In a small mountain village in Guangdong, the 70-year-old Mrs. Liu lived alone here. To kill time, she raised chickens and rabbits at home. Such a contented life ended when she picked up A change occurred after returning to an injured wildcat.

Once, Mrs. Liu went out to collect grass and came back. The house seemed unusually quiet, and there was a smell of blood in the air. Then she found that all the chickens in the chicken coop had been disemboweled, even the rabbits. The cage was also filled with the dilapidated remains of rabbits.

The panicked Mrs. Liu hurriedly found the villagers and searched along the blood stains, but unexpectedly found a little wild cat biting the remains of a rabbit in the corner of the yard! Seeing many people coming, the little wild cat bared its teeth and growled as it looked at everyone. After some catching, the little wild cat was locked into an iron cage. Mrs. Liu didn't understand why the little guy looked so naive and pitiful when he was injured before. Will he suddenly become wild and bite poultry? What is the origin of this wild cat? Three consecutive circles, please pay attention~

In fact, Mrs. Liu has been living alone in this mountain village for some time. More than ten years ago, her husband passed away due to illness, and her filial children took her to their home in Guangzhou. The children all work in Guangzhou and have already taken root here. It is more convenient to take their mother home and provide them with daily care.

But Mrs. Liu, who had lived in a remote mountain village for most of her life since childhood, became uncomfortable in this new environment of bustling traffic and high-rise buildings. There are no old neighbors she is familiar with here, so she can sit together in the sun and chat in her free time. My living habits are also different from those of my children in the city. Over time, both of us find it inconvenient.

In order not to disturb the lives of the younger generation, I also yearn for the tranquility of the mountain village. After communicating with his children, he moved back to his old house in the mountain village.

Although she was the only one at home, Mrs. Liu, who had always loved small animals, immediately raised a group of chickens and small rabbits. She would go to the mountains to collect grass every day to fill the bellies of these small animals. In this way, you not only kill time, but also exercise your body. After being busy, I can sit down with my old neighbors to chat and play cards. The life in this familiar mountain village is leisurely and happy for the old lady.

While thinking about these happy things, a commotion in the grass attracted Mrs. Liu's attention. She used a walking stick to push away the weeds and leaned down to take a look. It turned out that there was a little milk cat covered in patterns turning over with its eyes narrowed!

Old Mrs. Liu put down her walking stick and held the little kitten in her hands and looked at it carefully - this kitten had a coin-shaped pattern like a leopard, and the watery eyes that could just be opened made her People cherish. The kitten's body was very thin and its right leg was clearly injured. It was squealing in Mrs. Liu's hands, probably because of panic and pain.

Old lady Liu loved the poor little thing in her hands very much, thinking that maybe it was hungry and wanted to find its mother, so it accidentally dug out of the nest and accidentally got injured and hid it here. If it hadn't been found today, it might have died in the grass.

No matter what, heal its injury first! Thinking like this, Mrs. Liu put the little kitten into her arms, picked up the walking stick and hurried home.

Back in the yard, Mrs. Liu put the kitten on a chair that was exposed to the sun and put a piece of cloth on it to keep its body warm. Mrs. Liu took out the herbs she usually collected from home, pounded them into gauze, mixed them well, and wrapped them properly on the kitten's injured right leg. Perhaps the herbal medicine had alleviated the kitten's pain, and it was only then that her beautiful eyes finally let down their guard, and only looked at Old Mrs. Liu for a moment.

After a while after bandaging, Mrs. Liu tried to carry the little kitten to the ground. She pushed the little kitten’s butt with her hand and motioned for it to go and have a look. Perhaps she noticed that Liu In response to the old lady's intention, the little cat trembled with its trembling short legs and carefully took steps in the yard. After the initial pain disappeared, it trotted happily. Finally, as if to express its gratitude, it ran to Next to Old Mrs. Liu, she rubbed her trouser legs. Obviously, Xiaomao felt that she felt safe around Old Mrs. Liu, so she behaved like this to show her goodwill.

Old lady Liu was very happy to see the little kitten regaining its vitality. She picked up the pitiful and naive little guy, thinking, since you can’t find your kitten’s mother, , why not just keep it by yourself!

After spending some time in Mrs. Liu’s home, the little milk cat became familiar with the environment just like the children at home. At this time, its leg injury was mostly healed, and it was able to play in the yard by itself. Mrs. Liu's affection for it has deepened day by day.

Because there was no cat food , Mrs. Liu will deliberately cook more when cooking. Some of it is eaten by itself, and some of it is mixed with soup and vegetables and put into the kitten's food bowl. But this kitten has an astonishing appetite, and the food he eats is almost as much as his own weight. Mrs. Liu thought that maybe it consumed a lot of nutrients during its recovery period, so she still fed it like this.

Soon, under the careful care of Mrs. Liu, the leg injury was completely healed. When kittens are young, their strong energy and playful personality are brought into play, and it is no longer a problem to climb trees and climb houses. When Mrs. Liu is busy, she will sneak out to play by herself. When she hears Mrs. Liu calling her to go home for dinner, she will obediently appear next to her.

As the kitten grew up, Mrs. Liu discovered something unusual. The kitten now shows a keen interest in the chickens and rabbits at home, often hanging around the chicken coop and rabbit cage. When the rooster sees it approaching, it will immediately straighten up its feathers and look alert. When the little rabbits see it, they will huddle in the corner of the rabbit cage.

The neighbor said: "The cat is still the master of the tiger. The cat is so good at catching mice, chickens and rabbits will definitely be afraid of it!" Mrs. Liu was convinced by this statement, thinking about how well-behaved the kitten is. Being meek, I didn’t take it to heart.

What she didn’t expect was that the accident would come soon.

One morning, Mrs. Liu went up the mountain to collect grass as usual. When I got home, I found that there was a sense of disharmony in my home - it was very quiet today!

Usually when I go home at this time, the rabbits are grazing in the cage, and the chickens are "clucking" in the yard. But today there was unusually no movement at home. Could it be that a chicken thief broke into the house?

Thinking of this, Mrs. Liu hurriedly pushed open the courtyard door and rushed to the chicken coop. What a shocking sight. Mrs. Liu was stunned on the spot - the chicken coop was full of chicken feathers. Several chickens lay dead on the ground, their bellies bitten open, and their shiny feathers were now messy.

When I walked to the rabbit cage, it was the same scene - dried blood was spattered all over the clean rabbit cage, stained with torn and messy rabbit fur, and some residual rabbit fur. Broken limbs and feet were scattered among them.

Old lady Liu followed the blood dripping all the way in panicWhen I ran outside the house, I found a familiar figure.

The kitten with its mouth full of blood was biting the meat of the rabbit carcass. The eyes that are unique to wild animals when protecting food are staring at Old Mrs. Liu warily.

Old Mrs. Liu’s frightened cry attracted the neighbors. They quickly took out tools and gathered around, and worked together to put the kitten into the cage.

In the next few days, the kitten changed from its usual docility and seemed to be as ferocious as when hunting rabbits most of the time. Although Mrs. Liu felt distressed, she was worried that her animalistic behavior would bring danger to herself and her neighbors, so she did not open the cage again. Just feed it some food and meat through the cage.

However, keeping the kitten in a cage for such a long time is not an option. Mrs. Liu also felt that the kitten's personality was different from that of ordinary domestic cats, and its body shape was more slender and more muscular than ordinary domestic cats. So after discussing with the village chief, everyone helped and brought the kitten into the city along with the cage, intending to let animal experts identify it and find out what happened.

At the animal protection station, when experts carefully observed the kitten in the iron cage, they were surprised to find that this was no ordinary wild cat, but a national second-level protected animal-leopard cat, also known as leopard cat in China. "Stone Tiger". The reason why its body shape is slender and more muscular than that of ordinary domestic cats is because this species has been living in the wild for a long time. It has copper coin-shaped markings on its body like a leopard, so it is called a "leopard cat". However, because this copper coin-shaped pattern is very similar to ancient Chinese copper coins, it is also called a "money cat".

Generally speaking, the leopard cat's activity range is mainly in mountain forest areas. Occasionally, it appears in remote suburbs of the city, so it was found on the mountain near Mrs. Liu's house.

Because their fur is beautiful and has good thermal insulation properties, in the 1960s, a large number of leopard cats in our country were hunted on a large scale. The annual fur trade reached 200,000 Zhang or more! Based on this projection, the number of leopard cats killed every year is no less than 300,000.

Due to overhunting and large-scale habitat reduction caused by the expansion of human activities, the number of ocelots has also declined sharply. It once became an endangered species.

The staff said to Mrs. Liu: "Even though it looks docile, if it becomes animalistic, your life may not be guaranteed!" Mrs. Liu recalled that she often hugged it. During the scene in my arms, I couldn't help but sigh and be afraid when I thought about the possibility that my neck might be bitten off by this "little cutie" many times.

But when she learned that the animal protection station was going to take in the ocelot, she was still very reluctant to let go. After all, I have indeed developed a deep relationship with it since I picked it up and fed it to this day. When I thought of this, tears couldn't help but flow down. However, considering that the kitten is a precious protected animal after all, it is really best for it to be domesticated by a professional organization and return to a wild environment that is more suitable for it in the future.

Reluctantly, Mrs. Liu handed over the little leopard cat to the staff of the animal protection station and said that sheWill come to visit it in the future.

Later, after a period of careful domestication by the staff at the conservation station, the little leopard cat returned to its wild habitat.

In fact, it is illegal to raise nationally protected animals without permission from the forestry department. Moreover, it is illegal to hunt or purchase nationally protected animals privately. If the circumstances are serious, corresponding penalties will be imposed.

Of course, Mrs. Liu did not adopt this animal out of self-interest. It was a small leopard cat, and when she adopted it, Mrs. Liu did not have the ability to identify it, and she kept it privately even though she knew it was a protected animal. On the contrary, it was Mrs. Liu's accidental discovery and careful care that saved this little leopard cat who might have lost her life. So she does not need to bear legal responsibility.

If she applies to the local Forestry Bureau Wildlife and Vegetation Protection Station and obtains the relevant certificates, she can legally keep this little leopard cat. However, considering the elderly person's professional knowledge and physical condition, it is undoubtedly a better choice to leave it to professionals for protection. I believe she also hopes that the little leopard cat can release its nature and live happily after returning to the wild.