Zhang Zian said to Ting Ting and Zhuang, "I still have something to do, so I have to go back to the store. If you want to adopt a cat, you can come over tomorrow, or whenever it's convenient for you. Just keep checking in for a month. "
They whispered to each other and said, "We'll come over tomorrow."
"Okay, if you're renting a house, bring the rental contract. If you're renting a house, bring the property ownership certificate. We won't make copies of your property ownership certificates, we'll just record your addresses," Zhang Zian emphasized. "Bring your ID too, just to make sure your names are the same as the ones on the property ownership certificate or the rental contract."
Ting Ting and Zhuang nodded to show that they remembered. They had to go back to prepare, so they left.
Some of the others left, some returned to the store to continue eating, and some joined in the fight for pets on the street.
Almost all of Love Lovely Pets' employees were mobilized. They split up into many cars and surrounded the city to find pets. They also asked for pets from the looters. They did succeed in taking back some pets, but compared to the total number, it was still a drop in the bucket.
Zhang Zian stood outside and watched for a while. The self-righteous girl was still arguing with the Love Lovely Pets employees, threatening to expose each other on Weibo. He saw that Old Time Tea and Famous had quietly returned to the store from the rooftop, so he greeted the Li couple and returned to the store through the front door. He then closed the shutter door again.
Famous and Old Time Tea were waiting in the room. Zhang Zian immediately noticed the small poodle puppy and the extremely weak female poodle on Famous's back.
The female poodle struggled to open its eyes and stared at him with anger and vigilance.
"What's going on?" He untied the collar and the braided rope that bound the two poodles and checked the female poodle's condition. Although he wasn't a professional veterinarian, he had been influenced by his parents for a long time. Coupled with the knowledge he had gained on a daily basis, he had no problem dealing with minor injuries. After a rough examination, he found that the female poodle didn't have any obvious external injuries. It was extremely weak because of severe malnutrition. In other words, it was starving. In addition, it might have been frozen in the cold for a long time. Its body was cold and it needed to warm up as soon as possible.
"Let's see if we can save it first. We can talk about the rest later," Old Time Tea said.
"Okay." Zhang Zian carried the female dog to the electric heater and found a towel to wrap it tightly.
At noon, in order to make Old Time Tea and Famous look good, he had stewed a pot of potato and beef, and there was still some left. So he went to the kitchen on the second floor and took out the leftovers from the fridge.
Considering that the female poodle had been starving for a long time, her digestive system was probably weak. If she ate too much indigestible food at once, it might cause more serious consequences. Zhang Zian put the potatoes and beef into a bowl, mixed the remaining broth and rice together, and heated it in the microwave. It became a bowl of easily digestible and nutritious beef porridge. There were also some potato and beef scraps in it.
He brought the beef congee downstairs. The aroma of the congee attracted the attention of all the puppies in the shop. Even the dying female poodle seemed to perk up after smelling the aroma.
The poodle puppy wandered around the female dog, longing for its mother's warmth and curious about the new world. It also smelled the beef congee, raised its head, and licked its lips.
Zhang Zian put the beef congee next to the female poodle's mouth. Seeing that the female poodle could only open its eyes and couldn't even lift its head, Zhang Zian took out a spoon, scooped up a spoonful of hot and fragrant beef congee, and put it into its mouth.
Out of survival instinct, the female poodle curled its tongue and greedily swallowed the beef congee into its stomach, turning it into energy for its survival.
One mouthful, two mouthfuls, three mouthfuls …
As the beef congee was digested in its stomach, the female poodle's body warmed up and regained some strength. It struggled to move from a lying position to a lying position, which made it easier to eat the congee and less likely to choke. It could now stick its head into the bowl and drink by itself, so Zhang Zian didn't need to feed it with a spoon anymore.
The anger and vigilance in its eyes disappeared, replaced by endless gratitude and affection. It had seen too many bad people in its life, but it had never seen a good person. The so-called "good person" didn't refer to a good person in the conventional sense, but someone who treated it well.
The poodle followed the smell and limped over. It stared at the beef congee and licked its lips, but it didn't go over to drink it.
The female poodle noticed it, stretched out a front paw, and pushed the bowl of beef congee towards it. It whimpered in its throat, as if asking it to drink it.
The puppy wanted to drink it, too. After all, it was very hungry. In order to use it as a Teacup Poodle, Zhang Wanguo had never let it eat its fill since it was born, so that it wouldn't develop well.
Zhang Zian had long noticed that the puppy was much smaller than a normal poodle puppy of the same age, but it was still a distance away from a real Teacup Poodle. It was too small and weak, and the bowl he used to hold the beef congee was a little high. It tried a few times, but couldn't climb up, so it anxiously circled around the bowl.
He got up to get a plate for it. When he came back, he saw that the female poodle had already put the puppy on its front paw, so that the puppy could also drink the beef congee, and it quietly waited for the puppy to eat its fill.
"They are … mother and son?" Zhang Zian asked.
Famous nodded silently.
"No wonder …" Zhang Zian had already guessed that only great maternal love could make a hungry female dog do this.
Zhang Zian didn't want them to eat too much at once and hurt their stomachs, so he didn't give them a lot of beef congee. They finished it quickly, and even licked the bottom of the bowl clean.
For the female poodle and puppy, they had never had the concept of "full." They naturally thought that the bowl of beef congee was all they had, and that there would be no more after they finished it. Therefore, when Zhang Zian brought a bowl of white rice congee with crushed egg yolk and put it in front of them, they were too scared to eat it until he pushed the bowl to their mouths.
The puppy only had a few mouthfuls of egg yolk congee, and Zhang Zian carried it to the side. He didn't let it continue eating, or else it would be too full. The rest of the egg yolk congee was eaten by the female poodle, and its belly was bulging.
He cleaned up the empty bowl, and the puppy and the female poodle snuggled together again. The female poodle gently licked the puppy's fur.
They were dirty and smelly, and Fina wrinkled her nose in disgust. Zhang Zian planned to give them a bath later.
But before that, he had to figure out what was going on at the Love Lovely Pets breeding farm.
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