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«——【Preamble】】 ——»
In the nineties of the last century, there was a creature living in the depths of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and it was rumored that one battle three tigers were full of might.
It is tall, less than a year old can fight wolves alone, and its loyal character is moving, so it is also affectionately called "wolf warrior".
In the next few years, "Wolf Warrior" gradually became well-known to the public, its popularity spread all over the country, and its value also rose.
It is the good companion of the nomads, the Tibetan mastiff.
In 2007, the mastiff king was brought to Wuhan by the rich at a price of 3.9 million, and in 2011, the "new mastiff king" was worth 30 million and caused a sensation all over the world.
Foreign media also came to join in the fun, and specially released a related documentary, in which the Tibetan mastiff was called "heavenly dog".
After the Tibetan mastiff was put on the altar and quickly fell into the quagmire, the mastiff farms that were once all the rage closed down one after another, hundreds of thousands of dogs, dog meat dealers hundreds of them were too expensive to take back, many Tibetan mastiffs lived on the streets, very miserable, and caused a lot of harm to the society.
Why did the Tibetan mastiff, the "divine dog" that was once enshrined on the altar, end up so dilapidated?
«——【·獒生艰难·】——»
The Tibetan mastiff is very hard-working, wandering with the nomads in the deep mountains and grasslands, and herding sheep with the nomads.
Usually they are tied to wooden stakes during the day, there is no kennel, only to tie them, and the old rope that has been used for more than ten years has been passed down from generation to generation.
Nomads don't stay in one place very often, and they live in tents on weekdays, so they can be dismantled and settled, and the conditions for themselves to live are relatively simple, not to mention the Tibetan mastiffs that follow them.
The herdsmen would dig a pit in the ground, and the Tibetan mastiff would sleep in the pit, with the sky as the quilt and the ground as the bed.
Let go of the Tibetan mastiff at night and watch the sheep.
For the Tibetan people, they have a very special significance.
At that time, the family basically raised one, and only when the old Tibetan mastiff was getting old, would it come to find a small Tibetan mastiff to be a companion.
Welcoming a little Tibetan mastiff is the same as marrying a little daughter-in-law, the owner needs to personally select a good day and auspicious day, prepare a gift for it, and welcome it home, which means that the Tibetan mastiff is a family.
At the end of 2022, an incident occurred that was enough to prove why Tibetans attach so much importance to Tibetan mastiffs.
At that time, the little Tibetan mastiff was less than a year old, and when the wolf was about to invade the sheep, he protected the sheep behind him, bravely pounced on the wolf, and fought with it.
The Tibetan mastiff is loyal, with a lot of thick hair, a chrysanthemum-like open tail, large claws, and extremely sharp claws, and the hair on its head is fluffy and exploding like a lion, and the color of the fur is red and black.
An adult giant Tibetan mastiff can weigh nearly 100 kilograms, and it is particularly strong.
In the wild, weight also means that there is an advantage in strength, a Tibetan mastiff can completely capture wolves, if a family can raise three Tibetan mastiffs, wolves have to be afraid of three points.
At that time, the Tibetan mastiff only had the role of watching sheep and guarding tents, and it was impossible to imagine that one day he would go from the mountains to the city and become a well-known star pet.
«——【The Beginning of the Legend】——»
At the beginning of 2000, I don't know who released the tone that made this dog breed hidden deep in the mountains appear in the world. As for the legendary story of the Tibetan mastiff entering the Central Plains, every mastiff farm has a common experience of changing the soup but not the medicine.
Tibetan mastiffs are so scarce that only one of them can be raised in a herdsman's family.
Many interested people have spent a lot of money on Tibetan mastiffs. But there are simply no purebred Tibetan mastiffs in the ordinary dog market.
At the beginning, I didn't see this dog breed at all, I just bought it for the name, used it to watch the home care home, and the owner who bought it was basically a rich owner. After buying it, it is really useful to take care of the house, and this kind of dog is very pleasing to the big boss, because it is domineering enough, and it may also be because of novelty.
Slowly evolved the Tibetan mastiff better, the higher the status of the comparison psychology.
Some bosses were excited to show their friends the Tibetan mastiff, but the friends didn't say a word like that. You have to get a purebred Tibetan mastiff to prove your strength.
Some people prepared hundreds of thousands of dollars and drove into Tibetan areas to look for purebred Tibetan mastiffs.
Even driving to the depths of the mountains, they think that the more dangerous the place, the more likely there are high-quality Tibetan mastiffs.
Because the deeper the place, the more wolves, and the wild environment is dangerous enough, the Tibetan mastiff who survives and guards the sheep in that area must not be idle.
In order to find high-quality Tibetan mastiff seeds, I really risked my life. After finding a purebred Tibetan mastiff, he turned around and started a farm.
The owners of Tibetan mastiff farms have experienced similar setbacks.
At first, I went to the homes of many herdsmen and saw their favorite Tibetan mastiffs, but the herdsmen did not sell them.
There are also Tibetan mastiffs who only recognize one owner after six months, and even if they buy it, they will not recognize you as the master.
It means that money can't buy a good Tibetan mastiff, and if you buy it, you're not his master. This fueled the desire of the rich bosses to win, and they were inclined to conquer this dog.
In this world, apart from life and death, there is nothing that cannot be done with money.
The herdsmen's own Tibetan mastiffs can't be bought, so they can be bought in the Tibetan mastiff factory.
There are places in Tibet that breed Tibetan mastiffs for herders.
The big bosses have found the local Tibetan mastiff trading market.
At that time, the little Tibetan mastiff had already been offered a sky-high price.
56,000 is considered cheap, and a good mastiff can even be sold for more than 100,000.
In order to make their mastiffs look better and sell them at a higher price, businessmen who want to profit inject hyaluronic acid into the mastiff's face and legs to give the little Tibetan mastiff a facelift.
Even if the boss was deceived, he didn't give up and still tried to find a good mastiff.
At that time, their purpose was not only to raise a good Tibetan mastiff, but to find the best seeds of this breed of dogs, to cultivate them, and to open a factory.
One can only be sold for a price of more than 100,000 yuan, if you buy a pair of good seeds, at least five or six cubs will be born, and you can earn millions in less than a year, who is not impressed?
Since 2007, mastiff farms have sprung up all over China.
The bosses who opened the mastiff factory at the beginning made a lot of money.
The Tibetan mastiff has formed an economic concept, and the major media have also come to interview, and for a time, the owners of some large mastiff farms have the same scenery. But no matter how noble the value is, it is a dog after all.
«——【·炒作终会落幕·】——»
The more people raise Tibetan mastiffs, the more the shortcomings of Tibetan mastiffs are exposed, and many people report that Tibetan mastiffs are not as smart as they imagined.
If you want to be faithful to the Lord, the little earth dog raised at home can do it.
Moreover, the body of the Tibetan mastiff is very bulky, it eats a lot and pulls a lot, it has a lot of saliva, its body odor is very big, and its IQ is not too high.
It's not suitable for raising in the city at all, and I don't have a big yard at home, so I really can't raise such a big guy.
At that time, the Tibetan mastiff economy was really hot, and most of the people who bought Tibetan mastiffs in the past few years were eager to make a fortune, and they didn't really want to raise them.
This model is really quite like a kind of pyramid scheme, where a worthless commodity is labeled at a high price, and a few stories are made, and many people will buy it.
It makes perfect use of the public's psychology of following the trend and conforming to the herd, but this fiery economic bubble is false after all, and the Tibetan mastiff is not so valuable at all in the mainland where there are no wolves.
After a few years of this demonic wind, someone finally broke some unrealistic dreams of making a fortune.
There are more and more incidents of Tibetan mastiffs attacking people, and the high-value Tibetan mastiffs are raised lawlessly by some owners.
People also realized that the Tibetan mastiff was just like that, no one would buy it at a high price, and the value obtained by speculation would eventually be shattered, and many mastiff farms would go out of business.
At that time, there were a lot of dogs, there were not a few people who stole dogs and collected dogs, who had good dogs at home, they were all hidden like treasures, especially during the New Year, dogs did not dare to let them out, and they ate fat and strong, and they were targeted by dog thieves on the road, that is, walking cold pot dog meat.
The mastiff, whose value plummeted, was reduced to being treated as a meat dog, but the mastiff's meat was very unpalatable, and the dog meat restaurant was unwilling to accept it.
This kind of speculation often occurs in the mainland, from the previous fried orchids to the current fried houses, which is not eating the evil fruits of their own greed, I hope everyone can be sober in the face of hype, don't be fooled.
Of course, I also hope that those stray mastiffs that are free-range in mastiff farms can be properly housed.