Animals all over the world love me

Brian led the members of the Wildlife Protection Organization to send Zhuang Mu a whole truckload of animal carcasses.

In front of the hospital building, Zhuang Mu looked at the big truck in front of him and suddenly felt a little confused.

Brian got off the Bugatti supercar, trotted two steps to Zhuang Mu: "Doctor Zhuang, I brought you the animal carcass."

"This truck is all?" Zhuang Mu blinked.

"Actually, there are only a dozen of them in total. Don't you want to dissect and study, Dr. Zhuang? So I thought that all the corpses should be sealed separately, otherwise they might be damaged if they dangle on the road." Bryan Said.

"A dozen or so is not a lot!" Zhuang Mu clicked his tongue slightly.

These are wild animals, and according to what Brian said before, they are all large wild animals. It must have taken Brian a lot of work to find a dozen of them at once.

An American man in his early forties with short black hair got out of the passenger seat of the truck.

The man walked up to Zhuang Mu and said hello: "Hello, Dr. Zhuang, I am a member of the Mississippi River Wildlife Conservation Organization, and my name is Newt Brown."

"Hello." Zhuang Mu replied.

"Doctor Zhuang, this is a list of all animal carcasses, please have a look." Newt Brown handed the form to Zhuang Mu.

Before coming here, he had some doubts about whether Brian really wanted to use these animal carcasses for medical research.It wasn't until he entered the gate of Douglas Animal Hospital that he breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, it is not against the law to sell animal carcasses to animal hospitals for research, but as members of animal protection organizations, it is still difficult for them to accept this kind of thing.

However, the U.S. government's support for wildlife protection organizations is not enough. They basically rely on charitable donations to maintain their daily operations.

However, donations are very unstable, and they are often stretched when there are more and less funds.

The protection of animals is not as simple as it sounds. In addition to preventing poachers from hunting and killing wild animals, injured wild animals have to be treated frequently.

Of course, if it's the normal law of the jungle among animals, they won't intervene.After all, natural selection is a law of nature.

However, if poachers set traps and injured animals, they would have to save them.

Treating wild animals is no small matter. Animal protection organizations are charities, but animal hospitals are commercial organizations.

It costs money to send animals to the hospital for medical treatment, and in many cases it can't be done for a small amount of money.

Although animal protection organizations also have volunteer doctors, medical equipment and medicines still have to be purchased from pharmaceutical companies.

Pharmaceutical companies don't care whether you are doing good deeds or not, if you don't have money, then nothing will happen!

Recently, poachers near the Mississippi have gone wild again.They have taken in a lot of wild animals, and the funds are really tight.

Therefore, under Brian's repeated pleas, they had to use the animal carcasses they had collected recently in exchange for funds so that the organization could continue to operate normally.

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Zhuang Mu took the form from Newt, glanced at it, and saw that there were three North American bison, two red deer, and a total of ten large mammals of other species.

In addition, there is actually an American alligator with a body length of 4.6 meters.

The American alligator is also called the Mi river crocodile. It usually has a body length of 1.8 meters to 2.7 meters, and a few individuals can grow to 4 or 5 meters.

The largest recorded river crocodile has a body length of 5.8 meters and a weight of more than one ton. It can be called a super heavyweight amphibious killer.

Although the river crocodile is only an ordinary protected animal in the United States, the population is very large, and the protection level is only non-threatening, and it is also expelled by many places as a dangerous animal.

However, there are 23 species of crocodiles, some of which are critically endangered species due to overhunting by humans, so anatomical research on crocodiles is still of great value.

After confirming that the animal carcasses were indeed transported to the hospital, Newt went back with confidence.

Brian also greeted Zhuang Mu and went back.

He wants to go back to horse racing.

In the past two days, Duke Dark Horse has been able to trot, and his recovery speed is faster than Zhuang Mu originally expected, but he is very happy.

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Ten days later, Brian suddenly called Zhuang Mu, saying that he wanted to invite Zhuang Mu to a charity dinner.

Because the theme is the protection of wild animals, I thought that if Zhuang Mu could be invited to participate, the fundraising effect would be much better.

For such a thing, Zhuang Mu naturally readily agreed.

So, on the day of the charity dinner, Brian sent someone to pick Zhuang Mu up to Brian's mansion in San Marino, Los Angeles.

Naturally, Xia Jingshen also went together.

San Marino is an affluent area of ​​Los Angeles, not far from Douglas Animal Hospital.

Compared with the tens of millions of dollars in house prices in Foley Hills and Malibu Beach, the house prices in San Marino are a little more down-to-earth.

However, for Brian, housing prices are not the first thing he considers, because he actually has a house in Beverly Hills, but he can't live there for two days a year.

He likes San Marino, but the key is that it doesn't have the luxury of Beverly Hills, and it doesn't feel cramped like the beach houses in Malibu.

Of course, the so-called cramped is relative. After all, no matter how small a seaside independent villa is, it is countless times larger than ordinary people's houses.

Brian's mansion on the San Marino side covers an area of ​​15 square acres, about 60000 square meters.

The car that picked up Zhuang Mu and Xia Jingshen drove into the San Marino area. When passing the Huntington Library, Xia Jingshen patted Zhuang Mu on the shoulder, pointed to the library and said, "There is a Suzhou Garden in there."

"Suzhou Garden?" Zhuang Mu was a little puzzled after hearing this.

"Well, it's called Liufang Garden. It covers an area of ​​about 50000 million square meters, which is about the same as the Humble Administrator's Garden in Suzhou." Xia Jingshen said.

"Why is there a Suzhou Garden here?" Zhuang Mu asked.

"Because this is a place inhabited by Chinese, many wealthy Chinese build houses here." Xia Jingshen said, paused, "Look out of the window."

Following Xia Jingshen's gaze, Zhuang Mu found that there were many Chinese walking back and forth outside.

He had been looking at the medical information on his phone just now, and he didn't pay attention to the scenery outside the car. Now that he suddenly saw so many familiar faces, he immediately felt very friendly.

Soon, they came to Brian's mansion.

After getting off the car, someone led Zhuang Mu into the house.

At this time, because it was still early, there were not many people in the mansion.

Zhuang Mu and Xia Jingshen waited quietly in the living room, and after a while Brian came to the living room to greet them.

"Doctor Zhuang, Mr. Xia, welcome to this charity gala." Brian said with a smile.

Zhuang Mu and Xia Jingshen greeted Brian one after another.

"By the way, Doctor Zhuang, the Duke can trot now, thank you so much!" Brian said.

"Where's the Duke? I'll go and have a look at it." Zhuang Mu nodded after hearing this, and then asked.

"I'll take you to the stables in the back." Brian said, pointing behind his back.

Afterwards, led by Brian, Zhuang Mu and Xia Jingshen walked through the house to the back garden.

In the southwest corner of the back garden is a racetrack with a large area.

When the three came to the stable, the Duke of Black Horse was grazing from the feeding trough with his head down. Zhuang Mu saw from a distance that he was in good spirits.

"Duke, let's see who's coming to see you." Brian called to the Duke.

As soon as the Duke heard Brian's voice, he looked up in a daze. When he saw Zhuang Mu, he immediately raised his front hooves excitedly and neighed continuously.

"This guy, I've never seen him be so enthusiastic about me! It seems that he also knows that you saved him, Dr. Zhuang!" Brian said with a smile.

In fact, although horses have a very wide field of vision, they have very poor vision and can only see blurred images of objects.But horses have a very keen sense of smell. They mainly rely on smell to distinguish things around them.

Therefore, the black horse actually recognized Zhuang Mu by smelling Zhuang Mu's breath.

Zhuang Mu smiled and walked over.

As soon as he reached the fence, the Duke kept sticking his head out to get closer to him.

"It looks like you're in a good state of mind." Zhuang Mu observed Duke Dark Horse's expression, then turned around and asked Brian, "How long do you run every day now?"

"Soon, I will run two laps, or trot, I remember Dr. Zhuang's instructions, and now I dare not let it run for too long during the recovery period." Brian replied.

Zhuang Mu nodded after listening.

"You release it, I'll check it." Zhuang Mu said to Brian.

"Okay." Brian nodded, and then released the dark horse.

Zhuang Mu took the reins and led the black horse to walk back and forth on the aisle, while observing the black horse's walking posture and the recovery of the previously ruptured tendon leg.

At this time, a young and beautiful girl walked into the stable, holding a fat lop-eared rabbit in her hand.

"Brian." The girl called to Brian.

"Alia, you're here!" Brian also smiled and waved his hand lightly.

The girl named Alia also raised her right hand and waved it. As a result, the lop-eared rabbit in her hand was too fat, so she couldn't hold it with one hand and slid to the ground.

She quickly bent down to hug the lop-eared rabbit.

However, the lop-eared rabbit managed to break free from the shackles, and jumped away quickly when he was not willing to be caught back.

And the direction in which the lop-eared rabbit jumped was exactly where the Duke of the Black Horse stopped.

Because the horse has poor vision, it is particularly easy to be frightened. When it suddenly saw a mass of jumping things on the ground in front of it, it was suddenly startled.

Immediately, it raised its front hooves in horror.

At this time, Aliya chased the lop-eared rabbit just in front of the black horse.

The incident happened suddenly, and the three of them were startled.

Seeing the sudden change of the situation, the next second the black horse's hooves fell, and Aliya might be kicked, Zhuang Mu, Brian, and Xia Jingshen all changed their expressions drastically.

"Be careful!" The three shouted at the same time.

However, although Aliya had reacted at this time, her body couldn't keep up with her brain's reaction, and it was too late to step back.

Fortunately, Xia Jingshen was a bodyguard and was very experienced in dealing with such emergencies.He tapped his feet, and in the blink of an eye, he jumped in front of the black horse, picked up Aliya and dodged to the side, narrowly avoiding the black horse's hooves.

Xia Jingshen hugged Alia and rolled on the ground a few times, stabilized his figure a little, and quickly asked Alia in his arms: "Are you okay?"

"No, it's okay." Alicia shook her head dully.

Xia Jing let out a deep breath after listening, let go of his hands and pulled Alia up.

"Are you all right?" Brian asked anxiously.

"It's okay." Xia Jingshen replied.

Although Aliya was still in shock, she also shook her head, indicating that she was fine.

At this time, the black horse had been appeased by Zhuang Mu.

While stroking the black horse, Zhuang Mu looked at Xia Jingshen with caring eyes.

Before Zhuang Mu could speak, Xia Jingshen said with a smile, "Don't worry! I'm a bodyguard, it's such a trivial matter!"

Zhuang Mu saw that he was really relaxed, so he was relieved.

In order to prevent the black horse from being frightened again, Zhuang Mu immediately put the black horse back in the stable.

Brian looked at the lop-eared rabbit running around on the ground, unaware that he almost got into a catastrophe just now, felt angry and speechless, so he rushed over to catch the little guy.

However, despite its chubby body, the lop-eared rabbit is very agile in its movements.Before the Brians had time to approach, the lop-eared rabbit had already slipped away.

One person and one rabbit competed on the aisle for a long time, but no one could gain the upper hand.

Seeing this situation, Zhuang Mu couldn't help but smile bitterly, squatted down and waved to the Lop-eared Rabbit, while making a slight sound to attract the Lop-eared Rabbit's attention.

The round lop-eared rabbit immediately ran over when it heard Zhuang Mu's call.

Zhuang Mu picked it up casually.

"It's time for this lop-eared rabbit to lose weight, too heavy is bad for your health." Zhuang Mu said to Alia.

This lop-eared rabbit is American lop-eared rabbit, also known as Binny lop-eared rabbit. Although it is a medium-sized rabbit, its normal weight is 3 to 3.5 kg.

And the lop-eared rabbit in Zhuang Mu's hand must have weighed at least 6 kilograms.This lop-eared rabbit can be raised to such a large size, the usual food must be quite good.

But excessive obesity will affect the health of lop-eared rabbits.

Aliya nodded after listening, took the lop-eared rabbit from Zhuang Mu, and said thank you at the same time.

Then he came to Xia Jingshen's side and asked in a low voice, "Hi, thank you for saving me just now. What's your name?"

Xia Jingshen took a look at her: "My name is Xia Jingshen."

"My name is Alia Hawkins." Alia said quickly, then paused, "By the way, do you have Facebook? Let's add it!"

"No." Xia Jingshen replied.

At this moment, Brian's cell phone rang.

After he answered the phone, he said to Zhuang Mu and Xia Jingshen: "The charity dinner is about to start, let's go there!"

Alia originally wanted to ask Xia Jingshen if he used other social software, but seeing that everyone was going to the charity dinner, she had no choice but to hide her little thoughts.

The content of the charity dinner was a little boring. After Zhuang Mu explained the concept of animal protection and relevant effective measures to the guests, Brian took out some collections at home and put them up for auction to raise money for charity.

Zhuang Mu and Xia Jingshen were not very interested in the auction, so they took some food to the balcony to enjoy the cool, chatting and enjoying the food.

The two stayed on the balcony for a while, when a crow just flew by, as if it had spotted the food, it flew down and approached Zhuang Mu.

The crow jumped back and forth in front of Zhuang Mu, staring at the food in Zhuang Mu's hand.

Seeing its appearance, Zhuang Mu thought it was a little funny, so he gave it some fruit to eat.

Crows are omnivorous birds. They like to eat both fruit and meat. There are many species that especially like carrion, which is why dead bodies attract crows.

The crow was eating happily under Zhuang Mu's feeding. At this time, Aliya and a friend came to look for Xia Jingshen. They happened to see this slightly strange scene, and both of them felt a little weird in their hearts.

Crows are not only unpopular in China, but also unpopular in the United States.

Therefore, the scene where Zhuang Mu feeds the crow feels more surprising than interesting.

"Hello, Xia." Alia greeted Xia Jingshen with a smile.

Then, he nodded to Zhuang Mu: "Doctor Zhuang, hello, are you feeding the crow?"

"That's right! It passed by here, and it probably flew down because it saw the food." Zhuang Mu replied with a smile.

"Doctor Zhuang, crows are unlucky, so it's better not to get close to them," Aliya said.

Zhuang Mu smiled after hearing this, and wanted to popularize science with Aliya and her friends. The crow is just an ordinary bird, not an ominous species.

At this time, a few more crows flew over from the nearby trees, and they moved towards Zhuang Mu together.

Alia, who originally planned to ask Xia Jingshen for her cell phone number, saw this and hurriedly dragged her friend away.

Crows symbolize death in European and American cultures. This deep-rooted concept makes many Europeans and Americans disgusted with crows, and even fear them.

The charity dinner ended around ten o'clock in the evening, and the guests gradually began to disperse.

In fact, during the dinner, many people wanted to greet Zhuang Mu on the balcony, strike up a few words, make friends and so on.As a result, after seeing the more than 20 crows around Zhuang Mu, they gave up all the thoughts in their hearts.

That's right, the crows around Zhuang Mu gradually changed from a few to more than twenty.

Crows are a group species. Seeing their companions playing with Zhuang Mu, they flew over one after another.

Tonight, in the eyes of many guests, Zhuang Mu looked more like a wizard than an animal doctor.

Especially when they saw Zhuang Mu leading the crow to jump around with his fingers, all of them showed strange expressions.

Even the brothers and sisters of the hosts, Brian and Alia, were dumbfounded by the strange scene in front of them.

Inexplicably, Brian suddenly remembered Zhuang Mu's previous wish for animal carcasses.

Combined with what happened in front of him, Brian felt a little chill in his heart.

In fact, he can't blame him for thinking wildly.

After all, no matter who they were, seeing someone with a group of crows, few people would be able to keep calm.

It's really weird!