Kang Zhituo, 24 years old, is an accountant. After graduating from a vocational college in 2010, he started doing clothing accessories business in Shishi, Beijing and other places. As an only child whose parents are disabled, Kang Zhituo has been fond of dogs since he was a child. As a teenager, he used the money he earned from working during the summer to buy and raise dogs. This boy, who is a bit "rebellious" in the eyes of his parents, has two loyal "dog brothers" who accompany him as he grows up and comfort him in his loneliness.
A few years ago, Kang Zhituo came across a purebred golden retriever on the streets of Beijing. Its well-proportioned body and docile personality immediately attracted this dog lover. He had never seen such a beautiful purebred golden retriever in Quanzhou, so he started frantically browsing websites and forums to learn all kinds of information about golden retrievers. Purebred golden retrievers are all imported, and a lot of the information is in English. He Just use translation software to check. When he learned that there were breeding bases in Zhejiang and Tianjin, he went to investigate at his own expense.
The actual decision to raise a golden retriever was also an accidental opportunity. At the beginning of 2014, Kang Zhituo went to inspect a breeding base in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province. He happened to find that the owner planned to transfer the entire operation, so he decided to take the next step. Time was urgent, so he called his father Kang Jianmin directly and asked him to find a venue within two days. Kang Jianmin was very surprised by his son's decision. He had no time to blame him for "cutting first and telling later". Even though he was worried about whether it would succeed, he still tried his best to support his son's willful decision. At the foot of the mountain next to the village, I found a piece of mountain land that would not disturb the residents and was environmentally suitable, and I invested my own savings to build a kennel. Soon, Kang Zhituo took more than 20 purebred golden retrievers and took root in the mountains and became a "dog herder".
The news that Kang Zhituo quit his job and returned to the village to raise dogs immediately exploded in the village, and was even regarded as a joke by the villagers. What they didn't know was that Zhituo was not only serious this time, but also fully prepared for preliminary research and psychological preparation.
“The IQ of golden retrievers ranks fourth among dogs. Their biggest characteristics are docility and intelligence. They are often trained as guide dogs. Many people like to keep golden retrievers as pet dogs. From abroad and Hong Kong, According to the data from Shanghai and Beijing, the development prospects of the domestic pet market are very broad," Kang Zhituo said. He is also ready to meet various challenges: First, the investment is relatively large. It costs hundreds of thousands of yuan to import a purebred golden retriever from abroad, and even millions of yuan to build a star dog ranked among China's top dogs. Second, the requirements for epidemic prevention conditions are high. Third, blood type matching is very empirical.
The male god "Baker"
Kang Zhituo's training base is not large. The 11 slots in the kennel are clean and tidy, and a wall separates them into living and activity areas. , the golden retriever can enter and exit freely through the door hole in the wall. "Golden retriever training and epidemic prevention conditions are very demanding. We disinfect the kennels every morning and evening." Kang Zhituo also specially invited pet doctors from Quanzhou and Yongchun to ensure health.
After more than two years of domestication experience, Kang Zhituo has transformed from a big boy into an all-round "dog dad" who has no problem raising children. When the puppies were born, he and his parents took turns to wait day and night for more than ten days. The puppies were bathed after the full moon, and were weaned after 36 days... In addition to being familiar with the dogs' eating, drinking, littering, and sleeping, he was also fully devoted: When a female dog gave birth , died suddenly of uterine membrane rupture, he cried miserably; he remembered every dog’s birthday, and gave each dog a foreign name.
Among the golden retrievers domesticated by Zhituo, his favorite is "Goddess Baker" - the earliest purebred golden retriever introduced in China, which once won the US Landing Championship. The 11-year-old Baker has bred more than 30 "offspring". All of his "children" are outstanding, and his "family" is honored: among the five "daughters", Anne has won the world landing championship; Anya and Anli are both from China. Landing champion; beautiful Anna is also a "seed contestant" in the competition and has given birth to 7 children; Anya's "daughter" Daisy, who is just 7 months old, just won the puppy category championship of the China All Breeds Championship last month; "son "Zorro has inherited excellent genes and has been designated as the "successor".
The reason why Kang Zhituo’s pet dog has been able to win many prizes in various canine “beauty contests” is inseparable from the emphasis on blood type matching. "There are a lot of things to pay attention to when matching golden retrievers. The body should be well-proportioned, and the face should be 'sweet' and 'cute.'" Kang Zhituo's domesticated golden retrievers are positioned as high-end, but they are very popular in the market. Since the beginning of this year, 600,000 golden retrievers have been sold. There are multiple puppies and more than 20 adult dogs, with prices ranging from 4,000 to more than 30,000 yuan.
In addition to continuing to train more golden retrievers to become champions, Kang Zhituo has more plans: First, to expand the scale and move the base to a place with more convenient transportation down the mountain. The long-term plan is to develop it into a leisure pet ecological park that integrates golden retriever dog domestication, animal science education, leisure tourism and other functions to accept more tourists and activities. The second is to promote its own brand of organic dog food. The early stage of research and development and the registration of the "Pinshang" trademark have been completed, and the industry is currently undergoing internal testing. The next step is to form a team for market promotion. The third is to hope to cooperate with relevant departments to jointly expand research and development on the domestication of guide dogs and search and rescue dogs.
“The pet market has broad prospects, and there is still a lot of room for development to be explored.” Although facing many difficulties such as funding and space, Kang Zhituo is still full of energy.