Because the golden retriever is very difficult to raise, especially not suitable for beginners, many people are misled by the “angel” and “big warm man” in online marketing and think that the golden retriever is very easy to raise, which has caused a big gap. Many people have raised the golden retriever and found that it is not as easy as he thought. I have a big golden retriever in my family for eight years. Let’s talk about the difficulty of raising it based on my experience: (Below: When it was half a year old, I got it a couch that I jumped out of, not to mention that it is so cute to sleep on the couch like a good baby every day.)
The activity is large, and the golden retriever is a big dog with great energy. It needs a lot of activity space and outdoor time to walk the dog. My family hates the heat in summer and doesn’t want to go out, but in spring, autumn and winter, I slip for an hour every morning and evening, and I don’t want to go home for a short time, otherwise I will continue to toss when I go home. He is now eight years old and reluctant to move, so he will be quieter and spend more time sleeping after walking home. But when he was young, he couldn’t stop for a moment. Walking for two hours a day is not enough. He will definitely continue to play and tear down his home when he goes home. When I was a child, I liked to gnaw at my slippers, shoes, stools, legs, table legs and doorframes. Now these are all bumpy. I bought a lot of toys for it, but it didn’t just gnaw at toys. It chewed everything it could, and the trash can was also turned over. As a result, the trash can was placed on the table for a while, and the trash can was directly banned behind it, and the desk carton was used as a garbage box. Until now, there was no trash can in the living room. Shoes must be received in the shoe cabinet at once, or they will suffer soon. Slippers were chewed out a lot when they were young. Moreover, it is not satisfied with going out to play+eating and playing with toys by itself. It has requirements for people. When it was a child, it asked us to play with it. Is that it will take the initiative to invite you, you can’t refuse, if you don’t see it, it will keep harassing you, biting your heels and slippers, forcing you to stop your movements, put your hand in your mouth and drag it out of the chair, if you don’t cooperate with it, you will keep repeating the above movements, anyway, you must stand up and play with it all kinds of games, such as chasing after me, tug of war, whether you can bite me or not, otherwise there will be no peace.
This is when I went out to college, I stole my pajamas from the bed and put them in my nest. Sister meowed loves you! ) 2. Spend a lot of money 2.1 Everyone knows the food intake of large dogs. They must have eaten a lot. Buying dog food is a lot of money. What’s more, if you buy poor dog food cheaply, dogs will grow badly when they grow up, and they will often get sick when they are not strong enough, but they can’t afford to buy particularly good dog food because they eat too much. Therefore, before he was one year old, when he grew up quickly, he ate 25 yuan a catty of good dog food, which really cost too much, and his fast food intake was really huge. Moreover, the big dog bought him calcium tablets and lecithin, as well as some other snacks and meat during his growth period. To sum up, he ate too much but was afraid to give him cheap food for fear of getting sick often in the future. After one and a half years, he almost grew slowly as an adult, and his appetite dropped at this time. I gave him a slightly cheaper dog food, 17 yuan a catty, and calcium tablets were not needed to eat, but some other snacks and meat were also being eaten, and he was always waiting beside us with tears in his eyes when we were eating … It was hard to bear not to eat meat for him … at this time, he was able to eat and pick meat. Initially establish a sense of ownership, and don’t allow people to eat alone. When the mouth of the three of us moves, it immediately stares at it, thinking that it, as a family member, is entitled to eat people’s food and must enjoy the treatment of eating human food.
And now I am old, eight years old, and my legs and feet are not very agile, so I need to add joint powder and chondroitin, which are also quite expensive. Anyway, eating them has always cost a lot. But it’s good to eat well, and it’s really hale and hearty. When it was a child, it was hit by a car and smashed a headlight, but it just limped a little. I quickly took it to the hospital for examination and blood tests, but it was all right. There was no internal injury and almost no trauma. There was nothing wrong with the bones and joints, except a slight injury. After two days of limping, I walked freely, and nothing happened when I took it for reexamination. It was amazing and my life was lost. (I didn’t lose money, because the car ran a red light, otherwise it wouldn’t have hit my dog and almost had an accident with me.) Secondly, my golden retriever is eight years old, and it belongs to an elderly dog, but his face is only slightly white and his age is not obvious. I think he might live to be 14 years old if he works hard. The following picture is a recent photo:
2.2 Medical expenses are high. Golden retriever is a kind of dog with high incidence of skin diseases, and it is particularly easy to get cancer when it is old, and the purer golden retriever is more likely to have the problem of hip dysplasia, which is very difficult to treat. Especially when you get older, there must be more and more problems with dogs. Do you have the will and ability to spend a lot of medical expenses for elderly dogs, and there is no medical insurance reimbursement for this? My dog has always been well cared for, so there are few skin diseases, but it also festers between the toes from time to time and needs medication. If it is really a large area of skin diseases, it will be even more troublesome, and skin diseases are easy to repeat. 3. Daily care is cumbersome and smells heavy: it is obvious that a dog smells. Of course, we have been with it all the time, and we can’t smell it when we are used to it, but I can smell it every few minutes before I go home on holiday. Hair loss: Hair loss should not be too serious in spring and summer. It really snows in June and explodes in autumn and winter, but it is also falling. Anyway, it is falling all year round, and dog hair is everywhere in the house. It is really annoying to clean it. Bathing: It is very troublesome for large dogs to take a bath, and they have to be washed or they will stink. It is expensive to go to a pet shop, and my family is particularly disobedient. When washing, they keep playing around, and it will cost more to go to others once. I washed it myself, but it’s quite obedient. Now I wash it on the balcony. It’s troublesome to wash it once, just like doing manual work. 4. The character is not as docile as expected. It is said that Jin Mao is an angel, but he was particularly noisy and torn apart when he was a child. He was not docile from childhood, and he didn’t become docile immediately after he was two years old. If he didn’t train well, it is not impossible to be a demon all the time. My family is also so noisy, and I have been beaten a lot since I was a child. I think some pet bloggers on the Internet have been calling for not training dogs by beating, but they should be trained reasonably. However, if you are a novice and have no training experience, it is hard for you not to be trained by beating and cursing. If you insist on training reasonably according to his method, it is very likely that dogs will hold you in turn, and the golden retriever is not particularly obvious. It is true that Shiba Inu and Border Shepherd hold their owners in turn. The tenderness of most golden retrievers is limited to people, but it is very fierce to many dogs. They fight fiercely and often find trouble when they go out. My dog is very strange. It is not enthusiastic about people, but it is not hostile. It often pretends not to hear strangers’ calls, takes a look at you and goes its own way. My parents and I are close to each other and are indifferent to others, so it won’t go with strangers, and it automatically refuses to eat anything that strangers give it. It came to our house a month ago and didn’t let it eat anything. This has always puzzled me.
Although I love my smelly dog very much, I still want to remind everyone that it is not so easy to raise a golden retriever, and it should be carefully considered. If a novice is not rich and free, it is best not to raise a big dog (or it is best not to raise a dog for the first time).
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