Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 404: A Gift of a Thousand Miles, a Gift of Love
The best place to raise this young Przewalski's gazelle is around Qinghai Lake.

The two men could only give a rough idea and could not provide a very precise location. The police had no choice but to ask Chen Ying to help deliver it.

The Forestry and Grassland Bureau provides all expenses, as well as milk powder for the young gazelles to drink during the journey.

We contacted in advance a group of herders who had been rescuing Przewalski's gazelles for many years. They have rescued dozens of Przewalski's gazelles over the years. The brothers were also awarded the title of "Wildlife Ranger" by the local Natural Resources and Forestry Bureau.

It was already two o'clock in the morning when Chen Ying drove to their place overnight.

The two brothers had been waiting for him. When they saw Chen Ying's car arrive, they hurried over and gave him a large cup of hot milk tea. They told him to go into the house and rest. Then the two brothers took the lamb down from the car and put it in a small shed next to their own animal pen.

There lived a Przewalski's gazelle that was almost one year old.

"This little guy went back to his tribe two days ago, but this morning he came back and stayed in the shed again. I think he will leave tomorrow. All the gazelles my brother and I have rescued in recent years are like this. They leave and come back again, and we always have to pull them away several times. They know we are saving them, so they are reluctant to leave."

The brothers' smiles were bright and sunny.

The hostess brought a bowl of hot beef soup with rice and a pot of hand-pulled meat.

Chen Ying knew that the herdsmen were simple and honest people, but he felt embarrassed to disturb them so late at night and make the family busy with their own eating and sleeping.

He originally wanted to send the lamb over first, then go to the town to find a place to have a good sleep, and then go home after waking up.

But the two brothers refused to let him leave. They cleaned up the guest room in their home and sent him there to rest as soon as he finished eating.

The next morning, Chen Ying woke up at almost ten o'clock.

When I came out, I saw the two brothers cleaning the animal shed.

"The children at home drove out the cattle and sheep, and the two of us stayed behind to take care of the lambs."

You can tell from the way his brother does it that he is an expert. The young gazelle kid smells the familiar scent of grass, drinks the most appetizing milk, and hops around with the clatter of its little hooves.

"That's a group of Przewalski's gazelles over the fence."

The two brothers took Chen Ying for a ride on horseback, pointing at the distant places as if they were their own treasures.

"There are too many fences here, dividing the Przewalski's gazelles into small, closed groups. We are now working hard to correct this mistake, but it will take time. The lambs we rescued will be released in different places so that they can integrate into different groups. Otherwise, if their blood relationship is too close, there will be problems."

After walking around the lake, Chen Ying prepared to say goodbye.

The two brothers loaded his car with a lot of food and drinks and sent them a long way before returning.

Not long after walking out of the pastoral area, Chen Ying heard a strange noise on the side of the road.

He looked ahead and behind, pulled the car over, walked to the edge of the slope and looked down.

There was an artificial canal at the foot of the slope beside the road. The two white-lipped deer somehow fell into it and were unable to climb up by their own strength.

This kind of deer is very large, and he couldn't pull the white-lipped deer out of the ditch by himself.

The white-lipped deer population has also recovered in recent years, especially as more deer have been raised artificially, combining captive and free-range breeding. Some captive white-lipped deer that escaped and mixed with wild species have produced fawns that have also swelled the wild population.

This area is not the traditional distribution point of white-lipped deer, and it is probably related to captivity.

I called Sonam directly and took a few more photos of the surroundings for him.

Suonan took immediate action and asked Chen Ying to help calm the white-lipped deer. He went to the village to report and gather some people to rescue the mother and child white-lipped deer.

The spots on the fawn's back make it clear that the cub is less than a month old, but it looks much bigger than the other deer.

Chen Ying used a Tibetan knife to cut some grass from the field nearby to comfort the mother deer. The fawn was easy to take care of, as long as the mother deer gave it some milk.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I've already called, someone will come to rescue you soon."

Chen Ying calmed the doe down, went up to turn on the car's hazard lights, put away the warning triangle, took two carrots from the bag that Suonan had given him, cut them into small strips and fed them to the doe.

The doe took a few bites and found it sweet, which helped to calm her frightened mood.

By the time Suonan and his friends arrived, the two deer had already eaten the third carrot.

It took more than an hour for more than a dozen people to rescue the mother and child by weaving ropes into a coarse net and making a gentle slope with stones and wood.

After being rescued, the mother and son called out "Mou Mou" twice and quickly ran out of the canal.

Climbing onto the road, a young man carried a cat cage down from a car.

"Doctor Chen, these are the kittens my cat gave birth to. They don't look like ordinary cats to me. Can you take a look?"

Chen Ying could tell at a glance that this was a hybrid of a desert cat and a domestic cat.

The young man thought about it and gave all five kittens in the litter to Chen Ying.

There are already many cats in his house. If these cats were released into the wild, who knows how many would survive. If they are not released, his family cannot possibly keep all of them.

"I heard that your grasslands are seriously infested with rats. Why don't you take them over there and raise them? At least they won't starve to death. We have to worry about tourists feeding them inappropriate food and causing them to get sick."

Chen Ying, feeling both amused and helpless, continued on her return journey with the litter of cats.

There weren't many unexpected problems on the road this time, and when we got back to the rest stop, we put the kittens in a separate room, preparing for Yin Li to find time to take all the kittens back.

He has three puppies, two fox cubs, and a cat cub here, so he will never have peace.

The puppies have grown a lot now, and the doghouse can no longer contain them.

Chen Ying built a fence at the door of the room so that the pups could run around the room. The dog nanny could jump out of the fence through the steps next to it, move around in the yard, or run around in the pasture.

When it came out for the first time, Erniu was startled, thinking that something had happened to the kids.

When he ran over to take a look, he saw a few kids fighting in the room, rolling around, making it impossible for the leopard to step forward.

The dog nanny barked twice and called Erniu to go for a run to relax.

Erniu is a person who likes to make friends. She can even become friends with the lynx lady who fought with her, not to mention the dog raised by her own bipedal family.

A dog and a leopard went out to run wild, leaving Sun Qihai alone to monitor the situation and watch over five cubs. His scalp was numb.

When Chen Ying came back, she brought back five more kittens...

Sun Qihai leaned back in his chair and spoke from his soul.

Just as I took care of the kittens, Nanny Dog and Erniu came running back one after another.

The dog nanny squatted down not far away very consciously, but Erniu was different. She went straight to Chen Ying and acted coquettishly.

"Brother Ying, I told Brother Li, he said he would come back to pick up the kittens after he completes his patrol mission."

The migration of Tibetan antelopes is about to enter its peak period, and the people in the station are so busy that they wish one person could do the work of two people. Even if they were to take over, they would not be able to take care of them.

Fortunately, the kittens have been weaned and all they need to do is give them enough cat food and meat.

In order to make the kittens accustomed to a life different from that in the herders' home, Chen Ying used a temporary fence to enclose an area, put the kittens in there to let them play by themselves, and then placed homemade cat food and clean water next to them.

Three days passed peacefully. On the fourth day at 5:30 a.m., Sun Qihai got up to go to the bathroom and found that the door of the room where the kittens were was not closed.

He stared at the door in confusion for a long time, and couldn't remember whether he had closed the door last night.

While thinking about this, I walked over there, intending to check on the kittens.

However, after entering, he found that all the kittens were gone!

"Fuck, Brother Ying, Brother Ying, hurry up, the kitten is gone."

He knocked on the window of Chen Ying's room, and then ran to the fence behind the house.

He was afraid that the kittens would run over to the fence while playing at night, and they would be doomed if they were caught by birds of prey.

As for whether there would be other ferocious beasts attacking at night, with Erniu and Dog Nanny around, they were not worried about this problem at all.

After looking around the fence, Sun Qihai could not find the kitten. He almost fainted.

Chen Ying also ran out and after asking about the situation, he turned around to look for the dog nanny.

"Last night? A big cat came in. But it's been here for the past two days. It didn't do anything, just stood at the window and watched the cubs."

The answer given by the dog nanny made Chen Ying slightly stunned, "Come here every day?"

"Yeah, it comes every day. But it doesn't mean any harm, it just comes to hang out and catch some mice occasionally, which I think is good."

Although dogs also catch mice, they are not professionals after all, and sometimes they get annoyed by the elusive mice. Wouldn’t it be great to have a full-time mouse catcher so that the two-legged animals don’t have to worry about taking care of the mice?

"Then do you know where it spends the night?"

"I don't know, but Erniu knows."

The teammate sold the deal so efficiently, and when he was done he looked at Chen Ying very sincerely.

Chen Ying patted its head gently, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and ran to find Erniu.

Erniu, who was sleeping soundly, was woken up by the noise. She didn't get angry, but stretched lazily. "Let me take you there. It should have taken all the kittens away."

Erniu looked up at him curiously, "Didn't you bring the kittens back to find a mother for them?"

Yes, but not entirely...

There was no way to explain it clearly to Erniu, so Chen Ying could only urge it to lead the way quickly.

It is not far away, probably less than 500 meters from the rest stop, and is one of the placement sites of the "bunker-style artificial cave for wild animals".

Before Chen Ying got there, he saw a large desert cat squatting at the entrance of the cave, with several lively cubs around it.

When the herdsmen handed a litter of kittens to Chen Ying, the kittens had just been weaned and had not learned any hunting skills.

I didn't expect that there are desert cats in the wild that would steal cubs. And they successfully took away the entire litter of cubs.

Chen Ying did not continue walking forward. He stopped and looked for a while. After making sure that the kitten was fine, he patted Erniu on the back and signaled it to go back.

After a careful inspection of the fence, I found a torn hole that was just big enough for an adult desert cat to enter and exit.

Well, it seems that he took the initiative to provide contact opportunities for the big and small cats, and the current result is actually quite good.

Although the genes of domestic cats are mixed in, in general, the bloodline of desert cats living near human settlements is not very pure, and these small animals cannot be really isolated, after all, there is no reproductive isolation between their own populations.

Just after the fence was repaired, Ciren called and asked Chen Ying if she still wanted the puppy that was promised to her.

(End of this chapter)