Chapter 1899: Xiao Peng's thanks

"I'm sorry to disappoint you. We are not from the tax bureau." The woman has a sense of humor. "Introduce myself. I am Catherine from the Kansas City branch of American Express. This is Pluto."
"Express? What does it do?" Nolan asked puzzledly.
Catherine replied: "We are a credit card issuing service company."
"Huh? Are you going to apply for a credit card for us?" Nolan asked curiously.
Catherine was speechless, she decided not to go in circles: "Excuse me, are you friends of Mr. Xiao?"
"Mr. Xiao?" Nolan and Jenny are looking at me and I am confused: "We don't know the person by this name."
Catherine blinked: "Are you Mr. Noren Bussinier and Ms. Jeanie Bussinier?"
"Of course!" Noren said.
Catherine asked in confusion: "Then you don't know Mr. Xiao? Chinese. It's less than 1.8 meters tall."
After hearing this, Nolan suddenly realized: "Oh, he, I was here just now, but his surname is not Xiao, he is Peng!"
Catherine was speechless: "He is from China and his name is Xiao Peng. Their country has the surname in the front and the name in the back, so we should call him Mr. Xiao instead of Mr. Peng."
Nolan shrugged: "Well, it doesn't make a difference, isn't it? Don't know what's the matter?"
Catherine nodded and said: "Since you know Mr. Xiao, Mr. Xiao is a senior customer of our express company. He called us just now. Let us thank you for your help, so there are gifts for both of you."
"Gift?" Nolan asked puzzledly: "What gift?"
Catherine pointed to the Volvo behind and said: "First of all, this Volvo V60 station wagon is convenient for you to take your kids to wherever you want. The rear space is super large, and you can put a cow in."
"You mean this car belongs to ours?" Nolan didn't believe his ears a little.
Catherine smiled and said, "Of course not."
After listening to her, Noren and his wife had an expression of "Are you playing with me?" As a result, Catherine continued: "After you sign the ownership documents of these vehicles, this car will be yours."
Noren and Jenny were dumbfounded, looking at that Volvo station wagon, you see me and I see you.
"I don't know who is here to sign?" Catherine said with the folder.
Nolen went over to sign the letters, and Catherine gave him the car keys: "Mr. Businier, this car is yours. By the way, who is Mr. John Businier?"
Little John hid behind his mother and held out his head. Jenny said: "I'm sorry, my child is a bit introverted, and I can't meet any outsiders here."
Catherine smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, handsome little guy, and your gift."
On one side, Pluto opened the door and took out a large dog cage. Inside were four Migru Harriers, the prototype of the cartoon Snoopy.
"Puppy!" Little John saw Puppy running over with excitement, looking left and right in front of the cage.
Bruto said: "The point is that Mr. Xiao is too anxious. There is only one breed of these dogs in Kansas City called the Dürr Kennel. Although this kennel is certified by the AKC, there is nothing to take. A good dog with performance that has come out, has never won a championship at Westminster Abbey. It can only be regarded as an average racing dog, I wonder if you are satisfied?"
John was already nodding desperately, even though he didn't know what is called AKC, what is called a racing dog, but these four puppies are so cute.
This so-called'AKC' is the abbreviation of the Star-Spangled Kennel Club, and it is also the world’s largest dog-raising club. It is composed of more than 500 independent kennel clubs around the world, with more than 3,800 affiliates. In the club, there are close to 20,000 pet-related activities approved by the AKC in the Star-Stripe Country every year!
The Westminster Dog Show is the highest-level dog show held by AKC every year and one of the top four dog shows in the world. If you can win at this dog show? Whether it is a kennel or a dog, the value of it will skyrocket!
Don't think that a dog is worthless. Around 2000, a German Shepherd named "Askou" won the German Shepherd Association Special Competition under the "German Kennel Association", one of the four major dog exhibitions. The champion, after it won the championship, a local tyrant in the Middle East directly bid 200 million US dollars for the dog. As a result, the owner of "Askou" did not sell it. . . . . .
But this has also greatly stimulated the pet market. Nowadays, kennels have sprung up like bamboo shoots after a rain. Although most of them say that they love dogs, they are more because of business: you don’t see any popular dogs and breed them in the kennel. Is it a dog?
Of course, people just eat this set. The dog that won the competition in the dog show is a ‘good dog’! In the eyes of some people, "race-level dogs" are much better than "pet-level dogs", and they have to pay attention to their pedigree. In many people's eyes, the purer the pedigree, the more cute and expensive the dog is.
Anyone who thinks this way is misled by the dog dealer.
When many people proudly say that their dogs are'how pure', they don't know that in order to make their dogs look'more up to the standard', those dog farms often adopt the inbreeding method of inbreeding, mating, and mating. Its name is: gene purification. The result of this is that cancer, epilepsy, and low IQ will also happen to dogs. Many purebred dogs in the world are now suffering from conservative genetic diseases-which dogs are most popular, and which dogs have more genetic diseases.
For example, Labrador dogs generally have eye diseases and arthritis; Golden Retrievers have the highest cancer incidence among all purebred dogs; eight out of ten in Dalmatian are deaf; Chihuahuas generally have eye diseases and brain diseases; Cocker spaniels are also prone to ear diseases; Yingdou is prone to dystocia; Bullhead Terriers have obsessive-compulsive disorder. . . . . . These genetic diseases are all related to the so-called ‘gene purification’.
If you go back a hundred years ago, the various pet dogs that everyone knows are actually very different from modern pet dogs.
For example, because the Bull Terrier who collided with an actor from China, his face was not as round as now, but more like the Argentine Dogohound, with sharp edges and corners; another example is the Dachshund, a hundred years ago Dachshunds are only slightly longer, and their body proportions are still very good. Today, the length of the Dachshund has reached a weird level and the legs have become shorter. This also makes the Dachshund very prone to suffer from a herniated disc and cause it Paralyzed; the famous German Shepherd is not the same as today, more like a wolf, and the current German Shepherd has serious hip and elbow joint diseases in pursuit of the so-called "backbow". The German Shepherd breed as a police dog does not look as good-looking as the game, with long legs and short body, but in terms of physical function, it is much better than the German Shepherd in the game! There are countless examples of this. For example, the face of a boxer lion is half shorter than a hundred years ago; the same is true for a starling dog, which makes them difficult to breathe, hyperthermia and other diseases. . . . . .
The reason why there were so many dog ​​breeds in the past was to meet people's functional needs, such as letting dogs help hunting, helping to pull sleds, and so on, so a variety of specific dog breeds have gradually formed, but When people started dog racing more than a hundred years ago and began to take the path of dog aesthetics, everything changed.
All kennel associations say that they are to protect the dogs, but in fact it is to look at the money.
One of the four major kennel associations in the world, and the oldest of the four major kennel associations, the Eagle Country Kennel Association. At that time, it established breeding standards for almost all pedigree dogs. At that time, they demanded to kill all the appearance and standards that did not meet the standards. dog.
The rest of the dog industry associations are similar, and these dog industry associations use artificial standards to judge the appearance of dogs. The final result is that the genetic diseases of dogs are now doubled.
Of course, these canine associations don't care about this, because behind it represents the interests of too many people-now the global pet market is a big market with more than 120 billion US dollars a year! Among them, the Stars and Stripes Country and Maple Leaf Country account for half!
Want to buy a dog in the Star-Tangled Kingdom? It's even more troublesome.
First of all, we must choose a kennel. Most of the kennels in the Stars and Stripes are dedicated to breeding one breed for decades, and there are a few breeds of several breeds, but there will definitely be a focus, which can breed two breeds at the same time. All great kennels are very rare. And these kennels are also divided into first-tier, second-tier and third-tier levels.
Like those first-line kennels, the money is beyond imagination. They focus on playing games and may only breed a litter of dogs in one or two years. When the is still pregnant, the puppies are booked, just like those The champions in the Westminster Dog Show, want to buy their offspring? It's really not a matter of money. It depends on the mood of the owner of the kennel, who chooses customers.
The second-tier kennels are those kennels that are bred while playing competitions. Their kennels generally cannot win the championship of the top competitions, but they can win the championship. After landing, they will be sold directly to dog farms in Asian countries. In those dog farms in China Most of the so-called "champion dogs" come from this way.
The third-line kennel rarely competes, focusing on breeding and selling puppies. Of course, they will not do things that allow puppies to give birth to two litters a year-the animal protection law does not allow it.
These four puppies like John all come from such a three-line kennel.
But even though it is a third-line kennel, it is also an AKC-certified kennel. The puppies sold in such a kennel must be purebred and will come with a purebred certificate, but most of them are pet-level rather than competition-level.
But this kind of puppies is not cheap, one cost several hundred dollars. If it is a competition level? Thousands of dollars and tens of thousands of dollars are all normal.
Catherine looked at the way Little John liked it and smiled: "Little handsome guy, you must be kind to them. In order not to sterilize them, Mr. Xiao paid five thousand dollars."
"How many did you say?"