Northeast Golden Gradient Treats My Home as a Confinement Center

Chapter 184 Dog Farm
Guide dogs are a type of working dog.

There are many types of dogs that can be guide dogs, but most of the guide dogs on the market are golden retrievers and Labradors.

The main reason is that these two types of dogs have relatively stable personalities and are more loyal to their owners.

Shen Chunxia's Labrador named "Xiaobai" has a very stable and well-behaved personality.

The two walked towards the fresh food area of ​​Pangdonglai Supermarket. Shen Xing's shopping cart was already full of goat milk powder.

Not many, just over twenty bags.

"Brother Shen, why did you buy so much milk powder?" Shen Chunxia asked curiously.

When they were shopping, Shen Chunxia asked Shen Xing what he bought, and Shen Xing didn't hide it and told her casually.

"Oh, there are some little ones at home."

“Is it a dog too?”

"No, it's... a cat."

Shen Xing originally wanted to say it was a little tiger, but was afraid of scaring Shen Chunxia, ​​so after thinking about it, he told her it was a cat.

Tigers are also cats, there is nothing wrong with this statement.

"You have so many cats at home!" Shen Chunxia said in surprise.

Just now, Shen Xing said that he bought more than 20 bags of milk powder.

"well enough."

The two walked towards the fresh food area. Along the way, Shen Xing asked a lot of questions about guide dogs.

Shen Chunxia told him that Xiaobai was obtained by her father from the BJ Guide Dog Training Center through his connections, and it cost more than 200,000 yuan.

Upon hearing the price, Shen Xingxing was shocked.

More than 20 million!

A guide dog costs more than 20 yuan!

Although Shen Xing was mentally prepared for the high price of guide dogs, he did not expect that the price of a guide dog would be so outrageous, costing 20 yuan!
"No wonder not everyone can match it. At 20 yuan each, who can afford it?" Shen Xing said with emotion.

20 yuan is equivalent to the down payment for a house in the city. For the small county town nearby in Changbai Mountain area where he lives, the average monthly salary is 20 to 50 yuan. It will take months to save up yuan.

50 months, that’s more than four years!
It would take more than four years of not eating or drinking to save up 20 yuan to buy a dog!
Of course, Shen Chunxia's family is not particularly rich, at most they are middle class, and buying this guide dog cost them all their family savings.

However, Mr. Shen was willing to spend 20 yuan to buy a guide dog to serve as eyes for his daughter!
After communicating with Shen Chunxia again, Shen Xing realized that it takes a long time for a dog to become a guide dog.

First, there are four cycles.

1. Foster care period.

Two months after birth, puppies need to go to foster families to learn and develop relationships with their owners, such as going to the bathroom at designated places, and learning to lie quietly under seats when going to restaurants and taking public transportation.

By the age of one, the puppy's personality is basically stable, and after passing the screening, it can be sent back to the training center for formal training.

2. Training Period
Professional trainers will train puppies to complete all basic skills with ease, such as avoiding obstacles and forming conditioned reflexes.

To make an analogy:

When encountering the reaction at the stairs, the trainer will take the puppy to the stairs and pat the stairs or other things with his hands to make the puppy stop and turn sideways to lean against the trainer. This will be repeated over and over again so that the puppy will form a habit and automatically stop when it sees the stairs and turn sideways to block the human body until the success rate reaches 99%.

In this way, when the guide dog guides the blind and encounters an obstacle, it will stop on its own initiative, and the blind can avoid being tripped by the obstacle by sensing the guide dog's behavior. After being trained by the trainer for more than half a year, the guide dog will train with the owner. At this time, the owner will learn how to become a trainer and train the guide dog to work.

When the tacit cooperation between both parties reaches 100% perfect, the guide dog will be qualified, and the training center will issue a certificate of qualification and relevant guide dog certificates.

Therefore, training a qualified guide dog not only requires huge amounts of money, but also enormous amounts of energy.

In order to train Xiaobai, Shen Chunxia went to the BJ training center with it and trained for more than a year!

"Chunxia, ​​it's really not easy for you and Xiaobai." Shen Xing sighed.

I knew about the difficulties faced by the blind, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult.

Guide dogs only act as "eyes" and are a tool in daily life, not really helping them see.

Moreover, guide dogs also have a "working period" and will have to be retired after eight or nine years at most.

"I am already very content. Although there is still a gap between this and a normal life, at least I can be alone and don't have to rely on my parents." Shen Chunxia said with a sweet smile.

"You are also amazing." Shen Xing nodded.

He glanced at the guide dog Xiaobai. From his conversation with Shen Chunxia, ​​he knew that the reason why training a guide dog was so troublesome and expensive was mainly due to the dogs' intelligence.

"If guide dogs have the same intelligence as humans, can the training time be shortened? There won't even be a limit on breeds?" Shen Xing stroked his chin, thinking.

To increase the success rate of becoming a guide dog, it is best if one of the guide dog’s parents is also a guide dog.

Good genes can be passed down, and if a puppy inherits the genes of its parents, then its chances of becoming a guide dog will greatly increase!

Of course, this is the reason why guide dogs are in short supply. Guide dogs are originally working dogs. They can be bred, but no matter what, they are still special dogs.

This results in an inherent disadvantage in terms of quantity.

There is an old saying that goes, "Scarcity makes things valuable." Expensive things are usually rare.

That's the truth.

"but if……"

Shen Xing had a bold idea in his mind!

If he could improve dogs, he wouldn't need highly intelligent dogs like golden retrievers or Labradors, but ordinary local dogs.

The intelligence of ordinary local dogs is naturally much lower than that of golden retrievers and Labradors, but if something could be used to improve the intelligence of local dogs, their IQs could be raised to the same level as golden retrievers and Labradors, or even higher than them!
Could it be a guide dog?
Shen Xing immediately thought of the system's reward - intelligence biscuits!
Intelligence biscuits, as the name suggests, are biscuits that can improve the intelligence of wild animals!

"I just don't know how much intelligence it can improve..."

"But you can try!"

Shen Xing couldn't wait to complete the system's task of rescuing Mrs. Chen's beloved dog.

"If this is successful, not only will we be rich, but we can also benefit blind friends like Chunxia who have lost their sight."

Shen Xing looked at the young face of Shen Chunxia, ​​and a grand plan came to his mind.

The plan is simple. If the intelligence biscuits work, he plans to build a dog farm at home, raise puppies, use the intelligence biscuits to improve the puppies' IQ, and then train them to become guide dogs.

"No! Not only guide dogs, police dogs, search and rescue dogs, but even drug detection dogs can be trained!"

(End of this chapter)