Let s talk about why sheep didn t become our pets.

In the past, dogs were able to be pets because they could provide a certain amount of assistance when hunting. In the agricultural era, cats also joined the pet group due to the rampant plague of stored food rats. And what about sheep?

Except for being eaten by humans and growing wool, it has no effect. However, this concept was limited to ancient times, after all, there was often a shortage of food at that time, and it was irrational to raise a meal ticket if you didn't have enough to eat. Raise a sheep and don't eat it, unless it is a particularly good relationship, or it is a big family.

And now the breed of pets is very rich, I have seen some people raise cockroaches as pets on the Internet, I have seen people walking pigs in school before, and I have seen bantam horses in school pet hospital internships, and sheep can naturally join a part of pets. But so far, I have never seen a sheep as a pet.

Animals as human pets are very late, and in earlier times, humans kept animals to the best of their ability, cats were used to catch rats, dogs were used to guard and help hunt, pigs digested the by-products of leftover meals and grains and provided meat, sheep provided meat and textile raw materials, cattle were used as agricultural labor, and horses were used as transportation labor and war tools. Cows and chickens provide food. Therefore, animals become pets, and first of all, its practical value disappears to a certain extent.

In modern society, because of the change in architecture, the rodent infestation has become no longer close to life, so cats can be pets, and the security problem has also improved with modernization, and there is no need for people to go out hunting, so dogs can also become pets. For other domestic animals, the practical value has not disappeared. The probability of being a pet is not high.

The vast majority of human pets are carnivorous omnivores, such as mammalian cats, dogs, reptile snakes, lizards, etc. I think the main reason is that it is convenient to take care of food and clean up the feces. Herbivores eat almost all the time, regurgitate, and pull while eating, even though sheep served as pets during primitive human times, but with the development of society, it is destined to be only a domestic animal.

To be honest, a low IQ is a hard injury, and when you were a child, you can cry when you are angry with sheep! If you don't eat good grass, you have to gnaw other people's trees, you go to smoke it, and it bleated aggrievedly and changed it to another and then gnawed. The little lamb does not return to the circle, you go to drive it, it can trap itself in the pyre and cannot move, so it will be distressed and entangled when it sees the slaughtering of the dog, and the most unbearable time to see the slaughtering of the sheep and the slaughter of the pig is the struggle, because it always feels that they have no soul like chickens and rabbits.

Seemingly docile sheep, in fact, the combat effectiveness is also off the charts, especially goats, when I was young, I and a few friends caught grasshoppers on the hillside to play, saw a goat not far away, the owner of the sheep smashed an iron drill into the ground, tied the sheep to it with a rope, and went to pick something, anyway, left. The sheep was staring at us and grazing slowly. A little friend was very skinny, to death, took a long wooden stick to poke the sheep basket, the sheep was angry, and with all his strength he broke free from the ground, chasing a few of us, and a few of us ran into the cornfield for a long time and did not dare to come out.

Anyway, I don't dare to raise it.

It seems docile but it's actually quite fierce, I took our little lamb home, but it actually tore up my award, and ran around, making a mess in the house, you don't drive it with a whip, they don't understand what you say, this is a pet, it can tire the owner.

Many hot pot restaurants use sheep as pets, right? Don't you all feel it?

As a vegetarian mammal, the sheep is actually the earliest animal to be accompanied by humans, as early as the matrilineal clan period, the primitive inhabitants of northern China began to shepherd sheep, and the sheep have been silently dedicated to human beings in a very early time! In scientific practice, sheep should be pets.

Cute sheep. There are many types of sheep, different shapes, whether they are goats or sheep they are relatively docile, the largest sheep can reach 800 kilograms, and the smallest breed is only about 10 kilograms, the interesting thing is that the pupils of sheep are rectangular, the more scientific kind, so that they have a wider field of vision!

Sheep are actually very smart.

Sheep are not only smart, the IQ is relatively high, they are not afraid of heights, unlike dogs that look brave or even fierce, mostly afraid of heights, sheep are also very playful, and very good at playing, like some games, and even they will invent games themselves! They're high-tech, scientific animals.

Sheep is also very playful, and very good at playing, like some games.

Big-eared sheep. Sheep eat grass, food is relatively simple, in addition to great economic value and food value, science has found that some of their breeds belong to the category of high intelligence, good at learning, those are actually more suitable for pets!

The IQ of the sheep is not lower than that of a dog, and the square pupils can also be played, and it is really suitable to be a pet if it is docile and does not bite!

There are the following reasons:

Sheep eat for a very long time every day, after all, they are ruminants. As a result, whatever you can eat in front of you will be chewed and swallowed immediately. Raising a family, what newspapers, green plants, furniture, and RMB will spoil you every minute.

Because the sheep is so stupid, you can't correct it, you can only prevent it.

Live sheep have an obvious smell, and the urine and urine are very frequent, and the smell is very big. For food and digestive reasons, sheep and cows are very good at farting! Some experts have studied that ruminants such as cattle and sheep will contain a large amount of methane in their farts because of their characteristics, which aggravates the global warming effect.

When the sheep are small, they are cute, and they can also wear diapers to cope with it. But when I grew up, I ate a lot of food, defecated anytime and anywhere, and couldn't stop farting, and I couldn't disperse the smell of sheep without a farm yard or anything. I still remember the first time I went to the sheep farm, and the smell went straight to my brain and was remembered for a lifetime.

Because sheep have not been domesticated by humans to urinate in a fixed place, it is very difficult to train pet sheep to defecate at a fixed point.

Although the sheep is well-behaved, intelligent and docile, it is not very empathetic, and its size is relatively large, and it is not easy to clean, so it is not particularly convenient to carry it out.

As one of the first animals to be domesticated by humans, it makes sense that sheep has not become a pet after tens of thousands of years, mainly because of its "body odor", "personal hygiene" (rumination) and "destructive power" (hooves are too hard). Therefore, these shortcomings make it only stay in the stage of being sheared or eating meat, although it is relatively docile, low cost of raising, and very smart.

Because the size of the sheep is relatively large, and it smells bad, it is more difficult to clean, and it is also difficult to feed.