I brought it home when it was less than two months old, and now it’s just over one year old. That tiny, wobbly – walking little furball that needed to be bottle – fed has grown into a healthy, lively, naughty, cute, and incredibly clingy dog.
Here’s a recent photo.
It’s sticking to my boyfriend’s stomach, staring intently.
First of all:
I don’t recommend making an impulsive decision to raise a pet just because you see cute animals online or at other people’s homes without any experience and sufficient preparation. This applies to kittens, puppies, small parrots, rabbits, squirrels, and so on.
Small animals are indeed adorable, but while enjoying the happiness they bring, you also need to make a lot of efforts.
Take dogs as an example:
In terms of money, you just need to do what you can afford. Whether it’s a frugal or a luxurious way of raising, as long as you can ensure the health of your furry friends, it’s fine.
You need to have a certain reserve of theoretical knowledge. Things like feeding, immunization, diseases, sterilization, how to hold a dog, potty – training, socialization training, bathing and grooming, etc., all need to be learned.
Time is also a crucial factor. Do you often need to go on business trips? How will you arrange for your dog during holidays? Can you insist on walking your dog several times a day (if not, how to meet your dog’s exercise and excretion needs)? Can you send your dog to the hospital in time if it gets sick (and can you accompany it if it needs to be hospitalized)?
You also need to consider whether your living environment’s hardware conditions are suitable. Situations like too small a space, living in a shared apartment, and having to move frequently should be carefully considered.
Most dogs, or except for curly – haired ones, shed hair almost all year round. Dog hair can be found on the floor, in the air, on clothes, sofas, beds, water cups (and sometimes even in the food bowl). Can you accept this and how will you clean it?
Do you have enough patience? If your dog has problems like urinating and defecating everywhere, destroying things, or separation anxiety, can you guide it correctly?
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After considering these aspects and believing that you can handle them, then it’s beneficial for both you and the dog to start raising one.
Back to the main topic.
Background:
I’ve loved small animals since I was a child. Thanks to my parents, I had a dog to accompany me since junior high school. After graduating and starting to work, I couldn’t go home often and always wanted to have a dog of my own. At the end of the year before last, with my work and life becoming more stable, I searched all over the street to find a Chinese rural puppy to raise, but for some reason, I just couldn’t find one.
Purchase:
After the Spring Festival last year, I really didn’t want to wait any longer. After some research, my boyfriend and I went to the dog market and brought back a white little ball. (I can’t help but interject that the dog market is really full of tricks and the experience is really bad. I really don’t recommend buying dogs from the dog market. It’s best to get one from a friend or a reliable seller who raises puppies at home. If any friends want to hear about my experience of buying a dog from the dog market, I can talk about it in detail later.)
Because I had done my homework before, a three – month – old puppy is easier to raise. If it’s too young and doesn’t get antibodies from its mother’s milk, it’s likely to die. At the dog market, the little ball caught my eye immediately and was very lively, but it was small – sized and only had two tiny teeth. Seeing our hesitation, the seller patted his chest and said it was definitely three months old, and the reason it didn’t have more teeth was due to calcium deficiency. He said that giving it some gluconate zinc at home would solve the problem. At that time, I was really naive. Although I didn’t hear of this statement during my research, seeing the seller’s “sincerity” and my own strong liking for the little ball, I gave in.
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