Chapter 12
Becky is a gray tabby kitten who looks thin and small. When Lin Gui went there, the nurse was feeding Becky milk.
Kittens with their mothers drink milk peacefully and without worries, but not Becky. It has to work very hard to drink a sip, and after each sip it has to rest before continuing to drink the next, as if it is using all its strength to drink milk.
Lin Gui looked at the kitten Becky from afar. It was now being fed with animal nutrition milk produced by the system. It was so difficult for it to drink. I wonder how it managed to survive the past few days. It seemed as if it felt the benefits of milk to its body and was trying hard to survive.
After meeting Becky, the side quest progressed from finding Becky to saving Becky. After seeing Becky, 009 kept muttering, "Woo woo woo, cat, it's still so small, I feel so sorry for it."
Unable to bear seeing Becky sick and in pain, 009 used his system capabilities to examine Becky from a distance.
The good news: Becky has no congenital disease.
Bad news: Becky is severely malnourished. She must have not had good nutrition and poor resistance when she was in her mother's womb. This is a very serious problem for a kitten.
Lin Gui asked the hospital about it. The hospital originally wanted to use medicine, but seeing that Becky was having trouble eating, the hospital did not dare to use those nutritional supplements and medicines, fearing that his stomach and intestines would not be able to digest them and the condition would worsen.
It seems that we have to use the power of the system to solve the problem that even the hospital cannot solve.
Lin Gui wanted to do something for Becky, so she asked the hospital how Becky's medical expenses were calculated. The hospital said that the kind-hearted person who picked up Becky had paid the medical expenses in advance and has not used up the money yet. She also left her phone number, but she didn't have much time to visit Becky because she was busy with work.
But this kind-hearted person has been asking the hospital to treat Becky with all its heart.
Seeing that there was no way she could help here, Lin Gui prepared to go back to open the shop and ask the 009 system if there was anything she could do to help Becky.
After picking up Dahuang from Grandma Xu's house and taking him to the store, Lin Gui had been brainstorming with 009 on the way, studying the functions of the system over and over again. In the end, they all came to the same conclusion, which was to buy the medicine the cat needed from the system mall.
In the system's world, pets are vaccinated with various vaccines from a young age, just like human cubs. Hospital medicines for animals are similar to those for humans. Cases like Becky who is malnourished at birth are relatively rare.
But Lin Gui still held out a glimmer of hope. When the store was not busy, he looked through all the items in the system mall and finally found two things that were more suitable at the moment. One was cat oral liquid, which could enhance the cat's resistance and only cost five points. The other was cat tonic pills, which could strengthen the cat's physical fitness in all aspects. This one was more expensive and cost 30 points.
009 introduced that cat oral liquid is a bit like daily necessities, with relatively weak effects and not much medicine in it. It is for young cats to drink, nourishing them silently. However, the Ten-Ingredient Tonic Pills are purely medicine, and adult cats eat more of them.
Lin Gui hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to buy the cat oral liquid. Because Becky was too young, the description of the cat oral liquid was more suitable. Although the effect was slow, it also gave Lin Gui time to earn system points.
Lin Gui currently has only four points. Da Huang contributed one, Ji Ji contributed two, and one, according to 009, was accumulated from the gratitude points of the dogs who had eaten delicious food these days.
It seems that the points earned by only selling snacks increase very slowly.
So Lin Gui began to think of ways to increase that little bit of gratitude. Since dogs' gratitude would increase when they ate snacks, Lin Gui decided to let more dogs taste the delicious snacks.
After asking Jiang Yi about the stray dog rescue bases in Ping City, Lin Gui prepared a lot of snacks out of his own pocket and donated them to these bases one by one.
After Jiang Yi knew Lin Gui's idea, she volunteered to look after the store for Lin Gui. Although she had some problems speaking, most of the checkout now was done by scanning codes, and the rest was done by gestures and writing, so there was no problem. Lin Gui readily agreed.
The next day, Lin Gui handed over the shop and Dahuang to Jiang Yi, and called a Huolala to go to these rescue bases with her.
009 was very excited when he found out about this, and told Lin Gui that there was a pet rescue center here, where all pets without guardians in the world were raised by the state.
Lin Gui didn't know how to explain the rescue base in this world to 009, so he remained silent.
The first one is a private rescue base, led by a lady in her forties or fifties, located around the alleys in the old city where Lin Gui is located.
My aunt had nothing to do after retirement. She liked small animals and opened this rescue center because she saw that there were quite a lot of stray dogs in the alley. This small rescue center is composed of my aunt's yard. There are not many dogs in it, and they are basking in the sun one by one. The environment looks very good.
Auntie said that since she opened the rescue center, the door to the small courtyard has been closed all year round. However, her rescue work is very effective. In just a few years, the number of stray dogs in the alley has been reduced a lot. The dogs in the rescue center have been sterilized and their hair has been groomed. After posting adoption information on some platforms, many people have come to adopt them. Overall, Auntie is very satisfied.
Lin Gui handed boxes of snacks to Auntie, asking her to give them to all the dogs at home. Because the rescue base's funding mostly comes from Auntie's pension and donations from kind people, most of the dogs here only eat ordinary dog food. Auntie didn't hesitate to accept the snacks.
So Lin Gui started going to the second one, which was on the outskirts of the city and occupied a fairly large area. It was run by a charity organization. The leader of the organization was not very old, only about 27 or 28 years old.
Compared to the first house, the second house has a much larger number of dogs. Although it occupies a large area, the large number of dogs makes the living environment of the dogs seem not very good. As soon as Lin Gui stepped into this place, 009 started crying: "Ah, how come there is only one cage for each dog?"
Lin Gui was busy talking to the person in charge about moving goods and had no time to comfort 009. The person in charge's surname was Xu. Everyone in the organization had their own jobs, so usually a few people were on duty to take care of the dogs. The dogs had a relatively large yard to roam around. Although the sleeping area was small, their life was relatively stable.
According to Xu, the person in charge, there are about 200 dogs in this base, and the number will increase every month. Although some people adopt them, the number of adoptions is far less than the number of rescues organized by their organization.
Because they have gained some fame in Pingshi and pet groups, whenever a dog is found nearby, people will call and ask the organization to bring it back, help find the owner, and help adopt it.
Fortunately, the organization has a lot of manpower, so there are operators on major platforms, and there are cooperative relationships with pet hospitals. With more sponsors, we can continue to provide rescue.
After learning about the situation, Lin Gui also sponsored a lot of snacks. The dogs at this base were not starving because of the generous sponsorship from kind-hearted people, so Lin Gui's snacks were icing on the cake.
After saying goodbye to Mr. Xu, they set off for the third house, which was in the countryside. 009 had calmed down. When they arrived at the third house, they found that it was the worst house Lin Gui had ever seen. As soon as they stepped into this environment, they could find that many dogs were in a depressed state.
The third house had no one in charge, only an elderly security guard who was guarding the door and feeding the dogs. Most of the dogs ate leftovers collected by nearby families. No one took care of them, and they were not isolated properly, resulting in many scars on their bodies.
The security guard said that many dogs inside would find gaps in the fence to escape, but the surrounding area is all in the countryside, and the dogs here are often stolen by dog thieves. The dogs that escape on their own are also in great danger. Occasionally, charitable organizations will come to deliver dog food, but it is not enough for the dogs here.
Lin Gui was distressed after hearing this, and 009 said nothing. He could only leave all the snacks in the car. At this time, he began to urgently want the system to provide a menu of staple foods.
There were still two bases that had not been visited, but Lin Gui had no snacks left in the car, so Lin Gui had to go back to the store first and prepare to go to the remaining rescue bases tomorrow.
009 hadn't spoken since leaving the third house. Lin Gui was afraid that 009 couldn't accept it, so she started asking about its situation. 009 was heartbroken: "Host, can we help them?"
"Of course," Lin Gui said firmly. "Didn't you say there's a pet rescue center in your world? How about we open one once our store becomes bigger and stronger? We can then use snacks to feed these dogs."
"Okay." 009 was full of fighting spirit.
The system was also updated at this time.
[Side Quest: Open a Pet Rescue Center (Long-term)
Mission description: Lin Gui and 009 have a common wish to help stray animals. Once Ertu Snack Shop becomes successful, Lin Gui will be qualified to open a pet rescue center. I hope she will be successful soon.
Mission reward: a complete rescue center decoration plan.
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This side quest comes at the right time. With the reward for this quest, Lin Gui only needs to consider the location of the pet center.
By the time the Huolala car arrived at Lin Gui's store, it was already five o'clock. Jiang Yi was busy in the store. As soon as Lin Gui entered, Da Huang ran over and wanted to jump on her. Lin Gui hugged Da Huang and began to maintain order at the checkout with Jiang Yi.
Although there is currently no way to open a pet rescue center, Lin Gui couldn't bear to see the dogs of the third family living such a poor life, so after get off work, she began to ask Jiang Yi if their hospital had any home check-up services that could be charged. By the way, the pet hospital they had visited before was opened by Jiang Yi's family. Lin Gui was surprised when she found out.
Jiang Yi obviously didn't know much about the affairs of her own hospital, so she sent her brother's WeChat account to Lin Gui, and Lin Gui started to contact Jiang Li.
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