At the end of September Mr. Zhang, a citizen of Taiwon, found a dog farm on the Internet that sold Labrador dogs, and bought a three-month-old dog for 3,500 dollars.
Turns out, the dog bought it back on the third day, sneezes, snots, takes the dog back to the dog yard, says the dog has a cold, and after three days of treatment, Mr. Zhang took the dog home. Who knows that the dog came home with further symptoms and was getting worse. The dog's symptoms are not flu, but canine plagues. Not long ago, the dog was gone.
Why would a dog get sick in a few days? A pet hairdresser says it's a “week dog” because dogs have canine plague, which is a dog's “cancer” and cannot be cured.
What is a "week dog"? How can we avoid buying a "week dog"? In the past few days, journalists have conducted investigative interviews.
A. You want to surprise your wife and get in trouble.
On 27 September, the Mid-Autumn Festival, Mr. Zhang, a citizen of Taiwon, bought a Labrador dog for his wife as a holiday present. “Find where there are dogs selling online and contact the head of a dog farm.” Mr. Chang said that when he went, the dog was locked up in a cage with three or four dogs of similar size, counting the dogs he had bought.
I thought the dog was good, and Mr. Zhang paid $3,500 to buy the dog. “I didn't think the dog would have problems, so I didn't sign the contract.” The wife was so happy when the dog came home.
Cages, thick mats, dog foods, dog toys All dogs eat and play with are expensive purchases. "On the first day back, the dog played and ate, and the next day didn't eat much. On the third day, the dog started sneezing, snorting, touching its ears, feeling a little hot." Mr. Zhang said that he later took the dog back to the dog farm, and the director said that the dog had a cold, that after three days of treatment, he called Mr. Zhang to bring the dog home. “When he took the dog home from the dogyard, he was in a better mental state than when he sent it. But the next day, the dog had symptoms of sneezing and snorting and was getting worse.” Mr. Zhang bought a dog plague paper for testing, which showed that the dog had a dog plague. Mr. Zhang went to the pet hospital with his dog, and after examination, the doctor said that the dog had a canine plague, which cost him $200 a day, not to mention medicines.
Mr. Zhang pointed to a pile of drugs on the cabinet, and journalists saw the presence of anti-inflammatory cough tablets, anti-viral oral fluids, achicin-dispersed tablets, double yellow companies, tablets, etc. “The treatment did not work for a few days and there were symptoms of vomiting, asthma and constipated blood. I couldn't help but take the dog and go to the doghouse to find the person in charge. Mr. Zhang said that he had consulted a doctor and said that the dog plague had an incubation period.
It cost Mr. Zhang $78,000 to buy dog food, toys, medicine. Mr. Zhang told the journalist that after several consultations with the head of the dogyard, the head of the dogyard did not agree to give him the money back and offered him half the price to buy another dog, fearing that the same problem would arise.
When the journalist contacted the director of the dogyard, he said that he was selling living things, “I've given him free treatment once, it's been a long time, and who knows if he has problems feeding”.
Mr. Zhang had to leave the dog in a coma because he had not signed the contract.
B. Pet hairdresser: six dogs, all Sunday dogs.
"I bought six dogs on the dog market, and they're all "weekdogs." The pet hairdresser, San Ming, used his experience to show how "weekdogs are common. He said that early this year, before he ran the pet shop, he had started poking on the dog market in order to enrich the dog breed.
He felt that he had a dog from an early age and that he had a systematic study of dog habits, feeding methods, etc., before opening the shop, and had a good experience. Who knew how to buy back a dog was sick for three days at most and died in two days. When he saw the result, he could still laugh at himself and avoid buying the fate of the Week Dog.
At that time, Sming went to Dog Market almost every week, where he went, but never paid for it. He knew it was a dog dealer. Dog traffickers mostly come from outside the country because long-distance transport is less resistant and particularly vulnerable to the virus, so it cannot be bought. He paid for it from a local dog. "There's a woman, with a face, with a dog, who says she was raised, and I look at her, and I buy it, and it's still a "week dog." He bought six two-month-old Chenaris, Bears, Teddy and White VIPs for between $800 and $1,800, but none of the six dogs escaped the fate of the Week Dog.
Sting Ming said that when a dog is sick, he needs to bring the infusion, which costs about $200 a day, and that, "The dog can't afford it, we can't afford it." With these lessons, he'll lose his mind and sell his own dogs, though slowly, at least not to worry about Sunday dogs.
Speaking of “weekdogs”, Taiwon, a citizen who likes to raise dogs, said she bought them on the dog market. “The first day at home is very good, the next day without food and blood, the dog can't stand up. I went online to find the cure, injected it every day, fed it medicine, fed it glucose without eating, and had skin problems, so I bought herbs to bathe it in the pharmacy. Tired for over a week, the dog will recover." She said she was afraid to take a dog to a pet hospital, afraid that the dog would be infected with another virus, so she survived.
It was not as lucky as a twat, and the dogs that Taiwon and Yang bought at the dog market were the symptoms of non-food and blood pulling and died in a few days.
C Dog market sellers: all too original dogs.
"Take a look. The dogs here look good. I can't buy them. Make your own decision." In the afternoon, at the dog market on Sports Road, a 20-year-old boy made a phone call. When he hung up the phone, the boy told the reporter that one of his friends wanted to buy a golden fur dog, that he had been turning for two days, but he didn't dare to, so he called his friend to decide, “I also heard that the dog bought back was sick in a few days.”
For two consecutive days on the dog market, before each stand, the shopkeepers said that the dog sold was too original, that some even offered to take the reporter home to see the bitch, that some of the standers took pictures of the bitch from their phone to the reporter, and that some people came to talk to the stander and asked him how many dogs had been born, and that they had not forgotten to call the reporter, “Buy her house, there is no mistake, it was their own dog”.
Before the stand, a lot of dogs were particularly lively, and one of them put his own dog in the car trunk, and the dog was lying on top." I'm out the first day, and I'm scared, and my dog doesn't take that shot, and you're excited when you look at other dogs.
Two days later, journalists extracted a lively and inert dog saliva, and no dog was found with a tiny and dog-pattery virus after testing paper. Journalists consulted a pet doctor, who said that a blood test would be more accurate if a dog with a small or dog plague had been injected with a serum that could not normally be detected on paper.
D. Patient doctor: Dog dealers give sick dogs a “sero”
What is a “weekdog” and why in the interview, some citizens bought it all? What's a dog plague? Journalists interviewed Dr. Zhao of the Taiwon Pets Hospital and Dr. Leung of the Riga Pets Hospital, who said that the weekly dog was a popular term, which was bringing home sick dogs for about a week, but it was an adaptation of the dog to the emergency period. Dr. Zhao introduced: “Man too, a place to adapt, and dogs adapt in one or two weeks, and many doggies can't survive this period, long and long known as weekly dogs. And dogs may be infected with infectious diseases, stomachs, respiratory diseases.”
Dr. Leung explained to journalists that the “week dog” is mostly a foreign dog trafficked by dogs from Henan, Northeast and Beijing, and that during the transport process many dogs become less immune and less well-healthed as a result of their early birth and long-distance transport, which increases the risk of contracting the virus, which is small, dog-pest, etc. And once a dog is infected with this disease, there may be more other dogs, and these viruses only spread between the dog and the dog. Dr. Leung further explained: “In addition to transportation, the causes of poor immunity are poor nutrition of female dogs, poor resistance of produced dogs, high numbers of small and medium-sized dogs and poor capacity of some to maim breast milk. A dog from the North to the Taihara is better than a dog from the South to the Taihara, which is a geographical difference.”
Both doctors stated that they had received such “week dogs” in their pet hospitals. Dogs are not unusual when people buy them because dogs inject an infected dog with a drug called the serum. The serum is a biological agent, also known as the “immuno-serosion”, which, when injected by the dog, creates a certain antibodies that can resist the virus and alleviate the disease in a short period of time, but only for a week or so, and does not treat the disease at its root. When this antibody disappears, the dog's condition will resurface and gradually increase until death. Dr. Zhao added that they also routinely treated sick dogs with serum, that they were given one week of injection and three days of prevention.
Journalists then contacted the Sanxi Department Animal Surveillance Health Unit, where staff said that they also heard of the phenomenon of “week dogs”, but that the situation was outside their purview, as they were merely monitoring and managing animal disease and animal product safety.
Recommendations
It'll buy a dog.
The pet doctor recommends:
1. To purchase in a regular dogyard or pet shop to ensure that the dogyard has the relevant business qualifications and is hygienic.
2. It is advisable to purchase a dog who has been born for more than three months, since the dog has been vaccinated two to three times, and the dog already has some resistance and is relatively healthy and easier to feed.
3. When buying, the buyer would better look at the dog ' s mother to determine whether the dog originated locally or not and whether it was healthy. And it's not good to judge from the dog's appearance alone. The best way is to buy a puppy that's still around the bitch.
4. It is best to sign a “dog purchase agreement” with the seller, which provides for the rights of both parties, such as the right of purchase dogs to visit the hospital on the day they are examined, the detection of tiny viruses and dogs and other diseases, etc., which may be replaced on the same day.
Actually, Mr. Chang's doghouse has a dog purchase agreement. On the agreement provided by the dogyard, journalists found that the same day the medical examination found that the disease could be changed. Unfortunately, Mr. Zhang did not sign the agreement and did not go to the hospital for a medical examination because of his hurry, which led to a series of subsequent disputes.
Purchased dogs are not vaccinated and need to be fed at home for a week before they can be vaccinated.
Besides, not all the dogs in the market are week dogs. According to the pet doctor, some citizens have made good dogs into weekly dogs because they are not properly fed. “The feeding should be reasonable, not over-fed, with a puppy. The dog buys food for three months, not for humans, but for dog food.”
Bringing the dog home is not a matter of time. Journalists have also reminded citizens here that before buying a dog, it is important to have prior knowledge of dog-raising, especially of dogs, so that the dog can live a long life in his own home.