My family had a Chihuahua for 14 years before, but the Chihuahua was too old and died. After that, I raised a Border Collie…
This thing is completely different from raising a puppy. It can eat and poop. Basically, it can poop as many times as it goes out a day. Now it poops four times a day, in the morning, at noon, at night, and before going to bed.
It eats a lot. This thing depends on what kind of dog food is suitable for the dog. When I had Chihuahuas before, I felt that they were not so delicate and could eat any dog food. But the little bastard I have now will have diarrhea after eating certain dog food. I tried several kinds of dog food such as Pro Plan, Crave, Bernard Pure, Condado, NetEase Yanxuan, etc., and finally found one that would not cause diarrhea after eating it… In
addition, Border Collies are too naughty. Mine loves to eat socks, new socks, washed or unwashed, it eats them all. After eating them once, I have to go to the hospital for gastric lavage, which costs 500 yuan each time…
It also destroys the house… Cages are not useful for Border Collies. When it was young, I put it in a fence. I tied a piano leg to one side of the fence and stuck the other side to the wall. I then let it play in the empty space in the middle. Then this bastard learned to push the piano legs apart and sneak out… Later, when he grew up, the height of the fence could no longer control him, so I changed his cage, and then he learned to use the small feeding door under the cage to escape. He would push the buckle of the small feeding door by himself and sneak out… Who knows, there might be a surprise when you come home one day…
The red frame in the picture below is the imported P rope I bought for him, 270 yuan a piece, and he died three days after I bought it. I have already bitten three or four P ropes like this…
and he also steals food… As long as you don’t keep an eye on him, he can’t escape from any snacks he can get. When the epidemic was serious, I stocked up more than ten buckets of instant noodles. One time, when I was at work, it sneaked out and ate several buckets of instant noodles for me… Fortunately, the community was not closed later, otherwise I might have starved to death at home…
But to be honest, Border Collies are not picky about food. They eat whatever they are given. They can eat big white steamed buns and big white rice without any vegetable soup. They are easy to feed. Of course, the premise is that they don’t have diarrhea after eating…
Oh, yes, Border Collies also shed hair, and the hair shedding is very serious. My little Chihuahua can hardly feel that it is shedding, but the hair of Border Collies is really… It sheds once a year, and sheds for 365 days…
In addition, regarding the daily expenses you asked about.
In terms of dog food, I invested a lot at the beginning, because I tried many kinds of it, from the desire that cost thousands of yuan at the beginning, to the ProNer or Bernard Pure that cost five or six hundred yuan later, and it had diarrhea after eating these. Now it eats a kind of domestic dog food that costs about 200 yuan and ten kilograms, and it doesn’t have diarrhea with this. I won’t mention the name, each dog may be different. From this perspective, it actually helps me save money, hahahaha.
In addition, when it comes to bathing, I bathed it once a week when it was young. At that time, it was small in weight, and it cost more than 90 yuan each time. Later, someone told me that once a week was too frequent and it was not good for dogs. Now it has been changed to once every two weeks. In addition, because of the weight, it costs 120 yuan each time. If you sign up for membership at some pet stores, like the one I often go to, it has a 10% discount, so bathing it is about more than 200 yuan a month.
So in fact, as long as the dog does not get sick and is well taken care of on a daily basis, the cost of bathing it will not be too high after it grows up.
The main reason is that the expenses are high when the dog is young. When it was young, it couldn’t control its peeing, so it was necessary to prepare a urine pad in the house (which was actually not very useful). The amount of urine pads depends on the amount of feces and urine of the dog. The dozens of urine pads in the picture, which cost more than 100 yuan, were gone in two or three weeks
… In addition, when it was young, it would grind its teeth and chew the wall and table legs of the house I rented. When I checked out, I was deducted hundreds of dollars for wall repairs and table legs. Fuck…
Then if the dog is young, if some behaviors such as bursting, biting, jumping on people, and guarding food are not trained well, it may need to be sent to a dog school to learn. This is really a big deal… My dog was sent to school for four months because of his jumping on people and guarding food. I won’t talk about the price. You can probably find the average price online. It cost tens of thousands of yuan to learn for a few months, which is more expensive than my school.
So to sum up, it is not recommended for novices to raise Border Collies. But if you must keep one, as long as you can hold on until it is young, you won’t have to spend too much money when it grows up. In addition, you need to have enough time. Border Collies need a lot of exercise and they never have enough to play with every day.
Finally, let’s look at the dog. I have to say that dogs are cute when they are young, but they get uglier as they grow up…
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