很多人會(huì)在家里養(yǎng)寵物，聊一聊家里養(yǎng)黃金獵犬是種什么體驗(yàn)

今天的這段對話，在討論黃金獵犬，
 
很多人會(huì)在家里養(yǎng)寵物，聊一聊家里養(yǎng)黃金獵犬是種什么體驗(yàn)
 
來聽今天的講解:
 
A: So, Mary, who are these guys here?
 
瑪麗，這些家伙都是誰？
 
B: This one's Piper. She's seven. She just had a birthday in October, and this one's Daisy, she's got kind of an older face on her. I think she's probably about nine years old.
 
這個(gè)是派珀，她七歲了。她剛剛在十月份過了生日，這個(gè)是黛西，她的臉看上去有點(diǎn)老。我想她可能有九歲了。
 
A: Are these your children?
 
這些都是你的孩子嗎？
 
B: You know, they could be my children, but they’re actually dogs. Golden Retrievers.
 
你知道，它們可以是我的孩子，不過實(shí)際上它們都是狗。品種是黃金獵犬。
 
A: They're so pretty.
 
它們真漂亮。
 
B: Yeah, they're a lot of my attention. They really have my heart captured right now, so I do spend a lot of time, you know, working on them and training them and taking them out for walks during the day and as you can tell by the big giant basket behind you they have a lot of toys so they're kind of active. They like swinging stuff around and playing outside. (Pipe. Hi, there!).
 
是啊，我要花很大精力照顧它們。我現(xiàn)在完全被它們迷住了，所以你知道，我要花好多時(shí)間訓(xùn)練它們，白天的時(shí)候會(huì)帶它們出去散步，你可以從你后面的那個(gè)大籃子看出來，它們有很多玩具，所以它們非?；钴S。它們喜歡時(shí)髦的東西，也喜歡在外面玩。（派珀，那里！）
 
A: So how did you get them?
 
那你是從哪里得到的它們？
 
B: I actually raised a Golden Retriever puppy for about 8 years. When I lost her, I remember thinking to myself, I'd love to have another golden retriever but puppies are really hard work, and wouldn't it be great if I could just find a dog that was already an adult, and I made mention to it to someone at work one day and she let me know of an organization, a rescue organization that worked primarily with Golden Retrievers, so I contacted the organization and they had several dogs available for adoption and I went and met a few, and kind of figured out their personalities and decided that there was one there for me, and that was Tucker, my big, big male who I had for a long time, so I ended up adopting him when he was a year and a half. He still had a lot of puppy in him, but he was already housebroken, and you know, in pretty good shape for bringing home so he was a lot of fun. That was my first experience with the organization, and they are a great organization. I really believe in a lot of the work they do, because a couple of the dogs, Piper in particular, happen to have been an abused animal unfortunately in the first part of her life so this organization spent a lot of time kind of evaluating the right kind of environment for an animal, and the right kind of animal for a family so the adoption process, as they call it, it's really involved, It's almost like adopting a child because they want to make sure that you're home is, you know properly set up for a dog this size and that your yard is fenced and that you can handle a dog like this and have what it takes to train him and get him to trust humans again so it's been a really long process in some cases. When I adopted daisy, almost two years ago, that was not so hard. She was a very easy dog to adopt. She just came in, made herself at home, got along great with Piper right away and, you know, she has never given me any concern or any reason to worry about her temperament. She's been just such an easy going dog.
 
實(shí)際上我曾經(jīng)養(yǎng)過一只黃金獵犬，而且養(yǎng)了8年的時(shí)間。當(dāng)我失去她的時(shí)候，我記得我對自己說，我想再養(yǎng)一只黃金獵犬，但是養(yǎng)小狗太辛苦了，如果我養(yǎng)一只成年狗不是很好嗎，有一天我在上班的時(shí)候和別人說了這個(gè)想法，她告訴了我一個(gè)組織，那是一個(gè)主要幫助黃金獵犬的救助組織，于是我聯(lián)系了那個(gè)組織，而他們有幾只可供收養(yǎng)的狗，我去那里見了幾只狗，簡單了解了一下那些狗的性格然后決定收養(yǎng)一只，那就是塔克，它是我收養(yǎng)的第一只狗，這只狗我已經(jīng)養(yǎng)了很長時(shí)間了，我收養(yǎng)它的時(shí)候它只有一歲半。其實(shí)它還是一只小狗，不過它已經(jīng)經(jīng)過訓(xùn)練養(yǎng)成了家居衛(wèi)生習(xí)慣，很適合帶回家收養(yǎng)，它真的很有趣。那是我在那個(gè)組織收養(yǎng)的第一只狗，那真是個(gè)偉大的組織。我真的非常相信他們做的工作，因?yàn)橛幸恍┕?，尤其是派珀，之前曾?jīng)很不幸地遭遇過虐待，而這個(gè)組織花費(fèi)了大量的時(shí)間來評估適合動(dòng)物生活的環(huán)境，適合動(dòng)物生活的家庭，所以所涉及的收養(yǎng)過程其實(shí)很像領(lǐng)養(yǎng)兒童的過程，因?yàn)樗麄兿Ｍ_保你的家庭適合這種大型犬生活，確保你的院子有柵欄，還要確保你可以照顧這種狗，而且可以訓(xùn)練它，讓它再次相信人類，所以在某些情況下，收養(yǎng)過程耗時(shí)很長。我在大概兩年前收養(yǎng)的黛西，那時(shí)收養(yǎng)過程并不復(fù)雜。我很容易地就收養(yǎng)她了。她只是進(jìn)來我的家，像在自己家一樣，而且馬上就和派珀相處融洽了，你知道，她從來沒讓我擔(dān)心過，完全不用擔(dān)心她的性情。她是一只非常好相處的狗。
 
A: Yeah, she seems like a sweetheart. Both of them are.
 
對，她看起來像戀人。它們都是。
 
B: Yeah, they're fun. They're fun.
 
對，它們真有趣。它們很有趣。