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are the stories that are extremely scary to think about?
Many years ago, I used to be a keeper and worked in a zoo. Although this job was hard, it was also a livelihood.
At first, they do some chores. Normally, a new employee of the zoo will raise some peacocks, herbivores.
But because of my rich experience in animal breeding, I began to manage black bears and tiger mountains in the third month after I entered the zoo.
Many people think that the zoo’s work is very happy, and they can get close contact with the beasts every day, just like those people on foreign video websites. It is a pure fantasy to hold a big bear and kiss it closely
every day, a scene of harmony between man and bear. Many animals in the
zoo are very old. Although they are not afraid of people, they do not have much contact with people when they are young. It is almost impossible for
keepers to get close contact with these animals.
In the early days of the zoo, I worked every day. The work was very simple. In the morning, I put the black bears and brown bears in the outer field. In the evening, I drove them into the inner house and cleaned them up. The animals outside the zoo would be abused.
The field and the shed, feed them. Unlike lions and tigers,
bears do not eat a lot of meat. In order to save costs, bears will not eat meat.
The bears are fed with corn flour mixed with some seasonal cheap vegetables and a small amount of diced meat every day.
These steamed buns are very painful to eat, but they are still nutritious, and they are the most popular food for bears.
In addition, every day will also prepare a variety of seasonal fruits for the bears, summer is watermelon, peach, cantaloupe and so on, autumn is orange, apple and so on, winter is more miserable, all rely on autumn potatoes and sweet potatoes to survive.
Many people may wonder why bears are fed so much vegetarian food.
The main reason is that there used to be a superstition in zoos that bears would become cruel and aggressive if they ate too much meat. They
even come up with the idea of cannibalism.
Actually, it’s not. The biggest reason is that bears, in many people’s impression, love honey and sweets. Yes, bears love sweets.
But this does not mean that bears do not like meat, bears are also carnivores ah! A bear can survive a spring by eating grass. Can
also swallow dozens of pounds of raw meat, black bears in the zoo eat steamed bread every day, can not eat meat.
If bears eat too much meat, they will remember the taste of meat and will not like to eat steamed bread in the future.
After I managed the black bear area for a month, I was pushing a cart to feed the black bears. My colleague Wang Fu came to me in a hurry and told me that the zoo had received a black bear, which was retired from the circus. The director of the zoo told me to take the black bear into the black bear area at night. I am very happy to
hear this news, because I can raise another black bear.
I told Wang Fu that I must take good care of the new black bear, and then I pushed the cart to continue feeding the black bear.
In the evening, I stood at the gate of the zoo waiting for the arrival of the new black bear, accompanied by Wang Fu, and we chatted casually about our work. A pickup truck came slowly in the
distance, with a big welded cage in the trunk. I was so happy that I arrived! As the pickup truck entered the zoo, Wang Fu and I walked ahead and led the pickup truck to the black bear area.
Because it was dark, we didn’t see what the black bear in the cage looked like. When we got to the black bear area, the three of us worked together to lift the cage down.
Then I opened a single room in the inner house and put the black bear in it. I threw a few biscuits into the inner house and went home with Wang Fu to sleep.
The next morning, Wang Fu and I got up early to see the new black bear. As soon as we opened the iron gate of the inner house, Wang Fu gave a loud cry.
I hastened to ask him what was wrong. He pointed to the inside of the iron gate. I leaned over to have a look and was shocked. The animal in the
iron gate was covered with black and yellow scabs, and its hair was almost gone.
The most terrible thing was that the animal was so thin that it was out of shape, and the bones on its back were deeply protruding, which made it look very sharp.
Some of the dark red wounds that had not yet healed shone eerily with the sun.
This animal looks more like a dog with long legs, but the thick skeleton is not what a dog can grow.
I was a little confused at that time, and Wang Fu stood beside me and watched.
Wang Fu, what is this?
Wang Fu glanced at me. “This should be a bear..” How can there be such a thin bear?
I pointed to the animal.
How is it not a bear?
Look at those paws. Do dogs have such long paws? Said
Wang Fu, pointing to the animal’s long, sharp claws.
I locked my eyes on the animal’s claws. Indeed, only bears have such claws. Dogs don’t have such long claws.
Cats have claws that are retracted, and only bears have these large claws that are exposed.
Wang Fu suddenly said, “By the way, do you know how this black bear got here?”?
I also heard from the head of the kindergarten.
This is a black bear. It was originally a black bear in a circus. It stepped on a ball, drilled a ring of fire, rode a bicycle, and was very proficient in all kinds of acrobatics. The income of the
circus is also very high, and the black bear’s life is also very good, eating whatever he wants.
It is a pity that the head of the former circus owes a lot of money for gambling and can no longer run the circus. Circus animals
can only be transferred to other circuses. The trainer of the
new circus had no tacit understanding with the black bear and was unwilling to cooperate in training the black bear.
So the new circus put the black bear in a small cage and gave him a little food every day. The black bear in the cage had a hard time turning around. Although the
black bear is a very solid animal, it is kept in a cage that is hard to turn around all the year round. It is not enough to eat, nor can it go out to move. Naturally, it is so thin that it has moss all over its body. The wounds are scratched by the black bear itself.
Looking at this out-of-phase black bear, I suddenly felt a little sad. At that moment, I secretly swore that I would treat it well in the future.
Make sure it gets better soon.
In the afternoon, I took advantage of my free time to go to our local dog market, where there was a very cheap bone-scraping beef, 3 yuan a kilo. There are many beef bones in
this kind of bone scraping meat. It tastes a little prickly, but it’s very nutritious. I’m going to buy it back to make steamed bread for black bears.
And a roast chicken.
Bought two frozen meat chicken, this kind of meat chicken is also very cheap, a full 5, 6 catties, the price is very cheap, less than 30 yuan, the money is my money ah! But I can’t help it. The black bear has to eat something good.
I’m going to buy it back, mix chicken with beef, add a lot of vegetables, a little white flour and corn flour, and steam some meat bread for the black bear. When
he went back to the zoo, he passed by a cake shop and bought two huge coconut toasts.
Prepare to feed the black bear and make him happy. After
returning to the zoo, I couldn’t wait to get into the bungalow on the back hill. There were pots and stoves in the bungalow, and the Kang could be burned in winter.
I sometimes cook for some weak animals in this bungalow.
Soon, I chopped up the chicken and beef and mixed the white flour and corn flour.
Kneaded into a round, steamed on the pot, the fragrance permeated the whole bungalow.
I ran excitedly to the black bear area with the meat bread, the two toast bread and the roast chicken, thinking that these foods would make him happy. When I got to
the black bear area, I walked to its cage, through the iron gate.
It lay quietly on the ground, two paws on the ground, dark yellow eyes without a trace of life, eyes can not see a little pain.
There is only nothingness, like a dying old man, who has lost hope in everything. The two biscuits thrown in
last night were still on the ground, and he didn’t eat a bite.
I suddenly felt a deep sense of uneasiness. It was the first time I had seen such a look in an animal. What is the instinct of
animals?
It is alive, a beast, even if its legs are cut off, it will crawl forward with its forelimbs. It is the instinct of every wild animal
to go to life, but why is this black bear like this, and can’t see any animal instinct?
I took the bread in my hand and made a sound to the black bear, trying to arouse its attention, but it remained motionless and did not respond at all. The
dark yellow eyes were still looking straight at the ground. I looked at it and knocked on the iron door with my hand. It was still motionless.
It seemed that everything in the world had nothing to do with it. Suddenly, I suddenly remembered that I had a roast chicken.
I threw the roast chicken through the crack of the iron gate and landed right next to the black bear’s mouth. I looked at the black bear.
Suddenly, his eyes moved, staring at the roast chicken, his nose began to twitch, and he stood up suddenly.
His eyes were fixed on the roast chicken, his mouth was breathing heavily, and there was a confused look in his eyes.
It seemed to be looking at a strange shining gem, and it looked at the roast chicken like a child. I took a bite
carefully and found that it was edible. It tore off half of the roast chicken in one bite and swallowed it in a few mouthfuls. The speed made me feel frightened.
Then he took a bite of the remaining half of the roast chicken, connected to the bone, and swallowed it all into his stomach several times, the whole process lasted no more than 15 seconds.
Looking at the speed of its eating, I can not help but feel a little sad, how hungry it must be to eat so fast.
I threw in two more loaves of bread, and this time the black bear was not so anxious to eat.
With the rhythm of its eating, some yellow and red liquid can even be seen slowly flowing out of the scab on its body.
The black bear panted heavily as he ate. The wounds on his body must be very painful.
I decided to wait until the wound on his body was completely scabbed before giving the black bear further treatment. In the
following days, I made nutritious food for the bear every day, and in just one week, the bear became fat at a rate visible to the naked eye. The spine on
my back didn’t bulge so much. I thought everything would get better gradually, but something unexpected happened.
A week later, the head of the kindergarten suddenly informed me that I should go to other places to study. At that time, the number of places for study was very tight. There were only two people. The leader trusted me and gave me the place for study. I wanted to tell the leader to let Wang Fu raise
the black bear, but Wang Fu himself had a lot of work.
Finally, the leader gave the black bear to a relative of the unit, and the people in the unit called him bald.
This relative usually has a bad reputation in our unit. He raises peacocks, and the peacocks are bald. He raises monkeys, and the monkeys are hungry one by one.
But after all, it was arranged by the leader, and I couldn’t refute it. Before I left, I bought 80 catties of chicken and 20 catties of beef, and put them in the pickled cabbage jar at the back door of the bear house. It was winter at that time, and the meat would not go bad, so I wanted to take the meat directly from the jar. He
told the bald man to steam the meat once a day and take good care of the black bear. The bald man promised very happily.
yuan, said to him, brother, must take good care of it, the money to buy food for the black bear! Baldy said, brother, you can rest assured that this is not public money, I must be a matter to do! So I went to the training. The training process was very boring. After three weeks, I returned to the zoo and ran to the black bear area expectantly.
Thinking that the black bear ate so many good things every day, it must be very strong now. When I got to the inner house, I went to the iron gate where the black bear was closed. The black bear was lying feebly inside. The cage was full of excrement and urine. There were all kinds of dropping hanging on the black bear’s body. The trough was empty.
Not only did he not get fat at all, but he was thinner than when he first came. When the black bear saw me, he howled.
Seeing this scene, I quickly drove the black bear to the outfield, and then went to look for the bald man, but I couldn’t find him for a long time. I happened
to meet a colleague. I asked him how the bald man made the bear like that. He told me that as soon as I left, the bald man bagged the meat and sold it to the restaurant. He had been giving the black bear sweet potatoes for three weeks, and they were raw.
Hearing this, my head buzzed for a moment, and an evil fire went up from my heart, but the bald man was not in the zoo.
In the evening, the bald man returned to the zoo. I looked at his indifferent face, lost my mind for a moment, and grabbed his neck collar.
Roared and asked him, “Where is the meat I bought for the black bear?”? The
bald man looked at me in horror. Feed the bear, of course.
Then why don’t you clean up the house?
It’s full of shit and urine.
I asked him again.
The bald man rolled his eyes. The black bear you raised can eat too much. It’s like that for a day. I clean it up every day.
Listening to the way he lied, I punched him in his disgusting face. He sat on the ground, and I grabbed him again.
Roared and asked him, “Do you know if he is sick? Why do you do this to him?”. The
bald man suddenly asked me, “Are you crazy for beating me for a beast?”?
When I heard his words, I kicked him on the shoulder and turned to leave. As I left, the bald man’s fierce voice came to my ears.
“You wait, this is not over.” I turned to look at the bald man. He was startled and stopped talking. After a fight
with the bald man, I went back to the black bear area and began to clean cage. In the cage full of excrement and urine, the trough had been turned over by the black bear. The trough was covered with teeth marks. I thought the black bear was so hungry that he bit the trough.
I suddenly felt a little guilty. If I hadn’t gone out to study, these things wouldn’t have happened.
The next day, I went to the local farmer’s market and bought two forage bags. These forage bags are usually used to feed rabbits, but they do work wonders for black bears.
At this time, the black bear has suffered from a very serious foot inflammation, for the black bear, the biggest cause is that the sole of the foot is in the cage for a long time, or on the cement floor all the year round, lacking the friction of the land. Black bears in the
wild have a very low chance of developing poditis when they step on soft ground every day.
I carried two big straw bags to the bear house, pushed four or five carts of soft black soil with a small cart, and spread the soil evenly in the bear house.
So that the sole of the bear’s foot would not touch the cement floor, the grass in the forage bag was spread evenly on the soil surface, and the remaining part of the hay was placed in the corner of the bear house.
In the evening, I drove the black bear back to the inner house. I saw that the black bear was very excited and kept arching at the hay. After a while, the black bear saw the haystack in the corner and got into it. After that, he pulled the hay with his paw. He covered his position which was
not completely covered, but a bear’s paw was exposed. I was very happy to
see the black bear get into the hay, and when the wound on his body was completely scabbed, he could be cured by debridement with medicine every day.
During that time, I got to know a fox farmer. His family produced countless fox skins every year. Those foxes (skinned foxes) were put in the cold storage and could not be sold. They were thrown in the cold storage for one or two years.
Fox meat is not delicious, it is difficult to find buyers, I saw that those foxes have a lot of meat, so I bought 50, not only for the injured black bears, but also for other weak animals. When I got the fox
, I looked at the fox meat and was suddenly curious about the smell of the fox, so I thawed the fox, cut half of it, pickled it and fried a plate of fox meat. It smelled nothing special.
I picked up a piece and tasted it. The taste was really a long story. I couldn’t tell the strange taste. The meat was very stiff and loose?
All in all, it tastes terrible. I suddenly regret it. I don’t know if animals will like it.
As it turned out, I worried too much. When I defrosted the fox and threw it to the black bear, he grabbed the fox and ate it happily.
It seems that the taste of animals is really different from that of people. By the way, I gave it a name, Black Bear! During that time, I got up at 4 o’clock every morning. First, I shoveled excrement for the animals and cleaned the cages. After that, I went to cook for the black bears at the first time. There were two kinds of meals.
One is the ordinary steamed bread, which has less meat. These ordinary steamed bread are for those strong and healthy black bears.
The other is meat bread, which is only for one black bear to eat.
Watching the black bear getting fat day by day, the wounds on his body are gradually healing, everything is developing in a good direction, after a long period of observation, I found that the black bear does not seem to be afraid of people, after all, there was a circus experience before.
I began to dare to tease it with food through the cage. At first, I was afraid that it would bite me, so I used the cardboard shell to pull it. I found that it did not respond, so I filled my gloves with toilet paper and pretended to be a hand to touch it.
Unexpectedly, the black bear did not resist gloves at all! Even a little feeling of enjoyment, every time I touch it, it is comfortable to hum! He pushed his big head against my glove, and when I saw the bear’s reaction, I suddenly wanted to try to touch it.
I lured the black bear to the cage with a piece of bread. With courage, I reached out my hand through the iron gate and gently touched the unscabbed part of its body. The black fur was surprisingly rough. I touched it and quickly put my hand back for fear that it would bite me.
But the black bear did not react and did not resist, and I reached out and touched it gently.
The moment my hand rested on its fur, it turned its head and stared at my hand.
I was so frightened that I quickly drew back my hand. After all, it was a bear. If it bit me, it would break my hand in a few bites.
But the black bear stared at me softly, without a trace of ferocity. I looked at its black and yellow nose and dared to reach out and touch it, as if enjoying the feeling of being touched.
I became bold and began to touch its mouth with my hand. After touching it a few times, it had no intention of biting.
Instead, like a rhinoceros, he kept humping my hand with his mouth. As soon as I saw that the black bear did not reject me touching it, he rubbed its nose harder. I rubbed it very hard, and its feedback was very intense. He humped my hand with his nose crazily.
Finally, when I was tired of touching it, it kept using its nose to arch the iron door, which made me want to laugh. This is not a bear, but a pig with truffles.
(The above behavior is very dangerous. Please do not imitate it. It only takes a few bites for a bear to bite off a person’s hand, and it is not difficult to tear off a person’s arm.) After a long time of food recuperation, the wounds on the black bear’s body are basically all healed, and some of the blood scabs show new gray-red flesh when they just fall off. Wang Fu and
I were ready to give medicine to the black bear. At first, we thought about giving medicine to the black bear directly, considering that it might hurt. Instead of using it directly,
we prepared a long stick with a piece of leather tied to it that could absorb the ointment. Smear ointment all over the
skin and apply it to the black bear through the cage, which is safe, but very expensive! At that time, the ointment used was 50 cents a tube of erythromycin ointment, which was applied twice a day, but because the amount of ointment applied to the black bear was very small, about 10 tubes of erythromycin ointment were used a day.
Black bears should not only use erythromycin ointment, but also use a kind of povidone iodine to wipe their bodies, so as to achieve the best bactericidal effect. At this time
, I estimate that the black bear should be about 150 kg, but the cross section of the animal body is very large, every day I have to use a bottle of povidone iodine to smear the body (I am also clumsy, wasting a lot).
At the beginning, I paid for the medicine for the treatment of the black bear by myself, and the subsequent public accounts were about 20 yuan a day.
Suddenly one day, Wang Fu came to call me, and the deputy head of the kindergarten asked me to go there because I had something to do. At that time,
I was working normally, and when I heard Wang Fu’s words, I rushed to the office of the deputy principal.
As soon as I went in, the deputy head of the zoo looked at me sullenly. “Chen, what happened to the black bear we recently received?”?
Pretty good, principal, what’s wrong? As soon as the
deputy director pounded the table, he shouted at me, Recently, I heard from someone in the unit that you need 20 yuan a day to buy medicine for that black bear.
Every time you don’t buy medicine, 20 yuan goes into your pocket?
As soon as I heard this, I hastened to say, “Principal, where didn’t I buy the medicine?”? I use
those medicines every day. Ask Wang Fu, he knows.
“The deputy director looked at me.” Wang Fu? Aren’t
you two working together?
You said you bought the medicine. Where is the medicine bottle?
I was just about to explain, but after thinking about it, who would keep the medicine bottle when it was used up?
The deputy dean saw that I did not speak and looked at me viciously.
You recently beat up a colleague in your own unit. Are you crazy? If you dare to fight
again, I’ll see what I can do with you! Tomorrow I will return all the money I have recently withdrawn from the company, and this time I will not pursue you. “Then I waved my hand and motioned me to leave.”.
I walked out of the office lonely. Who filed the complaint?
When I went downstairs, I suddenly saw the bald man. The bald man looked at me and asked me with a bad smile on his face, “Chen, will the head of the kindergarten invite you to dinner?”?
I suddenly realized that it was the bald man who had accused me of blackness.
Baldy, what’s the point of playing like this? The medicine
I gave to the black bear was not greedy at all. I had to pay for it myself. When it came to your mouth, it became the money I embezzled from the unit?
“The bald man looked proud.” You can treat that dead thing in the future. The money of the unit can’t let you do this.
I looked at the bald man, and I was upset by a nameless fire. I grabbed him and just wanted to hit him.
The bald man looked at me, “You hit me?”? Try to
hit me. If you dare to hit me this time, it will be over if you are punished by the head of the kindergarten.
Hearing this, I let go of my hand, and the bald man cursed a few dirty words and left.
I looked at the back of the bald man, carrying two large lamb chops in my hand, which were for the tiger to eat, and let him steal them and sell them for money.
I picked up my cell phone and secretly recorded the bald man’s back and the bag in his hand.
yuan, handed over to the unit’s finance department, the finance elder sister asked me, “What’s the matter, Chen? What kind of money is this?”?
I said it was the money for the treatment of the black bear. The elder sister asked me, “Then what are you going to do with the money?”? I
didn’t say anything. I told her, “Sister, pay the bill. The leader asked me to pay it, so I left.”.
From then on, I had to spend my own money to treat the black bear, and the cost of 20 yuan a day was very high that year.
My monthly income is less than 1000 yuan, and I have to spend 600 yuan a month on medical treatment.
I thought I could cure the black bear soon, but one morning, when I arrived at the inner house of the black bear, I suddenly found that the black bear was very weak. I looked into the iron gate. I have
diarrhea, but it’s not right. I feed the black bear the same food every day. How can I have diarrhea?
The ingredients are also very fresh.
I hurried in to clean up, threw some sweets into the food bowl, stirred some antidiarrheal medicine, and the black bear swallowed the food in a few mouthfuls.
Seeing the water gun next to me, I washed the black bear a few times with the water gun and put the black bear in the outfield.
Thinking of this, I went to the security room to check the surveillance. I suspected that someone had come in to poison, but it was strange that none of the other bears had diarrhea. When I got to
the security room, I checked the surveillance and watched it bit by bit in fast-forward mode. No one entered the bear house until 1 am.
But at 2 o’clock, a familiar figure appeared in the surveillance. The man took out a bag of medicine from his pocket, stuffed it into a piece of bread, and threw it into the cage of the black bear.
This familiar figure, it is bald, see this I can not help but shout abuse, CTM, this dog thing, falsely accused me, but also poisoned the bear, because I beat him, that is not because he embezzled the food of the black bear?
Thinking of this, I took out my cell phone and filmed the whole process of Baldy’s poisoning, but I didn’t confront him. In the days that
followed, Wang Fu and I continued to medicate and disinfect the black bear every day. About a month later, the wound of the black bear was almost healed.
But there is also a huge hidden danger, that is, the foot inflammation on the left palm of the black bear, the thick scab looks like a volcanic stone. The remedial method of
this kind of sufficient phlogistic, say very simple, it is debridement! Completely remove the infected scabs and rotting flesh.
After that, the medicine is applied and the condition is good for injection, so that the patient can recover. Although
the black bear does not bite, but somehow it is a wild animal, not a dog, how can it be a good injection, can only be anesthetized after the drug. After the
decision was made, I contacted the veterinarian of the unit and came to the cage early. Wang Fu also arrived, and the veterinarian took the blowing needle. With
a whoosh, a needle stuck in the buttocks of the black bear.
Anesthesia is really a technical work. If you use less medicine, the animal will wake up halfway. If you use more medicine, the animal will be in danger. The moment the
black bear was shot by the needle, there was no reaction, and it was still pushing the grass.
After a while, the black bear slowly fell to the ground. We quickly carried the black bear out and into the corridor.
Veterinarians began to debride the bear, and the other three paws of the bear were fine, mainly because the scab on the left forepaw was too thick.
The veterinarian buckled it for a long time, but fortunately the bleeding was not too much. He dug it for a long time, put on the medicine, and wrapped it in gauze.
We carried the black bear back.
As it turned out, there was no point in bandaging a large beast. Within 30 seconds of waking up, the black bear pulled the bandage down.
After that, I still did the same work in the zoo every day. Every time I saw the bald man, we never spoke.
One day at noon, just after lunch, Wang Fu came to tell me that Baldy had killed a sika deer and secretly sawed off the antler.
The deer’s antler didn’t grow much at all, and the incision was artificial. Hearing this, I ran to the office of the head of the zoo.
The video of the bald man poisoning the black bear and stealing the meat from the zoo to sell for money was shown to the head of the zoo. The head of the
kindergarten saw these videos and sat on the stool angrily. How did he let such a black sheep come in to work?
I didn’t say anything, so I turned and left.
The next day, the bald man began to pack up his things with a gloomy face. I saw that he was unhappy and began to tease him.
What’s the matter, Baldy, if you want to be tall? Where
to make a fortune?
The bald man said nothing. Don’t give the bear laxatives
when you go to the new unit.
The bald man said nothing and walked away with a sullen face and a bag. It’s sad to
say that Baldy has worked in this unit for nearly a year. Before he left, none of his colleagues went to see him off.
Half a year later, the wound of the black bear had already healed. At this time, the black bear looked like 300 pounds and was shiny all over. Sitting
on the ground was like a mountain of black flesh, and the hair on his body grew out, but a few hair follicles on his back suffered permanent damage and could no longer grow hair.
The black bear is very happy every day, with other bears are also very good, every day to eat full, once the pain has long left it.
Sometimes I would go into the cage and gently stroke its rough fur, and we became more and more familiar with each other.
Later, I could even lean on the sleeping black bear and read quietly in the cage.
After thinking about it, it was really like a dream.
Later, Wang Fu told me that the bald man went to prison because of gambling.
One autumn afternoon, in the quiet zoo, a child pointed to the black bear in the cage and asked me.
“Uncle, why is that bear so bald?” “Son, he’s been hurt before.” I looked at the back of the black bear and saw that some of the wounds had been healed.
Uncle, can this black bear ride a car and step on a ball?
It can’t. The black bear is eating the biscuit on the ground. Can
you whip a bear, uncle?
“Kids, we don’t whip black bears. This isn’t a circus, it’s a zoo!” . Focus on not getting lost ~
