How can I avoid buying a week old dog?
Q: I buy a dog with a small distemper coronary test paper to go, test no disease and then bring back okay?
A: You can take the test, at least you won’t get a dog that is already sick. But the test paper results may not be accurate, as mentioned above, the incubation period of the virus can not be measured, and the serum dog can not be tested.
Q: Then I go to buy a dog, what is the most appropriate test?
A: Choose the kind of dog that the seller said had at least one shot of vaccine, and then take it to the antibody test, will draw blood to buy their own antibody test strips (small distemper coronary set of more than a hundred), will not draw blood to take to the vet test (at least two or three hundred).
The following benefits of measuring antibodies.
① know whether the seller is honest enough, there is not a shot of vaccine, but lie to you to play a few shots.
② know where the dog is now at the various antibody index.
③ antibody does not mean that it is not contagious, the antibody index is not qualified, still susceptible to infection, but than those completely unvaccinated dogs without antibodies, the cure rate is high and the treatment costs are much less.
Market misleading interpretation.
Sometimes there is a situation, the new owner took to test the antibodies, the virus antibodies all white plate (no antibodies at all), but the seller said the puppy finished vaccination, the vaccine did not immunize only successful, is it really so, or the seller is lying?
After a few shots of vaccine, all the virus antibody tests are still white, only the following possibilities.
Possibly ①: all antibody test strips are expired and broken so they can’t be measured (manual smile face).
may ②: the seller of the vaccine, all fake or invalid, even domestic vaccines fake imports are not, is the same kind of water does not carry the virus.
may ③: poor puppy constitution is a mess, the immune system is born with a disorder, can not produce antibodies to the virus more virus memory capacity (no antibodies actually did not produce because of the vaccine and really sick?) This is not a short-term problem, or the future of the vaccine may be ineffective, how long you can live depends on life ~
In fact, as long as the vaccine is true, whether domestic or imported, the probability of a few shots still resulting in all antibodies to various viruses being zero is very low and basically exists in theory.
Even if only one shot of the vaccine, but not all the antibodies of the virus can not be measured, let alone a few shots of the.
Q: So what channel do I go to buy puppies, can try to avoid the “week dog” it?
A: You can choose a home-bred or high-end pedigree kennel, or the kind of local pet store that can sign a package for half a month (package for a week is not reliable, not to mention the kind of “not responsible for going out” black store)
Home breeding (the kind with good environment, not backyard breeding fake “home breeding”).
Because only the occasional birth of puppies at home, large dogs and puppies live with their masters, the environment is naturally good, eat well, the physical foundation is very good.
In addition to contact with what the virus, the possibility of infection with the virus is very low, so even if it is a full month to carry back to a new home, a vaccination is not the case, the probability of infection with polio is still very low.
Of course, it is not completely absent, our group of patients on the purchase of home breeding puppies infected with disease, but the group of friends specifically mentioned that the puppy’s original living environment is not good.
Medium and high-end kennels (not to mention low-end kennels, because many domestic kennels call themselves kennels, there are also many low-end kennels are actually pedigree versions of kennels).
Medium and high-end kennel puppies, are double pedigree, this does not vaccinate not prevent the virus, hanging a loss of at least a few thousand, they can not afford to lose.
And this kind of kennel generally two or three months and then go to a new home, the vaccine at least two or three shots, but also to a new home not long after the polio distemper, but the probability has been much lower.
Local pet store (sign package half a month contract kind, short time can not, non-local can not).
Note that there are many pet stores sign “package how long” is one thing, after the puppy is sick “responsible” is another, so the contract must be written, package how long the time appears distemper microscopic, the seller is responsible for how the terms.
Some will say: “you first medical, medical death and then give you half price discount to buy a new” (the so-called half price can he earn a few hundred again).
Some will say: “you go to which hospital treatment, medical fees half discount (the so-called equal share …… but people and this hospital is actually a cooperation)”;.
Some will say: “return the sick dog to me, I will exchange a puppy to you” (at this point if the new owner has feelings for the puppy, can not change out (because some sellers will not spend money to cure, but directly throw), can not let this puppy die, can only give up the seller’s “after-sales service (The “after-sales service”, their own money to treat).
There are …… direct blackout, direct disavowal, the police useless!
Therefore, the package of after-sales service must be written clearly, or the loss is the new owner.
In addition, why stress the need to be the local “pet store” it?
“Week dog” seller characteristics minefield finishing
minefield ①: claiming to be “home breeding”, but a large number of puppies of various breeds, to have what, this is a false home breeding, no kennel “cheap” advantages, but the shortcomings of the kennel circulation real.
minefield ②: self-proclaimed “home breeding”, through five eight catch salted fish those who attract the same city you go to see puppies, take you to a room full of various varieties of puppies and stacked cages environment, and the house in the remote place, the house is not much decoration, hurry up and go.
Don’t say that this environment is not even better than the kennel, that is, these dogs are not his own, more and “home breeding” half a cent relationship, is a wholesale dog and then sold backward dog dealer.
Minefield ③: claiming to be “home breeding”, in fact, raising these dogs is also non-stop birth, specifically born puppies sold to subsidize the family. This kind of look at the living environment of large dogs and puppies and the owner’s attitude towards the dog will be able to know.
A long time ago, saw the female golden hair raised in a pig pen “home breeding”, born to not be born after the owner five hundred sold to the dog meat store; recent group of friends clearly bought home breeding puppies, but because the original living environment is not as good as the fine canine distemper; there is a group of friends of the golden hair in the diagnosis of CHD genetic problems after informing the home breeding seller, home breeding sellers black her after Continue to let the same father and mother of the dog parents have puppies to sell money (group of friends with other people’s accounts plus sellers, see the circle of friends continue to breed and sell) ……
minefield ④: self-proclaimed “kennel”, but no puppy birth certificate pedigree certificate, but also told you, “this is a double pedigree puppy, plus five hundred thousand or even two thousand can do the certificate (these kinds of certificate prices we have encountered in the group)”, to express to you The “double pedigree is a piece of paper” point of view, is not the “week dog” I do not know, but the pedigree is certainly a problem.
Minefield ⑤: WeChat a large number of various breeds of puppies, daily brush, monthly brush, yearly brush, so you feel, all the time the bitch is born, all the time there are puppies for sale, and business is booming a large number of people to buy, either the owner of the kennel, or the kennel agent (more than the kennel agent).
Dog farm sources puppies also off-site air freight passenger transport, healthy are going to be the whole problem.
In addition, there are group reaction, buy puppies found several different sellers, sent the exact same puppy purchase feedback, but the two are not together (manual smile face, you know)
minefield ⑥: the local pet store, not to cover the small distemper, or you have to sign “as long as the dog out of the pet store, death and disease are regardless of” the black store terms (so strange terms contract, our group actually has a lot of new people signed! (encounter this kind of quickly turn around and run ah!) The first thing you need to do is to get a package of three days of distemper.
The actual fact is that you can’t even get a week’s worth of distemper, let alone three days.
