"Dog snacks cost 50,000 won, daughter's snacks cost 5,000 won"... The story of a father who moved 7 times in 5 years

According to a video from KBS Animal TV : Animal for You animal4u, on the KBS national talk show 'Hello Counselor' broadcast on September 23, 2013, the story of a family experiencing conflict with their children as they move their living base several times for their pet dogs was introduced.

"Dog environment is top priority" A father who moved 7 times in 5 years

The 19-year-old daughter, Lee Ji-bin, who sent in the story, revealed that her father moved as many as 7 times in 5 years for the sake of the pet dogs. The criteria for moving decisions were not the educational environment for the children, but were focused solely on the environment for the 11 pet dogs, such as whether there is a yard where they can run around freely or if the residents are people who like dogs. The place where the family currently resides has a yard for the pet dogs to run in, but it is a damp and old house. The daughter explained that the house is so damp that cave crickets appear every time they do wet cleaning.

The daughter expressed her disappointment at her father's 'discriminatory' expressions of affection. She said that while her father coldly tells her to only buy 5,000 won worth of snacks when she tries to buy some, he affectionately buys 50,000 won worth at a time when buying snacks for the pet dogs. In particular, the way the father was much more devoted in mixing medicine and worrying, saying "Our baby is dying," when the pet dogs were sick compared to when the daughter was sick with enteritis, came as a great disappointment to the family. The daughter even called her father 'Bongsik's Dad' because he is only kind to the pet dogs.

The father, the protagonist of the story, and the pet dogs appeared directly in the studio. The father is taking care of a total of 11 pet dogs, including 3 adult Jindo dogs and 3 puppies, and 4 adult Dalmatians and 1 puppy. At the scene, the pet dogs were present, including Bongsik, Jeomi, Jeongne, Jeongsugi, and a puppy that has received the temporary name 'Bongji' because it does not have a name yet. After returning from work, the father approaches the pet dogs before his children, greeting them affectionately with "What did our Bongsik do today?", and shows deep affection by filling his mobile phone profile picture and KakaoTalk conversations with photos of the pet dogs.

His devotion toward the pet dogs appears throughout his entire life. Fearing that the pet dogs might be bitten by mosquitoes in the summer, he purchases mosquito repellent and mosquito coils in large quantities at the market, prioritizing products for the pet dogs over those for the family to use. Additionally, he puts in effort such as making houses himself so that the pet dogs can walk or move comfortably. The father also shared the hardship of not being able to leave the living room all day because he has to lay out blankets in the living room for the pregnant dog and said he must clean at least once every three hours so that the pet dogs do not smell.

Regarding the situation where he had to decide to move to a place far from the school commuting distance for the pet dogs, the father showed a firm attitude. Even if the school and house are a 1-hour distance by car, he replied, "Dogs cannot overcome situations themselves, but humans can sufficiently overcome them," saying it is entirely possible if one wakes up 30 minutes earlier. This part shows the father's values of prioritizing the stability of the pet dogs.

An anecdote about when a pet dog was lost was also revealed. In the past, when a pet dog went out to the mountain behind the house, an emergency situation occurred where the whole family searched the mountain late at night while posting flyers. At that time, the daughter was in her first year of middle school, and she recalled the memory of the pet dog finding its way home by itself while wandering the mountain during the scary night, which relieved the family. The father recalled the urgent situation at the time when the whole family could not even go out and searched for the pet dog while posting flyers when it was lost in the past.