She was originally a music teacher at a school. Because she loved cats, she became a rational initiator to rescue stray cats. She changed the fate of many stray animals, and she believed that those stray cats also changed her. She has become a "senior weight loss person", and her self-examination, attitude towards life, and ideas about the future have changed...
From loving cats
to rescuing stray animals
Ge Damiao is her online name. Now this name is much more well-known than her real name. She is the initiator of Changchun's rational rescue of stray cats.
Ge Damiao Weibo
This transformation may have sprouted since she was a child. She was born in a cat-loving family since she was a child. Both her grandmother and her father like kittens and dogs very much. As she grew up, her favor for small animals also increased day by day.
Ge Damiao first adopted an animal when she was in elementary school. When she passed by a shop, she found the kitten in the iron cage screaming miserable. She discussed with the boss and rescued the cat.
When she was 20 years old, she adopted another puppy. Because the family refused to let her go, she fostered the puppy at the home of her male classmate. Afterwards, this puppy named Dudu became the topic she talked the most with her male classmates. Later, this male classmate became her husband. Because of her common preference, her husband has always supported her actions.
Until Ge Damiao became a music teacher in a school and often participated in some animal rescue activities. After a charity sale she once conducted, the donations raised were given to a rescue base in Changchun, but she didn't know where the money was spent. She feels that a stray animal rescue team should be built with transparent accounts and convey positive energy.
From individual
to rational rescue stray cat initiator
In 2012, she was originally just an individual, but with the encouragement of other animal lovers, more and more netizens joined, and she began to set up an animal rescue team. At the beginning, she just wanted to cooperate with some pet hospitals, and after receiving the stray animals, she would undergo examination and treatment, and then find someone to adopt them. But with some disabled stray cats, they were sent to her hands. In March of that year, Ge Damiao contacted a unit's house. This was the first time she started, and she owned a rescue station for stray animals, and rescued 17 cats at that time.
Ge Damiao needs to spend his own money on the animal rescue activities at the beginning. As some charity sales proceeded, Ge Damiao gradually gained fame and his team grew bigger and bigger. She became the initiator of rationally rescuing stray cats. Over the years, she has rescued more than 300 stray cats.
Ge Damiao once adopted many stray cats in the cat house. Photo provided by Ge Damiao
From "fame" to starting to examine oneself
It is undeniable that Ge Damiao's name is known to more and more people. Her and her team’s loving behavior has been reported and published by some TV stations and newspapers.
And the former team, Ge Damiao also left for various reasons, and she began to become a consultant to various animal rescue teams in Changchun City, active among various animal rescue teams.
And her views on animal rescue have gradually changed. Ge Damiao felt that she was a rational animal rescuer, not a person who was desperate for the cat and broke the bankruptcy. Moreover, for the rescue methods, especially for stray cats, the concept she advocates is also rational rescue, and international rescue methods usually participate in the "TNR" program. Many volunteers, including her, believe that in order to control the number of stray cats and provide human help to stray cats, "TNR" is a currently feasible and rational rescue method. For stray cats that are friendly and willing to interact with humans, especially kittens, they can be placed separately in time by volunteers and arranged for adoption; for stray cats that are no longer suitable for adoption, they can be released after sterilization and related medical treatment, and the breeding of stray cats in the area can also be controlled.
Noun Explanation: "TNR": the abbreviation of "TrapNeuterRelease", is a method to replace euthanasia and reduce the number of stray dogs and stray cats. Trap——benevolent trapping; Neuter———spaying and related medical treatment; Release———release.
Starting from image
, the overall change in life state
Ge Damiao is not afraid of it. As a woman, while receiving more attention, she has also reexamined not only her role, but also her image.
At the end of 2013, after an interview with the TV station, she watched the report video again and suddenly felt that she was not satisfied with the appearance of the film in the video.
That year, her weight was 148 pounds, and she told her calmly about this number. From then on, she became a "senior weight loss person", and now her weight reaches 108 pounds. The gap between
40 pounds and the difficulties in the middle should be deeply understood by those who lose weight.
Ge Damiao makes his life more beautiful. Photo provided by Ge Damiao
In WeChat Moments, he posted a comparison photo of the past and the present. Ge Damiao did not deliberately conceal those past images. And over the years, she started to change her life state in depth from her image.
At the end of 2014, Ge Damiao dug a small shop, and the cats rescued were also kept in the shop. Regarding the opinions of others, she believes that for things like charity, it cannot be done overnight. This store can already become a podium.
From now on, she may have a bolder approach
When there is a certain accumulation, Ge Damiao is already 37 years old this year, and this age is not avoided by this woman..
She felt that just as the first time she started raising a dog, some family members opposed it; she began to rescue stray animals, and some people around her were puzzled. As Xu Wei sang in her new song: "Life is not only about the fertility in front of us, but also about poetry and the distant fields..."
At this age, she thought of her future. Now she has a stable job, but she feels that one day she may quit and do more of what she wants to do.
By that time, the charity she does will no longer be limited to the past. She feels that while ensuring her happy life, she can take one to two months every year to teach in the mountains, and her teacher's career can still be continued. But the whole life can become more abundant.