Chapter 453: The audience is moved
While feeding the cats, Grandma Zhan also introduced the cats' origins to the audience. She picked up a relatively small orange cat and said, "It's Xiao Huang. I picked it up on the road. At that time, it was only the size of my palm. Its whole body was tied up with ropes maliciously. It couldn't walk steadily. It looked so pitiful. I took it home and found that it was full of maggots. I cleaned it for a long time before it was clean. Now a year has passed, and it is healthy and has no problems at all."
Putting Xiao Huang down, the old man scooped up a spoonful of food, walked to a row of iron cages, opened one of the cages, and poured the food into the bowl in the cage. The tabby cat in the cage dragged its legs and crawled over to eat. "This tabby cat's leg was broken. I took it to the hospital. The doctor said it couldn't be cured. It was completely paralyzed and could only crawl. I usually keep cats with disabilities like this in cages. They can't compete with healthy cats and are likely to be bullied."
She opened a cage next to her, and a black and white cat immediately poked its head out and licked the old woman's palm. Half of its body was exposed in the camera, and the audience discovered that its hind legs were only half broken. "When it was four months old, it was crushed by a car and its legs were broken. Now it is nine years old and has always been with me. It is very well-behaved and cute."
As Grandma Zhan was talking, a few kittens sneaked over, clung to her legs and feet, and meowed. The old woman squatted down and patted the heads of each one. "Two months ago, someone secretly put a cardboard box at the gate of the yard with four kittens in it. Everyone in the neighborhood knows that I adopt small animals. Every now and then, someone will leave the unwanted kittens of their pets outside my house because they know I definitely won't have the heart to leave them alone. But how can these people have the heart to throw away such small kittens? At least they should have raised them for a month or two so that they can protect themselves."
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After feeding the cats, Grandma Zhan went straight to feed the dogs. The kennel was even more spectacular, with hundreds of dogs of different faces all looking at the old woman and at the camera.
Grandma Zhan's voice can be heard in the video again, "The first animal I adopted was a small local dog. That was thirty years ago. It was looking for food in the trash can with its tail between its legs. In the end, it couldn't find anything and was trembling with hunger. Oh, it was so pitiful. I was planning to leave and had already walked a few steps away. When I looked back, I saw the puppy's spiritual eyes, staring at me eagerly. In the end, I couldn't bear to turn around and leave, so I took it home, cleaned it up, and then slept and ate together.
"Perhaps my bad habit of adopting small animals was brought to me by that puppy. From now on, whenever I see stray animals outside, I will definitely choose to take them home and raise them."
After the old man finished speaking, he concentrated on feeding the dogs in the kennel and was so busy that he never had time to rest.
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At this time, the narration sounded again, "Now, 30 years have passed in a flash. The little dog has long returned to the dog planet, but the number of small animals around Grandma Zhan has increased, from dozens to hundreds, and now to thousands. If you add those animals that died of natural causes, the number is even greater. Grandma Zhan's original house could not accommodate so many animals. She left the prosperous capital city two years ago and moved to this remote place, living alone."
"She used to be a high school teacher. Now her work is even busier than before she retired. She has to get up at five in the morning to prepare food for all the animals. If she finds a baby animal, she doesn't even need to sleep. She has to get up at least every four hours to feed it. Cleaning up the animal's excrement is also a big job. The yard can be kept so clean because Grandma Zhan insists on cleaning it once in the morning and once in the afternoon every day."
The man next to him asked, "Do you feel tired?"
Grandma Zhan answered without a second's thought, "Not tired."
"Do you regret it?"
"Why should I regret it? Being with animals makes me feel comfortable and at ease, as if there is hope in life. I think maybe the meaning of my life is to help these little lives as much as I can. I don't ask others to understand me, I just want to feel at ease. I know that many people like cleanliness and dislike the dirtiness of animals. I also know that I smell like animals, so I take the initiative to stay away from people and not bother anyone."
As she spoke, she revealed an old yet simple smile, which moved and saddened the audience.
Seeing this, there are already tens of thousands of messages in the comment section of the video.
"After hearing about Xiao Huang's experience, I got goose bumps. I love cats, and I also have trypophobia. If I came across a stray animal covered in worms, I would also feel pity for it. But if I were asked to adopt it, I would definitely not be able to do it. I would not even want to touch it. So I admire the old lady from the bottom of my heart. She is really great."
"Those who throw away kittens and puppies are scum. If you don't want your pets to reproduce, just have them neutered."
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