Mr. Chen, a netizen from Anhui, recently encountered something touching.
Because his family has raised dogs since he was a child, Mr. Chen has a special affection for dogs and often feeds leftovers to stray dogs.
Recently, Mr. Chen noticed something was off about one of the stray dogs he often fed. The dog's name was A-Cai, which Mr. Chen named it, and the shop owners in the neighborhood also called it that. Mr. Chen had been feeding A-Cai on and off for three months since he met it.
Just a month ago, Mr. Chen noticed that Ah Cai's belly was gradually swelling up, which was not a good thing for a stray dog.
Three days after Ah Cai went missing, Mr. Chen began to worry:
Could something have happened? Could they have been kidnapped by dog traffickers?
The convenience store owner suggested that Mr. Chen think of something positive, saying that maybe the dog had gone to give birth to puppies.
Fortunately, Ah Cai reappeared just two days later!
When the dog reappeared, Mr. Chen was very excited and even prepared a big meal for it, because he could tell from the "fat" under the dog's belly that it had been nursing for the past few days, but he didn't see any puppies.
Two days later, when Mr. Chen was driving home, he saw Ah Cai on the road. The dog was running along the road with a puppy in its mouth, looking very anxious.
Seeing that the dog was walking towards his home, Mr. Chen thought he would go home, park his car, and then come out to check again. However, when he returned to the community, he found that Ah Cai was already downstairs, and there were three puppies next to the lawn downstairs.
Mr. Chen was stunned when he saw Ah Cai and his puppy. How did the dog know his home address? Had Ah Cai followed him home from get off work before? However, Mr. Chen understood what the mother dog meant: she wanted to ask him to take care of the puppy.
Since three wasn't too many, Mr. Chen found a cardboard box, took the puppies home, and planned to find them adoptive families in a few days. Seeing Mr. Chen take the puppies away, Ah Cai also turned and left.
Unexpectedly, after a while, the mother dog returned, this time with five more puppies.
It turns out that Ah Cai had given birth to 8 puppies. She had only brought 3 of them with her earlier, but this time she stayed and didn't leave, so she must have brought all of them over.
The mother dog made eight round trips, running more than 10 kilometers, just to save her puppies.
The survival rate of puppies born to stray dogs is actually very low. In order to give the puppies a good life, Ah Cai carried them one by one from hundreds of meters away and delivered them to Mr. Chen's building.
Mr. Chen also posted "dog adoption information" online, and several people who wanted to adopt came forward. His greatest hope is to find good homes for all these puppies.
The mother dog really had a tough time, having to travel such a long distance to find a "kind person" to help her puppies.
Mr. Chen also plans to have Ah Cai spayed, which is better for everyone. May all dogs have happy homes, and may kind-hearted people live long and peaceful lives!
