92 Victoria’s Secre (2/2)

Zhang Zian approached the cages. Both the golden retriever and the Poodle came towards him. Apparently, they were all hungry. The Chinese cat took a quick look at him and then laid back down.

The golden retriever and the poodle didn’t have scars. Some hair on the left front leg of the Chinese cat was cut off. New hair had not completely come out yet so the healing scar could easily be seen.

From his perspective, all three animals were quite healthy. They might be a bit weak, but staying in the cage all day might’ve caused that. He could tell that the Chinese cat’s surgery was at least 2 weeks ago from the newly grown hair. They could’ve left the clinic by now.

Then the question was, why are these pets still here?

Sun Xiaomeng had too much cat food and dog food? Of course not.

What is it then?

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As Zhang Zian was exploring the Victoria’s secret…no, it was the pet clinic’s secret, Sun Xiaomeng went back to Pet’s Home breeding base.

Her father complained about the business in the breeding base being slow but she really could do nothing about it. She was a vet, not a marketing expert.

A few years ago, business at the breeding base was looking great; therefore, her father decided to take out a loan for expansion. It didn’t take long for all kinds of cat houses and dog houses to become popular. Comprehensive breeding bases were facing severe competitions. There were two reasons breeding bases could not get ahead of the competition First, the costs were too high. Expansions and seeking of integrity in breeds were all contributions to the high operation costs. Second, cat houses and dog houses had their own gimmicks. Some even claimed that their pets could be traced back five generations!

Five generations?! That was exaggerating!

From a vet’s perspective, the purer the breed is, the weaker they get. However, mixed breeds are always much healthier. The weaknesses of purebred pets usually do not show until they get old. All kinds of cardiovascular and neutral system problems are the biggest threats to their health.

The British people seemed the most delicate in pets’ breeds. She once read a report that 50% of the purebred dogs in the UK were related to each other. In other words, your dog might be related to your neighbor’s dog. It was crazy to even think about it.

A BBC documentary Pedigree Dogs Exposed discussed this problem in depth.

It was an open secret in the industry that in a middle-sized city, most of the purebred dogs or cats from the dog houses and cat houses were very likely to be related.

Due to all the above reasons, to get down the possibility of hereditary diseases, she recommended to bring in breeding cats, dogs and rabbits from another area. It increased the cost dramatically, but the pets were much healthier. Sometimes, their appearances were not good either. Most customers didn’t understand it and they all wanted good looking pets under the overwhelming marketing campaign from CFA and FCI.

Tricks could always bring customers yet honesty most of the time didn’t work.

Now she regretted it. The operational costs were high because of her insistence to provide healthy pets to their customers.

As she was being emotional, a few strangers came out from the rabbit barn with some cages. She recognized the rabbits in the cages. They were the new breeds being promoted by the base.

”Wait! Who are you guys? Why do you move our rabbits?” She thought they were thieves so she tried to scream hoping to stop them.

”That’s fine. I am selling them. We will not keep rabbits in the future,” Sun Yinian came out following the guys.

”What?” she was shocked.