Various props for cats to play in the cat castle
Inside the small courtyard of the Dream Cat Castle
Chen Xianlei is feeding the cat
Chen Xianlei, a post-80s boy in Shangqiu, adopted more than 40 stray cats by himself, and spent more than 1 year investing more than 300,000 yuan to create a fairytale cat castle for stray cats. Unlike pure public welfare adoptions, he gradually figured out ways to adopt stray cats that were self-sufficient and long-term.
Shangqiu guys spent more than 300,000 yuan to build a "cat castle" for stray cats in 1 year
"Tangyuan, come and eat something delicious." On November 22, in a three-story house on Yixing West Road in Suiyang District, Shangqiu City, when the reporter met Chen Xianlei, he was holding a box of cat food to feed the cat seriously, black, white, yellow, a dozen chubby cats lovingly circled around him, Chen Xianlei while petting the cat while taking out cat food to feed, not like the owner feeding pets, but like a kind old father communicating with the child.
"Now I have about 46 cats that I have adopted, some of them in the house I rented, and some of them in my house." Chen Xianlei told reporters that at first he could not imagine that he would adopt so many stray cats in three or four years.
According to Chen Xianlei, he previously worked in Beijing as a media worker, and in 2017, starting with his first cat, he successively adopted 17 stray cats in Beijing. At the end of 2019, the 17 stray cats were brought back to shangqiu's hometown, and chen xianlei was preparing to return to Beijing when the new crown epidemic broke out, so under the persuasion of friends, he was ready to build a "dream cat castle" in Shangqiu with the theme of adopting stray cats.
Since June 2020, he has spent more than a year and spent more than 300,000 yuan on his own decoration and design, successfully creating a "dream cat castle". Pink facades, green lawns, starry sky tops, moon lights, rainbow climbing frames, this fairy tale princess castle, is Chen Xianlei's home for stray cats.
Since then, while adopting stray cats, he has used his own self-media account to publish and the daily life of stray cats, which has quickly attracted the attention of more than 3 million fans.
The "cat castle" model is used to create a base for the long-term adoption of stray cats
Unfortunately, because of problems such as rent increases, Chen Xianlei had to demolish the "Dream Cat Castle" he had worked so hard to build, and he re-found a three-story house for transitional use.
"It costs more than 10,000 yuan a month to eat cat food and care, and now I haven't hired anyone, so I'm insisting on doing it myself." Chen Xianlei told reporters that now the daily feeding of cats is taken care of by Chen Xianlei's mother and brother, fed twice a day, the main food is high-grade cat food, and chicken breast meat will be broken every week mixed with milk powder to give cats "extra meals".
The cost of adopting a stray cat is so large, how did Chen Xianlei maintain it? In the face of the reporter's question, Chen Xianlei said that he is exploring a stray cat adoption base that can operate healthily for a long time, and he can already achieve self-sufficiency by publishing videos and receiving advertisements on the self-media platform.
Chen Xianlei said that he has a plan to build the largest stray cat adoption base in the Shangqiu area, not only adopting stray cats, but also responsible for the adoption of stray cats, "The procedure will certainly be very perfect, including the return visit of stray cats after adoption." ”
Source: Big River Newspaper
Source: Big River News