The Cub Comes from Planet Meow 75

Chapter 75: Meow

Blood cats, as the name suggests, are cats bred specifically to provide blood transfusions for sick cats.

Most blood cats come from commercial profit-making industrial chains.

When a client needs a blood transfusion, the breeder will bring the blood cat to their door, draw blood from the blood cat, and sell it at a high price to the owner of the cat needing the transfusion.

The living conditions of blood cats are extremely harsh. They are usually kept in narrow and dark environments, frequently or even excessively drained of blood, with worrying health conditions. Weakness, anemia, and malnutrition are common, and they often die in pain.

When life is treated as a commodity, humanity is crushed into dust.

Because he had raised the sickly kitten Mimi, Jing Zhi often visited the pet hospital and knew a bit about blood cats.

Once, he and Jiang Suifeng happened to encounter a panicked cat owner bringing an injured cat to the hospital, being told it needed a blood transfusion immediately. Not long after, a man brought a Maine Coon cat to the hospital and drew blood from the Maine Coon to transfuse to the injured cat.

The cat owner was a girl. She watched the man leave with the Maine Coon for a long time, her already red eyes gradually becoming redder.

Seeing she was alone, Jing Zhi and Jiang Suifeng looked at each other and handed her a tissue.

The girl took the tissue, thanked them, and chatted with them for a while.

The girl’s voice choked slightly: “Could that Maine Coon be a blood cat…”

Jing Zhi and Jiang Suifeng didn’t know what a blood cat was at that time, so they asked her.

The girl explained to them what a blood cat was.

“Generally speaking, cats like Maine Coons with stable personalities and large sizes are raised as blood cats. However, most Maine Coons have type A blood. There are many cats with type A blood, so the blood doesn’t sell for a good price. Cats with type B blood are fewer, so type B blood is more expensive, and there are more type B blood cats.”

“My Xiao Mi has type A blood. The hospital said a friend they knew had a cat that could donate blood, requiring some nutrition fee. I was too anxious at the time and agreed without thinking. After seeing that Maine Coon, I… felt something was wrong.”

That Maine Coon was actually quite docile and adaptable to strange environments, without any stress, aggression, or avoidance, but its mental state was very average, listless. The man who brought it didn’t seem like a normal owner either, as if… he brought a commodity over, traded, and left.

The girl’s eyes turned red again as she spoke.

After raising a pet, empathy for small animals became stronger.

Exchanging another cat’s life for one’s own cat’s life—this is a very cruel proposition.

Thinking that she gave money to blood cat traffickers and fueled the blood cat industry, thinking of those poor blood cats, she felt particularly sad and guilty.

Jing Zhi and Jiang Suifeng comforted her softly.

Saying more in this situation was useless.

Later, after learning more, they realized that some pet hospitals also raised blood cats. But because selling blood wasn’t compliant and easy to be reported, they often said it was a cat of someone they knew who could provide blood to avoid trouble.

That girl probably encountered that situation at that time.

Later, Jing Zhi and Jiang Suifeng never took the kitten Mimi to that hospital again.

About a year later, that pet hospital closed down.

The reason was that the hospital secretly drew blood from boarded and euthanized animals to sell. It was exposed online, and several pet owners sued them together. One retired auntie sat at the hospital entrance crying with a stool every day when she had nothing to do. Finally, the pet hospital couldn’t do business anymore and closed down under pressure.

Quite satisfying.

Just pity those fur children whose blood was drawn.

Didn’t expect to see the words “blood cat” again after a few years.

Jiang Suifeng noticed Jing Zhi’s abnormality, walked to his side, looked at the phone screen with him, and his originally curved brows furrowed instantly upon seeing the blood cat.

…

After following that account, Jing Mimi guiltily scrolled through videos of Siamese cats for a while.

Wonder when Papa would find out…

While scrolling, Jing Mimi suddenly saw a familiar Siamese cat, his eyes widening instantly.

It’s Sister Luo Luo!!

The video traffic wasn’t particularly good, just a casual daily sharing from a personal account. The Siamese cat curled up on a pillow sunbathing in a beautiful big courtyard. There were beautiful red koi fish in the pond in the courtyard. The sunlight was excellent. A wealthy hand reached out to it, stroking its fur. The Siamese cat opened its eyes and yawned lazily and comfortably towards the camera.

Because the owner of the hand wore expensive rings and jewelry and had such a big courtyard, the comment section was almost all flattering the rich auntie, teasingly asking if the auntie still needed pets.

Jing Mimi didn’t understand those much, but he recognized this Siamese cat as the kitten Mimi’s Sister Luo Luo.

Luo Luo had a chipped small fang, was slightly cross-eyed, had long ear hair, and pink paw pads.

In the video, it looked exactly the same as before, except for some changes in coat color due to the season.

The Cat God’s voice also affirmed in his mind: “It’s Luo Luo. It’s living very well now.”

Jing Mimi immediately looked through all the videos in this account.

Not every video featured Luo Luo, but it accounted for a large proportion. It could be seen that Luo Luo’s new home was very, very big, its new owner loved it very much, and the food was particularly rich.

Even Mimi, who had become a little human, was a bit greedy watching.

So many freeze-dried treats, canned meat, cat meals… looked particularly delicious!

While watching, the Cat God’s voice suddenly sounded: “After this video, it’s not Luo Luo anymore.”

Jing Mimi uttered a “Huh” in his heart.

The cat in the video clearly looked exactly like Sister Luo Luo.

Same cross-eyed, same chipped tooth, same pink paw pads, same long ear hair…

The Cat God: “Just like human twins look very alike, cats also have look-alikes.”

Some cartoons Jing Mimi watched talked about twins. Although he hadn’t seen them in the real world, he knew a bit about them.

Looking at the Siamese cat in the video that looked almost exactly like Sister Luo Luo, Jing Mimi asked the Cat God in his mind abruptly: “Did she take Sister Luo Luo away because Sister Luo Luo looks very much like this Siamese cat?”

The Cat God didn’t want to talk to him about such topics as “substitute,” but since he asked, it could only answer: “Yes.”

Jing Mimi didn’t say anything more, just continued scrolling through the videos.

He actually couldn’t accept this “substitute” plot. If his papas raised an identical beige Scottish Fold kitten after the kitten Mimi left, the kitten Mimi would definitely bristle fiercely.

But… precisely because of this, Sister Luo Luo was taken away from that bad person’s home and taken care of very well.

He couldn’t comment on anything.

Compared to continuing to stay in that bad person’s home, he preferred Sister Luo Luo to be adopted by the current owner.

As long as Sister Luo Luo lived well.

Jing Mimi also looked through the videos of the previous Siamese cat. He was still a bit curious about this Siamese cat that looked very much like Sister Luo Luo.

While watching, he couldn’t help thinking: Are there kittens in the world that look exactly like the kitten Mimi? If Papas met one, would they want to raise it?

Not long after, approaching footsteps sounded outside the bedroom. His papas were back.

Jing Mimi held the tablet and looked at them, calling “Papa.”

After the two approached, Jing Mimi switched his posture holding the tablet, pursed his lips, and asked abruptly: “Papa, if you met a kitten that looked exactly like the kitten Mimi, would you bring it home?”

Jing Zhi, Jiang Suifeng: “…”

Having experienced the question “Is the Calico cat the most beautiful kitten” in the welfare institute before, Jing Zhi wasn’t caught off guard.

Jiang Suifeng wasn’t as “experienced” as Jing Zhi. Before the little human Mimi arrived, he was always the one “making trouble out of nothing” at home. Now the tables had turned.

Jing Zhi smiled and touched his little head, answering effortlessly: “No. Even if that cat looks like Mimi, it’s not Mimi. Papa will only raise Mimi as the only kitten in this life.”

Jiang Suifeng nodded repeatedly like a chicken pecking rice in agreement.

Jing Mimi was satisfied, coaxed very well.

The next second, the tablet in his arms was pulled out by Jing Zhi.

A trace of guilt flashed in Jing Mimi’s eyes, but it wasn’t his first time doing a mission, so he wasn’t that nervous.

Jing Zhi scrolled through the tablet a few times, thinking Sure enough, it’s the person Mimi followed. There was only one tablet bought at home, not used frequently. His account was logged in and never logged out.

After seeing the paused screen on the tablet, Jing Zhi roughly understood what happened.

He knew this Siamese cat’s account. The account owner was a very rich auntie, and also the person who bought the Siamese cat Luo Luo from “Fa Cai Cute Pets.” He investigated her when investigating “Fa Cai Cute Pets.”

However, this person had no connection with “Fa Cai Cute Pets.” It was just because the Siamese cat she raised before passed away, she missed it too much, and felt Luo Luo, who looked similar, was destined, so she wanted to raise it. So Jing Zhi didn’t contact her.

Mimi suddenly asking that question should also be related to this.

Although called a “substitute,” every cat has a different personality. Even if the appearance is similar, the feeling is still very different.

This person bought Luo Luo, although starting because it looked similar to the cat raised before, it was impossible to confuse it with the previous cat after raising it. Luo Luo was Luo Luo. Even if it looked similar to other cats, it was still the unique Luo Luo.

Appearance was just an opportunity to meet. The “cause” and “effect” in the world were too mysterious to judge.

It seemed the kitten Mimi and the kitten Luo Luo should be very good friends, and Mimi also liked Siamese cats very much.

Besides that “Stay Healthy,” the account logged in on the tablet also followed several other bloggers raising Siamese cats, all done by Mimi. Jing Zhi didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

But precisely because of this, they happened to contact He Xiaokang, obtained clues about blood cats from him, and grasped more evidence.

All thanks to Mimi.

Meow Meow Merit Team.

…

At night, Jing Mimi told his papas a bedtime story.

The protagonist of the bedtime story was a kitten named Little Gold. It had a brief companion kitten sister, the Siamese cat Luo Luo.

In that home, Little Gold lived very poorly. After Sister Luo Luo disappeared, it often huddled alone under the sofa, facing harassment and bullying from big hands and camera lenses from time to time.

Later, Little Gold got sick, was thrown into the cold winter, and wandered for a while.

Later, his papas picked it up and gave it a warm new home and a new name: Mimi.

Now, his papas were being coaxed to sleep by Mimi’s bedtime story.

Mimi nestled between them, giving a goodnight kiss on each cheek.

Outside the window, quiet snow was falling, just like the night Little Gold was first picked up.

Outside was so cold, inside so warm.

…

After listening to Little Gold’s story, his papas were busier for the next period, saying they were going to punish the bad guys who abused kittens.

Jing Mimi occasionally visited Uncle Zhu opposite, hugging the old cat Moon to watch the snow together, waiting for the New Year and good news to arrive.

Uncle Zhu would heat a bottle of lactose-free milk from the milk box for him to warm his hands and stomach. Lactose-free milk wouldn’t give the lactose-intolerant Jing Mimi diarrhea. It was specially bought by him and his wife from the supermarket.

Finally, on the eve of the New Year, his papas suddenly said to him: “Mimi, do you want to see Luo Luo?”

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Author’s Note:

Bad guys are dead meat! Will slap those two bad guys in the face in detail in the next chapter.