Pets and family eat the same

Do you have pets at home?

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Yes

 

What kind of pets do you have? Since when do you live with them?

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I have a dog for 5 years

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What does your pet eat? How many times a day do you feed it? How do you prepare your food?

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Sometimes he eats leftovers and sometimes prepared food. Frequently once a day, he has a cauldron for his food.

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Who is in charge of getting him food?

 

All family members always leave him something

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How do you value the exercise of providing for your pet? Has it gotten better or worse in the last two years?

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It is increasingly difficult to find food just for him

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Did you have pets during the nineties? How different was it then from now?

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I had, but since we lived in the country in the nineties it was a little easier to find food for it

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Did you have farm animals in the 1990s (chickens, pigs, rabbits, etc.)? Should they have been slaughtered for family consumption?

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Yes, various chickens, rams and pigs. They were for family consumption.

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Did you consider them pets at the time?

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Yes, one manages to form a relationship with those animals.

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What other experiences did you have about feeding animals living with humans during the marked shortages in the nineties?

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One of the chickens we had at home ate some ears of corn contaminated with artisanal caustic soda soap, and we had to euthanize it. When we opened it, it was dissolved by the caustic soda.

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There were many rumors that were the product of imagination and necessity, which linked stray animals, zoo animals, which one do you know from that time?

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In the small town where I grew up, some people said that they ate cats to survive.

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As the owner of a pet, what do you think is missing in the Cuban market for animal feed?

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Animal feed products are very expensive and difficult to access. They are non-existent in the state market.

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