At around 16:00 on May 7, after a heavy rainstorm in Shenzhen, Li Guanjie, a Dapeng resident, was returning home through Dashahe Park when he accidentally caught a glimpse of a gray-black fur ball under a bench. When I got closer and took a closer look, I saw that it was a trembling little milk cat that was soaked and huddled in a ball. It was more than ten centimeters long and made no sound. Out of concern for the kitten's life, Li Guanjie wiped it dry with paper towels and sent it to a nearby pet hospital for rescue. Unexpectedly, a story about the rescue of the leopard cat, a national second-level protected animal, unfolded.

Recalling that time Li Guanjie said that when he first saw the kitten, Shenzhen had just lifted the rainstorm warning signal. "I observed for a while and didn't find any big cats coming. It had stopped raining for almost two hours, and the kitten was still wet. If we left it alone, it would definitely die of hypothermia, freezing or starvation at night." Li Guanjie picked him up. After the kitten was wiped dry, he immediately asked the park security guards, cleaners and nearby passers-by to see if there was any way to rescue him.

“I have no experience in raising cats, so I don’t know how to deal with it better. Later, a young lady suggested getting some goat milk powder for it to drink, so I went to a nearby supermarket to look for it, but I only bought milk. I didn’t drink, maybe it’s too young.” Seeing the kitten’s condition becoming increasingly wilted, Li Guanjie anxiously sent it to a pet hospital a few hundred meters away.

At around 18:00, the kitten arrived at the hospital smoothly. After a series of operations such as swabbing, keeping warm, and feeding goat milk powder by the pet doctor, the kitten gradually regained its vitality. The cat distemper test, fecal test and other physical examination indicators were normal. It was dewormed and transferred to another pet hospital in Houhai for one night. . "When I first picked it up, it didn't know how to bark. I had no strength. I only barked twice after drying it and feeding it. It was very weak." Li Guanjie thought that if no one could raise the kitten, he would raise it himself. And named "May 7" to commemorate this encounter on May 7.

But let To Li Guanjie's surprise, during conversations with pet doctors from two hospitals, he discovered that "Wu Qi" might be an ocelot cub. "On the way home, II have been searching on Baidu and consulting professionals engaged in field surveys through friends, and they all say it looks like an ocelot. "He suddenly felt that this matter was not simple. After all, the rescued animal might be a national second-level protected animal. "However, 'Wuqi' looked very similar to a pet cat called a Bengal cat. "That night, Li Guanjie's heart kept hanging, and he repeatedly compared the differences between Bengal leopard cats and wild leopard cats. "But 'Wuqi' has black and white stripes on its head. It is very wild and looks a bit like an ocelot."...

At nearly 12 o'clock on the 8th, Li Guanjie was still unsure, so he chose to call 110 to call the police, and then contacted the Shenzhen Wildlife Rescue Center. After comparing pictures and videos, it was finally determined that "Wuqi" was the leopard cat, a national second-level protected animal. That day At around 2 p.m., staff from the Shenzhen Wildlife Rescue Center drove to the pet hospital where Wu Qi was located. After receiving the ocelot cub from Li Guanjie, they issued a "Special Receipt for Receiving Wild Animals and Their Products in Guangdong Province" .

Receipt The "leopard cat" species, "secondary" protection category and other words recorded in detail on the Internet convinced Li Guanjie once again that he was saving wild protected animals. "It's a bit strange, but the best destination for wild protected animals is nature. "Li Guanjie learned that the staff of the Shenzhen Wildlife Rescue Center will raise "Wu Qi" until it can hunt independently and have the ability to survive in the wild, and then send it to a nature reserve with suitable conditions in Shenzhen for release into the wild.< /p>

“I heard that it may be sent to the nature reserve in Dapeng New District for release. "Li Guanjie, who works in Dapeng, said that although he looks forward to seeing Wuqi again in the future, he more hopes that it will be well and grow up healthily.