2023-06-16 05:58:13
[Animal News]Animal lovers have been advocating adoption instead of buying, because buying and selling animals has caused a lot of harm to animals. Amy (pseudonym) bought an exotic short-haired cat in a pet shop in Mong Kok in early April this year. Within 24 hours of bringing the cat home, she developed diarrhea. The veterinarian confirmed that she was suffering from feline distemper, and she had to experience it for regarding 3 months. Painful medical treatment, blood drawn every two days, pinholes all over the limbs, tried to use 16 pills a day. Amy accompanied Mao Mao to overcome the disease, and also learned from this lesson, she realized that she should not buy animals, causing animals to suffer indirectly, and followed up in different ways, hoping that the store would stop selling sick cats.
This newspaper is inquiring regarding the incident from the store, asking how many of the cats sold in the store were sick, the store’s isolation and testing measures, whether the cats were bred by themselves or purchased from other breeders, etc. The store has not responded by the deadline.
Amy bought an exotic short-haired cat at the Bute Street branch in Mong Kok on April 2 this year for 16,800 yuan. At that time, the clerk pointed out that the 3-month-old cat needed a second injection and it would take two days to get it. pick up. She went to pick up the cat at 8:00 p.m. on April 4, but the door of the Bute Street branch was half closed, so she went to the Tung Choi Street branch to inquire. I planned to take the cat out for a checkup, but he refused, saying that the cat would not adapt, and told me to bring the cat home quickly. I asked what kind of food the cat is used to eating, and he only said two meals a day, at 12 o’clock in the followingnoon and at night One meal each at 8 o’clock.”
Take home a day with diarrhea
When she brought the cat home, the cat was still normal and energetic, but around 7:30 p.m. the next day (April 5), the cat suddenly started to have diarrhea, and every time the diarrhea ended, the cat was listless and lay still. She immediately asked the staff of the pet store on Whatsapp, but the staff replied that the cat had eggs in its stool and needed deworming. She felt something was wrong, so she took the cat to the North Point Animal Hospital for examination at 1:30 am on April 6.
A quick veterinary test showed that the cat had feline distemper and required a blood test. “The doctor said that I had no other animals in my home, and the cat did not show any symptoms within 24 hours following I picked it up. I can be sure that it was not my home environment that made me sick. The cat was sick. I thought that my cat was trapped in the same cage as other cats in the pet store. Feline distemper is so contagious that other cats are likely to have accidents, so I told the pet store that my cat had feline distemper.”
Pet store staff provide injections and medicines to encourage cat owners to administer them
The staff of the pet shop replied to her at 3:00 in the morning, saying that there was a cat volunteer who was familiar with the cat who might provide injections and might come to her home to help with injections. She immediately asked him to go to the North Point Animal Hospital together. She pointed out that two men came to the scene at the time, and the other party was freezing 3 needles in beer cans, and asked her to make sure that the clinic assistant gave the cat an injection, “They said they had already drawn the dose, but when they wrote the dose to be injected, they Sometimes it said 2 milliliters per kilogram, and sometimes it said 80 mg per kilogram. Even the girl mightn’t help but say that the two doses are different. I was even more surprised when I heard it. I didn’t know what the medicine was or even the dose, so I wrote a private Give the girl some paper and tell her not to give the cat those injections.”
What surprised her even more was that when she asked for help online, a volunteer said she might provide injections, but when she asked the person, the pet store staff suddenly told her that the volunteer was the one who cooperated with them, “I am not I believe there will be cat volunteers to cooperate with the pet store, and it turns out that the pet store sells sick cats and cat injections at the same time.” In the end, she did not help the cats with the injections provided by the staff.
The veterinarian diagnosed that her cat had feline moss, eye inflammation, ear mites, etc. in addition to feline distemper. The resistance was very poor, and the weight was only 0.93 kg. Amy questioned: “It is less than 1 kg. months?”
The staff refused to explain how the store detects cat plague
She then contacted the pet store and asked if the other cats in the store had feline plague, whether they had been tested, etc., but when the staff responded, they only focused on whether she would provide a blood test certificate and bring the cat back to the store for a refund. The staff was recording Zhong said: “As for how to go to the doctor in our company, how to do tests, and what tests are done, to be honest, I really don’t need to explain to you. You can talk to AFCD and contact us through AFCD to inquire. The clerk also stated that he would not be responsible for the medical expenses, and asked her to consult a lawyer, or go to the Small Claims Tribunal to deal with it.
Amy saw that the cat was so hard at such a young age, and that other cats in the pet store might have feline plague, so she mightn’t ignore it. She hoped that the store would stop selling sick cats, so she decided to disclose the incident on the Internet, and contacted Aiming The Association of Animals went to investigate. “Inspectors from the Association went there twice and found that some cats were listless and had a runny nose. They seemed to be sick. They informed the Fisheries and Conservation Department, and the Fisheries and Conservation Department would investigate.” She also complained to the Consumer Council , but the Consumer Council refused to accept it because the store had arranged for a refund. She said frankly that she felt helpless, “Even if there were sick cats in the store, it had been a month since they were disposed of by the store in minutes.”
What annoyed her the most was that the store only treats cats as commodities, and offers refunds if they are sick. “Animals are life. You are like selling a piece of goods. If it rots, just ask me to replace it.” She went online once more I met 4 other sufferers on the Internet, all of whom bought cats in the store, and the cats fell ill very quickly. “One case was more serious. It started to get sick on the 5th day following I was brought home, and now I still have sequelae of weakness in the hind legs.” She pointed out , Some cases do not suffer from feline plague, but have feline ringworm, eye inflammation, ear inflammation, etc.
buy animals to create pain
After this battle, she also realized that she should not buy animals, “I used to think that I just need to find a shop with a conscience, but this time I admit that being stupid is a sin. I was so stupid that I saw that the shop was clean, so I thought they would Those cats are good. Now when I see a friend who wants to buy an animal, I tell him not to buy it. It’s not a matter of spending money, but seeing that a cat is very hard. It’s because we bought animals that caused him to suffer.”
In addition to hoping to prevent pet shops from selling sick cats, Amy spent more energy on helping the cats overcome the disease. The medical expenses and drug expenses have already cost regarding 100,000 yuan, but she took the cat home on the first day, and she was already a cat. It was her family, no matter how much money they spent, they would never give up helping him with his medical treatment and accompany him to tide over the difficulties.
Accompanying cats through difficult medical procedures
“During the medical treatment, he and I worked very hard, because feline distemper was recurrent, and blood tests were done every two days. Seeing that the platelets and white blood cells in his blood report were not up to standard, we were very worried that something might happen suddenly. He was so thin. Blood needs to be drawn every two days, and fluids have to be suspended all the time, and intubation is transferred to other limbs every few days. The peak is that cats have 16 medicines a day.”
After two and a half months of treatment, the cat’s condition has improved significantly, and its weight has risen from 0.93 kg to 2.5 kg. His intestines and stomach are still not very good, and he still has to eat prescription food. He has not yet switched to food, but he can eat “Zhizhi”. Eat Zhizhi, but don’t dare to give too much, lest he get diarrhea.”
Seeing Maomao go from being sick to being paralyzed and unresponsive, and now being spirited and playful, and clinging to her to sleep at night, she feels very happy and at ease. such pain.
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