My family raised a Border Collie for the first time

My family raised a Border Collie for the first time.

There is an old man

and a child in the family. The old man was against raising a Border Collie, but the child and his father wanted to raise one. In the end, we raised one. The Border Collie is indeed energetic, but this is not the point. I feel that raising a Border Collie is like raising a child, which is too much of a test for a family.

First of all, the old man doesn’t like dogs. He opposed it from the beginning and hated the smell in the house. When the dog poops, we are very careful and try to keep the house clean every day, mopping the floor no less than 5 times. In the past, the old man in the family mopped the floor once in the morning, and we rarely took care of these housework at home. Now that we have a dog, I am afraid of being nagged, so the child’s father gets up at more than five o’clock every morning to clean up the dog’s urine and feces, because the puppy doesn’t poop at a fixed time and place at the beginning, and the house will be very messy. Now the old man has accepted that there is a dog in the house, but he still often says, send it away, send it away.

Then there is the child’s father. He said he likes dogs and wants to raise one, but raising this dog is like raising a second child at home. It is no exaggeration to say that there are many more conflicts because of this dog. Isn’t this the same as when we first raised a child? The child has grown up and the family is calm. Everyone should work on their careers and have fun. But there is a new member who needs to be taken care of, and a lot of time is occupied. The child’s father was really hardworking at the beginning. When the dog first came, he slept in the same room with the dog at night. When the dog barked at night, he kept coaxing it. Isn’t it like the state of being a father for the first time? But the good times didn’t last long. Not long after, he didn’t get up so early and couldn’t take care of the dog at night. He used to be quite active in cleaning and mopping the floor in the morning and evening. Later, I didn’t let him clean at night, and I cleaned it up after get off work. As a result, he was too lazy to get up early every morning. When he got up and saw the dog’s shit, he would complain about why I didn’t clean it up. Because of this, we have quarreled twice. The dog has been home for less than a month. In short, the novelty and enthusiasm have passed. It seems that I won’t take care of the dog if others can do it.

Then there is the child. It’s true that he likes dogs very much. Before raising a dog, I asked him: If you raise a dog, you have to help it clean up and feed it every day, and take it for a walk regardless of wind or rain. Can you do it? I can, I can… The dog has not been out yet, so I don’t know if he can do it, but he has never cleaned up the feces, after all, he is still young (6 and a half years old). Then, because of curiosity, he went to play with the dog and was bitten, so we happily received five rabies vaccines and two immunoglobulins.

Now my own feeling is that my family has more joy because of this dog, but there are also many sorrows.

I think it doesn’t matter what kind of dog you raise. The important thing is to know whether you or your family environment are ready to welcome a new life. Raising anything is not easy, nor is it difficult. It is just to understand that raising a life is actually a serious matter.