Published at 7th of September 2022 3:18 pm

Chapter 1808: [Side Story] cat police

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The weather was good now, and the door of the store was open for ventilation. As soon as Zhang Zian parked the car, he saw several figures moving in the store. Wang Qian and Li Kun were trying to deal with them, and the introverted Lu Yiyun couldn’t help either.

As soon as he saw Zhang Zian come back, Li Kun quickly retreated, trotted to his side, gave him a strange look, and said in a low voice with a sad face,””Master, it’s rare for someone to come here and buy a cat, but that woman …”

Li Kun quietly pointed to a short young woman in a red shirt.”She came in and kept talking, saying that the cats in our shop are all backyard cats and that they shouldn’t buy cats in our shop. If they really want to buy cats, they should go to a cattery with a good reputation on Weibo. Look at this …”

“Master,” Wang Qian also ran over and complained,”a while ago … That’s the period before the confinement play, when we were still open for business, weren’t you always running around? “They were Egypt and United States. We were in charge of looking after the store, and most of the customers were quite easy to talk to, but there was one customer … The ‘backyard cat’ who always opened and closed his mouth kept talking. We couldn’t say anything, but we pretended not to hear him. In order not to make you feel uncomfortable, we didn’t mention it … After that, the store was closed for a while, and there were no customers, so we forgot about it. Now that we’ve just opened for business, such a person has appeared again …”

“I understand.” Zhang Zian nodded without saying anything.

If ordinary people wanted to buy a pedigree cat, there were only a few main ways. The first was to find a personal seller in the online second-hand app, the second was the flower, bird, fish, insect market, or the dog market, the third was the Pet Shop, and the fourth was the cattery.

The waters of the flower, bird, fish, and insect market were too deep. No matter if it was a cat or other pets, it was cheap, but not to mention an average person, even an average person would most likely be scammed if they went there. So, a slightly more rational person would not choose to buy a cat there.

A reliable personal seller was actually not bad, but it was well known that scammers were rampant on the internet, especially for living things like pets. The risk of mailing them was too high. It was common to find that the goods were wrong after buying them, and there was no way to reason with them. So, if you wanted to find a personal seller, it was best to find one in the same city. You must be able to see the cat in person and pay in person. You must find a seller who paid the cat in person.

Why did he have to visit the cat? This was because they could see the kitten’s parents at the door. By seeing the color of the kitten’s parents ‘hair with their own eyes, they could have a clear idea of the kitten’s future hair color and body development, especially for Ragdoll cats, which had a long growth period and their hair color would become darker and darker. When you first bought it, the mask might be brown, but when it was three or four years old, the mask color would be close to black, if you didn’t like such a dark mask color. It was very important to see the depth of its parents ‘fur in advance, and it was necessary to see it with your own eyes. Nowadays, people often recorded videos with a filter, and the color was seriously distorted. Moreover, the environmental light during the recording would also affect the visual effect. It was fine to see a beautiful woman in a mobile video casually, but you would lose if you took it seriously, not to mention a cat that had to be bought with real money.

In addition, personal sellers might not necessarily vaccinate kittens, and the seller said that even if they had been vaccinated, they couldn’t be 100% trusted. It was safer to buy them and get their own vaccines.

If you could see the kitten and its parents living in the same house when you visited, at least there would be a certain guarantee in the source of diseases such as cat plague. If the kitten carried the source of the disease, its parents would definitely carry it. If you bought the kitten and found that the kitten had cat plague, and the seller’s parents and siblings of the kitten were all normal, it meant that the cat plague was unlikely to come from the seller. It was best to find the reason from yourself.

Pet shops and catteries were the main places for the trading of pedigree cats, and the right and wrong around them had always been a hot topic on the internet. Mainly, catteries unilaterally dissed the Pet Shop, calling it “backyard,” but the problem was that the term “backyard” was invented by domestic catteries, and there was no corresponding vocabulary abroad. Now, the phenomenon on the internet was that whoever was louder was reasonable. Once there was a different voice, they would attack it together. This phenomenon didn’t only exist in pet circles, but it was widespread in the internet world.

However, one thing was for sure. The same cat in the flower, bird, fish and insect market, in the hands of individual sellers, in the Pet Shop, and in the cattery, the price could be more than ten times different. The most expensive place was undoubtedly the cattery.

The girl in red said to the other customers,””It’s obvious that the cats in this shop are not licensed. The truly responsible catteries only sell one or two kinds of cats. This shop is like a grocery store, selling all kinds of cats. ”

The other customers might not know her, but they just happened to come to the shop at the same time.

Some customers listened to her carefully as if they were being brainwashed. Some customers were obviously tired of her talking non-stop like a monk. One of the hot-blooded young boys said,””I also know that it’s good to have a certificate, but it’s expensive. Are you going to pay for the difference?”

The girl in red became even more excited. If it weren’t for the mask, her saliva would have sprayed on his face.”You can’t be cheap. If you really like cats, you have to be responsible for them. This kind of backyard store only sells weekly cats. If you buy the cat home, it will die in less than a week. By then, will you lose or gain?”

The boy choked on her words and seemed to be wavering.

Zhang Zian understood now. The girl in red should be the so-called “cat police,” not “police cat,” but “cat police.” She thought she stood at the top of the pet Circle, and everything she thought was absolutely correct. Anything she didn’t like in the pet Circle, she would punish them with words and pen. However, this kind of bored person was usually active in the online world, and was relatively rare in reality. After all, the people who were scolded by her on the internet couldn’t go down the internet to attack her. In the real world, if someone was angered by her scolding, they might really beat her up. The Cat Police were clear about this.

“By the way, where should I go to buy it?”

Zhang Zian asked, pretending to be a new customer.

“A cattery! Find a cattery on Weibo. It’s expensive, but it’s guaranteed!” The moment the woman in red saw how he was humbly asking for advice, her teacher-like side was immediately aroused.

“Then … A pet shop and a cattery, other than having a license, what’s the difference between the cat itself?” He asked again and glanced at the boy.”It’s almost the same cat. If the only difference is whether you have a license or not, I don’t want to pay for a license. After all, I don’t have enough money now …”

The girl in red said in exasperation,””You’re wrong! There was a huge difference between having a certificate and not having one! You can’t buy a backyard cat like this!”

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[Off-topic: ever since I started writing this book, about 200000 words or so, the number of readers had just increased. From time to time, people would leave comments in the comment area, saying,”backyard cats,””the Pet Shop is the backyard,””don’t write about the Pet Shop, write about the cattery,” and so on.]

There were some words that I had to say a long time ago, but I didn’t want to argue with the readers.

First of all, this book was called “Pet King”, not “Cat King”, so he could not close the Pet Shop and open a cattery.

Secondly, was the cattery really as white as it looked? In the next few chapters, let me uncover the little secrets of the cattery that are not known to outsiders.

This is a book revolving around science and rationality. I also hope that the readers of this book have the ability to think independently and objectively, and not be brainwashed by public opinion.

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