start with a pet store

Chapter 1068: All Problems
"She's really amazing. We were all very worried about her at the time, because we didn't know the other party's ultimate goal. We could only keep in touch with her, but we couldn't take over her job. We were really nervous. But fortunately, she seemed to be quite familiar with Mingzhou. So, as soon as she made a phone call, the management bureau and so on immediately sent people. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been so smooth." Zhang Zhongde praised the short girl.

Lu Jingxing nodded. He remembered this girl. It seemed that she was also involved in rescuing a group of stray cats last time.

As they were talking, the girl suddenly turned around and ran towards them: "Brother Zhang, it's done. We'll transport it to the building materials market right now..."

She suddenly looked at Lu Jingxing and shouted in surprise: "Lu... Lu Jingxing?"

"It's me, hello..." Lu Jingxing smiled and nodded, greeting her.

"Wow, you are here too, that's great. We were just short of manpower to vaccinate and check up the little ones..." The girl smiled with her eyes curved and nodded along with Yang Pei and the others.

"Going to the building materials market?" Zhang Zhongde asked.

"Someone helped rent a warehouse over there. They said it can hold more than a thousand cats. The market also agreed. The warehouse can be used at any time. We are going to transport them there now." The girl nodded.

The volunteers who had already known the news had started helping to load the truck.

There are so many cats.

It turned out that all the cats in the truck were piled together, with one cage holding seven or eight cats.

When we just stopped here to wait, the volunteers had already helped to transfer half of it.

It's still spinning.

Originally it took one car to load the gear, but now volunteers and staff have called seven or eight cars to barely hold it all.

While the truck was being loaded, Lu Jingxing also received a call from his factory master, saying that they had also arrived in Mingzhou and asked where the goods were to be delivered.

Lu Jingxing asked the girl for the exact address before sending it to the driver.

In this way, when they arrive, they can just replenish the food supply for the little ones.

Because the dog was sent to a dog shelter.

Because the dog shelter is some distance away from here, Lu Jingxing was originally planning to ask Sun Chongwu to deliver the dog food in the car directly over there. However, after thinking about it, he decided that everyone should go to the warehouse of the building materials market first.

At that time, Sun Chongwu’s truckload of dog food and the dog food brought from the factory can be sent to the dog shelter together to avoid running back and forth.

Everyone worked together and finally managed to load all the little ones into the car, and then headed to the building materials market together.

Because someone was making arrangements in front, as soon as they arrived, someone would immediately respond.

There are more and more volunteers.

With more manpower, unloading the truck becomes much faster than loading.

The grain delivery master arrived at the warehouse before them. When Lu Jingxing and his team arrived, they had almost unloaded all the grain.

The volunteers were also moved when they saw the cat food piled up in the corner of the warehouse.

Without any instructions, everyone took the initiative to feed and clean the cats.

The little ones have been hungry for too long.

As soon as the cat food was put in the cage, the little guys started to eat it with big mouthfuls.

The local staff in charge of handling this matter kept expressing their gratitude to Lu Jingxing. You know, this is not a small amount. Although these tons of cat food will not be used for long, without a few tons of cat food, the placement of the cats tonight will be a problem.

Lu Jingxing exchanged a few polite words, then took Yang Pei and the others into the warehouse and began to treat the little ones and give them injections.

There are many breeds of cats on the scene, such as blue cats, silver shaded cats, golden shaded cats, ragdolls, and even Maine Coons with very good appearance.

Many of them also wear neck collars.

No one had time to lament. If they had not been discovered by the girl, they would have been slaughtered.

It was the first time for Situ Fang to participate in such an on-site rescue operation.

He had been following Lu Jingxing not far away, and asked in confusion: "Master, with so many cats, are these people really going to send all of them to the slaughterhouse? Are there really people who eat cats?"

He felt totally confused.

Although he was a veterinarian and had seen all kinds of strange things, he could not understand eating cats.

Lu Jingxing shook his head helplessly, "It's true that some places do eat cats, but the number of people who are willing to eat cat meat is probably still small. Especially for cats of this breed, the most terrifying thing is those unscrupulous small workshops that process cat meat and disguise it as other meats to enter the market. You can tell at a glance that many of these are not bought, most of them are stolen by them. You can tell by the breed, the image, and the collars."

Situ Fang was indignant: "I really want to cut him into pieces..."

"That's right. Think about it, your cat accidentally runs away one day, and a few days later, when you go to the roadside to eat barbecue, fried skewers, or go to a small restaurant to eat hot pot, it appears on your dining table..." Yang Pei took a cat out of the cage and said as he skillfully checked its condition.

When he said this, several volunteer girls who were helping him couldn't help but tremble: "Stop talking, you're making me afraid to eat skewers in the future."

When Yang Pei saw this, he quickly raised his hand to apologize: "I'm sorry, I'm just talking to my little brother, don't think too much, ordinary merchants won't do such a thing..."

The girls didn't respond, just lowered their heads and continued doing their own things.

Lu Jingxing didn't have time to talk to them anymore, because the original cages were too small, and they were also very low-quality chicken cages, stacked one on top of the other. Many cages were crushed and deformed, and the kittens inside were also injured.

At first, Lu Jingxing and his team only handled some basic inspections, but gradually more and more problems arose.

They need to perform surgery on the kids now. Many of them will die if they don't have surgery on the spot.

An operating table was temporarily set up, and Lu Jingxing performed the surgery on the seriously ill case, with Yang Pei assisting.

Situ Fang and Ji An are mainly responsible for this inspection.

Later, several experienced doctors came from Mingzhou, and they finally checked all the cats by dawn. Although Longan and Mingzhou are several hours away by car, Lu Jingxing's platform is not only famous in Longan. When he first came, he discussed it with Zhang Zhongde and others, and also greeted the local authorities.

They have been broadcasting the accident live.

Then another group of people were arranged to select the little ones wearing collars to contact their owners.

Because the collar usually has the owner's phone number.

Many people near Minnesota received the call that night and rushed over.

A girl was so excited when she saw the little orange tree she had lost and found again that she couldn't speak: "Wow, I've been looking for it for three days. I thought I would never see it again."

She hugged the little guy and kissed him non-stop.

The volunteers had to stop what they were doing to comfort her: "It's good that you found it, it's good that you found it, look, there are still so many that have not found their owners."

"Woo, um, can I help? Do you need my help?" Seeing that everyone was busy, the girl quickly put her little cutie into the airline box she carried with her, and started to help without even having time to wipe her tears.

Thanks to everyone's efforts, more and more little ones are lucky enough to be reunited with their families.

But this number is really too large, and there are too few lucky ones.

The next morning, when Lu Jingxing finally had some free time, he looked at the warehouse full of cats and couldn't help shaking his head.

According to his understanding, there is only one stray cat rescue station in Minnesota, and before he came, he had called to inquire, because he had dealt with them before and knew that their conditions were not good.

He asked, and found out that they already have about 300 cats, and have always been supported by the support of caring people in the society. It is obviously unrealistic for them to take over such a large business now.

The volunteers took a final count and found that there were about a thousand cats in the warehouse, except for a small number of cats, about 20 to 30 in total, that escaped because they resisted too much when being transferred from cage to cage during the rescue, and dozens of cats that were found dead in the early stages of the rescue.

This number is really not small.

This warehouse has no windows, so it definitely won’t work for long, and the cats can’t be kept locked up like this forever.

But, obviously, there is no better way now.

The only consolation is that many volunteers have delivered a lot of supplies to the warehouse, including cat food, dog food, and medicine.

Lu Jingxing helped them rent a smaller room next to the warehouse to store the supplies.

Apart from this, he currently has no better solution.

He couldn't stay here forever. Finally, the girl who rescued them at the beginning came to him for advice: "Brother Lu, please give us some advice. What should we do now? Many netizens are asking when they can adopt them. What should we do with them?"

This is because they knew that Lu Jingxing had experience in dealing with this matter, so they came directly to learn from him.

Lu Jingxing frowned slightly and told the girl named Chen Mianmian what he knew: "As far as I know, there is only one stray cat adoption base in Mingzhou. It is obviously unrealistic to deal with the thousand cats here."

Seeing the two of them discussing, Zhang Zhongde, Yang Pei and others also came over, as well as two on-site supervisors.

Everyone nodded. "Yes, and those dogs from yesterday, although they have been put in the dog shelter now, they have greatly exceeded the capacity of the shelter. This is a problem."

Lu Jingxing nodded: "I have checked our platform and what you posted on the platform. There are still many netizens asking for advice, but now is obviously not the best time to adopt. After all, the people who were arrested have not been convicted yet, and these little guys are still evidence for now.

Besides, the little guy’s condition is still unstable, and we need to test the situation with feline plague test strips before we can make any further decisions.

According to my experience, adoptions should be allowed to start after a week, but this matter must be handled by a dedicated person, and it cannot end up becoming a second injury to the little ones.

Then, regarding the little ones with collars, if we can contact their parents, we will try our best to contact them. As long as they didn’t abandon them themselves, and it is really inconvenient for them to come to the site, we can send them back by logistics.

Then, I counted the supplies we received, including the ones we brought yesterday, and they should be enough to last for about ten days. I think, as our platform has been distributing supplies, caring people should be able to provide some more.

Many of the brands we cooperate with are also sending materials here, and we should be able to receive them in the next two days, so there shouldn’t be any big problems with logistics for the time being.

At least in terms of care, although we have more female volunteers now, everyone is working together for the little ones. I saw many girls helping with unloading and they were no worse than boys. There were even many who were scratched by cats, but they just applied some iodine and continued working. So, in the short term, there should be enough manpower.

Now the enthusiasm is there and there are many volunteers, but in the long run, this model will definitely not work.”

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone nodded. This was the problem they were worried about. Just having a thousand or so cats would be a big problem in terms of placement, and there were so many dogs as well.

Seeing everyone's frown, Lu Jingxing continued, "I will also urgently contact the shelters in the surrounding counties and cities to see if they can help divert some of the animals. I calculated that we should have no problem taking in another two or three hundred, but after all, our place is quite far away, and transportation is also a problem. In the end, if there are really no people to accept, then I will cover the back."

This was the question he was thinking about while performing the operation.

Now that he is here, we can't just leave him alone, but it's unrealistic to ask him to collect all of them. Although it only takes more than five hours to get from Long'an to Mingzhou, it crosses provinces.

And even if it is transferred to him, it will take a long time to complete the above procedures.

Several people nodded again. Everyone knew what he said and understood the truth.

They just haven't dealt with it themselves and don't know how big a deal it is.

Chen Mianmian couldn't help but ask with some concern: "Brother Lu, when will you leave?"

"Ah?" Lu Jingxing didn't think about this question yet: "It's okay, even if I leave, I will make arrangements, don't worry about this..."

The few of them seemed to have found a backbone. Chen Mianmian even said, "You can't just leave like that. I still haven't figured out what to do."

"Don't worry, we will keep someone here even when I'm not here. You should go and have a rest now..." Everyone was tired after a night's work. Chen Mianmian and the others had been following us since the night before and hadn't rested for two nights. Fatigue was evident on their faces.

There were more than twice as many volunteers during the day as at night. Taking advantage of the fact that there were so many people, Lu Jingxing went into his car to rest.

There are still many things to do later, so he needs to take some time to rest. Otherwise, if there is another emergency, he is afraid that he will not be able to cope with it.

(End of this chapter)