Maybe it was because of the Golden Week, the customers in the pet clinic … The customers were a bit strange, so were they the patients? In fact, it was also a bit strange … Anyway, there were a lot of people, and they had to wait in line for the number to be called.
Zhang Zian sat in the waiting area holding the cardboard box. Everyone else at least carried a cat bag or an air box. Holding a cardboard box like him was very unusual.
The kitten had finished the first can and was eating the second one.
"Number 34?"
The nurse was busy collecting fees, and a female veterinarian in a white coat looked out of the consulting room and shouted.
The person sitting next to Zhang Zian responded and went over with the cat bag.
"Let me tell you a secret, this veterinarian and nurse, I also feel very familiar." Zhang Zian lowered his voice and winked at the kitten.
"Meow?"
It seemed to be questioning: She is wearing a mask, and I can't even see her face. How do you know they are familiar? Disguised fraud?
"Hehe, although the real person's face is covered by a mask, isn't there a photo?" He pointed to the wall at the entrance, where the veterinary license and business permit with a bareheaded photo were posted.
"Number 35? Number 35? Is there no one? Number 36? "
"Yes."
Zhang Zian stood up with the cardboard box and followed the female veterinarian into the consulting room.
As expected, she treated him in a business-like manner. It was not like she had seen him or knew him, and he was used to it.
When she saw the kitten's silver-gray eyes, the female veterinarian's eyebrows raised in surprise, because she had never seen a cat with such color eyes. She was about to take it out of the cardboard box for further examination, but the kitten, who had been very obedient, suddenly jumped out of the cardboard box and ran out of the consulting room.
"Wait! Don't run! "
Zhang Zian was caught off guard. He had to apologetically gesture to the female veterinarian, indicating that he would chase it.
The kitten ran back to the waiting area at the door, and just as someone pushed the door in, it slipped out through the crack of the door.
When Zhang Zian also chased it out of the door, he found that it had disappeared.
He sighed and had to get in the car to go home.
The third day of the Golden Week.
In the morning.
"Dad, Mom, I'll help you walk the dog."
After breakfast, Zhang Zian took the initiative to find something to do. He had nothing to do anyway.
Walking a dog didn't require much skill, and it wasn't tiring either. It was nothing more than taking the puppies outside for a walk. It would be even better if the puppies could defecate outside.
"Alright. You don't have to go far. "
Zhang Zian's father found him a special leash. It was a rope that was divided into several thin ropes from the middle. They were all elastic and were specially used to walk dogs together. Of course, it was not suitable for walking large or medium-sized adult dogs. Otherwise, it would become a dog sled.
Zhang Zian put leashes on all the puppies in the shop, held the buckles at the end of the leashes firmly in his hand, and took them out of the pet shop.
Of course, the puppies were very happy to be able to go out for a walk. They jumped and barked happily.
The best place to walk a dog was, of course, the green space behind the pet shop, where it wouldn't disturb people. The puppies' excrement could also be conveniently buried with a small shovel. Even if you didn't consider the issue of public morality, at least you could avoid stepping on the puppies' excrement in the future.
"Eh?"
As soon as he arrived at the grassland, he noticed a familiar figure.
A black and white kitten ran happily between the grass and the trees of the green field.
"So, you ran here."
Seeing that it was safe, he felt a lot more relaxed. After it ran away yesterday, he was quite worried. Once a cat at home ran away, it often died because it couldn't adapt to the environment. Stray cats were not so easy to be.
The puppies also saw the kitten and kept barking at it.
"Meow."
The black and white kitten noticed his presence and stopped to stare at him. It tried to approach him, but it seemed to be afraid of the puppies. It stopped after a few steps.
"Don't be afraid. They won't bite you, and they can't bite you." Zhang Zian put the leash to the longest and tied it to a tree. The puppies could only play around the tree.
Because it ran away yesterday, he wondered if it would run away again today. But after he tied the leash, it was still sitting there staring at him.
In autumn, the vegetation in the green field was not as lush as in summer, and the number of mosquitoes was greatly reduced.
"Do you have a name? What's your name? Who was your previous owner? "
He found a stone bench and sat down. He chatted casually with it, of course, not expecting it to answer.
"Meow."
Well, maybe it answered, but he didn't understand.
There was no pressure or scruples talking to it. He could say whatever he wanted to say.
"You don't like to be restrained? You like freedom? "he guessed." So you don't want to go back to the pet shop with me? In fact, there are many cats in the shop. You won't feel lonely. "
"Or … you don't want to be adopted? Because you were abandoned, you don't trust people? "
Some abandoned pets were like this. After being abandoned for no reason, they lost trust in people. Even if they were later adopted, they always kept a distance from the adopter, so that they wouldn't be hurt a second time.
The adopter was also confused. Why couldn't they get familiar with it?
"Meow."
It tilted its head, and its line of sight seemed to move.
Zhang Zian also turned to look.
Butterflies.
Behind him, a few butterflies were flying around him.
He tried to take a few steps. Although the butterflies didn't follow very closely, they seemed to be moving with him.
"Gee, that's strange."
He lifted his cuff and smelled it. There was no smell.
In the two meetings he had with Zhuang Xiaodie, he didn't have physical contact with her, but he thought it could only be that the smell on her body had passed to him. It was like … some kind of pheromone.
Pheromone is a very broad concept. It refers to a compound that plays a role in communication. It is generally represented by odor molecules that permeate the air.
Many animals can secrete and receive pheromones. For example … adolescent boys can smell the body fragrance from girls they like, or girls can be intoxicated by the sweat of athletic teenagers. If the factors of imagination and the shower gel are excluded, it may be some kind of pheromone at work.
Of course, humans and higher mammals have too many means of communication. The information transmission efficiency of pheromones is too low. It has never been the main means of human communication, and it can't even be regarded as a secondary means.
However, for insects, pheromones are a very important means of communication.
Zhang Zian witnessed the scene of Zhuang Xiaodie attracting a large number of butterflies, so he guessed that some kind of shower gel or perfume she used contained pheromone components that attracted butterflies, just like how humans increase their charm and attract the opposite sex.
However, he hadn't used a new shower gel recently, and he hadn't had physical contact with Zhuang Xiaodie. How could …
As he was thinking, he saw the black-and-white kitten suddenly rush towards the butterfly as if it had found its prey.
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