Chapter 131: Future Prospects (I)
It is said that there are 40 million stray dogs in the country, and the number is increasing at a rate of 1.5 times every year.
For example, the dog meat sold in a large number of dog meat restaurants basically comes from them.
No matter whether there is so much real data or not, even if it is only a few million, it is enough for Xing Tian to enable it.
In this way, these poor homeless animals, after training, can better integrate into the new family, get their love, and make them reluctant to abandon them again.
Xing Tianqi once went to a stray dog shelter base in Bingcheng with Huang Wenbao, which can be said to be a base, but in fact it is just a farm compound.
When he first went, he still remembered that as soon as he entered the yard, he saw a yard full of dogs of all sizes locked in large cages.
There are almost no purebred dogs, Xing Tianqi knows why no one has adopted them, just imagine that in this era when everyone is showing off no matter what they do, everyone spends a lot of money to raise Tibetan mastiffs, purebred dogs.
Even with a dog, you have to spend money to pick a dog with a pedigree certificate, who would pay attention to such a dirty and not good-looking dog when walking on the street?
If you walk with such a dog, will you still feel a little embarrassed?
The dogs in that stray dog base were all dirty, sick, and even disabled.
Huang Wenbao asked stupidly, why don't you bathe them and cure them?
But as soon as he asked, before the owner of the yard could answer, the kind-hearted old woman answered, and Xing Tianqi grabbed him.
Because Xing Tianqi, who usually loves animals very much, knows that this stray dog base is not official, and even more than 90% of the stray animal shelter institutions are not official, but some kind-hearted volunteers set up spontaneously.
In terms of staffing and professional skills, the official stray animal shelter is far from meeting the requirements in the face of a large group of stray animals, and some have even gradually become "7-day claim stations".
For orphan animals that are more than 7 years old, they are sold to private shelter organizations in the form of outsourcing.
For example, outsourcing animal shelters to private stray animals through the purchase of services.
Then a certain amount of money is given every month, of course, this money is not enough to rescue these stray animals, and only private institutions can post money themselves.
This stray dog shelter was established by that kind old woman, but how much money can an old man have?
How can there be hundreds of dogs, each of them bathed and each of them seen a doctor? Where does all this money come from?
When I went that time, there were still a few volunteer-like people cooking in the yard, and Xing Tianqi and Huang Wenbao were also fortunate to witness the whole process of the dogs eating.
Those volunteers first cooked a large pot of white rice, and through understanding, they knew that these rice were basically given by well-wishers, expired or inferior rice, the rice was relatively coarse, and people would not eat it if they were not poor to the point of being poor.
Boil a few pots of soup from the chicken rack, because there are few chicken racks, so it actually has no taste, but it can add a little chicken flavor to make the dogs eat.
The same is true for chicken racks, which are all approved at a low price by donating money to the vegetable market, and the refrigerators donated by all well-wishers are used to store chicken shelves and leftovers.
When the rice and soup are ready, grab a large half bucket of dog food and mix the soup and rice with a few large buckets, and then start feeding them one by one in order.
Because the number of plates and bowls is limited, they can only be fed once in a few cages, and then when they are done, they pour back the parts they can't eat, and then put a few cages in to feed.
Each dog must have one plate at a time, otherwise there will be fights.
But this will not avoid fighting, and these stupid guys will also whine and roar with other companions because they are fighting for food.
Every now and then, the volunteers will take action, and they will do it very hard.
Xing Tianqi and Huang Wenbao tried to stop it, but they were pulled by another volunteer, a girl, who explained that this was the only way to stop it.
Because the hierarchy between dogs and wolves is very clear, I have never seen a wolf in a wolf pack fight with a head wolf, and I have never seen a dog fight with its parents, right?
This is all because the lower level will give way to the higher level.
Training an animal, even a dog that has been domesticated for tens of thousands of years, is not a simple and easy task.
For example, don't follow it, if it wants to enter your room, you let it in, and when it is hungry, you will cook for it.
You think it's begging, it's begging, it's commanding.
There are also some details, such as going out before you go out, eating first and then feeding it, etc.
If the training is not good, there will be acts of intimidation of the owner.
Of course, in the face of the owner, it is usually just a grin, you put your hand in front of it, it basically does not really bite you, it will push your hand away.
The girl looked at the beaten dogs distressedly, and then told them her experience, she didn't understand it when she first came, and wanted to pull them away when she encountered this situation.
As a result, I was bitten, but in fact, the bite is not quite correct, it is a small wound scratched by the tooth.
After all, stray dogs are not extremely aggressive wild dogs, and they were all kept as pets before, so they will not easily make hurtful actions.
Later, when the dogs got into a fight, the girl shoved them in the middle with a stick, told them to bite the stick, and then kicked them away with her foot.
Sometimes gentle methods can't work, and you even have to grit your teeth and kick it hard until it screams and is kicked 1 meter away to stop the senseless fight.
Afterwards, why didn't she feel distressed and gently ** them and comfort them?
But she can't help it, it's hurt to let it go, and that kind of complicated mood is not something that ordinary people can understand.
Of course, there are gentler ways to solve this problem.
For example, when feeding the dog, only a small part of the food will be put in the rice bowl, and the rest of the food will be put in several times after the dog has eaten the food in the rice bowl.
This is to make the dog understand that when it comes to eating, you are not present to rob him of food, but to bring him more food, and to let him know that all his things are given by the owner.
Then every time the dog finishes eating, and the dog does not intimidate you, you change the timing of the food to the time when the dog is eating in the bowl.
Finally, when the dog is still calm in the face of your behavior of putting your hand into the food bowl during the feeding process, try to pick up the food bowl, add good food, and then put the food bowl in front of the dog.
In this way, through a step-by-step approach, let the dog understand that you will not rob him of his food, and train it every time he eats.