Zhang Zian and Lu Yiyun's eyes were all focused on the bucket in Xiaoxue's hand.
"Do you have crucian carp? Fresh?" he asked suspiciously.
"Hmm!" Xiaoxue nodded triumphantly, "It's super fresh! I just caught it!"
Zhang Zian took the bucket from her, and opened the lid to see that it was indeed a huge crucian carp, which hadn't completely expired, so fresh that it couldn't be fresher.
"It's amazing! It's really helpful, I was so worried before!" As if he had found a treasure, he quickly put the lid back on to prevent the fish from jumping out, and asked, "Xiaoxue, can you still fish? You really deserve to be an outdoor anchor. "
"Where, I don't have that patience. It was caught by an elder, and I asked him to come here." Xiaoxue waved his hands again and again to clarify, "He is still fishing now. If you need more, I can send it to you."
Zhang Zian pondered for a while, "Today is the first day of junior high school. Before the third or even fifth day of junior high school, fish sellers in the vegetable market should not be out of stalls...so maybe I really have to trouble you, Xiaoxue."
"It's okay, I'm glad I can help." Xiaoxue smiled, "Mr. Store Manager, you're welcome, go make soup, the little milk cats are still waiting to be fed, right?"
They were already acquaintances, so Zhang Zian asked Lu Yiyun to play with Xiaoxue, and carried the fish to the second floor by himself, and cooked the soup with a low heat after a little processing.
Anyway, there were no guests, so Lu Yiyun took Xiaoxue to see the little milk cat.
"Wow! So cute!"
Xiaoxue exclaimed when she saw the 11 kittens snuggling up to the female cat.
The delivery rooms where the two female cats are located are adjacent to each other. She looks at this side and then there, and the more she looks at it, the more cute she feels.
It takes time to stew the fish soup, and the female cat will not be able to produce milk immediately after drinking the fish soup. According to Zhang Zian's instructions, Lu Yiyun boiled hot water, brewed goat milk powder, added children's vitamins and calcium gluconate oral liquid, and then let it cool down naturally. Pick up the smaller kittens and feed them one by one.
"Can I try too?" Xiaoxue eagerly expected.
"Okay." After feeding one, Lu Yiyun handed the straw to Xiaoxue and taught her how to feed it.
Xiaoxue picked up a little milk cat, "Hey, sister Xiaoxue will feed you!"
The female cat was not very familiar with Xiaoxue, so she stood up from the nest and looked at her vigilantly, as if she might snatch the kitten back from her at any time.
However, its breasts were sore from sucking by the cubs, but it still couldn't provide enough milk.
The other kittens who didn't open their eyes lost the trace of their mother and cried even more happily.
Seeing that Xiaoxue didn't mean to hurt the cubs, it laid back a little relieved, and let the cubs continue to suck on their painful chests.
Lu Yiyun corrected Xiaoxue's wrong posture and said, "Xiaoxue, you haven't fed a kitten before, right? Don't let it lie on its back, let it lie on its stomach, put its belly in your hands, and put its head on its back." Elevate it a little, or you'll choke."
Xiaoxue did as she said.
"Also, only put one drop on its tongue at a time, not too much." Lu Yiyun reminded again.
Like fishing, this is a very patient job. Each of the 11 kittens has to be fed drop by drop. People who are not patient enough will soon get bored.
Time passed by, although Xiaoxue was impatient with fishing, she was very focused on feeding the kittens, and she was not bothered at all, and even asked: "I think it's good to feed them one by one, how about feeding them one by one?" It contains children's vitamins and calcium gluconate, which is very nutritious, why do you have to use crucian carp soup for milk?"
"It's very simple, because it is better for kittens to grow up on their mother's milk. Kittens that completely rely on artificial feeding have a higher mortality rate, and even when they grow up, they will be thinner than cats of the same age."
Wearing insulated gloves for grilling, Zhang Zian came over with a pot of warm crucian carp soup. The soup stewed with goat milk powder presented an attractive milky white color. Although it has a slightly fishy smell due to the lack of extra seasoning, it is very suitable for cats.
"Oh, so that's how it is." Xiaoxue understood.
The two female cats ate canned fish every day, but after all, the soup made from fresh crucian carp was more delicious. They came out of the nest, lowered their heads to sip the crucian carp soup, and ate the fresh and tender fish meat into their stomachs.
"In addition, the kittens need to be fed every 3 hours within two weeks. If the 11 kittens are only fed by hand, then people should stop doing other things and feed the cats here all day long." Zhang Zian said.
After Xiaoxue finished feeding one and was about to put it down, Zhang Zian pointed to a tissue and reminded, "Wipe its mouth clean, then gently pat and massage its sides."
She stroked the side of the kitten for no apparent reason, and after a while, it opened its mouth and burped with a milky taste.
"Belch it after feeding or it will be gassy, like a human baby," he explained.
"Oh." Only then did Xiaoxue understand.
The two female cats quickly ate up the crucian carp and even drank a lot of soup. One of them ran to the cat litter in the corner to defecate, and returned to the cat's nest after defecating.
Lu Yiyun saw that Xiaoxue was in charge of feeding the kitten. She had nothing to do for the time being, so she picked up the litter box and went out to change the litter.
After a while, she came back in panic with the litter box, and the litter box was still the same.
"Mr. Store Manager, no... it's not good!"
"What's wrong?" Zhang Zian asked.
"This cat seems to have diarrhea!" Lu Yiyun anxiously pointed to the feces buried in the cat litter for Zhang Zian to look at.
Zhang Zian glanced at it and comforted him, "Don't worry, it's not loose stools, it's just loose stools. Most female cats do this when they raise their kittens. Take a closer look."
He pointed to one of the female cats and asked Lu Yiyun and Xiaoxue to observe it carefully.
The female cat had a full stomach and licked the cubs from head to tail, and even licked the cubs' excretory organs when it reached the buttocks.
The pup is stimulated, and the excretory organs are slightly inflated, and urine and feces are squeezed out of it.
The female cat swallowed the urine and feces excreted by the cub without hesitation, and then licked the other cub in the same way, eating the excrement of each cub into her stomach.
Xiaoxue: "... I thought only dogs could eat... eat... shit..."
She was so shocked that she stuttered. She worriedly thought of Xueqiu, if Xueqiu kissed her after eating his own shit, it would be a little...disgusting.
This is also the first time Lu Yiyun has seen such a situation, and also thought of her own Jasmine...
"This is a special situation in a special period." Zhang Zian laughed, "When the kittens are just born, they can't defecate on their own. They need to be stimulated by the female cat to defecate, otherwise they will suffocate. It will pass loose stools by itself, and it will be fine after this period, so don’t worry.”
"Alright." Xiaoxue and Lu Yiyun heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing that.