Daily Life in the Pet Shop Ch. 219

Prev | Directory | Next

Hearing Da Fei say this, Fang Yue, who was holding her phone and filming, immediately felt like a herd of grass mud horses (wtf) was galloping through her mind. Da Fei really was something, even clearing its throat and fluffing up its feathers before getting in front of the camera.

"Alright, let's start," Fang Yue said, holding her phone still, planning to edit this line of Da Fei's into the video and give everyone a shock.

"Master, I miss you. Please come out quickly," Da Fei said, then tilted its head, asking Fang Yue if it was okay. After she said yes, it bounced off to the side, looking disgusted, and added, "I don't want Master."

Fang Yue: ...

Luckily, that sentence didn't reach Ting Shan's ears.

Fang Yue logged into Da Fei's Weibo and posted the tweet, then went back to her own Weibo to retweet it. Although Da Fei was being funny beside her, seeing Xiao Mao's hesitant eyes made it hard for anyone to laugh. It was just... too heartbreaking.

Soon, Fang Yue saw two useful replies. One person said that this dog looked very similar to a dog they'd seen before, but without fur. They couldn't be sure if it was the same dog, but the dog's owner lived in the same neighborhood as them—an extremely young girl who often took Xiao Mao out for walks, and they'd seen them a few times.

Fang Yue privately messaged them for more details, and the content was almost the same as what was said in another message, but that person had never responded to her.

"How's it going?" Ever since Fang Yue posted the Weibo, Tang Jingyi had been keeping an eye on it, hoping to find Xiao Mao's owner. She even specially logged into Tian Yanming's Weibo to retweet Fang Yue's post, just to get more people to see it and help Xiao Mao's owner find him.

"No news yet. That girl said she went to find her friend and told me not to worry, but I'm freaking out. You should watch the new video I filmed. You have no idea how heartbreaking it is for me every time I see Xiao Mao. I really just want to smack her. Its owner abandoned it, so why does it keep thinking about her? But every time I even mention it, Xiao Mao gets upset and runs far away, really defending its owner." Fang Yue quickly replied.

"Looks like Xiao Mao's owner must have treated it very well. If she liked it that much, how could she bear to throw it away? I just don't understand what's going through people's heads." Tang Jingyi sighed deeply, then reached out to pat the little cat sleeping next to her computer.

The cats had been living in her house for a long time, but they still weren't that close to her, though they were a bit friendlier with Duoduo. The cats were too independent; they didn't like being clingy, and every night they had to go out. She always worried they might not come back. If they gave her even a little affection, she'd be over the moon. If they liked her as much as Xiao Mao liked its owner, she'd be so happy.

With a few more pets at home, there were more things to take care of every day—grooming the cats and dogs, cleaning up after them, and taking the puppy for walks. But it was a lot livelier, and there were many more happy moments. Tang Jingyi thought, raising them really wasn't troublesome. The effort humans put into animals could never compare to what animals gave back to humans.

For the sake of human rules, animals had changed so many of their natural habits, but humans couldn't tolerate even the smallest inconvenience. The moment things went wrong, they'd abandon them.

"Yeah, I can't figure it out either. Look at my brother, how miserable he was. Back when he was still in school, he couldn't find a place that allowed pets, so he had to rent a place in the suburbs, more than ten kilometers away. He'd spend ages commuting every day. I seriously suspect that's when my brother built up his muscles," Fang Yue typed out, realizing she'd gone off-topic. She hurriedly brought the conversation back,

"At that time, my brother didn't even have money. To buy things for the animals, he ate the cheapest food. The money our dad gave him went straight to buying cat food. Even under those tough conditions, he never thought of abandoning the animals. Do you know why he opened a pet store? Because he often had to take the animals to the pet store for check-ups, and every time it cost a lot of money. So my brother seriously told us that his ultimate goal was to open a pet store."

"Your brother is impressive," Tang Jingyi said. She knew a bit about Fang Yi, but she never imagined things had been so tough for him. In her impression, Fang Yi was quite well off, especially since Fang Yue's brother, Fang Xu, was running a very popular online game now.

"Yeah, but..." Tang Jingyi still had some doubts. "Why couldn't he find a place that allowed pets? Usually, landlords wouldn't specifically forbid that, right?"

"He had too many. He had over ten cats and dogs, and only rented one apartment. Those landlords definitely wouldn't want that," Fang Yue remembered those times and thought that Naima might have known something about it.

Back then, Naima wouldn't go out to rescue small animals every day, and most of the animals brought back were weak or sick. It wasn't like now, where Naima would bring back any kind of animal.

Fang Yue typed out a reply and casually scrolled through her private messages. She immediately noticed a message from the girl and clicked into it. It was just one sentence: "We found it, we're on our way."

"Brother!" Fang Yue almost jumped up when she saw the reply. She ran straight to the backyard to find Fang Yi.

"What's going on?" Fang Yi saw how excited Fang Yue was and quickly asked, "Did you find Xiao Mao's owner?"

"Yeah, she said they're on their way. You should quickly get Xiao Mao cleaned up, so its owner doesn't dislike it when they arrive." Fang Yue said, but then added, a little unwillingly, "Though I'm not too fond of Xiao Mao's owner, if she takes it back, Xiao Mao will definitely be happy."

"It's fine. We'll ask her why she didn't want to keep it. We can keep providing Xiao Mao with food, canned food, toys, and everything else for free. We'll definitely make her take it home," Fang Yi thought the same thing. Even though he didn't want Xiao Mao to leave with its owner, he knew it was the best thing for Xiao Mao.

Fang Yi had been raising cats and dogs for years, and Xiao Mao wasn't the first dog he had seen who missed its owner.

Back then, Naima had brought back a small white dog from outside. The dog was very quiet and well-behaved, but it would run outside every day. Fang Yi couldn't stop it, but later he realized the dog wasn't running around randomly; it would just stay in a fixed spot, as if waiting for something.

All credit goes to the original author
Feel free to pinpoint us if there are any grammar error or typos
Please don't use Guazi's translation to re-translate in other languages

Prev | Directory | Next