What is a Zhou Dog?

Weekly dogs specifically refer to dogs that become ill within a week after arriving at a new home, generally suffering from the three major diseases of "parvo", "canine distemper" and "coronavirus".

The word "week dog" is very characteristic of the Chinese dynasty, because there are also "week cats", "week rabbits" and so on. But what surprises me is that the "weekly dog" that was popular six or seven years ago is still the mainstream in the dog circle... Our dog circle has made no progress at all over the years.

Misunderstanding of the Weekly Dog, misunderstanding:

Myth 1: The Weekly Dog is the dog that stays home for a week?

Answer: It does not cause symptoms in a week, but the onset of symptoms takes about a week.

Of course, some will get sick within a few hours of getting home, and some will only get sick within ten days. This time will be affected by the time when the dog was infected with the virus and the quality of the dog's own body.

Myth 2: Weekly dogs are dogs that become sick within 7 days of arriving at a new home?

Answer:In fact, these three major diseases have incubation periods, and some incubation periods can be as long as more than ten days. Therefore, the word "week" does not refer to 7 days, but a general range, " "Week Dog" is just a common name.

Myth 3: Once you have had it, you will never get it again in your life?

Answer:Depending on the basic physical condition of the dogs, most of them will not be infected a second time, but a small number will still be able to do so. One of our group D dog friends had a golden retriever infected with parvovirus twice.

Myth 4: When I bought the dog, I used a test strip to test for canine distemper. The seller didn’t have the disease, but I got sick only when I got it, so it’s not a week dog?

Answer:Many new people think that if they buy a dog with test strips, they will not buy a sick dog... In fact, this is not the case. This is another market misleading.

There are two situations in which test strips cannot detect sick dogs: one is a puppy in the incubation period of the virus, and the other is a puppy that has received serum.

Causes of Weekly Dogs

① Poor physical 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 dog farms.

According to statistics from our dog friend group, 70 to 80 percent of dogs come from dog farms and pet stores. In fact, these three channels are classified into one source: dog farms. So many years ago there was a saying: "The dog farm is the birthplace of the Zhou dog."

The process of bringing puppies from the dog farm to their new home:

The dog farm:

(Now it seems that it calls itself a "kennel" and "famous dog breeding base")

① Direct sales from the dog farm: Buy puppies directly from the dog farm;

Process: Dog farm → New owner

② Dog farm store: Transport the puppy to the store, and Pet stores sell directly;

Process: store → new owner

③ Dog farm agent: online, because now it can be transported by passenger and air, the scope can be expanded to all parts of the country, if you are in "WeChat", "Weibo", "QQ Zone", etc. saw this person selling dogs and cats of various varieties, but if he didn't open the dog farm himself, he was an agent of a certain dog farm.

Process: The agent sends a message to attract people → The agent communicates with the new owner and collects payment → The agent transfers part of the money to the dog farm, and the remaining money is his own profit → The dog farm sends the dog → The new owner receives a small Dog

Dog market:

Single batch process:

Dog market merchants contact the dog farm → Wholesale a small car of various puppies → Transport them back to the dog market store → New owners at the dog market Buy and take a puppy

Group batch process:

The person in charge will contact multiple stores in the dog market to wholesale together (this way the price will be lower for large quantities and save shipping costs) → Wholesale a large quantity of puppies. Transport them back to the dog market together → Each store in the dog market picks up the puppies according to their predetermined quantity and puts them in the store → The new owner purchases the puppies at the dog market and takes away the puppies

Pet shop:

Puppy supply process from the dog farm:

Contact the dog farm to wholesale a small car of all kinds of puppies → transport them back to the pet shop, some are raised When the time comes to get the vaccine, some people are too lazy to get the vaccine because it is broken → Store sales→ The new owner goes to the pet store to buy a puppy

Process of domestically raised puppies:

If you have domestically raised puppies and cannot sell them yourself, and are anxious to deal with them, you can directly go to the pet store or contact the shop owner by phone or online, ask "do you want to take it", and negotiate the "litter price" ” → The original family sends this litter of puppies to a pet store, and the pet store pays → sells them in the store, and then the new owner takes them home.

Cause ①: Physical problems

Physical problems of puppies caused by excessive childbirth of dog mothers:

King farms attach great importance to costs and allow breeding females to continue to have babies. Some even use drugs to forcefully shorten the estrus cycle to increase production, and some are forced to breed females to have babies when they are still little girls over half a year old.

We are not mainly worried about puppies born in this situation, but we are more worried about the health of the puppies in the later stages of their lives.

Puppy physical problems caused by problems with the food and housing environment:

Continuous giving birth coupled with poor food and housing, the dog mother’s own physical constitution is weak, and the puppies eat after birth Still not good (it is said that if the milk is not enough, goat milk will not be supplemented, and the most I will give is corn paste or something? The group said it, I don’t know the details).

The diet is not nutritious and the environment is dirty and messy. Naturally, the physical condition of the puppies will be even worse.

Cause ②: Too young

The immune system is not fully developed due to transportation before the full moon:

Sometimes when wholesale is in large quantities, some puppies are put on trucks and shipped to all parts of the country before they are weaned.

"Young age and no vaccines + immature immune system + stress response caused by long-distance transportation",

It makes the puppy’s weak constitution even worse.

Cause ③: No vaccine

Vaccines cannot be injected unless healthy:

Parents who have dogs should know that vaccines must be injected when the dog is completely healthy. If a dog has a cough or diarrhea, the pet hospital will not give it. Why? Because the vaccine is a weak virus, it helps the immune system recognize the virus and exercise its ability to produce corresponding antibodies. If the dog itself is in an unhealthy state and is vaccinated again, the dog will not be able to produce enough corresponding antibodies, and the vaccine will become Really infected with the virus, causing illness.

Cause ④: Many viruses

Dog farms, dog markets, and pet shops have too many dogs and they are concentrated together, and viruses such as canine distemper are extremely contagious (refer to the SARS period that year, Our panic), it is easy for one dog to get sick and spread the disease to others.