The cryptographic currency "Dog currency" (Dogecoin) has been subjected to Tesla, Inc..CEO Musk is famous for his favor, which has appreciated by 4600% in a year. For a while, raising a firewood dog also became a fashion, because the firewood dog is the symbol of the dog coin, and Musk himself has just bought a firewood dog.
However, real pet owners and animal conservationists worry that this is just the result of hype and following the trend, and that there will be more and more cases of abuse and neglect of dogs.
Jeri Burnside, who has kept firewood dogs for nearly 35 years, said: "all my friends are overwhelmed by requests for puppies. Their waiting list is miles long."
Burnside, co-founder of the Southern California Wood Dog Club and the Southern California Wood Dog Rescue Organization, pointed out that large-scale raising of wood dogs can only turn a popular breed into a short-lived "fashion" and have a very negative impact.
He explained: "moral breeders who breed firewood dogs to protect and improve their breeding ability (for moral breeders of any breed) are never happy to see that a breed is so popular. Because there are many negative effects of a breed becoming 'fashion', all of which are the result of inselective breeding by backyard breeders and puppy processors. ""
Burnside added that the crisis was exacerbated by a lack of understanding of the temperament of firewood breeds by inexperienced dog owners. For example, firewood dogs can never be completely reliable without a leash, because they are Japanese breeds of hounds and inherit wolf genes.
As a result of the trend, there has been a surge in the number of firewood dogs abandoned by their owners, uncared for, lack of social interaction and education, and aid organizations are struggling to cope.
Regardless of the volatility of the cryptocurrency market, the ups and downs of dog coins, or Elon Musk's preferences, the reality is that there are millions of puppies who are not seen as life, but are sold as a commodity fashion. Neither the firewood dogs nor their protectors like this.