1005 Secret Signal (1/2)
Zhang Zian and Galaxy played hide-and-seek for a while, then they suddenly heard Vladimir shout, ”One-Two-One, left, right, left! One-Two-One, left, right, left!”
The three Abyssinian cats were following the rhythm of its cries, moving their left foreleg and right hind leg when it shouted one, and their right foreleg and left hind leg when it shouted two. Although it was still not very neat, but had improved and was much better than before. After more practice, they should be able to walk around in a very neat pace.
Cats characteristically walked the easy walk, meaning that their four feet could step on the same line. A model on a catwalk walked the same way, but the model was trained. For cats, however, it was instinctive, and they hardly ever walked askew. While human soldiers walked in two straight lines, the cat was more ornamental when it walked.
Vladimir said, ”What matters the most when doing things is doing it the correct way. This way, we can complete the same tasks with half the effort.”
Fina finally felt satisfied. After a reserved nod, it said, ”Walking together is just the beginning. I still want to let them learn to walk forward. Turn off the music; we'll end it here. Don't disturb the palace, I'm going to sleep.” After saying that, it jumped onto the highest level of the cat climbing rack, closed its eyes, and fell asleep.
Zhang Zian said in his heart, This is one thing happening after another. They really knew how to mess with me!
He switched off the music, then pulled opened the curtain door and let the fresh air enter the shop.
Now was almost the most suitable season of the year. If one didn't go out for a walk, it would be a waste of fine weather.
Famous peeked out from the top of the staircase to check if the hide-and-seek game was over before it dared to quietly sneak down.
Zhang Zian was sweeping the floor and cleaning up the place when he saw Vladimir stroll over. It raised its head to ask, ”Yesterday, with that dumb big guy and that middle-aged woman… What was the contagious disease they were talking about?”
The dumb big guy was, of course, Liu Yonghui, and the middle-aged woman was Liu Wenying.
Vladimir had arrived in Binhai after Liu Wenying's Siamese cat was infected with rabies, so he did not understand some details of the conversation between them yesterday. It was inconvenient for him to ask at that time. When he was free, he raised his doubts.
”You're asking about this…” Zhang Zian swept the floor while he told it about Liu Wenying's experience. When she was walking around the residential area, the Siamese cat was scratched by a stray cat that came out of nowhere and was infected with rabies. The incident made the residents of that area extremely angry, especially some old people with stubborn ideas, so they decided to kill the stray cats in the residential area.
”Oh. What's rabies?” Vladimir asked.
”It is an infectious disease that people and felines and canines share. Whether they are a human, a dog, or a cat, once someone gets infected, they will almost always die,” Zhang Zian explained. ”People are very afraid of this infectious disease, and sometimes fear allows excessive behavior.”
”Now that's a problem…” Vladimir pondered.
For domestic pet cats, the impact of the problem was very small. After all, most pet cats didn't leave their homes, and there was little possibility of infection. But for stray cats, the problem was more serious. The frequent cat abuse had made their lives difficult, and the terrible infectious diseases raged among stray cats like ghosts.
”If we want to fight a powerful enemy and win, we must try our best to preserve our vital strength,” it said. ”If we can't stop the spread of infectious diseases in time, the stray cats will be destroyed by the disease without the help of the Holy Cat Statue and the cat abusers.”
”It can be said like that, but it seems like there is no good solution,” Zhang Zian admitted. The rabies was an old and large scale problem; it would not be able to be solved that easily. ”When you go out next time, you need to be careful. Although it is a good thing to be friends with a lot of cats, you need to be careful for your own safety.”
”Because someone has choked to death eating rice before, you won't eat rice again in the future?” Vladimir did not seem to care that much about its own safety and was not concerned about it at all. That part of it was quite similar to Fina.
It thought for a while, then asked, ”After getting rabies, are there any obvious symptoms?”
”There are, like how they are scared of light, scared of wind, scared of water, and their mental condition is not clear. Individual cases might have a larger sense of aggression towards humans and other animals,” Zhang Zian said.
Vladimir's eyes brightened as if it had thought of a good idea. It confidently said, ”Then that's easy to tackle.”
Zhang Zian thought in his heart, It is not like you are Bethune, an internationalist fighter. Could you come up with a special medicine?
He saw it walk to the doorway of the shop and whistle.
Not long after, a black cat appeared from the top of the wall of the opposite housing estate. It jumped down the wall, carefully avoiding the cars, and ran towards them side.
”It's a member of the Meow Meow Branch Organization from the opposite estate,” Vladimir said.
Zhang Zian was speechless.
It seemed like every night, while he was snoring and sleeping, Vladimir had secretly done quite a lot of things…
After passing across the road, the black cat kept a safe distance from the pedestrians on the road and walked to a place that was about a few meters away from the pet shops. It squatted down, not daring to come any nearer.
Vladimir turned its head to look a Fina.
Zhang Zian was stunned for a while, but he understood it right after. The black cat was a stray cat, and it had smelled Fina's scent so it did not dare to come too close.
Since it did not dare to come over, Vladimir just walked out of the pet shop and over to the black cat, then sat down.
Zhang Zian was confused as to what it wanted to do.