Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl-Chapter 164 The Issue of the Little Wolf Dog’s Stay

Time flies so fast, blink an eye, and New Year's Day is almost upon us.

Little Deng set off for training in the provincial city on the 20th.

Never having left the mountains before, he was personally accompanied by Yin Li. It so happened that Elder Sister Bai and Brother-in-law Bai were coming home for the New Year and agreed to help look after Little Tudu.

Elder Sister Bai's home is right next to the Forestry and Grassland Bureau, with the family compounds of both units enclosed within the same wall.

Knowing that Chen Ying had nothing else to do but pet cats every day, Elder Sister Bai called Chen Ying to discuss a snow leopard in a protection area that was rescued with a severe tumor in its abdomen.

Elder Sister Bai wanted Chen Ying to try treating it with traditional veterinary medicine, but there were concerns on their side, and they were still soliciting other treatment methods.

You can't force a sale, and even Chen Ying wasn't sure it would work, so he only promised that if they contacted him, he would definitely help wholeheartedly.

Elder Sister Bai also gave Chen Ying a heads-up; after all, she wasn't an employee there and, though she might give suggestions, whether they listened or not was beyond her control.

Winter was here, and everyone was getting ready for the cold; there were fewer wild animals out and about.

Master Zhao's patrol rounds in the forest also decreased, mainly managed by a few young people who would fly a drone around the assigned spots and call it a day if nothing unusual was spotted.

Two days before New Year's Day, various units distributed benefits and living supplies, and Chen Ying received two shares.

One was from Yin Li's protection station, and the other was from the neighboring protection station.

Chen Ying had helped them last time, and they remembered.

The Rescue Center sent over the materials for the first quarter of the next year, along with some food raw materials donated by the community.

With the household being well-off, they wanted to make some tasty food for the kids.

Little Sen was going home for the New Year. Before leaving, he planned to prepare food for the two little bears and couldn't leave out the little monkey.

As for the bigger animals, Chen Ying was responsible for their meals; they could handle the rest themselves.

When the ingredients arrived, Little Sen locked himself in the kitchen to ponder and improve the recipes.

The recipes had to consider the health conditions of Leo and the little cub, who were at a critical period for nutrient accumulation; if they didn't eat well now, they wouldn't have a good meal later!

Little Jin and Jinya had an added activity of dealing with the male lynx, keeping their schedule full every day; except for sleeping by the stove at noon, the rest of their time was spent "fighting and eating," giving their life a rhythmic and regular pattern.

The male lynx initially just teased them and ran away but now casually sneaked into the animal shed to enjoy the heating, utterly disregarding its external status.

Little Jin and Jinya were so irritated they lost their temper.

They couldn't drive it away or scold it into listening—a typical cheeky animal in the animal kingdom.

This guy currently had one merit; he would return to his territory every now and then, dragging a prey back as lodging fees.

Chen Ying initially didn't know about this until a forest patrol officer noticed more prey remains near the boundary of both territories after several days of observation and finally caught him in the act.

Jinya and Little Jin would wait at the edge of their territory for the male lynx to drag the prey over, and only after they had finished eating would they allow the male lynx into their territory.

The deputy head sent Chen Ying the video, captioned with the following six points:

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Chen Ying, holding the video, confronted Little Jin and Jinya, who either pretended to sleep or looked innocently at Chen Ying as if to say, "We don't know what's going on!"

In the following days, these three creatures even learned to clean up after themselves; food leftovers would either be buried in a hole or tossed where other small animals roamed, letting other creatures help clean up the leftovers.

When Little Deng left, Old Gao also followed him away for a few days and only returned on the 30th.

He brought back quite a bit of good stuff and even had Master Zhao help carry them in because he couldn't manage everything on his own.

"I've said I won't drink, but my mom insisted I bring all my dad's alcohol. I kept three bottles for us to drink during the New Year, and I gave the rest to Uncle Zhao and the others at the Protection Station."

Besides the alcohol, there were also cured meats and fish as part of the New Year's goods.

Old Gao's mom even bought each of them a super warm down coat. Apart from the sizes, the styles were all the same.

"My mom said it's rare for someone to put up with my bad temper, and she's always worried about me getting into trouble in the wild. This time I showed her the video of us climbing the mountain together, and she was relieved, saying at least someone could retrieve my body if anything happened."

Mom!

With too much food, several young men discussed in a small group and decided to gather for a meal in the Protection Station's cafeteria.

Jinya and Little Jin also followed.

Uncle Yi had cleaned their platforms thoroughly and had even prepared a rabbit and a chicken for them in advance.

After arriving, the two critters roamed around to inspect the area, then returned to their platforms to eat.

Duoduo and the other two dogs had their own bowls, and would pick up their bowls at mealtime to get food from the kitchen door.

"How are the mother wolf and the little cubs doing?"

The mother wolf was very alert, and Chen Ying hadn't visited for a while, so he was unsure how the cubs had grown.

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"They've grown well, but I guess none of them qualify."

The keeper responsible for the mother wolf and the cubs sighed, "The cubs have too much wolf instinct, almost no obedience, so it seems they can't be trained. We plan to select the two with the best physical conditions to take back and continue improving their bloodlines to see if the next generation can produce qualified police dogs."

"Actually, if two or three generations can breed qualified wolf dogs, that's pretty good, and subsequent improvements in their bloodlines should meet your requirements."

The Keeper didn't have much to say, his job was to feed them. Selecting and breeding were considerations for the professionals.

"After the New Year, I have to go back. Then I will take the selected cubs with me, and the rest might either be released into the wild or sent to a Wolf Dog Training Center."

In fact, Chen Ying disagreed with releasing them into the wild, bluntly put, these cubs would merely contaminate the wolf's gene pool.

But then again, a scientist had recently said that the DNA of dogs and wolves is ninety-nine percent identical, so perhaps genetic contamination isn't as harmful to wolves as it would be to other animals of the same genus?

These were concerns for zoologists; as a mere veterinarian, he couldn't influence others' decisions.

While they were discussing, the mother wolf suddenly appeared, calling softly to Chen Ying.

Jinya suddenly looked up alertly.

Chen Ying soothed Jinya and then got up and followed the mother wolf to the entrance of the cubs' playground.

The wolf cubs had grown quite large, each looking plump and their playful tumbling resembling little puppies.

The weather had turned cold, and the grass in the small park had yellowed. The cubs had trampled it until rocks and mud were visible, making it look like a desolate patch of wilderness at a glance.

The mother wolf lay down after entering, and the cubs jumped onto her. Sensing Chen Ying's arrival, the cubs instantly quieted down, lying in front of the mother wolf, warily watching him.

Among them, two were noticeably larger than their siblings, appeared more spirited, and their faces more closely resembled their mother's.

These two were probably the ones selected by the Police Dog Base as the second-generation breed dogs.