Zhang Zian frowned. He felt that [Collapse The World]'s words had a hidden meaning. He temporarily dismissed the idea of cleaning downstairs and replied to another email.
[The Hottie]: The world is still in a state of collapse? What does that mean?
The other party replied very quickly.
[Collapse The World]: Haven't you been paying attention to the news recently?
Zhang Zian sweated. Recently, he had been busy with the small animal protection proposal, Pi's novel, and the Holy Cat statue. He really didn't have time to pay attention to social news. Did something happen again?
[The Hottie]: I've been quite busy recently. What news are you referring to?
[Collapse The World]: At present, including Binhai City, there have been incidents of dogs being poisoned with isoniazid in many cities across the country, and the incidents are becoming more and more serious. I heard that you run a pet shop. You don't need me to explain to you what isoniazid is, do you?
Zhang Zian took a deep breath.
Of course, he knew what isoniazid was. It was an effective drug to treat tuberculosis, and it went on sale in 1952, just after World War II.
As tuberculosis had been effectively contained in our country and around the world, it was no longer a huge threat to human life, and there was even hope that tuberculosis would be completely eliminated before the middle of the century. Therefore, isoniazid was widely known, not because it was a specific drug to treat tuberculosis, but because it was extremely toxic to dogs. It was no different from arsenic, and would be used by people with evil intentions to poison dogs.
Very few people knew about this drug in the past, but in the era of information explosion brought by the Internet, anything would spread at an exponential speed.
Zhang Zian knew about isoniazid, and he also knew that people used this drug to poison dogs, but he didn't know that there were actually many incidents of isoniazid poisoning dogs recently.
[The Hottie]: I know about isoniazid. Regarding the dog poisoning incident, can you tell me the ins and outs of it? I haven't been paying attention to the news recently.
[Collapse The World]: I made some slight changes to the previous web crawler program, and changed the keywords related to cat abuse to related keywords related to dog poisoning. Do you need me to send you another copy? Or can you change it yourself?
Now was not the time to forcefully show off, so Zhang Zian answered honestly, "Send me a copy."
Soon, he received an email with an attachment.
[Collapse The World]: "Let me explain it briefly. This is what I found out after my analysis. In the beginning, there were only one or two cases of dog poisoning, and it didn't attract much attention. However, after the related news was exposed, many people who had never heard that isoniazid could be used to kill dogs seemed to have discovered a new continent. They all started to buy isoniazid to poison dogs. Things got out of hand, and now it's almost out of control.
[Collapse The World]: The dog poisoning incident is somewhat similar to the cat abuse incident, but it is definitely not the same. The large-scale cat abuse incident first broke out in Binhai City, and then spread to the whole country. Because of the experience of the cat abuse incident, I thought that the dog poisoning incident would also be the same. It would first break out in a certain city, and then spread to the whole country with that city as the center. So, I tried to use a variety of mathematical tools to analyze the known dog poisoning incidents from a statistical point of view. Unfortunately, the dog poisoning incidents did not seem to have a fixed pattern. They happened in a state of disorder … or maybe there was a pattern, but I hadn't found it yet.
Zhang Zian finished reading the other person's email. Since the other person had compared the cat abuse incident to the dog poisoning incident, it had already fully explained the seriousness of the situation. At the same time, he sighed at the fact that technical otakus could really change the world.
The incident had caught him off guard, and he had no clue at all. He could only calm down and slowly understand the situation.
[The Hottie]: "Why are you telling me?
[Collapse The World]: "Because you seemed to be very concerned about the cat abuse incident, so I thought that you might also be concerned about the dog poisoning incident. Also, I'm very curious. You said that the cat abuse incident would soon be quelled, and things are really as you said. If you say that this is a coincidence, I don't believe it. I really want to know if you can solve the dog poisoning incident the same way you solved the cat abuse incident. Although I'm an otaku, I can barely be considered a pet lover. Also, I'm just here to watch the fun and not be afraid of things getting out of hand.
Zhang Zian stared at the email and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
The one who solved the cat abuse incident was Vladimir and its Meow Meow Doctrine Iron Fist. How could he have that ability? [Collapse The World] had too high and unrealistic expectations of him.
In addition, the cause and culprit of the large-scale cat abuse incident was the resurrection of the Cat Goddess statue after a thousand years.
Shoot the man, shoot the horse; capture the thief, capture the king. As long as the Cat Goddess statue was solved, the large-scale cat abuse incident would naturally be quelled, and the remaining sporadic incidents could not be helped. He could only hope that the country would establish relevant small animal protection laws.
The dog poisoning incident … Was there a corresponding source?
Judging from [Collapse The World]'s words, although this possibility could not be completely ruled out, the probability was very low.
This was troublesome.
Fundamentally speaking, as long as the small animal protection law was enacted, both the cat abuse and dog poisoning incidents could be easily solved. As a commoner, how could he have the guts to go against the country's laws?
However, the small animal protection law was still at the proposal stage, and there was still a very, very long way to go before it was officially enacted. If he pinned all his hopes on the legislation, it was possible that by the time the legislation was enacted, all the dogs in the country would have been poisoned …
Zhang Zian once again felt powerless. Whether it was the defamation of Pi's novel or the dog poisoning incident, they were all beyond his control and had risen to the national level.
The attack on Pi's novel had ended in an unexpected way, because in the end, there was only one culprit. However, the dog poisoning incident would definitely not be so lucky.
With the improvement of the people's living standards, there were more and more people raising pets.
As of 2014, 30 million urban households (excluding rural households) in the country had dogs, accounting for 7% of the total number of households in the country, and one in 14 households had a dog.
China's pet market was still growing at a rapid rate of 12%, and it would soon take the throne of the world's number one pet market.
At the moment, the main contradiction in the pet market was the contradiction between the increasing number of dogs and the uncivilized behavior of the people when walking their dogs. In other words, because of the behavior of walking dogs without a leash, letting dogs urinate and defecate everywhere, indulging dogs to bark and even bite people, it has seriously affected the normal life of other people, causing them to hate dog owners and dogs.
Some of them might have been frightened or harassed by dogs, or simply could not stand the behavior of dog owners, but did not dare to do anything to the dog owners, so they had the idea of poisoning dogs.
However, the targets of their revenge were not necessarily dogs with bad records. Many innocent dogs and dog owners were implicated.
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