Recently, a TV series crew suspected of abuse of cats caused controversy, which aroused netizens' attention to the protection of pet rights. Many netizens left messages online to support the establishment of the "Oppose Animal Abuse and Killing and Abuse Law".

Some people are looking forward to the rescue of the troubled kittens, while others have already begun to rescue the kittens. In order to rescue cats trapped in every corner of the city, "cat firefighter" Xu Zhe often climbs bridges, drills pipes, goes up the roof, goes down river ditches, climbs the exterior walls of buildings, and rides high-altitude working cars...

"Cat Rescuer" Xu Zhe rescues cats on the rooftop on the 20th floor.

As of now, the "Hemaozhu" platform established by Xu Zhe and him have rescued more than 1,600 cats and found their own home for tens of thousands of stray cats. The cumulative number of views of the cat rescue video they posted on Bilibili has reached 19.383 million, and has attracted the attention of 1.776 million fans.

Xu Zhe

nicknamed Yu Wenyuan, born in the 1990s.

The cat rescue and rescue business started in 2016, and the cat emergency rescue adoption platform "Have with Cats" was established in 2019.

is currently active in the Sichuan-Chongqing region, helping cats in danger escape from danger, and thus starting cat adoption work.

Once "if" achieves "living with cats"

, it is a cat emergency rescue adoption agency, which is responsible for receiving some stray cats in trouble every day and publishing adoption information for cats. But this warm platform began with Xu Zhe’s guilt.

In 2016, Xu Zhe, who had just arrived in Chengdu, was fascinated by a pure white stray cat with different pupils in his community. However, the first thing he caught was an orange cat. Because he had an orange cat at home since he was a child, he put the cat on. But a few days later, the orange cat accidentally took the insecticide removal medicine from the community and unfortunately returned to the "Meow Planet".

The story of "If I didn't put it..." "Living with the Cat" starts with this "if".

Since then, Xu Zhe has tried to post cat adoption information online, and at the same time adopt stray cats in his spare time, which is the predecessor of "living with cats". With the support and encouragement of friends and netizens, Xu Zhe quit his job in 2019 and established "Handao" to devote himself to the cat rescue and adoption career full-time.

"Living with Cat" team took a photo.

He posted the video of saving cats online, which attracted a lot of attention. He monetized through content creation on different platforms, and also attracted many new partners to join. The snowball of "living with Mao" influence has even achieved a benign state of revenue balance in 2020.

This year, "Hemaozhu" also established a Chongqing branch, which also means that the "Hemaozhu" platform has begun to take the first step towards the whole country.

"Living with Mao" Chongqing branch was officially announced in August this year.

Save life in "cement forests". The construction of cities rarely takes into account life outside of humans. In cement forests, cats sometimes accidentally fall into danger. Sometimes they get into the gap, sometimes they are trapped at the height of the bridge of the building... Every day they "live with a cat" will receive such help messages from all over the country.

Due to resources and capabilities, they can only rescue cats in a relatively critical situation in the Sichuan and Chongqing region. Before setting out for rescue, they will first judge the situation on the scene through the video of the person seeking help, and then bring appropriate rescue tools and drive the rescue vehicle to the scene.

Xu Zhe drove a rescue vehicle.

Generally speaking, trapping tools such as trapping cages and lassoes are sufficient to deal with most rescue scenarios. If the cat is trapped in a difficult place to enter, an "endoscope" is also needed.

Once, a cat was trapped in an abandoned cement ventilation shaft, and everyone present was anxious. They urgently need to confirm the situation at the bottom of the well, but they are subject to the dense and light-transmitting pipes. Later, after bringing the endoscope, Xu Zhe was able to find out that the cat was blocked under a cement column at the bottom of the well.

Finally, with the help of volunteers and community property staff, he tied a safety rope and climbed to the bottom of the well and successfully rescued the cat.

When rescuing cats trapped on treetops and roofs, they also need the cooperation of ladder trucks. "Using a high-altitude car is actually very expensive. At first, it costs about 1,000 yuan, but later after getting familiar with the master, he only charges us 200 yuan each time, which is equivalent to a fuel fee."

The first "cat fire truck" obtained by the "Walk with Mao" team.

However, not every rescue is so satisfactory. When asked about Xu Zhe's experience in saving cats, he said: "You must be careful and understand cats in order to be a cat firefighter, otherwise it will be easy to do bad things with good intentions." At the beginning of this year, "Living with Cats" received a request for help, and a cat was trapped in the gap in the air conditioner outside the residential building of the community. After Xu Zhe and his group arrived, they set up bait and trapping cages. After waiting for a few hours, the cat was still nervously staying there.

But they received another more urgent rescue, so they had to readjust the trapping cage before leaving, hoping that the cat would actively escape from danger. After nightfall, the property management found an air conditioner master to catch the cat directly. However, because the master was not familiar with the cat's habits, the cat was stimulated and unfortunately fell from the building.

"You must be careful when saving a cat. If it is unwilling to come down, it cannot force it. Our goal is to save lives, rather than just getting the cat down from somewhere and it's done." The cats that have been rescued will temporarily stay at the base and wait for the adoption of the new owner.

Rescue cats is not a charity, and never accepts donations, but only donations for materials such as cat food and cat litter. During the interview, Xu Zhe mentioned the word "career" many times and emphasized that he was not "doing charity" and "I save the cat, this is my career."

"I don't want people who join 'living with cats' to 'generate electricity for love'. Can ‘generate electricity for love’ last long? We must make this thing into a career, which can not only support ourselves but also make sense. ”

"Living with Mao" Chengdu headquarters.

For the future, Xu Zhe hopes that "Living with Mao" can establish a national urban adoption platform, and establish emergency rescue centers in various places to promote animal rescue services. "In the future, if a cat is trapped, people who seek help will think of us directly. Or when they contact the firefighter, the firefighter will find us to cooperate in rescuing the cat. ”

In his opinion, the "cat firefighters" understand cat habits better and have more advantages in animal rescue. In Xu Zhe's vision, "Living with Cats" can be responsible for animal rescue services in the city, and firefighters can focus more on the lives and safety of the people. Everyone has "specialized in their skills" and optimize the allocation of social resources to a certain extent.

The cat is trapped at the bottom of a 7-story well with a height of about 20 meters. The Hemai team consulted volunteers of the Wuhan Small Animal Protection Association, and made rescue equipment overnight, and finally successfully rescued the cat.