From Xiaowang's expression, Zhang Zian knew he was right.
Sure enough, Tian Tian immediately punched her boyfriend with her small fist and complained, "I told you to quit smoking a long time ago, but you just wouldn't listen. You finally quit smoking for two days, but you seem to have lost your soul. You secretly smoke when I'm not paying attention … What's so good about smoking? It's bad for your health and burns money. Why can't you change? "
Xiaowang looked like he had constipation. He was even more embarrassed in front of Zhao Qi and Zhang Zian. However, he was not in the right, so he could only apologize carefully without fighting back.
Tian Tian and Xiaowang had a pretty good relationship, but this was not the first time they had quarreled over the issue of smoking. Her heart ached for her boyfriend's health. Every day, he was ravaged by work and also by smoking. Most importantly, he did not have this awareness. Every time this topic was brought up, she would get angry.
What made her even angrier was that Xiaowang always promised that this was the last cigarette he smoked, and that he would never smoke again. She chose to believe him again and again, but he disappointed her again and again. He often smoked behind her back. This was not only a problem of smoking, but also a problem of integrity … Now it was also related to the problem of raising a cat.
Xiaowang also had his own difficulties. His family was in the countryside, and he had tried smoking since he was very young under the influence of his uncles and cousins. At that time, he was young and ignorant, and only thought it was cool. Later, he unconsciously became "a little" dependent on smoking. He couldn't concentrate if he didn't smoke for a day, which affected his work efficiency. He thought that he was not a heavy smoker, and that it was not a big deal for him to smoke one pack a day at most. However, his girlfriend, who was very easy to talk to, was not willing to compromise on this problem.
As for drinking, neither he nor she thought it was a very serious problem. After all, he was a man, and it was inevitable that he would drink at colleagues' gatherings, elders' birthdays, weddings, funerals, and other social occasions. If he didn't drink, he would be looked down upon and felt that he was not manly enough. Therefore, she usually urged him to drink less, and didn't force him to quit drinking like how she forced him to quit smoking.
In the past, when Zhang Zian was working, it was inevitable that he could not refuse to have a few drinks during social engagements. However, ever since he took over the pet shop, he basically did not drink anymore, nor did he have the opportunity to drink. After all, he had to spend his own money to buy alcohol, which was not cost-effective.
Other than when there was a happy event in the store and when he went out to have a barbecue with the staff to celebrate with a can of iced beer, he would usually not take the initiative to drink, because he knew that the smell of alcohol would make the cats and the cat elves hate it. If the favorability that he had painstakingly increased dropped because of the smell of alcohol, he would cry himself to sleep in the toilet.
The ability to attract cats was only differentiated by gender, not by individual. If someone claimed to have a strong ability to attract cats, it was almost certain that he or she had sprayed some kind of perfume on his or her body. The perfume contained the scents of animals and plants that cats liked. It was the scent of the perfume that attracted cats, just like how CK cologne attracted big cats.
This kind of thing had always been a scientific problem. Cats were attracted to humans for no other reason than hearing and smell, but some people always talked about metaphysics.
Xiao Wang was a male with a deep voice. He had been smoking since he was a child and often went out to drink with his classmates and colleagues. It would be strange if cats liked him.
As for financial strength, height, face, emotional appeal, talent, future, humor, ambition, and other characteristics that could attract human women, cats did not care. Looking for a slave was not looking for a husband …
Zhao Qi also added fuel to the fire, "There is nothing good about drinking. Why don't you just quit drinking too? You see, even cats don't like it. What else is there to be reluctant about?"
The two women talked left and right, and Xiao Wang could not say anything. He was obviously here to buy a pet, but he was inexplicably dissed again.
He quickly changed the topic and asked Zhang Zian, "Well … I have deeply understood the importance of quitting smoking and drinking, but you have to eat one bite at a time, and you have to go one step at a time, right? Especially quitting smoking and drinking, you can't rush it. If you quit too fast, you will easily have a relapse … But my girlfriend and I want to buy a pet now. I think if it is a cat that we raised from a young age, it should not be so disgusting, right? Isn't that the saying, 'A son does not dislike his mother for being ugly, and a dog does not dislike its family for being poor'? "
As soon as he said this, he felt that it was a bit wrong. Dogs did not dislike their family for being poor, but cats did not necessarily.
"Kittens? We only have kittens here. "Zhang Zian raised his hand to indicate the kittens that were running around in the shop.
"Uh? This is a kitten? Aren't these kittens all half-grown? Do you have any smaller ones? "Xiao Wang said awkwardly.
Zhang Zian said, "… I'm afraid you have some misunderstanding about the definition of a kitten."
Zhao Qi interrupted, "That's right! I told him about the Classic of Cats Appreciation that you often talk about — choosing a cat that is a hundred and two days old, leaving its mother too soon, getting sick, and so on … But he just wants to raise a kitten, the younger the better. He thinks that raising a kitten from a young age can make them closer. "
This time, even Tian Tian kept nodding, indicating that she also wanted to raise a kitten from a young age, the younger the better.
In fact, this was the consensus of many people that raising a pet should start from a young age. The younger the kitten, the closer it would be to you as it grew up. More than one person had come to the pet shop and thought that the cats and dogs here were too big, so they turned around and left. They insisted on buying kittens and puppies that were one or two months old. No matter how hard they tried to persuade them, they wouldn't listen. They even said that all animals had a nestling complex, and that the younger the kitten, the better.
This was a typical case of only knowing one thing and not the other.
In the animal kingdom, there was a kind of "imprinting phenomenon". In layman's terms, the first life that an animal sees when it opens its eyes will be recognized as its mother, and a strong sense of attachment will be born.
Because this phenomenon was first discovered in birds, it was also called nestling complex.
There was a scientific basis for the imprinting phenomenon, and it was not pseudoscience. However, many people thought that raising a pet should start from a young age, which was wrong, because this phenomenon was not universal, and it did not apply to all pets.
Birds had this phenomenon, and dogs also had this phenomenon. Birds and dogs that were raised from a young age were indeed closer to their owners when they grew up, but cats did not have this phenomenon. To be more precise, there was no clear evidence to prove that cats had this phenomenon.
Was it a good thing to be closer to their owners? Not necessarily.
Take children as an example. Children were the closest to their parents, and there was no objection to this. However, after children began to go to primary school, they often listened to their teachers more. One sentence from a teacher was more effective than ten sentences from their parents.
Dogs were similar. Dogs that were raised from a young age were indeed closer to their owners. However, dogs needed to be trained, and they should not be spoiled blindly. Dogs should not treat their owners as parents, but should treat their owners as superiors and respect their owners as teachers. Therefore, when the dog was a little older, it was easier to train it, and it was easier for the dog to understand its social status in the family, so as to prevent it from going crazy. Otherwise, sooner or later, something bad would happen.
Those big dogs that tore down the house, and the small dogs that peed and bit everywhere, often gave many owners a headache, and there was no good way to deal with it. A large part of the reason was that dogs were brought home when they were too young, and the imprinting phenomenon made them treat their owners as their parents. Of course, they could act spoiled in front of their parents.
If they angered their owners and beat them up, what could they do? Look at those naughty children. Which one of them was afraid of being beaten up by their parents?
Naughty children were the same as dogs that treated their owners as their parents. The more they were beaten, the naughtier they became. In the end, they could not be controlled.
If the owners also treated the dogs as their children, it would be even more tragic.
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