Recently, a video posted by the owner of a cat cafe in Hangzhou touched countless netizens. The reason was that the owner found a cat carrier at the entrance of the store, inside which was a pitiful little white cat.
At first glance, it seemed like another irresponsible cat owner had abandoned their cat, but the contents of a yellow sticky note found in the bag touched the cat café owner and moved countless netizens to tears.
The full text on paper is as follows—
I apologize for using this method, but I've been diagnosed with late-stage cancer and am urgently seeking a new home for my kitten. It has received all three of its vaccinations, and its antibodies can be checked. I know this approach is irresponsible, but it's a last resort. I hope it can work at my shop, and if I'm still alive next month, I hope I can visit it. I'm sorry for troubling you.
Many netizens left comments under the video:
"He can't even find someone to entrust him with; he's probably struggling in an unfamiliar city on his own."
"If it's true, he must have cried for a long time while holding the kitten."
"You can see that the kitten's fur is very white and clean, without any dirt or grime. The cat carrier is also very clean, with no cat hair anywhere. Its owner must love his kitten very much... but at this moment I hope it's because he's an irresponsible and hypocritical person."
This morning (October 19), a reporter from Xiaoshi News found the cat cafe and met the owner and the little white cat.
1) There is a cat carrier placed at the entrance of the cat cafe.
The message inside the bag was too painful to read.
As he took out the yellow sticky note and began to speak, Xiao Cai, the owner of the cat cafe, got teary-eyed again.
"My eyes have been swollen from crying these past few days. The comments from netizens are very touching."
Xiao Cai's "Lassie Pet Cat Cafe" is located on Shanyin Road in Xiaoshan District.
On the morning of October 17th, around 9 a.m., she and her husband drove to the store. When they were about to open the door, they saw a cat carrier next to the potted plants by the door. "When I saw a small white cat inside, my first reaction was that someone had abandoned it. I had encountered this situation before, and I was worried that something might be wrong with the cat. I was very careful, wearing gloves. As I let the cat out, I felt angry, thinking that the cat owner was an irresponsible cat owner."
Opening the cat carrier, Xiao Cai found a yellow sticky note. After reading its contents, Xiao Cai felt very heavy-hearted.
"The little white cat is male, its fur is very clean, it's well cared for, and it seems to have a very good and affectionate personality. We were worried that there might be something wrong with the cat, so we took it to a nearby veterinary hospital for a check-up, but there was nothing wrong. The veterinary hospital also said that the cat is very well cared for, and judging from the condition of its teeth, it should be about five or six months old."
Back at the shop, Xiao Cai talked about it with her best friend who also runs the shop, and when she thought of the cat's owner, she couldn't help but cry.
"Judging from the note, the cat owner seemed to be a young girl who had been diagnosed with a serious illness and had no one to take care of her. It really broke my heart, so when I got home that night, I sent a video hoping to find the cat owner and help her."
2. Nearly 4 million netizens are worried about the cat owner.
"I didn't dare miss a single private message, and I didn't go to sleep until 2 a.m."
Ms. Cai said that after the video was posted, it quickly received many likes and comments, with nearly 4 million netizens expressing concern for the cat owner.
Many people left messages and sent private messages, some saying they could adopt the cat, some saying they could send food to the cat, and even a pet blogger with millions of followers contacted her.
"After posting the video, I didn't have time to check it until the evening because I had to work during the day. There were so many private messages, I didn't dare to miss a single one. I hoped that one of the cat owners would leave me a message. After I got off work yesterday, I read through all the private messages and didn't go to sleep until 2 a.m., but I still didn't see any messages from the cat owner."
On the way to the hospital with the kitten, Xiao Cai thought that the cat's owner must be working hard here alone. "There are many resettlement communities nearby, and many young people rent here. I also wondered if it was a customer of mine before, but I have no memory of this cat."
Xiao Cai said, "For the first time, I hoped that the cat was abandoned by its owner because it was sick or had a bad temper. I really hope that what she wrote about having late-stage cancer was just to elicit pity and that she was lying."
3) The kitten will join the "part-time job program".
Hope the master comes as promised
The reporter from Xiaoshi News observed that the little white cat was in good condition, except for some heavy tear stains.
When someone approached, the little guy pressed its body against the glass, showing great affection. The "smart fur" on its ears was very long.
Ms. Cai said that the little guy loves playing in the water and is a little picky about food. In the morning, she gave it cat food and canned food, but it only ate the canned food. "It has a very good personality. Its owner must pet it often and take good care of it. Judging from the condition of the cat carrier, it has probably been with the cat for a while."
Xiao Cai, her husband, and her best friend had also speculated about the cat's owner's situation.
“We suspected that they might not want to keep the cat anymore. We had a case where someone brought their cat to us for a bath and said they would come to pick it up later, but then they would message us on WeChat saying: ‘I don’t want to keep this cat anymore, I’ve done my best.’ Then they would block us on WeChat.”
"Usually, people abandon their cats because the cats have health problems, but this cat has a good personality and is in good health. I don't think anyone would deliberately say they have late-stage cancer just to abandon a cat. Judging from the label, the cat owner must have written it more than once, and thought it through very carefully, wanting the cat to work for us."
Xiao Cai, whose hometown is Wenzhou, said that this is his second store, which has been open for more than a year and he has raised about a hundred cats. "I have worked my way up step by step, so I can really understand the difficulties that young people who are working hard away from home face."
"When I saw the post about late-stage cancer, I looked it up and it turned out to be late-stage. So young! We feel like crying when we think about it. Reading the comments from netizens, I really couldn't help but shed tears. Although there were some malicious comments, everyone cares about the cat owner."
Xiao Cai told reporters not to worry about the cat, as she would take good care of it. "It will be able to join our cat café's working team in a while. The cat owner said in the note that they might come to see the cat next month, and I hope they will come as promised. I hope the cat owner will contact me if they see this report. If you encounter any difficulties, you must persevere. You are still so young, and there are so many wonderful things in life waiting for you. Everyone will help you."
Ms. Cai also mentioned that there are no security cameras downstairs at the cat cafe, and she had asked the surrounding shops, but no one had noticed who left the cats and cat carriers at the entrance of the cat cafe.
