Chapter 781: Chapter 782: The Real Reason
The old man with white hair looked up: “Who’s there?”
“Says they’re a journalist from the Stray Animal Protection Society.”
Hearing the words stray animal protection, the old man jumped up imdiately and moved chairs for Xia Yangyang and Gu Qichen: “Please sit down.”
Xia Yangyang said: “Uncle Yu, don’t fuss. I’m just here for a quick interview.”
Uncle Yu wiped his hands: “Okay, go ahead and ask.”
Xia Yangyang took out her recording pen.
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And handed the cara to Gu Qichen: “I’ll need you to be my photographer for today.”
Gu Qichen took the DSLR: “My fees are not low, we’ll have to settle them when we get back.”
Xia Yangyang started the interview: “Aunt Yu, Uncle Yu, when did you start feeding these stray cats and dogs?”
Uncle Yu said: “It must be over a decade now. After my wife and I retired, we started feeding these little pitiful creatures. Many of the dogs here have been raised by us since birth, initially only three dogs and two cats from the alley, but the number got larger over ti. Now there’re hundreds.”
Xia Yangyang said: “Feeding so many stray animals is a massive expense, how can you afford to do so?”
Uncle Yu said: “I have my retirent pension, but my wife doesn’t. We used to sell Shengjian buns in the alley, the business was passable, and the monthly inco was all spent on these fur babies. But now, with the governnt carrying out demolition, we have no business, and they’re even insisting that we move out. If we were to move, what will happen to these fur babies who we have raise, so are already very old and can’t walk or eat, they need our care. The governnt did provide housing compensation, but pets are not allowed there, let alone a whole flock like ours.”
Xia Yangyang listened, her heart stirring.
Xia Yangyang continued to ask: “So you are refusing to relocate and insisting on staying here because of these stray animals?”
Uncle Yu sighed heavily.
Aunt Yu was grooming an old local dog on the side: “Yes, neither Uncle Yu nor I have children, these little cats and dogs are like our family. We’ve raised each and every one of them by hand. Actually, they all even have nas, this one is Potato, because it loves eating potatoes, that one is called Little Black. We’ve consulted before, if we were to move out, these animals would either continue to be strays, or if they were caught, they will be euthanized directly. And many older ones, without anyone to take care of them, would die of starvation. Each one of them is a life. We raised them to such maturity, leaving them now would like be throwing them into a fiery pit, so no matter what, we will not move.”
Xia Yangyang never thought that the reason why Uncle Yu and his wife were so adamant about staying was for these stray animals.
Xia Yangyang said: “Have you talked to the governnt about this?”
“Of course we did. We said it many tis, as long as the fur kids are well taken care of, we would not oppose the governnt. But the people the governnt sent asserted that these animals carry diseases and were social tumors, and they imdiately caught so to euthanize them. They’ve already captured 12. Uncle Yu and I had to fight them fiercely to protect the rest. And so other people, taking advantage of our old age, threw poison at my dogs, hoping to force us to move, Little Tiger was poisoned to death like this.”
At this point, Uncle Yu and his wife started wiping tears: “We are old and we don’t have money to take them to the pet hospital. Even when we did, they said they couldn’t be cured. We can only watch them die in pain and then bury them. How can they be so cruel? These fur babies are so well-behaved, they never bite anyone. Dogs understand human feelings. They know what you have done to them. How can they be so heartless?”
At the ntion of their pain, the two old people were in deep sorrow.
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