Pet King - Chapter 129

Chapter 129
A small truck parked in front of Amazing Fate Pet Shop . There was an abstract cat painted on the vehicle’s side . It was a truck from the Pets’ Home Breeding Base .


Sun Yinian jumped off the passenger’s seat . Together with the driver, he started moving the pets inside the store .
There were no customers in the store, so Zhang Zian came over to help .
To avoid confusion with the current stock, he put all the kittens back into the display cabinet .
After unloading the truck, he gave Sun Yinian and the driver each an ice-cold drink . He was checking the pets on the packing list .
The number looked right . He then pulled up the photo album in his cell phone .
He had taken a picture of each pet he picked . Now he was trying to check and make sure they had delivered what he had chosen .
"Don’t worry . They are correct!" Sun Yinian was impatient .
Zhang Zian smiled and insisted, "A double check keeps us out of trouble . "
Even reckoning makes long friends .
After double checking, everything looked fine .
Zhang Zian signed the packing list and then used an online transfer to pay the balance .
In fact, Zhang Zian didn’t have much cash on hand, even though sales had been great . He had to keep buying more stock, thus the cash wouldn’t stay in his account for long . Theoretically, his capital should be growing like a snowball, but he couldn’t really see it . The money had been going right back into inventory . As famous Chinese saying goes, "animals cannot be counted as money" .
This saying is for the breeding and animal farming industries . It means that money is not secure in these industries . It may disappear overnight . If a breeding base or an animal farm caught an animal flu or a fire, or if there was a change in government policy or market, a millionaire would easily be destroyed .
A pet shop is the downstream industry of the breeding base industry .
Zhang Zian invested every penny he had in those pets . If the pets had problems, he would go broke . He might not end up killing himself to stay away from debt, but it would definitely destroy him .
The atmosphere relaxed . Sun Yinian and the driver each lit a cigarette and took a break . Zhang Zian was good when it came to payments . He didn’t bargain very much either . The last time they delivered pets, they saw that Zhang Zian’s business was doing great; as a result, they thought Zhang was making big bucks . No one knew he was almost out of cash .
"Boss, could you tell the breed of that golden cat?" the driver asked Sun Yinian with a cigarette in his mouth .
Zhang Zian kicked them out of the store when they started smoking .
"I don’t know," Sun Yinian shook his head . He could care less . "That’s none of my business . "
"Yo! Look! That Dragon-Li is wearing a hat and a vest and watching TV!" The driver had good eyes . He patted his boss on the shoulder, and pointed at Old Time Tea, "No kidding!"


Sun Yinian turned his head and stole a glance . He was surprised, but he didn’t want to admit it . "Don’t bullsh*t! Cats don’t watch TV . It was just curious . "
Zhang Zian emptied the cages and took them to the door . The breeding base had to take them back .

"Mr . Sun, may I ask you a question?" he said .
Upon hearing that, the driver threw away the cigarette, nodded at Sun and walked away to put the cages on the truck .
"What is it?" Sun Yinian replied .
Zhang Zian thought and asked, "Would you be able to find Ragdoll breeding cats? Other breeds are okay as well, such as Bengal cats or Maine Coon cats . These high-end cats are the money makers and there is not much competition . "
Sun Yinian’s brows tightened . He didn’t respond immediately .
Zhang Zian waited patiently .
After a little while, he shook his head and said, "Very difficult . "
That was it… Zhang Zian wasn’t surprised . If Sun could have gotten Ragdolls, he would’ve done it by now!


"Frankly, I asked before . A Ragdoll breeding cat would have cost hundreds of thousands a few years ago . Now the price might have gone up . " Sun Yinian sighed .
Zhang Zian understood . It takes two breeding-grade cats to reproduce, a male and a female . Considering the time for pregnancy, labor, nursing, and recovery, a male cat should at least have three female cats .
A pet-grade Ragdoll could sell for over 20 thousand . The price for show quality and breeding quality Ragdolls had to be rocket high .
Due to the high profit, however, the Ragdoll market had been monopolized .
Cat houses that offered Ragdolls tried every way possible to repel new competitors through methods like purposely increasing the cost to enter market and strictly controlling the breeding cats . Almost all Ragdolls for sale were pet-grade and show-grade cats, which were already neutered before being released to the market . The breeding-grade Ragdolls were rarely available to the public .
A large amount of capital was a must if one wanted to enter the Ragdoll market .
Ragdolls are sweet and beautiful looking as well as gentle and obedient to the owner . That’s why they are an evergreen tree in the high-end pet industry .
Being able to offer Ragdolls is pretty much another way to look at the pet shop or cat house’s market position .
At this time, Pets’ Home Breeding Base was going through a total turnaround of their offerings . Their running capital was too tight to invest in some breeding-grade Ragdolls . Zhang Zian was also financially tight .
If he was lucky, he might be able to get Ragdolls from a cat house or try a breeding base that was farther away .
"That’s fine . Let’s take it one step at a time," Zhang Zian decided to not worry about it at this time . Worrying would not help anyways .
Sun Yinian and the driver both hopped in the truck and left the pet shop .
Zhang Zian sent a message to Sun Xiaomeng, "If you have a customer come in with a Ragdoll, please ask them where they got it from . " There were almost 30 pets in the store, which was a lot more animals to take care of compared to when the store first opened and there were only three pets . It was a completely different story .
The workload had increased dramatically as well, especially when new inventory came in . All of the pets were about four months old . Most of them hadn’t had a bath since they were born, so they were quite dirty . Zhang Zian had to clean each one, which took a long time and hard work .
Zhang Zian was considering hiring another full-time worker as he wiped the pets’ bodies, and cleaned their faces and ears . In the end, he made up his mind to wait until he sold this batch .
In fact, Wang Qian and Li Kun were the ideal candidates for this job . They were simple-minded and quite silly . They thought Zhang Zian had special magic powers, so he didn’t have to think about how to explain the stunt issue . They were in their junior year of college . It might be too early to talk about a full-time offer .
How about hiring a graphic designer?
Speak of the devils…
Wang Qian and Li Kun ran into the store and said, "Master! It is not good!"