Chapter 26 Painless Motherhood
The little paws without exposed nails held Zhao Yeqing's fingers, and the mouth was moving on them little by little, as if searching or smelling something.
Zhao Yeqing's heart softened. She looked at the time and saw that more than two hours had passed since the last feeding. She took the remaining milk and fed a few more milliliters with a straw.
A bottle of Shuhua milk is 250 ml. Two babies can drink 80 ml every day, so one bottle can feed them for three days.
Since Zhao Yeqing had not finished drinking the opened milk, he could only divide it into three portions, freeze two of them first, and thaw them the next day before drinking them.
Cats can be weaned at two months old, and she guessed that leopards should be a little later. When she watched Animal World before, she saw that the cubs following the cheetahs in Africa were all over one year old. According to common sense, they would leave their mothers after weaning if they could successfully hunt.
If a leopard cub is weaned at three months, it will need at least 90 bottles of milk.
This is calculated based on the cat's food intake.
She read through the information from beginning to end, but found no record of wild sheep in Meishan.
Indeed, I have only heard of wild sheep in the frontier plateau, but have never heard of wild sheep in the subtropical forests.
If there is no milk source at that time, you can only try to let them eat some meat in advance when they are two months old. If they can't adapt to eating meat, then see if they can drink milk.
Zhao Yeqing was used to planning ahead, and she had made a plan for feeding the two cubs. If they did not show any intolerance to soymilk tomorrow, she could start feeding them according to the plan.
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The next day, the two little guys still didn't open their eyes.
Zhao Yeqing fed the baby as usual. She lay in bed last night, recalling the documentaries she had watched before, and looking through her previous chat records with Kong Sisi. One paragraph caught her attention...
"Sister, I clean up my boss's ass every day at work, and when I get home I have to clean up the ass of these little masters. What kind of life do you think I have?"
She vaguely remembered that the cubs couldn't go to the toilet by themselves, and their butts needed to be stimulated so that they could learn to poop.
After Zhao Yeqing's practice, he found that the method was indeed effective. Moreover, after drinking the Shuhua milk, the little leopard did not suffer from diarrhea or other discomfort.
Only then did she feel at ease and feed the baby according to the original plan.
Zhao Yeqing counted on her fingers. If she started eating meat three months later, she doubted whether her rabbits would be enough to feed two mouths.
When I went to the zoo before, the keepers would feed leopards with a large bowl of meat. Clouded leopards are much smaller than cheetahs, so they would need at least ten kilograms of meat per meal.
Little clouded leopards cannot eat that much, but before they grow up and are able to hunt, a few pounds of meat per meal is essential.
She began to doubt her ability to raise them successfully.
If all goes well, the first batch of rabbits will be available in more than three months.
Zhao Yeqing walked to the rabbit pen, where three rabbits were curled up in the corner.
"Oh!" She slapped her forehead. Not only did she not feed the rabbits last night, she also didn't make straw for them to nest in.
There will definitely be a lot of rabbits behind, so Zhao Yeqing plans to nail a long cage with bamboo strips.
Feed the baby before going out and lock the door.
Zhao Yeqing drove a small tricycle to cut bamboo. It took him more than two hours to cut two bamboos into strips.
Before going to cut bamboo, she went to the top of the mountain to take a look at the place where she picked up the two cubs yesterday. The body of the mother leopard was gone, and there were long drag marks on the ground. She didn't know what animal took them away.
Yesterday she thought about burying the mother leopard's body, but with all the animals in the mountains, they would be dug out anyway if she buried them, so she gave up the idea.
The forest always has its own laws.
Zhao Yeqing's alarm clock now rings every two hours to remind her to breastfeed.
She also truly experienced what it means to be a painless mother.
It took only the time to nail the bamboo cage together to feed the baby twice.
I found some soft straw to put in the cage and covered it with a layer of plastic sheet to prevent it from getting wet when it rains.
The cage was only twenty centimeters high to prevent the rabbit from using the cage to jump out.
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On the fourth day, the two little ones' eyes finally opened.
The little leopard opened its eyes and became much more lively than before. It raised its little paws and wandered around the house, sniffing and digging a few times.
They are particularly attached to Zhao Yeqing. Every time she opens the door and prepares to go out to work, the two of them start babbling non-stop.
Zhao Yeqing was moved by what he heard, and while he was busy in the vegetable garden, he put the two cubs next to the garden and let them play by themselves.
Whenever the two of them approached the vegetables and stretched out their claws to dig them, Zhao Yeqing would stop them seriously. After a few times, they would avoid the vegetables and instead flutter at the small flying insects.
Both little ones are girls. One is more agile and smarter. Although she still walks a little unsteadily, she rarely falls.
The same cannot be said of the other one.
When it walked, it had its arms and legs spread out in all directions, with each of its four paws moving in a separate direction. It was obviously the older sister, the one that opened its eyes first.
Zhao Yeqing did not interfere, letting it fall down and get up again, then continue walking around in a mess. She could not help laughing beside it, and the little guy was startled by the laughter and didn't know what was going on.
The one who walked well was the younger sister. There was a round pattern between her eyebrows. It was not big but very round, like a beauty mole between her eyebrows, and also like a full moon. Zhao Yeqing named it Snow Cake.
The one that was walking in a mess, Zhao Yeqing grabbed it, held it in the air and shook its body, saying: "Just call yourself Huhu."
Zhao Yeqing found that Xuebing was very serious about everything he did. He gulped down the milk and finished it in a short time. Then he stood aside and waited obediently for his sister to finish drinking so that they could play together.
Every time Huhu drank milk, he made a smacking sound and closed his mouth, the milk would drip down at that time, and he never succeeded in connecting with the milk.
At one point she even suspected that Huhu had a brain problem when he was born, but every time he went out to play, if a small insect passed by him, he would react faster than Xuebing and pounce on it immediately.
Although it has a quick reaction, its accuracy is poor and its nose may be pinched by insects with pincers, such as mantises.
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When Xuebing and Huhu are one month old, they are as big as adult cats, with clearer patterns and shiny fur that is very easy to rub. Huhu, who can walk flexibly, jumps up and down at home all day long. Xuebing will call out to Huhu to get down quickly when he jumps onto the TV.
When they were half a month old, the two started chasing chickens, scaring the hens so much that they didn't lay eggs for two days. Zhao Yeqing grabbed them by the scruff of the neck and gave them a serious criticism and education.
Finally, when the two cubs were one month old, the chickens, geese, rabbits, leopards and people in the house could finally live in harmony.
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