start with a pet store

Chapter 971 is too abnormal

"Ah, isn't that too weird?" After Lu Jingxing got off the car and got on again for the fourth time, Ji Ling finally felt that it was too abnormal.

She originally thought that maybe a new road had been built and the cats had moved to another place, but now there was not a single cat left, which was a bit strange.

Lu Jingxing started the car again: "Go ask the property management..."

If he doesn't figure this out today, he probably won't be able to sleep.

At least know what's going on.

Ji Ling nodded, she knew Lu Jingxing too well.

So the car drove directly to the property department.

The young security guard who had been directing traffic for them when they first came in saw them getting out of the car and nodded at them with a smile: "Hey, handsome guys, are you done?"

Lu Jingxing smiled and nodded, then walked towards him. When he got out of the car, he took a pack of cigarettes from the passenger seat, took one out and handed it to the security guard.

The security guard took it with a smile: "I'm sorry for today, I hope I didn't delay your work?"

He thought Lu Jingxing and the others were here to complain, but now that he saw him offering him a cigarette, he knew that at least it wasn't a complaint, and his attitude became much better.

"It's okay, it's okay, we are just helping a cat take a bath, it won't delay us, I want to ask you something..." Lu Jingxing waved his hands and said with a smile.

"Oh? What's the matter?" asked the security guard.

"I just took a walk around and found a very strange phenomenon. Your community is so big, but I didn't see a single stray cat or dog. This seems a bit too abnormal..." Lu Jingxing expressed his doubts very bluntly.

"Oh, you are talking about this. I know. So, are you in a hurry now? I just got off work. I will take you to a place to have a look..." The young security guard took off his hat and knocked it on his hand.

Lu Jingxing raised his hand to check the time, then nodded: "Okay, thank you for your help. Is it far? Do I need to drive there?"

"Well, it's not very far. Let's drive. It will take more than ten minutes to walk..." The security guard said as he followed Lu Jingxing to the car.

Ji Ling watched the two people coming over and looked at Lu Jingxing: "What's going on?"

"This guy said he knew the situation and took us to see it..." Lu Jingxing said as he got into the car.

The security guard also got in the car.

"Exit the community and walk south. It's about one kilometer away." The security guard got in the car and pointed to the front and said.

Ji Ling smiled politely, then turned around and stopped talking.

Lu Jingxing drove in the direction indicated by the security guard.

"You can walk from the back door of the community and arrive in ten minutes, but if you drive you will have to go around in a circle." The young man said to himself, "Turn this way and you will be there soon."

He said with one finger.

Lu Jingxing quickly made a sharp turn.

"Hey, hey, hey, we're here..." He said, pointing to a two-story house.

Lu Jingxing and Ji Ling looked at each other. This should be considered a dangerous building. It was the only one that had not been demolished.

"This place is going to be demolished soon, and we are worried about what to do with them..." The security guard opened the car door and jumped out first.

Lu Jingxing and Ji Ling got out of the car right after him.

I could hear dogs barking inside, and there was more than one dog, so it felt a bit noisy.

"Don't shout, don't shout, I'm here." The security guard led the two people inside and started shouting loudly.

"Does this mean that all the stray dogs in the community have come here?" Ji Ling couldn't help but ask.

The security guy nodded and said, "Yes, not only dogs, but also cats. They are all in here. We lock them up separately. We have set up a caring guard team, and I am just one of the members..." He said as he opened the door.

Immediately, dogs came running over with their tails wagging. When they saw him, they wagged their tails and hummed softly as if they had seen a relative.

The security guard casually touched the head of one of them and introduced: "This one is quite old. It has been wandering in our community for several years. Someone who knows it well said that it is at least 15 years old. It actually has a very good personality, so we didn't lock it up and let it guard this yard."

The yard was built by the original inhabitants themselves, and now it’s full of potholes, and some places feel shaky, as if it could collapse at any time if it rains heavily.

Lu Jingxing couldn't help but frown. This was not safe at all.

"Why are they all locked up here?" Ji Ling asked.

The young man walked in front and said, "The dogs are locked up on the first floor, and the cats are locked up on the second floor. There are not many dogs now, only five. Two of them were not from our community. They wandered into the community recently. We locked them up after observing that they were stray dogs. There are more cats, about twenty or so..."

He spoke to himself and opened the door to the first floor.

The door was not locked, but tied with a wire. It was easy to open by humans, but the dog could not open it by itself.

Lu Jingxing followed him inside.

"This is a long story, so let me show you first. Come on, it's time to eat." He picked up a basin and knocked on it, and immediately all the dogs came running over. In fact, they were all surrounding him, except for one dog that looked like a disabled dog, which was dragging its two hind legs from behind and trying hard to crawl to the front.

"We found it outside the community last week. When we found it, we found it was hit by a car. We sent it to the pet store for a simple surgery. The money was collected by several of us. To be honest, our salaries are not high. It is impossible to cure it completely. We can only keep it alive as much as possible. After the surgery, we still insisted on giving it injections for three days. The doctor also said that it can only rely on itself to grow slowly in the future. I guess it will be like this when it recovers." The brother put dog food in each dog bowl, and then packed the last portion and sent it to the injured dog. It was a mixed breed dog that looked a bit like a Teddy, but its hair was longer than that of an ordinary Teddy. Its hair was dirty and its original color could no longer be seen. Its eyes were also helpless and it looked very weak, but when it saw the food, it still tried to run over.

"Let me see..." Lu Jingxing walked towards the little guy.

Perhaps it was because the security guard and his loving team had been helping them these days, so they were very enthusiastic about the arrival of Lu Jingxing and Ji Ling, and did not feel at all that strangers were kept away.

The little guy didn't guard his food. When Lu Jingxing approached, he looked up and then continued eating. Lu Jingxing lifted his hind legs, and then the little guy turned half of his body and called out softly.

"Let me take a look at it for you. Does it hurt? Don't worry, we won't hurt you." Lu Jingxing said happily.

The little guy suddenly turned around and stared at him with fear in his eyes.

"Woof woof... Damn it..." This was the little guy's first reaction.

Lu Jingxing was amused by it: "Where did this ghost come from? Eat your food, let me show you its legs..." He pulled up its legs and touched them gently with his hand.

"How is it, Brother Lu, is it really disabled?" Ji Ling also squatted down.

"Anyway, the doctor said there's nothing that can be done." After the security guard gave the little ones some food and water, he also came over.

Lu Jingxing shook his head: "It's not that bad, but it still needs surgery. The bones are not properly connected, so they need to be reconnected..."

"Ah? You'll know if you touch it like this?" the security guard asked in surprise.

"I'm not completely sure. If we need to perform surgery, we will definitely need to take X-rays. This is my rough estimate. Let it eat first. What's the situation on the second floor?" Lu Jingxing put the little guy down, clapped his hands and stood up.

"Go up the second floor from that side, there are stray cats everywhere, most of them are tabby cats and big orange cats, there are also a few mixed breed cats, and a few are not sterilized. We have locked them up separately. We have contacted the pet shop and want to sterilize them all. A sister in our team went to contact them, and they said that a female cat would cost about 400 yuan, and a male cat would cost at least 200 yuan although it is cheaper, plus injections, it would cost about 300 yuan. There are four females and three males, so the total cost is more than 2,000 yuan. We didn't have enough money, so we had to make do with it." The security guard led them to the back.

This house should have been built in the 1990s. The layout is quite regular, except for the unreasonable arrangement of the stairs and other things. However, this makes it convenient for the security guys to deal with the cats and dogs, as the two floors are not affected at all.

Even when I walked to the back, I couldn't hear the dogs barking on the first floor.

“But, aren’t there stray cats and dogs here? Can’t you apply for sterilization of stray cats? The price is a bit high…” Ji Ling said after hearing this.

"Ah? Then I don't know. That's what Sister Hongmei said. She said this was the discounted price. I didn't understand it either. Anyway, she said that in the group. I saw that no one seemed to have any objection, but they just couldn't get so much money together at the moment, so they didn't do it..." The young man led them upstairs.

The stairs were a little dark, so the three of them took out their phones and turned on their flashlights.

"Hey guys, I'm here..." the security guy shouted again.

The moment the door opened, a dozen cats ran towards the door with their big tails raised.

Because the doors and windows were closed, the room smelled strongly of cat feces and urine.

Ji Ling fanned the air: "It's not ventilated here..."

"Yes, we opened the windows because we were afraid they would jump down. The screens are broken, and some of the window glass is broken. We got wooden boards from outside, so it's very dark everywhere. This place is going to be demolished soon, and there is no electricity or water." The security guard said as he walked towards the pile of sand in the corner.

"We didn't have money to buy cat litter, so we asked the community construction team for half a truckload of sand. I went upstairs and spent most of the night getting this half truckload of sand. There were so many cats, and there was nothing we could do. Everyone was very busy. We only shoveled the floor once every two days, but there was still a smell." He brought over a large trash can, then got a large shovel from another house, and shoveled away the sand with poop.

Ji Ling saw some residue in the cat's bowl, but couldn't tell what it was.

The security guard saw Ji Ling watching and said, "During the day, they will have a meal cooked by our love team members at home, such as chicken liver, meat, and vegetables. They cook it about once every two days, and have been doing this for several weeks. Sigh..." After saying that, he sighed heavily.

"But this is really not a long-term solution..." Ji Ling couldn't help but say.

"Well, that's right. We're in a very difficult situation now. The main thing is that this building is going to be demolished soon, and we simply can't find a place to put them." The security guard said with a frown as he fed the little ones.

Lu Jingxing also helped him add food to the little guys, and then asked: "Didn't you say that they were all wandering around the community? Why do you want to place them all here?"

This is something he has never figured out.

A long-haired calico cat rubbed against the security guard's legs, meowing from time to time. The security guard simply sat down on the ground.

"Our neighborhood started the renovation two months ago. I don't know if it was because of the machines, but the stray cats and dogs seemed a little anxious, especially during the days when the asphalt road was being paved. There were also cases of cats scratching children. The parents of the scratched children came to our property management and asked us to either drive out all the stray cats or euthanize them all." He stroked the little guy and recounted the situation.

Lu Jingxing and Ji Ling were both shocked when they heard this.

"There were many voices of opposition at the time, but the owner said that whoever thought his method was not feasible would be responsible for the child's medical expenses. After he said that, no one would say anything. It was just a stray cat, and no one wanted to be the victim, right?"

"In the end, the property management was out of options. After all, there were more than one or two cats and dogs. We counted them and found that there were more than twenty of them. No one could bring themselves to euthanize them all, so the property manager gave us this idea. They asked us to catch all the cats and dogs and lock them up here first to appease the owner. It's unrealistic to drive them out. Which community can accept so many at once? Besides, they are not legless. If we drive them out, they can still come back..." The security guard finally finished explaining the situation.

"Later, under the leadership of the property manager, a loving care team was organized. However, the property management funds are limited. Some owners who particularly dislike cats and dogs do not agree to pay for this fee from the property management fee. So the current situation is like this. Everyone feels like taking it one day at a time, because for more than 30 little guys, the daily fee is really not cheap..."

As they were talking, they heard a dog barking downstairs. The security guard immediately stood up, walked to another room and looked outside: "Our big sister is here, she knows more, Sister Wu..." He shouted downstairs.

"Hey, Master Xiaodong, why are you here at this time? What's going on with the pet hospital car parked outside?" The woman named Sister Wu replied from below.

"I brought them here. Please come up. I have fed the dogs downstairs..." He waved at her.

Then he turned around and walked over, spreading his hands: "That's how it is..."

But he didn't know how to solve it.

"Oh, this stairwell is so bad. How come I can't see anything at this point..." Sister Wu walked up while complaining.

(End of this chapter)