Adorable Pet Daily Life Ch. 134

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Of course, and also because of these playful fans, Shen Luo and Chong'ai Pet Hospital became increasingly famous. Nowadays, Chong'ai Pet Hospital's Weibo followers had surpassed one million. Although compared to those mega-stars with tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of followers, it was still far behind, Shen Luo still felt pretty satisfied.

The reason the fans liked the hospital was that it felt very real. Chong'ai Pet Hospital's Weibo never asked its fans to donate or anything like that; most of the time it was posting adorable pictures of pets, and sometimes it would post advertisements for lost pets or for claims, etc. As a well-known Weibo account in the pet world, naturally there were people who had once thought of asking Shen Luo if his Weibo could help advertise for them—actually just a simple retweet—and the number of likes and retweets could be used as the standard for payment.

Without a second thought, Shen Luo refused. How could he recommend to his fans something he barely believed in himself? That was simply impossible.

Of course, when it came to advertising his own hospital, Shen Luo spared no effort, so everyone knew that Shen Luo was quite conceited. And he loved money too.

"Urban Life" magazine was a nationally distributed publication. After the article about Chong'ai Pet Hospital was published, the Weibo followers surged once more, and the related accounts like Ethan and Ah Fei even gained more followers.

Hearing this good news, Shen Luo couldn't help but smile; having a big name was certainly good—bigger fame meant money would come faster.

"Boss Shen, I see you know quite a few people, and among them there are some rich ones. Why don't you coax them for sponsorship or something?" Qiao Zhenmian asked curiously.

People had asked Shen Luo the same thing before—why not coax for sponsorship. At that time, Shen Luo was just starting out, and he hadn't dared; now, he simply didn't want to.

Shen Luo said, "Money comes with favors. If you get money from someone this time, you end up owing them a favor. Who knows—there might come a day when you need to repay it, even using our hospital's pets. I don't want that."

Qiao Zhenmian adjusted his glasses, surprised that although Shen Luo loved money, he still clearly knew which money to take and which not to.

"Without sponsorship, how are your hospital's finances now?"

Shen Luo shrugged. "It used to lose money every year, only starting to improve last year, and now it's basically breaking even."

Shen Luo's pet supplies store and online shop could make money, and treating some pets was also profitable. But the expenses were even greater—the rent alone was over a hundred thousand yuan a year, and treating stray animals required using some top-notch medicine, much of which was imported and not produced domestically, so the prices were naturally high. Even decent deworming pills for pets cost about a dozen yuan each, with the cost price at around ten yuan.

A dog or a cat needed deworming after a while, and between internal and external treatments, it still added up to several tens of yuan. With so many animals in the hospital, the yearly total wasn't a small sum.

Shen Luo slowly explained the hospital's affairs to Qiao Zhenmian, who was somewhat shocked. Despite the fact that Shen Luo's pet hospital was small—with his pet supplies shop together making only three outlets—even a small place had everything you needed. Except for a few operations that required expensive equipment, they could handle routine treatments.

Speaking of these things, Shen Luo was very thankful to Wang Bo, who had studied veterinary medicine and even earned a master's degree, yet still chose to work as a busy ordinary veterinarian in their small hospital.

Qiao Zhenmian turned his online interview experience into an article and posted it on his Weibo, which attracted the attention and retweets of many people. Although Cong'ai Pet Hospital was small, what they did was by no means trivial.

Shen Luo looked back at Qiao Zhenmian's article, yet felt it was a bit pretentious.

"Pretentious or not, it's still more touching than yours."

Zheng Jiamei rolled her eyes so hard they almost flew out of her head. Qiao Zhenmian was totally her type, so she wouldn't allow the boss to badmouth him.

Shen Luo finally got a taste of how scary diehard fans could be.

Even though he complained about how corny the article was, the truth was, Qiao Zhenmian's post touched a lot of people. And it was only after that post that Shen Luo realized Yuan Ying and Qiao Zhenmian followed each other on Weibo—and Yuan Ying had even shared his post. Shen Luo kept wondering whether she reposted it because it was about the pet hospital, or because it was written by Qiao Zhenmian.

Either way, Chong'ai Pet Hospital ended up gaining some celebrity fans, which totally thrilled Zheng Jiamei—she was so excited she acted like a maniac for days.

But Shen Luo wasn't familiar with those celebrities. He only knew they were actors from the dramas Zheng Jiamei watched.

As the hospital blew up in popularity, the animals got famous too. The competition videos spread online, especially the clip of Brother Pi at the event. Netizens commented that even though he looked kinda countryside with that outfit, his moves were surprisingly agile.

Shen Luo: Screw that countryside vibe!

He'd cleaned himself up just for that appearance, and people still said he looked rustic.

Boss Shen was about to blow up!

Wang Bo saw the storm coming and quickly changed the subject to distract him. "Boss, Baobao's gonna be admitted soon to give birth—should we get ready?"

Shen Luo slapped his forehead. He'd been so caught up in all the online stuff that he'd totally forgotten he had real things to deal with.

"Right, time to prep. I'll go get everything set up in a bit."

Dog births were usually a bit easier to handle than cat births. Cats didn't always allow people to be around, but dogs were usually more chill. And since pit bulls were rare in the country, they had to be extra careful—the pups weren't cheap, and if anything went wrong, the hospital couldn't afford the hit.

Shen Luo carefully prepared a cozy little nest for Baobao and got all the birthing supplies ready.

Xiang Weiran brought Baobao over right on schedule, and King Kong came along too.

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