Chapter 81
The incident alarmed the zoo, and the tiger was taken away by its keeper for a physical examination. Shi Mingming and his father sat quietly in the reception office, listening to the doctor report Tiger's examination results to the leader.
"Dad, did I do something wrong?" Shi Mingming asked guiltily with his head down, his two chubby little hands tugging at the corners of his clothes.
"It must be your fault. How could you be so careless as to feed the tiger? Didn't your mother tell you not to feed the animals in the zoo when she brought you here before?" Father Shi was extremely worried. He began to calculate whether his family's savings were enough to cover the cost of the tiger's gastric lavage treatment.
"This is really a big trouble. I'm afraid you'll get beaten when your mother comes."
"Will the big tiger be okay?" The little kid was obviously worried about the big tiger too.
However, the big tiger lives a good life here.
"Are you sure there's nothing wrong?" The zoo leader felt relieved when he heard the doctor say that Tiger was healthy. Tiger was very difficult to raise. He was very picky about food and got sick easily.
"I'm sure." The veterinarian was almost speechless. At first she thought it was another serious illness, but when she arrived she found out that the tiger had accidentally eaten the food given by tourists. She was shocked at the time, but after finding out what Mingming had fed the tiger, she was no longer worried. She even took a small snack from Mingming as a sample.
A test revealed that the snacks were more nutritious than raw meat. Tiger probably swallowed the snacks, which were half the size of his palm, without even taking a bite.
Tiger didn't swallow it directly. Due to his poor health and his dislike for taking medicine, the breeder had added medicine powder to the meat Tiger ate for the past two days. Tiger's taste buds were very sensitive. He could tell as soon as he tasted it that the meat had been spiked with medicine. He refused to eat it even though he was not very hungry. He was a picky eater.
The breeder raised Tiger from a young age and knew that he could not stand hunger. Sure enough, when he was hungry, he would eat the meat with the medicine powder added.
After eating two more meals of meat with medicinal powder added, Tiger's mood dropped rapidly and his appetite also decreased. However, his breeder had a good grasp of this and was going to resume his normal diet today, but this incident happened.
Regarding this, Tiger Ben said, "A little more, a little more. Large institutions like zoos feed their animals to simulate what tigers in the wild eat, so Tiger has never tasted snacks before. Today, the door to a new world has opened to him. He originally looked at something half the size of a palm with disdain. Do you think he's a brainless tiger? How could he eat all sorts of random things fed by humans?"
But who could blame this palm-sized thing for always emitting a faint fragrance? Tiger, a country tiger, had never seen such a thing before. In addition, he had not eaten well recently. After much inner struggle, he was still attracted to it. Even if it was poisoned, I would accept it. I, the king, must try to see what this thing is. Tiger thought so in his heart, and still ate the snack that was thrown to him.
The snack was not big and could be swallowed in one bite. In order to taste it more, Tiger slowed down his eating speed, licked it more, chewed it more, and squeezed out the flavor of the meat strip before swallowing it. Then he was inspected.
The veterinarian in the zoo said that everything was fine and Tiger looked lively and energetic, so the zoo leaders did not bother Shi Mingming and his father. They talked to Mingming and let them go home. Shi's mother had already arrived at this time. She received the call while shopping and was extremely nervous. Fortunately, nothing serious happened. Shi's mother took the grandfather and son to apologize to the leaders with a calm expression until they got home.
His face suddenly turned dark, and he pulled Shi Mingming and Shi's father's ears and walked straight to the sofa and sat down. The two of them were punished to stand.
The atmosphere was very quiet for a while. Mingming had no experience, so he spoke first with a tearful voice: "Mom, is Big Tiger okay?"
"What? Are you scared and worried now? Why didn't you think about it when you were feeding the animals? You are ten years old now. Don't you know the importance of things? Didn't I tell you not to feed the animals when I took you to the zoo? Wasn't it written next to the fence of the zoo that you can't feed the animals? Aren't you illiterate? How could you do such a thing?" Mother Shi was very angry.
He clearly wanted to cry as soon as he got home, and now when his mother scolded him, he burst into tears. The chubby classmate snuggled up to Shi's mother to watch the fun and said, "You deserved it for stealing my snacks."
Mother Shi ignored Mingming's crying and scolded Father Shi. As a father, he was really incompetent and needed to be scolded.
After Mingming finished crying, Mother Shi continued to reason with him, determined to change his personality.
The dispute among the historians had just ended, and the dispute in the zoo began again. It was time to feed Tiger in the evening. Its keeper knew that it had been paying attention to its diet in the past two days and was frightened today, so he specially prepared fresh beef and rabbit legs for it, and gave it enough, intending to continue to cultivate Tiger's appetite.
But who knew that Tiger still didn't want to eat. This meal that he loved most in the past didn't even touch him today. This shouldn't be right. Could it be that there was something wrong with the food that the tourists fed him today? Thinking of this, Tiger's keeper immediately couldn't sit still and went to find the veterinarian on duty in the park.
Coincidentally, the veterinarian who was supposed to treat Tiger hadn't left today, so he came over to check on him. Logically, after checking him out today, there shouldn't be any major problems.
When we got there, we saw Tiger in good spirits, circling around the pot of food. He would sniff it from time to time, as if he wanted to eat it but held back. It was strange, what was wrong with him?
"Doctor, does Tiger seem to be feeling unwell?" the breeder asked anxiously.
"It doesn't look like it. In the past, when Tiger was not feeling well, he hardly moved. This time, you see he has been walking around all the time, as if his mind is not on the food." The veterinarian replied.
If you can understand Tiger, you’ll notice he’s weighing things.
"Should I eat it or not? If I eat it, will I not be able to eat the delicious snacks I tasted today? But I'm hungry if I don't eat it. Should I eat it or not? I'll just have a bite." Tiger was also a conflicted tiger.
The veterinarian couldn't see any problem for the time being, and this was Tiger's first normal meal, so she decided to wait and see what happened to Tiger overnight.
The good news is that the veterinarian found out the next day when he went to work that Tiger had eaten his meal. The bad news is that Tiger was lethargic all day and even infected the other tigers in the tiger park. What happened?
Because there is no room for two tigers in one mountain, only one tiger is exhibited at a time in Pingshi Zoo, and the rest of the tigers are kept in a garden that is not open to the public. At most, they come into contact with each other once in the corridor, and they all look listless as if they were infected.
"Did something happen last night?" The veterinarian stood outside the cage, looking at Tiger who looked very worried inside, and asked its keeper.
"It's nothing. Not long after you left yesterday, Tiger slowly ate his meal. Although he wasn't as active as before, he still finished it." The breeder didn't find any other problems with his eating.
"What about at night?" the veterinarian asked again.
"This staff dormitory is far from the tiger park. Even if it roars and reaches my side, only a little sound will be heard. So I can't find anything. I can only wait and check the surveillance to see if anything happened at night." The keeper answered stupidly.
So the two of them went to watch the surveillance video together. In the first half of the night, Tiger was sleeping soundly. In the second half of the night, at 2:40 in the morning, it suddenly woke up and started barking restlessly, which woke up the tigers in the garden next door. Then they saw two tigers, not knowing whether they were cursing at each other or communicating, but one thing was certain, the other tigers' lethargy was caused by Tiger.
What exactly is the reason?
The story started last night at midnight. Tiger finally succumbed to his stomach and ate the food given by the breeder. But after eating, he missed the snacks. In his heart, these were like white moonlight. Tiger fell asleep with the fantasy of the taste of snacks.
Who would have thought that tigers would dream about the same things during the day? Tiger dreamed that he was the king in his dream. There were a bunch of snacks of various flavors around him. There was also a super doubled version of meat stick in front of him. He couldn't tear it off in one bite. He could only bite the meat stick while drooling. The saliva flowed down, and then he woke up because of the greed. When he opened his eyes, he saw that only the saliva was real. Woo woo woo, so sad.
So Tiger sighed in his residence in the middle of the night, sighing and muttering. He was a tiger, the king of beasts, but now he couldn't even get a bite of delicious food. His life was so miserable.
As he was muttering, he woke up his colleague. The tiger next door was a female tiger that grew up with Tiger. Tiger was afraid of it because he had never beaten this tiger since he was a child.
So when the tiger named Wang Niu bothered him, Tiger told her everything that happened today. "Is there really such delicious food?" Wang Niu asked, and Tiger nodded quickly after hearing it.
Wang Niu is also a tiger who loves to eat, and she will not allow Tiger to taste the delicious food but not get to eat it. She is quite smart, so she told Tiger that she should pretend to be sick, and humans will definitely pay special attention to it and will hand over the food to her.
So today the two tigers started to "fall ill", and the scene in the surveillance video appeared.
The veterinarian had no idea what the little animals were thinking. She could only check them step by step. They were not sick, nor did they look depressed. What disease could they have? And it seemed to be spreading to the entire zoo.
It was originally just a tiger park, but there were so many animals in the zoo. Tiger was just like Xianglin Sao, and whenever he saw a small animal, he would just complain about his misery. Oh, as the king of beasts, there are still so many delicious foods in this world that I have not eaten. My life is so miserable.
So as the news spread, the monkeys in the monkey mountain next to the tiger park also started to become listless for unknown reasons, all because of Wang Niu's advice.
Seeing that the animals were becoming listless one by one, the leaders suspected that they had bird flu. However, the veterinarian gambled her career and said that they were not sick. She also had all the veterinarians in the zoo check them, and the result was clear.
The veterinarian worked overtime for a week to check various documents to see if there was any record of such a situation. One night, after staying up all night to check the information, she accidentally ate the piece of meat that she had not received from Mingming. When she found out that it was eaten by animals, she quickly spit it out. Then, it suddenly occurred to her that it might be a snack.
Counting the days, it turned out that Tiger started to behave strangely after he ate the snacks that day. The veterinarian decided to give it a try, since after checking, the animals had no problems after eating the snacks.
So I took these snacks to the tiger park the next day. Thanks to Mingming, he realized he made a mistake and handed in all the snacks he brought, so the veterinarian still had some left.
When I went to the tiger park, I just caught up with the feeding time. These sick-looking little animals ate and drank as they should, but they seemed listless.
It wasn't until the veterinarian took out some venison strips, unwrapped them, and threw them to Tiger while he was eating that Tiger's eyes immediately lit up. He jumped up to catch the snack, and then started eating it with a smacking sound, not looking listless at all.
The keeper was stunned, while the veterinarian looked at the cunning tiger with a knowing expression.
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