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领养代替购买,用爱终止流浪 Pet adoption replaces buying, love stops wandering

Eastant 2019-08-13

On a daily basis, dozens of animals become strays: In cases where someone wanted a guard dog, but got a gentle puppy, someone planned on animal breeding, but the animal turned out to be sick, someone did not want a pet at all - as it was only a gift, thus, the animal is thrown away. Animals may also become stray after the death of the owner, some of them get lost or are already born on the street. Each of them have their own story. In any case, the fact remains that an animal finds itself abandoned and unattended.

每天都有几十只宠物走失:有人想要一只看门狗,却得到了一只温顺的小狗;有人计划要饲养宠物,但结果发现宠物生病了;有人根本不想要宠物——这只是一个礼物。因此,宠物们被遗弃掉了。而且,有些宠物在主人死去后会变成流浪者,有些会迷路,更有甚者就在大街上出生了。它们每个都有自己的故事。但无论是哪种情况,事实就是宠物们发现自己被遗弃了,变得无人问津。

What can you do if you find a stray animal on the street? You might want to follow some of the steps listed below:

如果你在街上发现一只流浪动物,你能做什么呢?您可能可以参考以下列出的一些步骤:

  • Take the animal to a safe place 把动物带到一个安全的地方

  • Check if the pet has an owner 检查宠物是否有主人

  • If the animal is sick, take him to the veterinarian 如果它生病了,带它去看兽医

  • Report the lost animal on social media 在社交媒体上挂出被丢失的宠物

  • Find a new family for the animal 为这只宠物找一个新家

  • Put the animal up in a local animal shelter 把宠物放在当地的动物收容所里

Caring for animals has often been seen as a merciful act, but extremely complicated, especially on a large scale. In many countries, the formula “we are responsible for those we have tamed” is implemented in the form of shelters, where homeless dogs, cats, birds, and sometimes other animals are kept.

照顾动物是一种仁慈的行为,但却极其复杂,尤其是照顾大规模的动物。在许多国家,“我们要为我们驯服的动物负责”这句话被视为收容所的座右铭,收容所里养着无家可归的狗、猫、鸟,有时还有其他动物。

Shelters have several ultimate goals, the first of which is helping poor animals who have been found on the streets. The second goal is to attach animals to a house and a family. Unfortunately, however benevolent the initial intentions are, if an animal is not adopted after a certain period, the shelter management resorts to euthanasia—there are many more people who want to bring an animal to the shelter than those who want to adopt them. 

收容所有几个最终目标。首先是帮助在街上发现的可怜的动物们。然后是把动物托付给合适的家庭。不幸的是,无论最初的打算是多么的好,如果一只动物在一段时间后没有被收养的话,收容所的管理层可能会采取安乐死的方式对待这些动物,毕竟比起那些想要领养宠物的人,有更多的人把宠物带到了收容所。

With that inhuman possibility in mind, some people may start to consider adopting a sheltered animal to save it from that inevitable fortune.

考虑到这种不人道的可能性,有些人可能开始考虑收养一只在收容所的动物,让他遭受那样的命运。

Adopting an animal

领养一只动物

Before adopting a shelter animal, it’s not advisable to rush in and pick up the first dog you like in the shelter. Find out its story and ask if it has any physical or mental injuries, diseases or wild behavioral tendencies, as you don’t want these problems to come up unexpectedly in the future. 

在领养一只收容所的宠物之前,不建议你选择你一眼就看中的那只。你应该找出它的故事,并询问工作人员它是否有任何身体或精神上的伤害,疾病或狂犬病的行为倾向。

Another simple bit of advice is that you can take an animal with a character similar to yours. If you like hiking - take an energetic puppy or kitten, if you would rather a more relaxing pastime - take a more laid-back and mature animal.

另一个简单的建议是,你可以选择一个与你性格相似的动物。如果你喜欢徒步旅行——带上一只精力充沛的小狗或小猫。但如果你更喜欢放松的消遣——那就选择一只冷漠的成年动物吧。

Get your family ready for it’s new member, discuss it with everyone concerned and make sure that everyone, without exception, agrees to accept the change. 

你也需要让你的家人为新成员的加入做好准备。与所有的相关人员进行讨论,确保所有人都无一例外地同意领养。

Keep in mind that occasional issues are unavoidable after you bring the newly adopted pet home.

记住,在你把新收养的宠物带回家后,偶尔出现的小问题是不可避免的。

All the precautionary measures listed above might scare you away from taking a pet from a shelter. But in fact, doing all of this is a win-win: Firstly, you save a living being that almost certainly has been through a lot of hardship, which will make him appreciate your act and treat you with the most sincere and devoted love; Secondly, The act would be deemed a more pragmatic solution as you don’t  have to pay for that love and devotion.

上面列出的所有的预防措施都可能会吓跑你,让你不要把宠物从收容所带走。但事实上,领养宠物是一个双赢的选择:首先,你拯救了一个经历了很多困难的生命,这将使他感激你的,以最真诚的爱对待你;其次,尽管如此,你不必为这种爱和奉献付出代价。

Undoubtedly, sheltered animals are those who were lucky enough to be treated by volunteers. They were taken from the streets, and from that moment on, every minute of their life has changed. However, the greatest dream of each sheltered animal is a caring and loving owner, a warm home and confidence in the future. Taking an animal from a shelter or helping it to find a new home, means a life is saved and even though you cannot change the world by saving a single animal’s life, you will most certainly change that animal’s world.

毫无疑问,受庇护的动物是那些足够幸运地接受志愿者治疗的动物。他们被从街上带走,从那一刻起,他们生活的每一分钟都开始改变。然而,每一只被保护的动物最大的梦想是一个有爱心的主人,一个温暖的家和对未来的信心。把一只动物从收容所带走,或者帮助它度过难关,找到一个新的家,你就拯救了一条生命。即使你不能通过拯救一只动物的生命来改变世界,你也一定会改变那只动物的世界。


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