Animal Whisperer: Take Back My Life and Love Chapter 364: The Downfall

Ginnie was pale, her chest heaving with rage.

Her assistant didn't wait. She rushed over and grabbed the event organizer. "You need to pull Nancy’s booth right now! She’s just leeching off the hype we built for Special Bites. She’s using our name to get ahead!"

For days, Summers Corp had been throwing its weight around because of their sales, making one demand after another. The organizer had finally had enough. He shoved the assistant’s hand away.

"I gave you the best spot and cleared the floor for you. You got the VIP treatment you wanted. Now you can't keep your own customers and you're blaming everyone else?"

He pointed at the massive crowd over at the Happy Bites booth and laughed.

"She just cut open one bag of food and the champion dog walked away from you. You spent millions on marketing and you're losing to a single free sample. Who do you think has the problem here?"

He didn't wait for an answer. He waved his staff over. "Go help Ms. Nancy. Get some more people over there to keep things moving and make sure everyone gets what they’re trying to buy!"

The organizers weren't stupid. They saw Happy Bites taking over and knew exactly who they should be working with from now on.

Ginnie watched them ignore her and run to help Nancy instead. She felt lightheaded, like she was about to pass out. For the first time, a real sense of panic hit her.

The assistant held her up, trying to act like everything was fine. "Ms. Ginnie, it's just a temporary setback. Special Bites is already known internationally. Nancy is just a local trend. She’ll never make it on the global market!"

But the market moved faster than anyone at Summers Corp expected.

The video of the champion dog dumping Special Bites for Happy Bites was all over the internet. What really blindsided Ginnie was how fast the regular customers and small dealers reacted. They had been struggling to buy her food for weeks, but once they saw a world class dog like Star eating Happy Bites, they jumped ship immediately.

Happy Bites wasn't just available. It was made by the same top consultant. Even though it was expensive, it looked like a steal compared to the insane prices and limits Summers Corp was forcing on people.

Summers Corp had basically done the marketing for their own competitor.

In no time, the Special Bites booth was empty while orders for Happy Bites were piling up.

"Ms. Ginnie! The International Canine Research Center just emailed. They're cancelling their order for fifty thousand bags!"

"Ms. Ginnie! The Royal Kennel Union is on the phone. They want to re-evaluate our deal!"

The bad news kept coming. As Happy Bites took over, the cancellations became a constant stream.

In the boardroom, the shareholders looked sick. The plan they had voted against was now the exact thing killing them. Nancy hadn't just made a hit with the idea they threw away. She had built her success right on top of their failure.

"If we had just used that other plan, we wouldn't be stuck paying a fortune for that moss," one shareholder said, hitting the table.

Another one shook his head. "We would have saved the money, and the product everyone is buying right now would have been ours. Nancy wouldn't even be a factor!"

But it was too late. They had twenty five tons of overpriced moss in storage and half of it was still sitting there. They were looking at a massive loss.

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"This makes things easy."

In her office at Loren Zoo, Nancy leaned back and stretched. "Now that the dog food is bringing in steady money, I can finally get the expansion moving."

The project was costing way more than she thought. Growing from fifty acres to two hundred acres was going to take over fifty million. She had to get a loan.

Even though she didn't have much of her own, the government backing made the bank say yes. Now that she had a way to pay it back, she felt a lot better.

But she had a new problem. Loren Zoo was small and didn't have many animals. Now that it was bigger, she needed new residents.

Instead of spending a fortune to buy rare animals like other zoos, Nancy was going to do something else.