The prototype of the famous comic book character Snoopy is a beagle, and although Snoopy and Beagle are not quite similar in appearance and coat color, many real fans can recognize Snoopy's real body even if the whole body is Gaussian blur and mosaic.

The girl who just came in was obviously a big fan of Snoopy, and screamed in surprise as soon as she entered the door.

A little kid like Little Qian Qian hadn't read Snoopy's comics and anime at all, and he didn't know what the hell this big sister was shouting about, and he was still crying and trying to buy a beagle home.

Zhang Zi'an recognized that the new girl was the morning jogger who passed by the pet door in the morning in recent days, she was tall, wearing a sports smock and leggings, wearing a sports anti-smog mask that seemed to be very professional, covering most of her face, the hat was pressed to her forehead, and she was wearing protective glasses, basically she couldn't see what she looked like, and she could only see from her crooked eyes that she was a very kind girl.

She realized her gaffe and immediately bowed to everyone at a 45-degree angle to apologize, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I saw that Snoopy was so excited! I'm sorry for the trouble I caused you!"

Even if it's an exclamation, it's not enough to apologize, is it? It's not something to apologize for. Xiaoxue is already very polite, but this girl's etiquette seems to be a little too thoughtful, which makes everyone a little nervous.

"Uh...... It's okay, are you here to buy a pet?" Zhang Zi'an asked.

"Ah, yes, I want to see it, I like Snoopy!" she said, gesticulating, still bowing slightly as she spoke.

As the saying goes, it's not strange to have many people, but her etiquette is too much, which makes everyone feel very strange, ordinary people don't talk like this, so Zhang Zi'an asked tentatively: "Forgive me for taking the liberty of asking-where are you from?"

The sports girl took off her protective glasses and mask, and said apologetically, "When we first met, my name was Mai Suzuhara, and I was an international student from Fuso. When I was in Fuso, I listened to Mr. Wu Mingzhen's speech, and I knew that there was a very famous pet shop in Binhai City, and I wanted to come and see it. ”

Hey?

Zhang Zi'an and Xiaoxue were both surprised, it turned out to be an international student from Fusang, no wonder they hadn't seen her go for a morning run before.

"You speak Mandarin very well. He exclaimed, "I didn't even hear you were a foreigner." ”

"yes, Mandarin is so good!" Xiaoxue also chimed in.

"Thank you. Mai Suzuhara said respectfully.

"I'm Zhang Zi'an, the owner here, welcome. Actually, I want to ask...... I saw you running in the morning a few days ago, why didn't you come in until today?" Zhang Zi'an said.

She smiled and said, "Because I'm not sure if it's here, and I'm embarrassed to bother, I saw other customers in the store today, so I mustered up the courage to come in......"

Zhang Zian said that it was because you ran too early, how could there be guests so early?

What surprised him even more was that Suzuhara Mayi only learned about Qiyuan Pet Store through Wu Mingzhen's speech!

Wu Mingzhen is the president of the Changqiao City Pet Exchange Promotion Association who came to the store once before, and has a lot of pet knowledge, and has a lot of research on the ancient "Xiang Mao Sutra" and other works. Since that time, he and Zhang Zi'an have communicated online several times, asking for each other's benefits and gaining a lot.

When he left, he claimed to help Zhang Zi'an promote overseas, and even invited Zhang Zi'an to go overseas to carry out meetings, but Zhang Zi'an didn't take it too seriously, just as a polite, but didn't expect it to really attract foreign customers, and this girl is still an exchange student at Binhai University.

Qian Bowen's description of his family's previous dog aroused a big discussion among netizens in the live broadcast room, and even ignored the Fusang girl who had just come in.

"You shouldn't have a dog like him at all!"

"It's okay to have a dog, like a Samoyed or something, my Samoyed often doesn't bark from morning to night, and when I first bought it, I thought it was dumb......"

"Beagles do love to bark, my uncle used to raise a beagle, so that he thinks about life all day long - no blowing, no black, my grandfather was almost called out of heart disease!"

"Actually, I have a way to make the dog stop barking with a gadget!"

"What gadgets? Don't be appetizing, say it!"

"Do you know the electric shock collar? This thing is an artifact! After putting it on the dog, it can be used to adjust the intensity of the electric shock, and it can also be remotely controlled from hundreds of meters, so you don't need to leash when you go out to walk the dog......

"Is there such a god?"

"Don't lie to you, several dogs in our neighborhood use this thing, it's very useful!"

"I've also used the electric shock collar, the principle seems to be to induce the vocal cords to vibrate and discharge, not as godly as you say, it's somewhat useful......

Xiaoxue watched the discussion of netizens and asked curiously: "Mr. store manager, what is the electric shock collar? Everyone said that this thing can stop dogs from barking and biting, is it true?"

"What?"

Qian Bowen heard Xiaoxue's words, his heart moved, and he secretly thought that it would be good to have such a convenient thing, if it was really useful, even if it was more expensive, he would have to buy it back - if the dog barks again in the middle of the night, he doesn't need to get out of bed, he can press the remote control directly on the bed to shut up the dog, how convenient!

The beagle in his family, because of his barking, he was beaten, scolded, and hungry, and it was completely useless, but he barked even harder, and if the electric shock collar had an effect, it really solved a big problem.

"Don't! Snoopy is pitiful!" Suzuhara Maki stood in front of the display case in a panic, as if he was worried that Zhang Zi'an would really put an electric shock collar on the beagle.

With a sad look on her face, she repeated in a low voice, "Snoopy is pitiful...... Snoopy was pathetic......"

Zhang Zi'an saw that her expression was different, and noticed that she was not saying "the dog is pitiful", but specifically referring to "the beagle is very pitiful", did she have a beagle before? Or had she ever had a close contact with a beagle?

Qian Bowen interrupted his reverie and asked earnestly, "Store Manager Zhang, do you have an electric shock collar here?"

He was so annoyed by the barking of dogs that he was almost at the bottom of his patience, and suddenly heard of a seemingly home remedy solution, so he rushed to the doctor, as if he had grasped a life-saving straw.

Zhang Zi'an shook his head, comforted Suzuhara Mayi first, and said: "Don't worry, I don't have an electric shock collar here, and I won't put an electric shock collar on the dog in the store, this thing is an evil way, and a righteous gentleman like me disdain it." ”

Suzuhara Makai was relieved, and the netizens in the live broadcast room were heartbroken, and they couldn't bear to see this girl who didn't know the truth being deceived, and they called on Xiaoxue to tell her the nature of Zhang Zi'an's pretending to be a criminal, a fraudster, and a sexual harassment criminal.

Zhang Zi'an explained to Qian Bowen: "I've heard of electric shock collars, as for whether this thing can stop dogs from barking and biting...... Honestly, this varies from dog to dog and cannot be generalized. The shock collar may have some effect, but don't deify it too much, it is just a secondary training tool and should not be abused. Just like the netizen just said, go out to walk the dog without a leash, and when it runs away, you will call it electricity, this is abuse - you know, after you use it, it may have the opposite effect as expected, it may run away because of fear, or even run away, instead of running back. ”

Some netizens agreed: "I agree with the store manager's words, I don't agree to wear an electric shock collar for the dog, if you think it's fun to be electrified, you might as well go to Professor Yang to try it, and ensure that it is cool to fly!"

Zhang Zi'an pointed at Zhan Tian and said: "The real scientific training method is like the trainer of the police dog base training police dogs, with equal emphasis on grace and power, and clear rewards and punishments. ”

Qian Bowen smiled bitterly, "Store Manager Zhang, I don't want to be able to train a dog to be like a police dog, and I don't have that ability, as long as I can make it stop barking...... What's the best way to do it?"

"Of course there is. Didn't you just ask why the beagle in my shop, even if he didn't train it, barked so rarely?" Zhang Zi'an said.

This question has been bothering Qian Bowen since just now, why did he try to train his dog to no avail, but instead he loves to bark more than the dog in the pet store?

Xiaoxue and Weiwei listened intently, too.

Zhang Zi'an raised his chin and motioned for them to observe Xiao Qian Qian who was squatting on the ground.

"In fact, dogs are very similar to children - the more clingy dogs, the more they want their owners to pay more attention to it, and they can't wait to be with their owners 24 hours a day, playing with their owners, but this is obviously unrealistic, we have to work, study, and do housework, and it is impossible to accompany the dog 24 hours a day, and there is a gap with the expectations of the dog. The dog doesn't understand this, it just wants its owner to be with it more, so how can it get the attention of its owner? ”

Qian Bowen, Xiaoxue, and Weiwei seemed to understand something, but they didn't fully understand.

Zhang Zi'an continued: "Except for a few dogs, most of them are very intelligent, and when they come to a new family, they will test their owners and establish a code of conduct in the future. So, when you buy a dog home and if it likes to bark, that's what you should do not punish it, let alone reward it with treats, or even go to see it. If it wants to bark, let it bark, treat it cold, and soon it will understand the fact that it will not be able to win the attention of its owner with its voice, and it will have no meaning except to waste physical strength. ”

"Isn't it like a child?" he laughed, "and children use crying and playing tricks to win the attention and sympathy of adults, which is a form of negotiation, and if adults give in and meet their demands, their subconscious will realize that they can use crying to force adults to give in next time, as long as they cry louder." ”

Qian Bowen, Xiaoxue and Weiwei, as well as the netizens in the live broadcast room, are all enlightened - Qian Bowen's previous approach was very wrong, as soon as his little boy barked, he ran to feed, or drank to make it stop barking, for the extremely close beagle, even if the owner scolded it and scolded it, it was better than the owner snubbing it and ignoring it, as long as it barked, you could see the owner, so it barked more and more, hoping to win more attention from the owner, and it succeeded.

When Xiao Qianqian heard Zhang Zi'an's words, he also stopped wiping his tears in a daze.

Zhang Zi'an appeared to say, and pointed to Zhantian, "Basically, every morning, I will take this veteran police dog out for training." Before you entered the store just now, it rubbed my leg and said why didn't you go out today. I told it that it was very foggy outside today, and that we would talk about it later. So it lay down quietly and waited for me, because it knew that my decision was irreversible, and that there was no point in barking and fooling. ”

He raised his hand again to indicate all the display cases for the puppies, "When these puppies first came, they also barked very strongly, especially the beagles, as soon as the other dogs barked, they barked, and they barked louder than anyone else, but I ignored them, they barked whenever they wanted, in addition to the daily feeding, cleaning and walking of the dog, at other times even if they screamed I ignored them - don't worry about them barking because they are sick and uncomfortable, when they are sick and uncomfortable, they should wilt, how can they have the strength to bark?"

Qian Bowen glanced at his son thoughtfully, was Zhang Zi'an just teaching him how to raise a dog? No, Zhang Zi'an was obviously vaguely hinting at how he should educate his children.

If Zhang Zi'an guessed correctly, the Labrador of Shishi and Liu Sanlang may also be the same, they pay too much attention to it, and when it screams, they run to care for it, make it happy, and make it develop the bad habit of barking and disturbing the people.

He looked at Xiaoxue's camera and said to netizens in the live broadcast room: "I said before that raising a cat is like opening a harem - the more the better, and raising a dog is like raising a son - it is more expensive, not more." Because cats can be indulged, they are not very destructive, and they rarely go out, but dogs cannot, dogs must be trained. But don't get me wrong, the so-called training does not only refer to training in the conventional sense, and proper cold treatment is also a training method, and it is a very important training method. If you don't want to raise your dog to be a nuisance, you have to learn to ignore it when it barks, and only play with it when it is quiet, and feed it. ”

"How's that, understand?" he smiled at Qian Bowen, "As long as you train properly, you don't need a shock collar." ”

Qian Bowen grabbed Zhang Zi'an's hand, and was so excited that he was incoherent, "Store Manager Zhang, thank you so much......! I used to ...... Alas...... Is...... I really regret not being in the first place!"

He tried his best to train the dog, but because the training was not lawful, it had the opposite effect, and at this time, the mouth suddenly opened, and the self-confidence that had been destroyed by the beagle was restored.

Zhang Zi'an pulled out his hand, shook his head and said: "I can only tell you the theory, this is not easy to operate in practice, you need to discuss it with your family, when the beagle barks, everyone must adopt a blind attitude, including the guests, even if anyone is soft-hearted and reacts to its barking, it will be encouraged to bark harder...... I still don't recommend you to have a beagle, it's fine if it's just you, but with your wife and kids in ......"

Beagles are special, this kind of dog is so affectionate that they would rather be beaten than use their barking to win the attention of their owners. Men can endure it ruthlessly, but women and children are easy to soften when they hear it call, and once they are soft-hearted, they will give up their efforts, and it will be difficult to change bad habits after they are formed.

Qian Bowen hesitated again, he was confident that he would not repeat the mistakes of the past, but could his wife and children endure it? How his wife and children doted on the dog, he could not be more clear, even if he had been fed dog food before the meal, as long as the little boy pounced on his lap at noon, they would still pick up the ribs on the dinner table and feed it to him......

"I'm going to be a little girl, Dad, shall we buy a little girl?" said Xiao Qianqian to his father, jumping up from the ground and next to the beagle's display case.

"Did you hear what your uncle said just now? Raising this kind of dog is a technical job, you can't ignore it when it barks, and feed it and play with it when it doesn't bark, can you do it?" Qian Bowen asked rhetorically.

"Absolutely, I promise to do it!" replied Xiao Qianqian without thinking.

Even Xiaoxue and Weiwei can see that Xiao Qianqian's answer is not brainstorming at all, it is just perfunctory, and they will forget this sentence after buying the dog home.

Qian Bowen knew that his son was willful and naughty, but he still thought about what happened, because the beagle in the store had been treated by Zhang Zi'an coldly, and it was not as fond of barking as the one in his house before, so might he try it?

Netizens in the live broadcast room persuaded him not to be stupid, the bear child's words can't be taken seriously at all, buying the beagle back will definitely hurt others and himself, and he will regret it when the time comes-it's a pity that he can't see these barrages.

"This kind of dog seems to be really difficult to raise, if you want to buy a dog, let's change to another dog......" Xiaoxue persuaded tactfully.

Seeing that the momentum was not right, Xiao Qian grinned, wiped the corners of his eyes and whimpered: "No, I want to be a little good!Woo woo~ I want to be a little good! If you don't buy it for me, I won't leave, it's a big deal that I use my own New Year's money to buy it! Woo woo~"

He tried this trick without hesitation, thinking that as long as he cried and made trouble, his father would meet his request, but he wiped his tears for ten minutes, but no one persuaded him not to cry.

Xiao Qian Qian looked out of his fingers in wonder, his father was asking Zhang Zi'an for some knowledge and tricks on raising dogs, Xiaoxue was introducing different types of cats in the store to Weiwei, and Mao Suzuhara stared at the beagle intently, as if he was recalling something, and no one paid attention to him.

What's going on? Why didn't it work?

He was so surprised that he even forgot to continue crying.

Seeing that he wasn't crying, Qian Bowen turned around and smiled: "Okay, then you can buy it with New Year's money." But aren't you going to use your New Year's money to buy Sitch? If you buy a dog, you won't be able to buy a game console, so you can only continue to play with your classmates' game consoles. ”

Xiao Qian Qian was stunned, and his father seemed to be serious this time.

Sitch's appearance came to his mind, he bought a game console and a game, and he was already very nervous about the New Year's money.

Dog or Sitch, that's the question.

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