Someone I know is giving away puppies. He told me that whoever wants to adopt his puppies will have to give him an angpow and a packet of sugar. The amount in the angpow is immaterial because it's just a significant act. The same goes for the sugar. There is no fixed amount of sugar that one should give him in return for the puppy.
According to this person, this was taught by his mother and he is only following tradition. Well, it's not that I want to adopt his puppies, cute as they are, because of the nightmares that were left behind by my two dogs, but it made me realise that when we adopted these two dogs, we did not give anything back to the owner to "chop off" ties. Well, at that time, the mother dog was still a stray dog and she was subsequently adopted by a family. In retrospect, we should have given something to the family, maybe an angpow. As for the sugar, it was the first time I heard about it!
Maybe it is because of this that our dogs suffered so much. Both didn't have a healthy life and I thought that it was because they did not benefit much from their mother's milk. Whatever the cause, I am still so sad thinking about the pain they went through that I swear I am not keeping anymore pets!
According to this person, this was taught by his mother and he is only following tradition. Well, it's not that I want to adopt his puppies, cute as they are, because of the nightmares that were left behind by my two dogs, but it made me realise that when we adopted these two dogs, we did not give anything back to the owner to "chop off" ties. Well, at that time, the mother dog was still a stray dog and she was subsequently adopted by a family. In retrospect, we should have given something to the family, maybe an angpow. As for the sugar, it was the first time I heard about it!
Maybe it is because of this that our dogs suffered so much. Both didn't have a healthy life and I thought that it was because they did not benefit much from their mother's milk. Whatever the cause, I am still so sad thinking about the pain they went through that I swear I am not keeping anymore pets!
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