In our local rural areas, chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, dogs, sheep and other livestock and poultry are collectively referred to as "living beings". Now the times are different, and they all say that they are more elegant, which is called raising "pets".
Remember I'm here. When I was seven or eight years old, I was in elementary school, when the rural economy was still very poor, and everything was in ruins, ** just held the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee, and the family farming industry, which was previously used as the "tail" of capitalism, slowly recovered, just like the previously hit TV series "Old Farmer". In order to subsidize the family, my father bought two baby goats at the beginning of spring, hoping that they could be exchanged for money when they grew up in the autumn, so it was my pastime to go to herd sheep after school every afternoon.
To the east of the village is a large field of crops and rows of date palms. I took the two goats to the field, looking for a place where the water was beautiful and the grass was fertile, and enchanted the reins of the sheep with an iron chisel, so that the sheep could eat the grass to their heart's content, and I went not far away, and watched the small fish in the small pond swim around, picking at the loaches in the soft mud, catching the "hats and hats" (dragonfly larvae) in the water, or catching the crickets and grasshoppers in the grass, pinching off their hind limbs, and seeing how funny they wanted to jump but could not do so. Sometimes I sit quietly in a daze, and a lot of strange fantasies appear in my head;Sometimes I would pick up some dead branches of the jujube tree and pile them in a pile, waiting to be brought home as firewood. After about an hour, the two sheep were basically full, and they bleated at me, so I tied the jujube branch I picked up to the reins of the sheep, and left it alone, the two sheep ran home like homesick, dragging the branches riveting home, and I was pulled down far behind. Sometimes they would stop suddenly, look back at me, and when I got closer, they would run away again – it was a strange and wonderful time.
After almost a year, my father decided to kill one of the sheep in the month of Layue, and I forgot whether it was because of the goods or for money. My father didn't forcibly kill the sheep at first, but discussed with me, how could I agree, and I resolutely disagreed. My second uncle also did my ideological work repeatedly, and at that time, I felt like I had lost a loved one and an old friend, and that feeling was like parting from life and death. I couldn't stop crying, and later they bought rice noodles to comfort me, which was quite a luxury at the time. I see that "the general trend has gone", so I can only accept it. I hid in the house, and the miserable cry of the sheep came from the patio, and I knew it was begging me to save it!I didn't have the courage to go out, I was afraid to see its eyes because I knew it was definitely tearing. This incident has been lingering in my heart.
Since then, I have no longer been in close contact with living beings, of course, my mother still raises a lot of chickens or geese every year, because it is the family's economy or the dishes to improve the food during the New Year.
Daughter in. When I was seven or eight years old, I saw that most of other people's homes had dogs and cats and other pets, and I was very envious. I was afraid that it would affect her Xi, so I never agreed. When I returned to my hometown during the Spring Festival, a brother had a few newborn puppies at home, and the third brother asked for one. When I saw this puppy, I immediately fell in love with it. This is a small dog, the third brother said that this kind of puppy will be very spiritual when trained, and the daughter also likes it very much. After the Spring Festival, I returned home, covered a cardboard box with soft old clothes, and the puppy slept in it obediently every day. The daughter named it "Beibei", she walked around the house, and it also followed behind, and from time to time "Wangwang" called twice, well-behaved and lovely, like a little girl, which really made people like.
About over. After five or six days, "Beibei" suddenly had diarrhea, and for two days, he didn't eat or drink, and finally he couldn't pull anything out, but he still tried hard, and as a result, he pulled out half of his intestines. I quickly sent "Beibei" to the pet clinic, and the veterinarian said that it may have eaten a shrimp head needle and pierced the intestines, and it is estimated that he will not survive, so he pressed the intestines that were pulled outside, and in order to prevent them from coming out again, he simply sewed the ** to death. When he got home, "Beibei" was weak and weak, lying in a cardboard box, unable to lift his head. In the evening, the whole family went out to visit the door, and when they came back, the daughter called "Beibei", which lay in the cardboard box and raised its head with difficulty, and tried its best to "Wangwang" twice, like a sensible child, trying to respond to us, her eyes were full of pain and helplessness, and then she hung her head down softly. Unfortunately, it died that night, and our whole family was very distressed, and I said, "In the future, our family will not be allowed to maintain any more spirits."
The daughter was very unwilling, and proposed to raise another puppy, and named it "Nian Bei", which means "Miss Beibei". I couldn't stand her soft grinding and hard bubbles, so I had to change another puppy. This puppy is lively, like a hairy young man, and follows his feet every day, getting in the way, and eats a lot;It's nothing, the key is that it's quite "dedicated", and when it hears a noise outside, it always rushes into the patio and screams non-stop. But after a month of growing into a half-big, it once suddenly bit its daughter, although it was not deep, but for the sake of safety, it still spent more than 300 yuan to vaccinate her daughter. Not long after, one of my daughter's classmates came to play at home, and it suddenly bit her heel, and as a result, I had to apologize and spend money on vaccination.
This dog can't be kept anymore!You can give it away, no one wants it, firstly, it is not a precious breed, and secondly, the rabies vaccine has risen to more than 1,000 yuan per shot, and no one dares to take this risk. There was no choice but to sentence it to death. I asked my father what to do, and he said that the best way was to irrigate with water, but I really couldn't do it;In the end, my father rushed to the county seat and completed this "unrighteous act" for me. At that time, the moment I coaxed it into getting into the noose and pulling the rope tight, its eyes were full of fear, incomprehension and pity, and I still remember that look. Since then, my family has no longer raised any living beings.
Although humans are the most thinking species, I have never doubted that animals also have thoughts, because there are too many such examples. Recently, there was a report on the Internet that when an armed police soldier was discharged from the army at the end of his term, one of the two police dogs he trained bit the luggage of the armed police soldier, and the other jumped on the roof of the car and could not get off, the scene was very touching. There is also a story on the Internet: when the owner of a mutton restaurant was slaughtering a ewe, the lamb was crying pleadingly, and the boss was busy for a long time to hold the ewe, but the knife was missing, and after looking for a long time, he found that he was crushed by the lamb - it was protecting its mother. The boss was so moved that he closed the restaurant, stopped killing, and chose another career.
A friend once asked me if I had any animals at home, and I said that I didn't have any of them, and he said that I had no love, and I just smiled. I don't have love, I'm afraid that love will become sad. As the saying goes, out of sight and quiet, "the greatest sorrow and suffering in the world is nothing more than life and death", whether it is an animal or a human, it is a reason, and it is best not to appreciate this kind of sorrow. **The general secretary once said: lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets. Let us all be kind to life, nature, and the environment, and live in harmony with people, animals, and nature, which is the highest state. (Wu Fengtao, member of Binzhou Writers Association).