In the early winter of last year, one morning I came out to throw out the garbage and caught a glimpse of a small dark and furry clump near the garbage can. Looking down, it was a milk cat wrapped in dirty mud. As small as a purple potato boy, motionless, not knowing whether he is dead or alive. Patrolled around, there is no other milk cat, there is no trace of the cat mother, it seems that the cat mother was lost in the process of transferring the milk cat, or simply abandoned by the cat mother, and then cruel, whose cat gave birth to the cat baby, the owner did not want, to throw it. The cat was so dirty that it was impossible to get off, and picked it up with two layers of paper towels, its head hanging softly, and its body was soft, and it seemed to have lost the support of vitality. I suspect that the cat has just died, and if it is already dead, its body should be stiff. I was lamenting that I hadn't come out a step earlier, that might have saved its life, when I suddenly saw its mouth open very slightly, and quickly covered it with the palms of my hands to give it a little warmth, and sure enough, its mouth trembled slightly.
A hundred thousand rushed home and put it on the radiator. I am glad that this day is the fourth day of the heating, which has passed the initial heating period and is full of warmth. Drive away a few big cats who are curious to come to see the family, rummaging out the syringe to feed the big cat, there is ready-made soothing milk at home, and then rush back to the kitten, just these few minutes of warmth, the kitten's mouth fluttering frequency is much higher, take the opportunity to push the milk to it, it swallows is not very good, it flows out a lot, but it is good to feed down a milliliter.
Quickly ordered to buy cat milk powder, before the milk powder came, so every two hours to push the warm soothing milk, by the evening, the kitten will already bark. Its little arms and legs began to stomp on the toilet paper, squirming desperately, sliding down the radiator, and fortunately, a pillow was placed on the ground in advance, and two layers of cotton cushions were laid on it, and the milk cat was safe and sound. Seeing that it was rejuvenated, I took a bath and finally saw it as it really was. A small black cat.
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Its umbilical cord had not yet fallen off, the fluff on its red belly was very faint, its eyes had not yet opened, and its ears had just opened a little from the closure, presumed to be three to five days old. Such a small milk cat, the hands and feet will pull, but it will not climb, there is no ability to regulate body temperature, and even voluntary defecation will not be. But I'm not worried, because I've rescued an orphaned milk cat many times and I can feed it. I want it to live healthily, and I named it: Strong
After more than a month, ZhuangZhuang really grew into his own name. It has a large meal, is lively and active, has no concept of body management at all, and eats itself into a round bucket. Looking at its dark shiny body without a single hair and its blue eyes, I thought it was time to find a good family for it. Although the big cats in the house are very friendly to it, there are too many cats in the house to accommodate even one more cat.
Soon someone responded to my adoption message, and I picked a soft-spoken girl G from it and added WeChat. She praised the strong, and I was very happy, and the hairy children I bothered to raise had to be liked by someone. The two of us began to discuss the details of adoption.
When I heard that she had never had a cat, I hesitated. Raising a cat is not as cool as playing with cats, and before forming a tacit understanding with cats, the mental and financial resources of raising cats are difficult for novices to adapt. G is very sensitive, perceives my hesitation, and immediately says that her girlfriend has a cat, she often comes to the door to help raise, she has a stable income, can fully afford the cost of a cat, strong and so cute, she promised not to abandon the cat.
Knowing that she didn't have any supplies for the cat yet, I agreed to keep it for a few more days and give her a time to buy supplies. G asked in detail about the brand of cat food, canned food, and cat litter I gave the cat to eat, so as not to change the brand and not adapt, and I secretly praised her responsible attitude towards the cat. To reassure her, I promised to bring three or five days' worth of cat food and a can of canned food. But she also raised her own doubts: I heard that some people in the name of adoption will ask for various fees. I laughed and said I wouldn't. Take 10,000 steps back, if I want it, you must resolutely not give, the WeChat I am sending now is the evidence.
On the first night of the strong man's home, he hung it on the edge of the cat's nest like a headband
The next day, G asked me what milk powder I gave the cat to drink, and I said that Zhuang Zhuang was weaned on the 27th day and now drinks a meal of milk from time to time, just to strengthen the body, mainly to eat cat food and canned main food. G hopes that when she comes to pick up the cat, I can bring the milk powder with me. Thinking that there were no other milk cats in his family, and the big cats were also neutered, he readily agreed.
"Will it scratch?" G asked worriedly, "My couch is leather, I won't scratch a hole, right?" ”
"So you need to prepare a cat scratch board," I replied, "now is the time to form habits, you need to be patient and teach the kittens to adapt to your various habits." ”
"Did your couch scratch?" G followed.
"Fortunately, the sofa at home is a fabric sofa, and the scratch is not too obvious, and when I find it, I stop it immediately, and the big cat will help teach it."
G is immersed in his own worries: you can't change the sofa because of this.
On the third day, G asks the strong man about defecation, fearing that he will defecate openly. I told her that Zhuang Zhuang already knew how to use cat litter and knew that defecation had to go to the cat litter box.
"Does it stink when cleaning up the cat litter?" How often do I need to clean up the litter box? Will it be pulled out of the cat litter box before it is too late? Will it step on the stick it pulls? Is cleaning up the cat litter trouble? I was tired when I came back from work the day..."
I spent half an hour answering various questions about cat defecation, and to assuage her worries, agreed to her new request: bring her some cat litter from mine. Her reasoning is that she is used to the smell of cat litter here, so that when I arrive at my new home, I am not used to constipation.
G asked for my location again, let out an exclamation, said it was too far away, and it was inconvenient for her to pick it up, and asked if I could send it to her. I Baidu, from the south of the city to the north of the city, driving for 45 minutes, thinking about it, since I have raised a strong, and finally personally sent it to the new home, it is also a beginning and an end, so I agreed.
On the fourth day, G asked Zhuang where he slept. I said it was in a soft fluffy cat's nest, but to avoid it running around in the middle of the night, the cat nest would be put in a cage at night, and during the day when there was someone in the house, the kitten would be released.
"Will it bark at night?" G was worried
"Not very well," I reassured her, "even if the kitten barks now, the sound is very small, as long as it is ready to eat and drink, cat litter, it will spend the night quietly, in case it barks at night, then you have to teach it and soothe it." ”
"It would be too bad to bark at night," G said, "I sleep lightly at night, I can't sleep when I'm woken up, and I don't have a good night's rest at night. ”
I was disappointed by her very different attitude, and I thought that it might not be a good idea to send Zhuang Zhuang to her for adoption.
G said: If you don't bring the cat nest with you, the kitten is used to the cat nest and will be quieter at night.
Before the strong came, the cat nest had always been used by the big orange in the family, and when the stronger grew up, the big cat in the family liked to sleep in the cat nest with him in his arms. However, there are four cat beds in the house, and there are small cardboard boxes that cats like, and it is okay for this cat nest to send her. I agreed.
On the fifth day of picking it up, Zhuang Zhuang opened his eyes
On the fifth day, G suddenly worries about whether Zhuang Zhuang has cat plague or cat belly. Because she added a cat friend group, many cat owners said that their cats were sick. I took a few videos of her, and Zhuang zhuang was chasing the big cat around the house and playing crazy. I told her that I paid special attention to the hygiene of the home, that all cats did not have any diseases, nor did the most common ear mites. G asked me what to use to enhance the cat's physique, I said buy good cat food, good canned food, good cat litter, drink clean water, do not noisy cat, let the cat feel happy, and feed an egg yolk every three to five minutes.
G asked me to bring a few eggs.
"We don't live in a precinct, and the source of eggs is probably not from the same chicken farm, what if the cat doesn't adapt to diarrhea."
I was silent for a moment and agreed to bring four eggs with me. Then he involuntarily looked at his big cat cage: a thick iron cat cage that was seven meters high, 95 centimeters long, 75 centimeters wide, and weighed 25 kilograms.
On the sixth day, G sent a smiling expression, and before she could speak, I asked her if the various cat supplies she had bought had arrived.
G said no, the logistics show was still on the way.
G asked her new question: "What about the cats when I go to work during the day?" Is it okay to keep it at home? ”
I thought about it and replied to her: If you are afraid that the cat will run around the house, scratch the furniture or be in danger, you can prepare a cat cage and lock the cat up.
Unsurprisingly, G wanted me to bring my cat cage with me, for the same reason: I was afraid that the kittens would not get used to it in a new cage. I laughed and said that ZhuangZhuang usually licks each other's hair with the big cat, do you want to take my big cat with you? ZhuangZhuang likes to grab my clothes, do you want to take my clothes with you? Zhuangzhuang likes to play with my husband, do you take my husband with you? Strong and strong used to the smell of my home, the air in my house can not be moved, do you just move to my house?
G angrily sent a sentence: What do you mean?
I had wanted to delete this girl at this point, but after thinking about it, I would explain it clearly, so that she would not harm other cats. So I said: In fact, raising cats is very troublesome, raising cats, people not only have to cook their own meals, but also have to prepare meals for cats, not one or two meals, not three or five days, but all year round; cat is very smelly, summer is simply hot eyes. When people are discharged, they can flush the toilet, and the cats are all up to people to clean up. And the cat litter is often pulled out, all over the ground. The cat is mixed at home, and when it is finished, it will not bury the rice dumplings, but it will run around the house to disperse the smell of its own body; the cat will take advantage of people's inattention, jump to the dining table, bed, shelf, see water and drink, see food smell and lick, other bite or push down; cats will scratch clothes, scratch sofas, scratch curtains, and scratch people, even gentle cats will accidentally hurt the owner; cats will lose their hair, will make the air in the home are full of hair, the corners of the ground are hairy, the oil bottle is also stained with hair, the owner's clothes are all hair; the cat is an animal that comes out of the day and night. In the middle of the night is when they are energetic, they will be full of parkour, overturning furniture, causing you to be woken up by neighbors in the middle of the night; cats will urinate everywhere when in heat, and the unpleasant smell is not good with any detergent; some cats are still particularly cold, only allow the owner to keep, do not allow the owner to pick up... In addition, raising cats is very expensive, cat food is much more expensive than rice, canned food is more expensive than beef, cat litter is more expensive than toilet water, cats use a variety of drugs are several times the price of human drugs, raise a cat do not think too much about their own attendance award, in case it is sick at any time to take it to the hospital. Raising a cat is like raising a child, but when the child grows up, he can earn money to filial piety to you, and the cat will only rely on you more and more every day.
Writing this, I looked at the big cats in the house, who were all lying very quietly in their fixed positions. What I wrote was what they had done, but after a few years of careful cultivation, they became quiet, loved ones and sensible.
I thought about it and thought about it, or "viciously" frightened and said: You know, the cat is a very spiritual animal, if you keep it, but you feel money, trouble, abandon it or even kill it, you will be punished. The lightest also has to make you wet your feet.
G sent a series of frightened expressions. I was about to delete her, and she asked again: Then why do you have a cat?
I didn't reply to her and blocked her.
There may be some people, she will not understand, rights and obligations are the same, if you want to get, you must give.
The cat is soft and cute, wants to stroke its soft body, wants to see its eyes filled with the sea of stars, wants to hear it meow, wants to establish an intimate relationship with this small animal, wants to see it because of trust, shows the softest belly to you, then it has to be selfless and good; there are many people in this world who will set a set of backs in front of you, many people will approach you and alienate you, but the cat will not leave you at will, betray you, will not avoid you because you are disturbed by the boss, will not despise you because you are frustrated. In your lonely and miserable night, the cat will accompany you, and will not leave you alone to go to the carnival. So you have to be good to it, don't think that you have spent money and raised a cat, the cat has not used its soft cuteness, trust to nourish your heart.
If I look for an adoptee, she will worry about how much cat food is spent today, tomorrow the cat litter is not enough and will be bought, the day after tomorrow resents the cat will not quarrel until she sleeps, then she will not give the cat proper care, the cat lives a scrawled and difficult life, how much affection can she have for the owner? In the end, the owner still dislikes the cat and does not kiss her, thinking that he has a white-eyed wolf, and he will easily abandon the cat.
When we become an independent individual ourselves and begin to survive, we have to pay the same or more price for every decision and everything we do, so to have a cat, so to work, so to make friends... Fair enough.
A few days later, I found another adopter for Zhuangzhuang, who was a cheerful young man, discussed the details of adoption, and an hour later the young man came to pick zhuangzhuang away. I went back to the site to delete the strong message and saw a private message from G: A liar indeed! hum!