There are mothers who suddenly have to take care of their children's pets - Illustration: RSPCA
"Oh my god, get the dog out of the house."
At midnight, just coming home from school, the 12th grade son of Ms. Nguyen Thanh Hang (District 7, Ho Chi Minh City) knocked on his mother's door: "I just brought the dog home. Should I let it stay inside or in the yard, Mom?"
Ms. Hang said in frustration: "I told my son to take the dog wherever he wanted, the house is too small to keep a dog. But for the past few days, my son has ignored it, leaving me struggling to train his beloved dog to eat rice, puppy food, and go to the toilet in the right place. The dog cost millions, but if I give it to someone, my son will scream. I can't bear to ignore it."
So, in addition to working hours, morning, noon and afternoon, Ms. Hang has to take a little extra time to feed, bathe, and dry her son's pet dog...
Not to mention, she said she listened to her neighbors' instructions because it was a foreign breed of dog, so she had to take the dog for all sorts of vaccinations, and had to be careful not to let any plastic or paper particles fall around the house, so if the puppy swallowed it, she would have to take it to the vet, no joke.
"Raising a rebellious child is tiring enough, and now I have to raise his dog too. Telling him to take care of his dog himself, in reality, he doesn't have time to take care of it. He goes to school early in the morning and doesn't come home until late at night. I have to try to take care of him so he can study happily. I can't keep nagging about the dog every day," Ms. Hang shared.
Like Ms. Hang, Ms. Ha Tram (Go Vap district) strongly objected when her daughter "brought" home a puppy with white fur. "The house is cramped, not like in the countryside to raise a dog. Mom doesn't agree. Who are you giving the dog to?" Ms. Tram told her daughter. But her daughter still ignored it. Every day she went to school, leaving the puppy to her mother.
"When I didn't agree, my daughter said her friends also had dogs, so it was okay. She liked having a dog to relieve stress. But she didn't know that bringing a dog home would make me more stressed," Ms. Tram said tiredly.
My child's pet - my mother's concern - Illustration: K.ANH
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Two years ago, Ms. Minh Dung (Binh Thanh District) had to give in and let her daughter adopt a cat because her daughter, at her age, often avoided talking to her parents.
Ms. Dung thought of letting her daughter adopt a cat so that the two of them could have something to talk about. "Thanks to taking care of the cat together, my daughter is more open to talking to me than before," Ms. Dung said.
However, she did not have time to take care of her child's pet, so Dung had to spend time worrying about work, cooking and taking care of the cat. Not long after, her daughter brought home another cat. From this pair of parent cats, Dung now has to take care of 5 cats, because 3 more were born from the first pair.
"I was looking for someone to give away 3 kittens, but my little daughter told me not to. Why do you have to separate the kittens? Leaving them away from their parents will make them sad.
My youngest daughter chose to write a story about a cat family. So I tried to raise all the cats so she wouldn't be sad. But after raising them for a long time, I became fond of cats," Dung confided.
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