Chapter 117 The cub of a mountain dog and a wild wolf
"Is your dad okay?" Uncle Chen led Yue Feng to the kang in the east room and asked while making tea.
“Well, it’s pretty good. Since I started taking people to fly eagles, life at home has gradually gotten better. My dad suffered a fracture and he recovered quickly if he kept up with his nutrition! The injury on your shoulder How's it going?"
"Hey, the scab has already healed without even stitches! I'm telling you, my heart is a bit broken, otherwise, that day I can easily cook the bears by myself.”
The old man has been doing well at home recently, his face is glowing, and he speaks so energetically that it doesn’t seem like there is anything wrong with him.
"That's a good relationship! Your body and bones must be fine!" Yue Feng responded with a smile.
"Knowing that you were coming, I made a roe deer. Let's eat roe deer meat at noon today!!" Uncle Chen continued.
“Did you go up the mountain to catch it yourself?” Yue Feng was stunned and asked with mixed emotions when he heard the roe deer.
“I would like to go, but your brother won’t let me go into the mountains! I would have saved my life if I went into the mountains last time, but if I go again, my family will be worried! This roe deer is the one I came to find from our village. Old Li Tou helped me fix it!" Old Uncle Chen curled his lips and said.
"If you say so, I have the shame to tell you something!"
After Yue Feng heard that the old man accepted that he could not go up the mountain, he decisively turned to the topic.
“If you have anything to do, just say, I can help you, the old man will definitely not stumble!”
“I just adjusted my gun and went up the mountain, and now I still need a few good dogs. "If you don't want to go up the mountain, can you give me the dogs at home?" The little yellow dog is the famous alpha dog in several villages around us. He will definitely not be able to yield in your hands!
I saw it when I saw you bandaging the dog that day. You are a careful and steady kid! ”
Yue Feng expected that the old man would relent, but he didn't expect it to go so smoothly. He just mentioned it and he simply agreed.
"Okay, I don't want this dog from you for nothing. If I mention the money to you, you will definitely be angry, so I won't give you the money. But I see that you like Daying very much. I How about I help you train a big eagle?”
“How about that? All your eagles have to work in the mountains! If you trade a dog for an eagle, it’s not like taking away your job! You take the dog away, that’s it!” Uncle Chen shook his head after hearing this.
Yue Feng smiled and explained: "I didn't say I put the eagle for you! In autumn, I went up the mountain to catch eagles, and I didn't just catch these few. There were two more eagles in the warehouse. I'm not messing around!
Forget it, let me tell you the truth!
Last time we were at my house, I saw that you liked this thing very much. I also discussed it with my brother Jun. Your body is gradually getting older. It is definitely not safe for you to go into the mountains alone, but I want you to be free like this. , I definitely feel uncomfortable!
I will train you a big eagle, and then teach you how to fly the eagle. When the eagle is ready, you can fly the eagle for fun around the village, in front of your house, or at the foot of the mountain. Rabbits and pheasants can still move around, so there is no major risk! ”
After hearing what Yue Feng said, Lao Chen no longer refused.
As a hunter, who doesn’t like eagles? It’s just that there is no inheritance and no way to learn. No, that's all.
Now that Yue Feng has said all this in person, and refuses again, he is no longer the quick-talking Chen Pao.
"Okay, then I'll do as you say!
Actually, I have liked this thing since I was a child. I also picked up an eagle chick on the mountain more than ten years ago, but I don't know how to raise it. It's a good day. Eat well and serve well, but when the eagle grows up, it can't tell the difference between the big one and the big one. Not only does it not listen to the rules, it also scratches your aunt's hand!
Howling all day long makes the neighbors uneasy. Later, I took it to the mountain and released it!"
"Haha, you have had problems with feeding the eagle since you were a child. This eagle has gone astray and treated you like a human being!"
"What? Why do you think you are a human being?" When he reached his knowledge blind spot, the old man suddenly became interested.
Yue Feng explained with a smile: "For example, have you ever seen a newly hatched duckling? If the duckling has just hatched out of its shell, if the first thing it sees is a mother duck, it will follow the mother duck.
< br>If what you see when you are newly hatched is a human, or a kitten or puppy, you will recognize the kitten, puppy or human as your mother!
This is a similar situation. It was in the hands of a human since it was a child! When I grow up, I don’t know that I am an eagle, but I think I am the same species as humans, so I think of myself as a human being.
In the eagle’s understanding, it needs to compete with its own kind for food. It feels that it is also a human being, so it is not afraid of humans.
As it grows bigger and eats more, it needs to compete with its owner for food. In the process, it will take the initiative to attack to determine its current status!
Just like the puppies at home, if the owner does not intervene, the alpha dog will be beaten out. He will start grabbing the bitch's milk from the moment he opens his eyes. When the dog grows up, there will be an alpha dog in the group of dogs, and other dogs will not dare to The somersaulting dog squeaks! ”
Yue Feng also specifically checked the information on the Internet for the knowledge on the raptor imprint, so he knew it in more detail. For this era at that time, this kind of thinking was very avant-garde.
< br>Chen Pao has raised dogs all his life. Yue Feng understood immediately after giving this example.
"So, how to solve this problem? I know where there is a nest of eagles, and they breed there every year. If not, next spring, I will take you there, and we will take two chicks home and give them to you to raise! "
After hearing this, Yue Feng shook his head: "Why do we have to start raising them from chicks? It's not necessary! ”
"Aren't eagles raised since childhood as obedient relatives?"
Yue Feng shook his head again: "In fact, most of the eagles used for hunting have very low IQs. Even if they are raised from young, they will not be much better. !
If you don’t believe me, go and observe when the eagle is about to leave its nest next year!
When this thing is about to fly, even its own parents will snatch the food they bring back! Attack! If the eagle doesn’t kiss its parents, how can it possibly kiss someone?”
Uncle Chen was completely offended by these remarks.
"This eagle is born to be a rebellious creature. If the times are bad and the parents cannot catch enough food, the older eagles in the same nest will even eat the younger ones without hesitation!
Human Training Dogs Raising a dog can be about emotions. A smart dog can understand the owner's thoughts. When the time comes, the dog can even sacrifice his life for the owner.
But training an eagle is not possible, just like the big iron-backed red eagle in my home. Do you seem to be quite honest? You don’t hide when someone touches you, and it’s quite comfortable to close your eyes.
This can only be achieved by getting used to it a little bit in the process of being an eagle. For good eagle training, raising the eagle every morning and evening is essential.
I remember my grandfather once told me when I was a child, eagle flying is a job that cannot be done without slacking off. If there is no fight in the sky, people will know it; if there is no fight in three days, the whole village will know it!”
"How do you say this? How come the whole village knows about it after not fighting for three days?" After hearing these fresh remarks, Chen Pao became a primary school student who humbly asked for advice. Yue Feng explained: "Without fighting for one day, there is basically no obvious change in Ying's external performance. Apart from the fact that he is lazy, only Ying himself knows.
Two days If there is no resistance, the eagle will begin to show rebellious symptoms, squinting its pupils, becoming defensive when people approach, and even resumes rebellious reactions such as talon attacks and beak pecking. This is when you know how to train an eagle. You will know from the posture that the eagle has become rebellious.
If you don't use the eagle for three days, it will basically be unable to work. If you let go, the eagle will definitely fly away. >
I lost my eagle and looked for it everywhere, but everyone in the village knew about it!”
"This is just training an eagle, and there are so many explanations in it. I thought that once this thing is trained, it will be like a dog, and it can be trained once and for all!"
"Dogs are not trained once and for all. , if you don’t go up the mountain for a long time, such as half a year or a year, the dog’s hunting ability will also decrease significantly!
Of course, if you like to go up the mountain all year round, your dog will definitely not have this problem! ! "
"You are right! A few years ago, Lao Li Tou bought a white dog from Hua'an. The owner said that he had been carrying the dog with him for two or three years. You can use it when you take it back. We have seen this dog with our own eyes before when we were hunting in the mountains. It does a good job.
But Lao Litou bought it for 50 yuan and kept it at home for half a month. , recognized the group, and took him up the mountain, but he ended up looking like a fool, worse than a half-year-old dog who followed him up the mountain!
Lao Li thought he had been cheated and went to find the buyer. After asking, he found out that the dog had not gone up the mountain for a year and that he had forgotten most of the work he had learned by dragging the dog! I followed him up the mountain and dragged him a few more times before he was slowly adjusted! "
"When it comes to training dogs, you must be this one... With these three dogs, it will be much easier for me to go up the mountain to fight in the future! "
"If the green wolf hadn't been bitten to death by the blind bear, my four dogs would have been able to hunt pigs with ease on the mountains within a hundred miles!
Now we are missing a helper dog. When encountering a big pig, three dogs will have a hard time!
I do know someone who has a good litter of dogs, but ordinary hunters like us simply can’t afford it. ”
"Huh? What kind of dog? Why can't you afford it?" Yue Feng was slightly startled when he heard this.
Ordinary people really can't afford to raise hunting dogs. After all, dogs with strong bodies eat a lot. Farmers these days have little food and no big rewards.
But for experienced hunters, this cost is not as high as imagined. A dog eats a pound of cornmeal a day, which is only a little over three hundred pounds of coarse grains a year.
The actual situation is that cornmeal cannot be fed to dogs every day. Most of the dogs’ staple food is Japanese melons, potatoes, etc. cooked for the dogs, and the cost will be even lower.
A hunter can earn at least dozens of dollars by going up to the mountains and hunting a 200-pound wild boar, which is more than enough to raise a dog.
A good hunter can hunt more than a few pigs in a winter. In good years, an experienced hunter can hunt dozens of pigs in a winter with ease.
“I know a hunter named Zou Laoqi. His family is in Diaolong Village, Hexi Province. This guy has a pack of wolves and mountain dogs!
Previous episode I also saw him selling dogs at a big market, but everyone knew they were good dogs, but no one dared to buy them, and even if they bought them back, they couldn't afford to raise them!
This wolf-blooded bastard can't stand rough feeding! , who has to eat meat every day! Who can afford to eat meat every day!”
“A wolf and a mountain dog?” Yue Feng immediately became energetic when he heard this.
Some people may not know what a mountain dog is.
Some hunters live far away from the mountains, so during the hunting season, they will live in the mountains. At this time, the dogs they raise will also be taken to the mountains to be raised.
Most hounds do not dare to roam around all day long, because there are various dangers in the forest. Without hunters as the core, hounds with a more reckless personality will easily be killed when they encounter wild boars or other large mountain animals. You will get hurt, or even lose your life.
But there are also some dogs that are smarter and have excellent physical fitness in all aspects, which can be roamed in the mountains. These dogs can avoid risks in the mountains, catch wild animals such as rabbits, pheasants, mice, etc. to fill their stomachs. Occasionally, they have enough to bring prey back to temporary camps to honor the hunters.
These dogs that roam freely in the mountains and can survive safely for a long time are called mountain dogs locally.
Under very special circumstances, a mountain dog may encounter a lone male wolf that has strayed from the pack. If it is in estrus, the dog and the wolf will see each other, and there is a small chance that they can breed and conceive.
At this time, the pup obtained has half of the wolf blood gene.
The Mountain Dog itself is the elite that remains after natural elimination from living close to the original mountain forest. Coupled with the blood of wild wolves, the probability of producing good dogs in future generations is extremely high.
"Yes! Wolf blood string!"
"I wonder if the dog is for sale? I want it!" After hearing this, Yue Feng immediately became interested.
Others are short of meat to raise dogs, but Yue Feng is not short of it! With 56 and a half in hand and rich hunting experience, if you want to go into the mountains to collect some mountain animals and come back, the difficulty is definitely several levels lower than that of ordinary hunters. As long as he has accurate intelligence sources, Yue Feng rarely goes into the mountains empty-handed.
"Can you afford to raise them? Those half-year-old puppies are more than three months old. They have to eat one or two kilograms of raw meat a day!" Hearing that Yue Feng was a little jealous, Chen Pao reminded.
"Yes! Even if five dogs only eat ten kilograms of meat a day, if you shoot a three hundred kilograms of cannon eggs, they can eat them for a month! I have been dragging them home since it started snowing. Eight pigs!" Yue Feng said with confidence.
Hearing this achievement, Chen Pao was stunned and soon felt relieved.
For regular hunters, the guns in their hands are all old foreign guns, and the better ones are 16-gauge guns. There are not many in the township who can mix 56-gauge and semi-new guns.
From this perspective, Yue Feng really has this confidence.
"Since you said so, let me help you get this litter of bastards! Have you brought any money? Zou Laoqi is selling bastards. Even if I come forward, the asking price is not low!"
< br>"I brought some, is two hundred enough?" Yue Feng patted his pocket, which contained the money he had earned from delivering goods in recent days.
"That should be enough. Let's go to Jishang to find Zou Laoqi!"
"Okay, let's go then!" Yue Feng stood up immediately.
Thinking about being a good dog, what hunting dog can compare to a mountain dog cub that is half wolf blood! For Yue Feng, this was a piece of cake.
(End of this chapter)