vaccine development and One Health | UdG CUCBA faculty directory (confirm current email before sending) |
| Nicola Decaro, Università di Bari | Individual researcher | Discovered CPV-2c, most-cited CPV researcher globally, a reply is a major credibility win | [email protected] |
| UNAM / UdG / regional LatAm vet schools | Vet school (batch) | Spanish-language content already built, direct fit for shelter-medicine/infectious-disease coursework | Departmental contact form or faculty directory per school |
| Ajijic/Chapala-corridor rescues | Mexican rescue (batch) | Same geography as Annette's own parvo-death observations, immediate practical need for the outpatient protocol | Rescue Facebook pages / contact forms, found via local rescue directories |
| Boulder Humane Society, Larimer Humane Society | US shelter (batch) | Local to Annette's Colorado base, Larimer is 50 mi from CSU's POPS-protocol origin | Shelter medical-team contact form |
| Austin Pets Alive!, Pearland Parvo Recovery Center | Shelter-medicine program | Both run dedicated parvo ICU/recovery operations, exact practitioner audience for the outpatient content | Program contact page |
| r/AskVet, r/vettech, r/rescuedogs | Reddit community | Direct access to the exact question-askers the site's content answers | Subreddit sidebar/wiki for current self-promo rules before posting |
| Relief Veterinarians (Facebook) | Facebook community | Working vets covering varied caseloads, high exposure to shelter/rescue overflow cases | Facebook group, request to join |
| dvm360 | Trade publication | Reaches working vets who don't use Reddit/Facebook at all, backlink value for GEO/SEO | Author guidelines at dvm360.com, submit via Associate Editorial Director |
| ASV / ASPCApro / Best Friends Network | Association resource list | Publish curated resource lists rather than open feeds, right move is submitting the library for inclusion, not posting | Each org's "submit a resource" or contact page |
Nothing on this page has been sent, posted, or acted on. Every email and community draft above is written to be reviewed, edited in Annette's own words if she wants changes, and sent by her.
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