Start at the pet store

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

She originally thought that the cats might have moved to a new place because of the newly built road, but there was no one left, which was a bit weird.

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

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

At least he has to know what's going on.

Ji Ling nodded, she knew Lu Jingxing too well.

So the car drove directly to the property management department.

The young security guard who helped them direct traffic when they first came in saw them getting off the car, and smiled and nodded at them: "Hey, handsome guy, are you done?"

Lu Jingxing smiled and nodded, walked towards him, and when he got off the car, he took a pack of cigarettes from the co-pilot, took out one and handed it to the security guard.

The security guard took it with a smile: "Sorry for delaying your business today, did I?"

He thought Lu Jingxing and the others were coming to complain, but now that he took the initiative to hand him a cigarette, he knew that at least it was not a complaint, and his attitude was much better.

"It's okay, it's okay, we are just helping a cat to 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?" the security guard asked.

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

"Oh, you are talking about this, I know, so, are you in a hurry now? I just got off work, I'll take you to a place to have a look..." The young security guard took off his hat and tapped 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 you need to drive there?"

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

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

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

The security guy also got in the car.

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

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

Lu Jingxing drove in the direction pointed by the security guy.

"You can walk from the back door of the community and arrive in more than ten minutes. If you drive, you have to go around." The guy said to himself: "Turn this way and you'll be there soon."

He pointed.

Lu Jingxing quickly made a sharp turn.

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

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

"This place will be demolished soon. We are worried about how to deal with them..." The security guard opened the car door and jumped out first.

Lu Jingxing and Ji Ling got out of the car immediately.

There were dogs barking inside, and there was more than one, which made a bit of noise.

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

"Do you mean that all the stray dogs in the community are here?" Ji Ling asked.

The security guard nodded: "Yes, not only dogs, but also cats, are all in here. We keep them separately. We have set up a love guard team, and I am just one of the members..." He opened the door while speaking.

Immediately, dogs ran over with their tails wagging. When they saw him, they were like seeing a relative, shaking their heads and tails, and humming softly.

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

The yard was built by the original residents themselves. Now it is full of potholes and it feels that some places are a bit shaky. As long as there is a heavy rain, it may fall down at any time.

Lu Jingxing couldn't help but frowned. This is not safe at all.

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

The guy walked in front: "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 originally from our community. They wandered into the community recently. We observed that they were stray dogs and locked them in. There are more cats, about twenty..."

He talked to himself and opened the door on the first floor.

The door was not locked, but tied with a wire. It is easy to open it manually, but the dogs cannot open it by themselves.

Lu Jingxing followed him inside.

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

"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 operation. 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 operation, 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. It is estimated that it will be like this when it is healed." The young man put dog food in each dog bowl, and then packed the last portion and sent it to the injured dog.

It was a mixed dog that looked a bit like Teddy, but its hair was longer than that of ordinary Teddy. Its hair was dirty and its original color could not be seen. Its eyes were also helpless and it looked very weak, but when it saw food, it still tried to run over.

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

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

The little guy didn't guard his food. When Lu Jingxing approached, he looked up and continued to eat. Lu Jingxing lifted his hind legs, and the little guy turned half his body and called out in a low voice.

"Let me see 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 his eyes full of fear.

"Woof woof... what the hell..." This was the little guy's first reaction.

Lu Jingxing was amused by it: "Where is the ghost, eat your food, I'll show you the leg..." He pulled up its leg and touched it gently with his hand.

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

"Anyway, the doctor said there is no way." After the security guard put the food in the little guys, he added water and came over.

Lu Jingxing shook his head: "It's not disabled, but it still needs surgery. Its bones are not connected properly, and it needs to be reconnected..."

"Ah? You can tell by touching it like this?" The security guard asked in surprise.

"Not entirely sure. If you want to do the surgery, you must take an X-ray. This is my rough estimate. Let him eat first. What's the situation on the second floor?" Lu Jingxing put the little guy down, clapped his hands and stood up.

"The second floor is full of stray cats, mostly tabby cats and big orange cats, and there are also a few mixed breed cats. Some are not sterilized. We have separated them. We have contacted the pet shop and want to sterilize them all. A sister in our team contacted her and said that a female cat would cost about 400 yuan, and a male cat would cost 200 yuan, which is cheaper. In addition, it would cost about 300 yuan, and there are four females and three males. It will cost more than 2,000 yuan. We didn't have enough money, so we just made do with it." The security guard took them to the back.

This house should have been built in the 1990s. The layout is quite regular, but the stairs and other things are not arranged reasonably. However, this makes it convenient for the security guards to deal with these cats and dogs. The two floors are not affected at all.

Even when you walk to the back, you can't hear the dogs on the first floor barking.

"But, aren't there all stray cats and dogs here? Can't you usually apply for stray cat sterilization? This price is a bit high..." Ji Ling said after hearing it.

"Ah? I don't know, that's what Hongmei said. She said this is the discounted price. I don't understand it. Anyway, she said it in the group. I saw that everyone didn't seem to have any objections. It's just that they didn't get so much money together for a while, so they didn't do it..." The young man led them upstairs.

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

"Cats, I'm here..." The security guy shouted again.

The moment the door was opened, more than a dozen cats ran to the door with their big tails raised.

Because the door and windows were closed, there was a strong smell of cat feces and cat urine in the room.

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

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

"We don't have money to buy cat litter, so we asked the community construction team for half a truck of sand. Oh, I went upstairs for this half truck of sand and spent most of the night. There are so many cats, so there's nothing we can do. Everyone is very busy, so we only shovel once every two days, but there is still a smell." He brought a large garbage can over, and then took a large shovel from another house to shovel away the sand with poop.

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

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

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

"Hey, who said it wasn't? Now we are in a difficult situation. The most important thing is that this building will be demolished soon, and we can't find a place to put them." The security guard said with a sad face while adding food to the little guys.

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

This was something he had never thought about.

A long-haired three-flowered flower rubbed against the security guy's legs, meowing from time to time, and the guy just sat down on the ground.

"Our community started to renovate two months ago. At that time, I didn't know if it was because of the machines coming in. These stray cats and dogs seemed a little anxious, especially during the days when the asphalt road was paved. There were also cats scratching themselves. The parents of the children who were scratched came to our property and either drove out all the stray cats or euthanized them all," he said while holding the little one.

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

"There were a lot of objections at the time, but the owner said that if anyone thought the solution he suggested was not feasible, then he would be responsible for the child's medical expenses. When he said this, who could say anything? They were just stray cats. No one wants to be taken advantage of, right?"

"In the end, the property management couldn't do anything. After all, it wasn't just one or two cats and dogs. We counted them and found that there were more than 20 in total. They were all euthanized. No one could do it, so the property manager gave us this idea. Catch all the cats and dogs, lock them here first, and appease the owner first. It is unrealistic to say that they are driven out. No community can accept so many at once. Besides, they are not legless. If they go out, they can still come back..." The security guard finally finished explaining the situation.

"Later, under the leadership of the property manager, such a caring team was organized. However, property funds are also limited. Some owners who particularly dislike cats and dogs do not agree that this fee should be paid out of the property fee, so the current situation is like this. Everyone There is a feeling that one day is counting the day, because for thirty or so little guys, the cost of one day is really not that good..."

While several people were talking, they heard the dog yelling below. The security guy immediately stood up, walked to another room and looked outside: "Our eldest sister is here. She knows more. Sister Wu..." He Shout towards the bottom.

"Hey, Master Xiaodong, why are you here at this time? Why is there a pet hospital car parked outside?" the woman named Sister Wu replied from below.

"I brought it. Come up here. I've fed the dogs below..." He waved to her.

Then he turned around and walked over, spreading his hands: "That's what happened..."

But he didn't know how to solve it.

"Oh, this stairwell is not working anymore. Why can't I see this point at all..." Sister Wu complained as she walked up.