Chapter 118 The cub of the mountain dog and the wolf

“Is your father okay?” Uncle Chen led Yue Feng to the kang in the east room and asked while making tea.

“Well, it’s pretty good. Ever since I started taking people to fly hawks, life at home has gradually improved. My dad broke a bone, and he recovered quickly because he got enough nutrition. How’s your shoulder injury?”

“Hey, it’s just a minor wound. It didn’t even need stitches. It has already healed as a scab! I’m telling you, it’s just that my heart is a little off. Otherwise, I could have easily dealt with the bear that day by myself!”

The old man has been recuperating at home in good condition recently. His face is rosy and he speaks with full energy. He does not seem to have any problems.

“That’s great! There will definitely be nothing wrong with your health!” Yue Feng responded with a smile.

“Knowing you were coming, I got some roe deer. Let’s eat roe deer meat at noon today!” Uncle Chen continued.

“Did you hunt it yourself in the mountains?” Upon hearing about roe deer, Yue Feng was stunned and asked with mixed feelings.

“I would like to go, but your brother won’t let me go into the mountains! I managed to save my life last time I went into the mountains, but if I go again, my family will worry! I asked Old Li from our village to help me get this roe deer!” said Old Chen with a sneer.

“If you say so, I have something to tell you shamelessly!”

After hearing that the old man accepted that he could not go up the mountain, Yue Feng decisively turned to the main topic.

“Whatever you need, just tell me. I will do it for you without hesitation!”

“I just got some guns and went up the mountain, and now I’m still short of a few good dogs. If you don’t plan to go up the mountain, can you give me the dogs at home?”

“Hey! I thought it was nothing! You can take all the dogs at home if you like. This little yellow dog is a famous head dog in several villages around us. It will definitely be very talented in your hands!
I saw it the other day when I saw you bandaging the dog. You are a careful and steady kid!”

Yue Feng had expected the old man to give in, but he didn’t expect it to be so smooth. He just mentioned it and he agreed so readily.

“Okay, I don’t want this dog for nothing. If I tell you about the money, you will definitely be angry, so I won’t pay you. But I see that you like eagles very much. How about I help you train an eagle?”

“That won’t do. Your eagles have to go up the mountain to work! Trading a dog for an eagle is just stealing your job! You don’t want the eagle, but you can take the dog. It’s a deal!” Uncle Chen shook his head repeatedly after hearing this.

Yue Feng explained with a smile: “I didn’t say that I released the eagle for you! I went up the mountain to catch eagles in autumn, but I didn’t just catch these few. There are still two live eagles in the warehouse that I haven’t touched yet!

Forget it, I’ll tell you the truth!
Last time at my house, I noticed that you liked this thing very much. I also discussed it with my brother Jun. Your health is getting older, and it will definitely not be safe for you to go into the mountains alone. But it must be uncomfortable for you to just sit there idle like this!

I will train a big eagle for you, and then teach you how to release it. When the eagle is familiar with it, you can release it for fun around the village, at the doorstep of your home, or at the foot of the mountain. It can catch rabbits and pheasants, and it can also exercise your body. There is no big 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 it, and I don’t know how to do it myself.

Now that Yue Feng has said so much to his face, if I refuse again, I will not be Chen Pao, who is quick and decisive in his words and actions.

“Okay, then do as you say!
Actually, I have liked this thing since I was a child. More than ten years ago, I dug up a young eagle in the mountains, but I didn’t know how to raise it. I fed and served it well all day long. When the eagle grew up, it couldn’t tell the difference between a big eagle and a small eagle. Not only did it refuse to be touched, it also scratched your aunt’s hand!

It howled for food all day, disturbing the neighbors, so I took it to the mountains and released it!”

“Haha, there was something wrong with your feeding from the time you were a hawk. You raised this eagle the wrong way and it thinks it’s a human!”

“What? How come the eagle thinks he’s a human?” When the old man reached his blind spot in knowledge, he suddenly became interested.

Yue Feng explained with a smile: “For example, have you ever seen a newly hatched duckling? When the duckling first comes out of its shell, if it sees a mother duck, it will follow the mother duck.

If a baby sees a person, a kitten or a puppy when it hatches, it will recognize the kitten, puppy or person as its mother!
The situation is similar for this young eagle. It has been raised in human hands since it was young. It doesn’t know that it is an eagle, but thinks it is the same species as humans, so it regards itself as a human.

In the eagle’s cognition, food must be competed for with its own kind. It thinks that it is also a human being, so it is not afraid of humans.

As they grow bigger and eat more, they need to compete with their owners for food. In this process, they will actively attack to establish their current status!

Just like puppies at home, if the owner does not intervene, the leader is beaten into a leader. As soon as they open their eyes, they start to snatch the mother’s milk. When they grow up, they will also be the leader in the pack, and other dogs dare not show off to the leader!”

Yue Feng had even looked up information on the Internet about the knowledge contained in the inscriptions of these birds of prey, so he knew it in detail. At that time, this kind of thinking was very avant-garde.

Chen Pao has been raising dogs all his life, so he immediately understood what Yue Feng meant when he gave this example.

“Well, how do we solve this problem? I know where there is a nest of eagles. They breed there every year. I’ll take you there next spring, and we’ll take two chicks home and let you raise them!”

Yue Feng shook his head after hearing this: “Why do we have to start raising a baby from the very beginning? There’s no need!”

“The eagle I’ve raised since childhood is an obedient relative!”

Yue Feng shook his head again: “Most eagles used for hunting have very low IQs. Even if you raise them from chicks, they won’t be much stronger!

If you don’t believe me, go and observe the eagles when they are about to leave the nest during the breeding season next year!

When this thing is about to fly, it will even snatch and attack the food brought back by its own parents! How can an eagle be close to humans if it doesn’t even care about its own parents? “

These remarks completely put an end to Uncle Chen’s enthusiasm.

“Eagles are naturally unruly creatures. If the year is bad and the parents can’t catch enough food, the big eagles in the same nest will even eat the smaller ones without hesitation!

When people train and raise dogs, they can express their feelings. Smart dogs can understand their owners’ thoughts, and when danger comes, dogs may even sacrifice their lives for their owners.

But it is not possible to train an eagle. Take the iron-backed red eagle in my home for example. Doesn’t it look quite obedient? It doesn’t hide when people touch it, and it squints its eyes, which is quite comfortable!

This can only be achieved through gradual adjustment during the eagle training process. If you want to train the eagle well, it is essential to raise it every morning and evening.

I remember my grandfather told me when I was a kid, “Flying the falcon is a job you can’t be lazy about. If you don’t fly for one day, the eagle will know. If you don’t fly for two days, people will know. If you don’t fly for three days, the whole village will know!”

“How can this be explained? How come the whole village knows about it after three days of not setting it up?” After hearing these fresh comments, Chen Pao completely became a primary school student who was willing to learn. Yue Feng explained: “If the eagle is not set up for one day, there is basically no obvious change in its external performance. Only the eagle itself knows that it is lazy, except for the handler.

If you don’t keep it for two days, the eagle will start to show signs of rebellion, squinting its pupils to spit at people, becoming defensive when people get close, and even resuming its claws to attack and its beak to peck, which are all rebellious reactions. At this point, a eagle trainer will know that the eagle has rebellious behavior.

If you don’t keep the hawk on a leash for three days, it will basically be unable to work when you take it out again. If you let go of the hawk as soon as it lands, it will definitely fly away.

If the eagle is lost and everyone is looking for it, then the whole village will know about it!”

“It’s just training an eagle, but there are so many things to say about it. I thought that once this thing is trained, it will be like a dog, and it will be a one-time thing!”

“It’s not like you can train a dog once and for all. If a dog doesn’t go to the mountains for a long time, such as half a year or a year, its hunting instinct will significantly decline!

Of course, for someone like you who likes to go to the mountains all year round, dogs definitely won’t have this problem! ”

“You are right! A few years ago, Old Li bought a white dog from Hua’an. The owner said that he had brought the dog to the mountains for two or three years and could use it right away. We saw this dog with our own eyes when we were hunting in the mountains before, and it did a good job.

But Old Li spent fifty yuan to buy it, raised it at home for half a month, and taught it to recognize the group. Later, he took it to the mountain, but it turned out to be like a fool, not even as good as a half-grown puppy that followed him for a stroll in the mountains!

Lao Li thought he was cheated and went to find the buyer. As a result, he found out that the dog had not been to the mountain for a year and had almost forgotten the skills he had learned from towing dogs! Later, he followed the dog up the mountain and towed it a few more times before it was slowly trained! “

“When it comes to dog training, you must be the best… With these three dogs, it will be much easier for me to hunt in the mountains in the future!”

“If the blue wolf hadn’t been killed by the blind bear, my four dogs would have been able to easily catch pigs in the mountains within a hundred miles!
Now we are missing a helping dog, and when we encounter a big pig, the three dogs will have a hard time!

I do know someone who has a litter of good puppies, but we ordinary hunters simply can’t afford to raise them.”

“Huh? What kind of dog? Why can’t you afford to raise it?” Yue Feng was slightly stunned when he heard this.

Ordinary people really can’t afford to raise hunting dogs. After all, dogs with strong bodies have big appetites, and farmers have little food these days, and there is not much return.

But for experienced hunters, this cost is not as high as imagined. A dog eats at most one pound of cornmeal a day, which is only a little over 300 pounds of coarse grains a year.

The actual situation is that it is impossible to feed cornmeal to dogs every day. For most people, the staple food for dogs is cooked squash, potatoes, etc., which will be much cheaper.

A hunter can earn at least dozens of dollars by going up the mountain and hunting a 200-pound wild boar, which is more than enough to raise a dog.

A good hunter can catch more than a few pigs in a winter. In a good year, an experienced hunter can catch dozens of pigs in a winter with ease.

“I know a hunter named Zou Laoqi, his family is in Diaolong Village in Hexi. This guy got a bunch of wolves and mountain dogs!
In the last episode, I saw him selling dogs at the market, but even though everyone knew they were good dogs, no one dared to buy them, and even if they did, they couldn’t afford to raise them!

This wolf-blooded puppy can’t stand rough feeding, it needs meat every day! Who can afford to feed it if it eats meat every day! “

“A cross between a wolf and a mountain dog?” Upon hearing this word, Yue Feng instantly perked up.

Some people may not know what mountain dog is.

Some hunters live far from the mountains, so during the hunting season, they live in cellars in the mountains. At this time, they also bring their dogs to the mountains to raise them.

Most hunting dogs dare not roam around all day long because there are various dangers in the forest. Without a hunter as a core, a hunting dog with a more reckless personality can easily get injured or even lose its life if it encounters a wild boar or other large mountain animals.

However, there are some smart dogs with excellent physical fitness that can roam freely in the mountains. These dogs can avoid the risks in the mountains, catch some wild animals such as rabbits, pheasants, and mice to fill their stomachs, and occasionally bring the prey back to the temporary camp 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 extremely special circumstances, a mountain dog has a chance to encounter a lone male wolf. If the wolf is in estrus, the dog and the wolf may fall in love with each other and there is a small chance that they can mate and conceive.

At this time, the puppy obtained will have half wolf blood genes.

Mountain dogs are the elite remaining after natural selection by living close to their native mountain forests. Combined with their wild wolf blood, the probability of their offspring producing good dogs is extremely high.

“Yes! A string of wolf blood!”

“I wonder if the dog is sold? I want it!” Yue Feng became interested immediately after hearing this.

Others lack meat to raise dogs, but Yue Feng does! With a 56-and-a-half in hand and rich hunting experience, if he wants to go into the mountains to hunt down mountain animals, the difficulty is definitely several levels lower than that of ordinary hunters. As long as there is an accurate source of intelligence, Yue Feng rarely goes into the mountains empty-handed.

“Can you afford it? Those half-grown puppies are more than three months old. They need to eat at least one or two pounds of raw meat a day!” Chen Pao reminded him when he heard that Yue Feng was a little too excited.

“Yes! Even if there are five dogs, they only eat ten kilograms of meat a day. A three-hundred-kilogram egg can feed them for a month! From the time it snowed until now, I have dragged eight pigs back home!” Yue Feng said confidently.

Upon hearing this record, Chen Pao was stunned for a moment, but soon he was relieved.

Conventional hunters all carry old foreign guns, the better ones have 16-gauge barrels, and there are only a few in the whole village who can get a 56 semi-new gun.

From this perspective, Yue Feng really has the confidence.

“Since you said so, I’ll help you get these pups! Do you have the money? Zou Laoqi is selling the puppies, and even if I come forward, the price he asks for is not low!”

“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 the market to find Zou Laoqi!”

“Okay, let’s go!” Yue Feng stood up immediately.

Thinking about getting a good dog, what kind of hunting dog can compare to a mountain dog cub with half wolf blood! This is simply a pie in the sky for Yue Feng.

(End of this chapter)