Daily Life in the Pet Shop Ch. 217

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Fang Yi started to suspect that Xiao Mao had depression, so he called Zhou Qimeng over to check on Xiao Mao. Zhou Qimeng scolded him hard—he wasn't a vet, after all. But he still looked at Xiao Mao and said the little guy had probably been abandoned, and the trauma from that had left a heavy shadow in its heart. On top of that, losing all its fur probably pushed it into a phase of self-loathing.

"I have an idea." Fang Yue suddenly spoke up nearby. "I'll take a few photos and post them online to help Xiao Mao find its owner. Maybe we'll track them down, and even if we don't, at least its owner will see it and feel bad. Why should Xiao Mao be the only one hurting? Dogs don't live long—just a short decade or so. If you raise one, you have to take responsibility. You should think it through before getting one. Abandoning them halfway—what the hell is that?"

"Okay," Fang Yi said from the side. Even though this whole thing sounded a little dramatic, judging by how this dog acted, it was clear how badly it'd been hurt by its previous owner. If it had just gotten lost somehow, that'd be one thing. But if the owner had really just dumped Xiao Mao, Fang Yi honestly wanted to find that person and give them a beating—scare them so badly they'd never dare own a pet again.

"Xiao Mao, this time I'm definitely going all out to blow this thing up and get justice for you, don't worry." Fang Yue patted Xiao Mao, got up, and went straight to write a Weibo post, hoping the owner still had a shred of conscience and would come forward to find Xiao Mao.

Fang Yue spent three hours writing a long post with tons of photos. She even cried while writing it. Just looking at how Xiao Mao was acting now, she could imagine how heartbroken he must've been when it got abandoned.

Once the post was done, Fang Yue tagged Du Qianze, Sui Yuan, Tang Jingyi, Cai Ya, Ning Feng, and a bunch of well-known pet influencers—anyone she had any kind of connection to, she tagged them all.

"Brother, go repost the Weibo, quick. You've got, like, 300k followers!" Fang Yue tugged on Fang Yi and said.

"Oh." Fang Yi nodded. He hadn't touched Weibo in forever—the last time he posted was when he uploaded that video. He'd even forgotten the password and had to ask Fang Yue to log in.

After he reposted it, Fang Yi's phone wouldn't stop buzzing. A lot of the comments were all shocked he finally posted again. But once people read through the long post, the whole discussion shifted to the story itself. The replies were full of people condemning Xiao Mao's previous owner. Fang Yi scrolled for a while and realized all the replies were just angry rants—nothing actually useful—so he stopped checking.

That same night, everyone Fang Yue tagged reposted the Weibo, and the post went viral super fast. The next day, Fang Yue stayed glued to the computer, nervously scrolling through tens of thousands of replies one by one. Pretty soon, she found a useful comment—someone said the dog looked just like one their friend used to have and said they'd check with that friend.

"Come look, come look, I think I found a really useful reply!" Fang Yue clicked into that user's profile. Turned out she was from B City and had a totally normal account—just daily life stuff, some funny memes. Didn't look like someone who'd make things up.

"Did she reply?" Fang Yi quickly asked.

"Yeah, I messaged her. No response." Ever since she posted that Weibo, Fang Yue had gotten thousands of DMs. She was going through them one by one. Most were people just expressing concern for Xiao Mao, but the person she really wanted to hear back from wasn't answering. Fang Yue had sent over a dozen messages, but still nothing.

"I'll have my brother check her location." Fang Yue was getting anxious from the silence, so she called Fang Xu and asked him to look up where the Weibo user lived.

"That's illegal..." Fang Xu replied helplessly. He didn't understand why, when Fang Yi was doing legit business, he always got pulled into these shady things.

"Come on, just help me out, please. You haven't seen how sad Xiao Mao is—just lying in the backyard day after day, not making a sound. It's heartbreaking." Fang Yue spoke in the sweetest voice she could manage.

"Hah, I've got a meeting soon. I'll help you after that. But don't come to me with this stuff all the time." Fang Xu could already tell from her voice that if he said no, she'd get mad, so he gave in.

"Okay, worst case I'll get my cousin to talk to you." Fang Yue's voice instantly switched back to normal. Fang Xu never dared go against anything Fang Yi said, and when he heard Fang Yue mention him, he immediately hung up the call.

"Done. We'll know soon enough." Fang Yue went back to checking new replies and messages, and even reposted another Weibo telling people to contact her if they had any leads.

"These people are really something." After all that, Fang Yue turned and complained to Fang Yi, "Why do they even get pets if they're just gonna abandon them? If you don't want to take care of them, don't raise them in the first place. Don't they know how loyal animals usually are?"

"It was an impulse. They see a cute little animal and want to bring it home, but they don't realize how much effort it takes to take care of them. Once their patience runs out, they just dump them."

Such things cause a lot of harm to animals. People were different. Humans could easily abandon animals and came up with all sorts of excuses—'It's too mischievous,' 'It's not obedient,' 'We're moving and it's inconvenient to take it,' 'It's pregnant...' But for those animals, their whole life might only have one owner. The positions and the emotional investments were just not the same. Animals only recognized one owner, while humans could have many animals, and the emotional bond was naturally different.

"Ah, I've decided to raise the adoption standards a bit. I'll also explain the challenges of keeping pets in a Weibo post, so people thinking about adopting will think carefully before they do."

"If they really want to keep animals, they should at least have someone at home who knows how to take care of them. That way, they can adopt different animals without worrying about how to care for them, and still enjoy seeing them act cute every day, right Naima?" Fang Yue spoke to Naima, who, upon hearing his name, looked up at Fang Yue, then turned and walked to Fang Yi's side, lying down with an innocent wag of his tail.

Suddenly, Fang Yue's phone rang. It was Ning Feng calling. As soon as she answered, Ning Feng started complaining, "You guys keep making it to the trending topics, isn't that a bit much? How are the paid posters supposed to survive now?"

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