The abandoned pet sanatorium has a very tight schedule for volunteers and pets.
After all, it's in a remote location. While it's safe, it also has a somewhat isolated feel to it. Since we've finally caught an animal that's traveled a long way to come and experience a day, we naturally want to make full use of it.
Liu Juan is fine. As a human woman, she doesn't have any aversion to furry creatures, especially infants whose eyes have just opened. On the contrary, although she is a little tired, she is very happy to pet them.
The snake siblings, though seemingly cold and tough on the outside, were completely exhausted. Their snake-like appearance was ill-suited for caring for infants. Other animals have four claws to manage, but they only have one tail. If they had to take care of one side, they would have to neglect the other. In the end, the two siblings were so tired that they had to intertwine with each other to keep themselves from collapsing.
However, after this experience, the two snakes, who are not good at expressing their emotions, have taken a rare step closer to each other.
The news that Mr. Axe had been fed by the little pet all afternoon had spread throughout the entire sanatorium. This prompted the sanatorium staff, who were busy and bored, to come and see the man and the tiger. After seeing how silly and cute Mr. Axe was, the staff, who were initially hesitant to approach him because of his cold demeanor, clearly had a new understanding of him and were at least much more helpful than in the morning.
Because he was in a good mood, Old Axe became even more polite.
Perhaps this year's volunteers are the most enthusiastic and sincere in their work. With a wave of their paws, the raccoon yard has reduced a lot of their work, all for the sake of some little-known little guys in the sanatorium.
So in the afternoon, Mr. Axe and his animals each guarded their own pets, waiting for the next batch of cubs to be taken out by their teacher for free play.
Before long, these little creatures, who were rarely known to the outside world, emerged, led by two mother deer.
They were more cautious than the cubs in the morning, hiding behind the sika deer, timid and afraid to look at the unfamiliar visitors in the activity hall.
Cheng Shuang couldn't see any liveliness in them; they were all timid and silent.
For animals like ligers and lizards, at least the little girl could guess the species of one of their parents. Even if they were hybrids, the difference was only in appearance and wouldn't affect their normal daily lives. But these cubs...
A small lizard with two horns and a top-heavy body; a kitten with a cat's head and an alligator's tail, who is afraid of water but cannot live without it; a rabbit with huge fangs that could injure its own chest and abdomen if it is not careful; a striped anteater with a short bird's beak...
Cheng Shuang didn't know how to describe them. They had a strong sense of incongruity, like a child's whimsical doodles, or like incomplete products that were about to be eliminated by nature.
Mr. Axe answered her question in a low voice, "It's a disabled cub."
The red fox next to it thought the big axe was talking to it and sighed in a whisper, "So what if different species have offspring? Just live happily together!"
Snake lowered his head. "The more advanced the technology, the less willing people are to have family members marry within their own race. We're all brothers and sisters, it's so strange to fall in love with someone!"
Snake West glanced at his sister but didn't say anything. This was the reason why they had become increasingly estranged after reaching adulthood.
However, the risks of people of different races living together are too great; there is at least a 50% chance that they will produce hybrid offspring that are completely unable to grow up and adapt to survival.
The little girl was stunned and speechless. She never expected that such a problem existed on Animal Planet. Her face was blank, and she couldn't show the same enthusiastic smile as she had in the morning. This made the little cubs even more hesitant and uneasy.
They had seen this little human pet in the surveillance video that the mother deer showed them. The reason they mustered up the courage to step out of the room was because of the little human pet's soft and harmless smile. Now, under so many eyes, the little cubs lowered their heads deeply, and one or two of their more vulnerable eyes were already filled with tears.
The mother deer felt both heartbroken and helpless. She would never blame the pet for being ignorant; she only blamed herself for being careless. She thought that if the pet could thrive among the cubs, it could surely make these physically disabled, sensitive, and insecure cubs happy. That's why she rashly went to the director to apply for the pet. Who would have thought...
The mother deer exchanged glances, sighed deeply, and were just about to take their cubs back inside to comfort them when the little human-shaped pet let out a loud howl.
The first cub to turn its head felt a gust of wind sweep by, and then its tail was touched by something soft. Startled, it immediately turned back, its head held high for fear that its half-body-sized horn might hurt the other cubs. Its semi-upright body was then embraced by something. Then it heard a cry: "Awooo!"
A small piece of apple appeared at the corner of its mouth. Looking down, there was a soft, white hand. The owner of the hand was pressed against its cold chest, smiling like a little sun radiating warmth.
The lizard cub instinctively wanted to get closer to the warmth, but then quickly shrank back as if afraid of being scorched by the sun.
The soft, delicate little pet, completely different from the other, tilted its head, its big, watery eyes full of hope, and held up a piece of apple to bring it closer to its mouth.
The little lizard felt its heart pounding wildly, a surge of warmth welling up inside. Was this what pets were like—soft, cuddly, and adorable? She even smelled wonderful, just like the candy it had eaten last year. It wanted to hold her tightly and never let go; would it even sleep with the sweetness of candy? But…wouldn't that scare her?
Because of the monitor lizard Qiong and its daughter, Cheng Shuang initially didn't really like lizards. But the little guy in front of her was different. Although its horns were curved and sharp, filled with a cold and gleaming light, its clear and clean azure round eyes had once shone brightly when it saw her, and the affection in them was self-evident.
Even when I was disappointed later, I didn't feel any resentment; it was as if the sky was clear.
The little girl was always like this, taking advantage of others' affection for her to act recklessly. Even when she was holding a lizard that was not weakly poisonous, she still smiled sweetly and directly stuffed an apple into the little lizard's big mouth fork.
The little lizard swallowed absentmindedly, then suddenly felt something was wrong. Its back was inexplicably hot, and it quickly looked back, just in time to see its usually quiet friends looking at it with envy.
The little lizard's eyelids drooped with a click, a little shy and at a loss. But then a flash of inspiration struck her: her mother deer had mentioned that the little human was delicate and prone to illness. In a panic, she tried to distance herself from the little human to avoid chilling her with her body heat.
Its body had left, but its tail remained heavy. Unbeknownst to it, its tail had hooked around the little pet's delicate ankle, clearly expressing its reluctance to part with her.
The baby lizard was so embarrassed it almost jumped up, but its tail wouldn't listen and kept it firmly tied to the little human's side.
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