start with a pet store

Chapter 934 Restless
"The biggest one organized the smaller ones to leave after eating, but it kept stretching its neck to look inside. I guess it wanted to find you. Later, it kept bowing to us, as if to say thank you..." Ding Fang smiled and said, "It's just that the smell is a bit strong..."

After hearing this, Lu Jingxing burst into laughter: "They just have a strong smell, and it takes a long time to get rid of it."

The more we talked that day, the more awkward it became.

The two of them didn't say anything else, and Lu Jingxing went to the backyard.

He hasn't been to the reptile parlor for a few days.

Just as he was about to go to the reptile shop, Ding Fang ran over again: "Brother Lu, a guest is here..."

Lu Jingxing had no choice but to follow him back to the office.

The couple who came were in their thirties, with their blue and gold.

The little guy is chubby, but he doesn’t look very good and seems a little weak.

Lu Jingxing asked them to put the little guy on the desk and asked, "What's wrong with it?"

The hostess immediately took over the topic: "We have been to many hospitals and have been suffering for more than a month..."

"More than a month?" Lu Jingxing was a little surprised.

"Yes, at the beginning of the month before last, it suddenly started vomiting and having diarrhea one day. We hurriedly took it to a hospital near us. After the doctor examined it, he said it was gastroenteritis. He gave it an injection and treatment, but they just wanted us to be hospitalized, which we didn't agree to because it has never left us. After discussing it with the doctor, and after the doctor agreed, we waited for it to finish the injection and took it home in the evening. But after returning home from the hospital, it refused to eat or drink the next day, and its condition became more and more serious." The male owner kept stroking the little guy with both hands, his eyes full of heartache.

"What are the symptoms? Not eating or drinking, and is he squatting like a hen?" Lu Jingxing asked as he gave the little guy a preliminary examination.

"Yes, yes. The hen was squatting, had a fever, and was listless. Later we took it to the doctor again and did a bunch of tests. The doctor told us that its condition at the time, including all the results, pointed to feline infectious peritonitis..." said the hostess.

Lu Jingxing nodded: "Yes, based on what you said, it does look like FIP, but now? It's been a month. If it's FIP, it should be curable as long as you keep taking injections."

"Alas, now we don't know whether it is infectious peritonitis or not. We heard the doctor say that it would take injections for more than 441 days, so we bought some and took it home, prepared for consecutive days of injections and medication to accompany it to face the disease. I cried every day because the doctor said the mortality rate of feline infectious peritonitis is very high..." The two owners really love their babies, and Lu Jingxing clearly felt it.

"Hmm..." Lu Jingxing just nodded and waited for them to continue.

"It was fine in the first week. Soon its appetite improved, it started to eat on its own initiative, and it could slowly start to play. We thought we had found the right cause and it was developing in a positive direction. But in the second week, it returned to its previous state. Although it was not as serious, it was as if the disease was paused. Its appetite became bad again. It would only eat something if we fed it. The same was true for playing. It would get tired after playing for a while and could not return to its previous state at all."

"We searched a lot of cases about feline infectious peritonitis on the Internet. Based on the experience shared by netizens, we thought that the medicine we bought originally was not effective, so we bought a more well-known 441 injection. We were afraid that it would not absorb well, so we gave it hot compresses. My husband also bought an infrared therapy lamp to use together. We were afraid that the food would not suit its taste, so my husband bought a wall-breaking machine and cooked for it himself. We also bought a lot of better canned food, because we were afraid that it would not eat enough at one time and would not get enough nutrition. So we set an alarm and fed it every three hours. The two of us took turns to use a syringe to inject food into its mouth. Anyway, we tried various methods..."

"We really tried everything we could think of..." the host added.

"But there has been no improvement. We took annual leave this time specially. We heard from others that you are quite capable, so we drove for more than 20 hours to get here. It would have been faster to take a plane, but with its current condition, how dare we check it in? We would rather drive..." After the hostess said this, Lu Jingxing raised his head and looked at them.

"Are you the ones our Doctor Yang mentioned who came here from Heilongjiang?" It was no wonder that Lu Jingxing didn't react at first, because the couple spoke very standard Mandarin, and he didn't think at all that they came from other places.

"Yes, but my hometown is not far from Longan. When I was young, I came to Longan many times. But now I work in Heilongjiang, so I settled there." The man said softly.

"That's hard work..." Lu Jingxing was surprised and touched.

"We dare not look for random doctors anymore. It's not that we don't trust doctors, but we are really afraid that we will spend money and still not be able to cure it, and then it will suffer again. We initially looked for many local hospitals, and the results all said it was feline infectious peritonitis. But now its condition seems not to be that. Otherwise, it wouldn't get worse the more it is treated, right..." the hostess asked inquiringly.

"If that's the case, then it doesn't look like infectious peritonitis. Thank you for believing me, but I still need to examine it, and more tests may be needed to confirm the disease. No doctor can observe this with the naked eye..." Lu Jingxing said.

"There's really no better way. Since we've come here specially, I'll listen to you..." The couple looked at each other and nodded.

The basic examinations included: routine blood tests, complete biochemical test, SAA, ultrasound examination, pancreatitis test, etc. Lu Jingxing wrote out orders for all the examinations he thought were necessary.

Then he asked, "Do you have insurance for the little guy?"

The male owner was a little confused: "Insurance, give it to it?"

"Yes, of course I told it." Lu Jingxing smiled slightly.

They both shook their heads dumbly, and suddenly the hostess asked, "I bought it on Alipay for 20 or 30 yuan a month. I bought it for fun at the time. Is it useful?"

Lu Jingxing nodded: "It's useful. We are a designated hospital, and we can reimburse up to 70%..."

"Really? I bought it two years ago, and the doctor never asked about it during the previous checkups. If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten about it..." The hostess quickly took out her mobile phone and found the page where she bought insurance for the little one.

The male owner also came over and asked: "Did you really buy it? Can it be used?"

Lu Jingxing took a look and said, "It can be used. We are a designated hospital and can reimburse you directly. We can reimburse 70% of it, so you don't need to worry about it."

"That's true. I bought it just for fun, thinking it wasn't expensive, and then I didn't pay much attention to it. These two little guys only cost a few hundred dollars a year. I never thought they could be reimbursed..." The hostess showed her first smile since she came in.

However, when I thought about not knowing the cause of my baby's illness, I became worried again.

"You guys go and pay the fee first, just leave it to me..." Lu Jingxing picked up the little guy.

It's almost time to get off work, so I have to finish all the inspections today.

"You guys just wait in the lounge. Some preliminary results will be out today." Lu Jingxing led the two of them out the door.

The couple nodded, the man went to the front desk to pay, and the woman went to the treatment room.

The time spent waiting outside seemed like an eternity, and the two of them were extremely restless.

After the results came out, Lu Jingxing called the two to his office.

He looked a little serious and said, "The results I got here make me think it might be hemolytic disease. There are not many treatment options available at the moment. Let it be hospitalized first, given hormones, with a nasogastric tube inserted, and observed for a week. At the same time, in order to rule out feline AIDS and leukemia, it is recommended that it be given a blood test. The blood test will take about a week to get the results." After saying that, he looked at the two people.

"Inject hormones and insert a nasogastric tube?" The hostess shook her head immediately when she heard this: "That's too uncomfortable..." "Although its condition is not good now, it is relatively stable. Otherwise, I will send its blood for a test first, but it will take a week to get the results. Can you wait?" Lu Jingxing thought of their home in the distant Heilongjiang Province, and felt a little worried about them.

"One week is fine. I have taken half a month's annual leave. We can go back to my hometown and come back after the results are out..." The two of them discussed it and replied.

"That's it. I'll prescribe some medicine for it to keep its symptoms from getting worse. I'll inform you as soon as the results come out. I'll do it as soon as possible..." Lu Jingxing nodded. He had checked and the little guy was not in danger of life at the moment.

He just wasn't sure what the blood test results would be, so it was difficult to decide on a treatment plan for the time being.

"Okay, okay, thank you..." The couple nodded repeatedly.

At least they felt a little relieved to hear that the disease was not completely untreatable.

Lu Jingxing sent them out of the hospital and the hospital was closed for the day.

After he had settled his affairs, he prepared to go home.

I haven't been home for two days. Now I just want to go back and have a good sleep.

Yang Pei went back to the second store and came over again: "I brought you food. I heard you were busy, so I came just in time. It's still hot, eat quickly..."

Lu Jingxing smiled slightly: "I was planning to go somewhere to eat a bite later..."

"They said you were busy, so I came here on time..." Yang Pei put the food on the table.

Lu Jingxing was really hungry, so he started eating immediately.

"I discussed with Xiangyu about the duty matter I told you last time. We have already made the schedule and will arrange it next month. Now many emergencies happen at night, and it is not enough to leave only one employee on duty in the store." Yang Pei sat on the sofa, poured herself a glass of water, and said.

"That's fine. You can discuss it with me. I think it's all right. However, we need to consider whether we should hire more people. We need to be prepared. If it's really 24 hours, we may not have enough staff. When it gets busy, there will be more people on the night shift..." Lu Jingxing said.

Yang Pei nodded: "Yes, let's do it for a month or so and see how it goes. At the moment, we still have enough manpower..."

"That's fine, you guys handle it..." Lu Jingxing had no intention of getting involved in this matter.

As the two were talking, they heard someone ringing the doorbell outside the door, and Lu Jingxing was about to get up.

"You eat, I'll go take a look..." Yang Pei had already stood up.

The staff on duty in the inner room also ran out: "Brother Yang, you are here..."

Yang Pei nodded, and the two of them walked towards the door together.

A girl was seen outside holding a cardboard box, looking at them with tears in her eyes, pointing at the box and saying, "Save it..."

The staff on duty quickly opened the door and said, "We are off work..."

The girl wiped her tears with her hand: "Please save it, it's so pitiful. I just saw it on the road. If you don't save it, it will die..." She became more and more excited as she spoke, and the tears in her voice became stronger.

Yang Pei waved her hand: "Come on, come on, bring her in and let me see..."

The girl hurriedly trotted after him into the treatment room. Lu Jingxing had also finished his meal: "What's wrong?" He looked at the three people walking towards the treatment room.

"This little girl brought a cat, and it seems to be very sick..." Yang Pei said, turning around and walking straight in.

Lu Jingxing followed suit.

Yang Pei carefully took the little guy out of the cardboard box.

This is an orange cat that is only three or four months old. The little guy looked at the people with tears in his eyes and his body was trembling.

When the girl saw the little guy's appearance, she couldn't help but burst into tears.

Lu Jingxing walked over to comfort her: "It's okay, it's okay, don't cry, we will do our best to save it..."

The girl slowly suppressed her emotions.

Yang Pei took a breath and said, "Fuck, this is..." He looked at the girl, "Why is it like this?"

The girl shook her head: "I don't know, I saw it on the side of the road, and I thought it was dying..."

Lu Jingxing rarely saw Yang Pei like this, but when he approached, he was also stunned.

The lower body of the little guy was covered in blood, but it was not injured by a car. It seemed that the skin on its belly had been cut off manually. Its limbs were hanging down, probably because they were broken. The two front limbs were more seriously injured. They were tied tightly with red belts at the thighs, and it could not use any strength at all.

Even though they had all seen big scenes before, they were still shocked by this scene. What kind of hatred and vengeance could one have to treat a kitten like this?

The little fellow cried out weakly with tears in his eyes: "Meow... It hurts so much, what did I... do wrong..."

Lu Jingxing choked up after hearing the sound it made, and stroked its head with his hand: "My dear, you are right, I'm sorry, I apologize to you on behalf of those bad guys, we will definitely do our best to help you..."

The little guy raised his head and looked at him. His trembling body seemed to suddenly have strength.

Everyone felt so sorry for it. Even though it was badly injured, it was still willing to trust humans. I don't know how those people could have the heart to do this to it.

Lu Jingxing and Yang Pei did not hesitate and immediately gave it emergency treatment.

(End of this chapter)