What is a week dog?
The term “week dog” refers to a dog that develops a disease within a week of arriving at a new home, usually “microscopic”, “distemper” and “coronary”.
The word “week dog” is very rich in Chinese characteristics, because there are “week cats”, “week rabbits” and so on. But what amazes me is that the popular “week dog” six or seven years ago, is still the mainstream of the dog circle …… so many years, our dog circle actually no progress.
Misunderstanding of the week dog, misconceptions.
Misconception one: week dog is to home a week to hang the dog?
Answer: not a week to hang, but about a week onset.
Of course, some arrived home a few hours onset, some ten or so days before the onset, which time will be affected by the time of the dog infected with the virus and their own physical fitness.
Myth 2: Week dogs are to new homes within 7 days of the onset of the dog?
Answer: In fact, the three diseases have incubation periods, some incubation periods can be as long as more than 10 days, so the word “week” does not refer to 7 days, but a general range, “week dog” is only a common name.
Myth 3: After having a small, will not get again in life?
Answer: depends on the dog’s physical foundation, most will not be the second time, a small part will still be, our D group of dog friends group has a group of friends of the golden hair infected twice with microscopic.
Myth 4: When I bought the dog I used test paper to test for micro distemper, no disease on the seller’s side, to my side only sick, so not a week dog?
Answer: Many newcomers think that if they bring test paper to buy a dog, they will not buy a sick dog …… actually not, this is another market misinformation.
There are two cases where the test paper will not detect a sick dog: one is a puppy in the incubation period of the virus, and the other is a puppy with a serum.
The causes of the week dog
① Poor body condition
② Too young
③ No vaccine
④ Many viruses
These four reasons together lead to a high probability of virus infection in puppies sourced from kennels.
From our dog group statistics, seventy to eighty percent of dogs come from the kennel dog market pet store, and in fact, these three channels, and subsumed under the kennel this one source. So many years ago there is such a statement: “the dog park is the origin of the week dog”.
Kennel source puppy to new home process.
Kennel.
(now seems to call themselves “kennel” “famous dog breeding base”)
① kennel direct sales: buy puppies directly from the kennel.
Process: kennel → new owner
② kennel stores: transport puppies to the stores, and pet stores as direct sales.
Process: store → new owner
③ dog farm agent: online, because now you can passenger air transport, the scope can be expanded to all over the country, if you see this person in the “WeChat” “microblogging” “Qzone” and so on to sell If you see this person selling various breeds of dogs and cats, but he does not open his own kennel, that is a kennel agent.
Process: agent to send information to attract people → agent and the new owner to communicate and receive money → agent to transfer part of the money to the kennel, leaving their own profits → kennel to send dogs → the new owner received puppies
Dog market.
Single batch process.
Dog market merchants contact the kennel → wholesale a small car of various types of puppies → transport back to the dog store → the new owner in the dog market to buy, and take the puppy
Group batch process.
The person in charge, contact several stores in the dog market, wholesale together (so that the price is lower in large quantities, and to save shipping costs) → wholesale of a larger number of puppies, together with the transport back to the dog market → each store in the dog market according to their own predetermined number of puppies to pick up the store → the new owner in the dog market to buy, and take the puppy
Pet stores.
Dog farm sources puppies process.
Contact the kennel wholesale a small car of various types of puppies → shipped back to the pet store, some raised to time to play under the vaccine, some broken cans lazy to play → store sales → the new owner to the pet store to buy away puppies
Home breeding source puppy process.
Home breeding and can not sell themselves, anxious to deal with the owner, directly to the pet store or telephone or online contact the owner, ask “to receive”, talk about “hold the litter price” → the original family to send the litter of puppies to the pet store, the pet store paid → put the store sales, and then by the new owner The new owner takes the puppy home.
Causes ①: Physical problems
Puppies with physical problems caused by over-breeding mothers.
Kennels pay attention to costs, so that breeding mothers are born constantly, and some even use drugs to force a shorter estrus cycle to increase production, and some are forced to breed and give birth when they are still a little girl of more than half a year old.
The puppies born under such circumstances, “week dogs” is not our main concern, but more worried about the health of the puppies after birth.
Puppy health problems due to food and housing conditions.
The constant birth coupled with poor food and housing, the dog’s mother’s own physique is weak, and the puppy was born to eat is still not good (it is said that the milk is not enough to supplement the goat’s milk, at most to give corn paste or something? (The group said, I do not understand the specific).
The diet is not nutritious, the environment is dirty and poor, naturally the puppy itself is not good.
Causes ②: too young
The immune system caused by the transport of less than a full month for the development of complete.
Sometimes meet a large number of wholesale, part of the puppy not full-term weaning was sent to the car shipped around the country.
“young and no vaccines + immune system is not developed + stress caused by long-distance transport,”
leading to further aggravation on the weak constitution of puppies.
Cause ③: No vaccine
Vaccinations should not be given in a non-healthy state.
Parents who have a dog should know that vaccines must be injected in the case of a completely healthy dog, a random cough and diarrhea, the veterinary hospital will not play, why? Because the vaccine is a weak virus, is to help the immune system to recognize the virus and exercise its ability to produce corresponding antibodies, if the dog itself is in a non-healthy state, and then vaccinated, the dog can not produce enough corresponding antibodies, the vaccine will become a real infection virus, causing illness.
Cause ④: more viruses
Kennels, dog markets, pet stores because the number of dogs is too much and concentrated, and this kind of virus infectious ability is also sick strong (refer to the SARS years, our panic), it is easy to a dog sick a piece of infection.
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