Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 445 If it hadn't killed too many chickens, his wife would have died

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Lao Gao and Xiao Shen hurried back.

Both of them were holding bamboo baskets filled with eggs.

"Come and help, come quickly."

"What's going on?" Chen Ying asked as she ran over to help take the basket, "Are you guys going to steal the eggs?"

"What are you stealing for? Something happened in the woods behind."

"What's going on?" Chen Ying's face darkened slightly, "Is there an epidemic?"

If there is an epidemic, it will be a huge trouble.

"No, it was a group of foxes and a group of raccoon dogs that came, all targeting the pheasants. When we went there, the two pheasant colonies were gone, and we found the bodies of more than a dozen pheasants, all of which were abandoned after being bitten to death."

April to June is the peak breeding season for pheasants. With this group of foxes and raccoon dogs causing trouble, we don’t know how much the number of pheasants will drop this year.

Pheasants and small mammals are the ecological foundation of the entire reserve. A significant reduction in them can easily force top carnivores to migrate, and may even cause their young to starve to death.

After helping to clean up the egg-hatching machine, Chen Ying ran to find Uncle Tiger and Brother Leopard to inquire about the situation.

"It seems like there is a group of foxes active in the back mountain." Brother Leopard scratched his chin and thought casually, "It seems to be a family, two adult foxes and five cubs. I guess because there are so many cubs and they are growing, the two big foxes are so crazy about biting those furry things to death."

Brother Leopard has no interest in pheasants. He has recently taken a liking to wildebeest cubs. He can eat one of them for several days because the meat is tender and nutritious. He will not eat pheasants. Even plucking their feathers would annoy the leopard to death.

As for Uncle Tiger, he basically relies on being fed, occasionally catching some rabbits, or Brother Leopard bringing him some food.

It's so old, why does it still have to work hard to hunt? Isn't it better for it to just open its mouth and eat?
Chen Ying looked at Brother Bao, who was becoming increasingly plump, and didn't know what to say.

Brother Leopard raised his eyelids, looked at him, and yawned.

"Come on, don't be so sad. I'll help you drive that family away. Really, I'm already old and I still have to work hard for you."

Listen, listen to what he is saying! Obviously, considering Brother Bao's age, he is in the prime of his life. In the wild, that is the heyday of expanding the territory. In the end, he came to the emergency station to live out his retirement life. I really don't know what to say.

Brother Leopard is quite reliable. If he says he will help, he will definitely help.

But Chen Ying never expected that although Brother Leopard clearly said that he would drive away the fox family, in the evening, he, Sister Leopard, Jin Ya, Xiao Jin, and even the little lynx, all brought back a fox cub.

"What did you do? Dig out the fox's den?"

Chen Ying was so frightened that she almost jumped up. She quickly put down her bowl and chopsticks and ran to check on the fox cub.

The condition of this litter of little foxes did not seem to be very good. They were not as plump as the fox cubs Chen Ying had seen before.

But didn’t Brother Leopard say that their parents were both there? How could they raise the cubs like this?

Putting the fox cub down, Brother Leopard nudged Chen Ying with his head.

"Hurry, go help, the female fox is dying."

Its cry was anxious and its words were unclear.

Sister Leopard then put down the cub she had brought back and kicked Brother Leopard, causing him to fall over.

"Let's go and have a look. It seems that this idiot bit the female fox, or maybe the female fox was not right before. Now she is lying in the woods unable to move. The male fox is guarding her and won't leave. We have no choice but to bring her back first because we are afraid that the cubs will be hurt by other animals."

After hearing what Sister Bao said, Chen Ying rushed into the emergency room without saying a word, picked up the medical kit, and got a bottle of oxygen.

When Chen Ying moved, Ruan Mengmeng and Xia Sen also moved.

Xia Sen and Xiao Shen followed with a special stretcher, while Ruan Mengmeng checked the equipment in the emergency room at home and prepared what needed to be started in advance so that they could be used directly as soon as Chen Ying returned.

Led by Brother Bao, the three of them came to the slope south of Huashu Valley.

There was a tree hole there, which was the den of the fox family. Now the female fox was lying in the woods more than 20 meters away from the den. No matter how the male fox nudged her or called her, she didn't move.

Seeing Brother Leopard coming back, the male fox showed a ferocious expression and wanted to fight with it.

Brother Leopard rushed over and subdued the male fox, and dragged it aside to make it easier for Chen Ying to check the condition of the female fox.

"It has a fever, and its abdomen is abnormally swollen. There may be something wrong with its abdominal cavity."

Xia Sen started to check and reported his results.

"Feel your abdomen carefully to see if it's a tumor or something."

"It's very soft, doesn't look like a tumor, maybe it's ascites?"

The portable ultrasound machine was turned on, and Chen Ying's eyebrows jumped just as he put the probe on the female fox's belly.

"The situation is a bit bad. It has ascites and other problems. Take it back first. Give it oxygen."

A special animal oxygen mask was tied on the fox's head and the oxygen tank was plugged in. After everything was set up, Xia Sen put the female fox on the stretcher and lifted her up with Xiao Shen and left.

The male fox seemed to know that these people were here to rescue his wife, so he stopped struggling.

As soon as Brother Leopard let it go, the male fox immediately followed.

Back at the first aid station, the female fox was sent to the emergency room. When the door was closed in front of the male fox, it almost exploded on the spot. It was Leopard Sister who came up and slapped it down, and then stood guard at the door and stared at it.

After being beaten and rolling several times, the male fox finally calmed down. He looked around and found that there were many two-legged beasts here, and even more ferocious beasts, all of which were the dangerous creatures on his warning list.

The scariest thing is that some of my cubs are also here!
The male fox was so frightened that he jumped on the spot, then lay down, holding the cub in his arms, and looked at the evil spirits vigilantly.

Jin Ya rolled her eyes in disdain, stretched out her paw, hugged the little lynx in her arms and licked its fur.

"Tsk, as if everyone doesn't have a cub."

Xiao Jin let out a long breath and couldn't bear to look at it.

The test results came out quickly and it was bad news.

"There is a dead fetus in its stomach that has not been expelled. Now the fetus is rotting in its stomach, and the uterus is also infected. The placenta is implanted in the uterus. I estimate that the uterus needs to be removed together. But now the entire abdominal cavity is full of fluid, and other organs also show signs of infection and inflammation."

Professor Bai carefully looked at the test results and asked, "So what are you going to do?"

"Perform surgery immediately. We can't delay any longer. Compared to life, the uterus... must be removed."

"Then do it. I'll be your assistant." Professor Bai made the decision decisively. "Mengmeng, prepare the equipment you need immediately. If you don't have it, ask someone to send it in."

While Xia Sen was doing the examination, he had already entered the female fox's case file into the system. Although it was after get off work, the veterinarian on duty at the management station still called to ask if she needed help or wanted the fox to be transferred to them for surgery.

"No need, Brother Ying is back, he and Professor Bai will do it together, Mengmeng will be the nurse, it's no problem."

"Okay, ask Brother Ying if he can come over to watch the operation."

"Just come, Brother Ying doesn't mind. Bring something with you, I've already sent the list."

The preoperative preparations went very quickly. Originally, this situation was not suitable for immediate surgery, but the female fox had entered a critical period, and without surgery, she might not survive the night.

The female fox's condition was rather complicated, so Chen Ying first performed a paracentesis to drain ascites on her, followed by a hysterectomy and other organ anti-infection procedures.

However, his surgical skills were already very strong, and with Professor Bai's support, the master and apprentice worked together, and the entire operation was carried out in an orderly manner.

In addition to Sister Dai and others from the management station who came to watch the operation, the operation was also live-streamed and recorded and placed in the rescue center's resource library to facilitate subsequent review and learning by other veterinarians who were unable to watch the operation on site.

"It's always a pleasure to watch Brother Ying perform surgery. I'll never be able to learn such smooth movements in my lifetime."

The young veterinarian who was watching the operation outside murmured softly. Sister Dai and the others didn't show it on their faces, but they were also sighing in their hearts. No wonder the leader valued Chen Ying so much. Just the level of his knife skills was unmatched in their area.

Not to mention that he is also an orthopedic surgeon and has an affinity for animals.

Although this was an operation on a fox, the entire operation lasted more than three hours.

Professor Bai couldn't hold on any longer after about two hours, so he sat aside to give instructions. Xiao Shen took over the position of his assistant.

Xiao Shen has been studying with Professor Bai for so long and has performed many minor operations, so it is no problem for him to be an assistant.

He is young, smart and has strong hands-on skills. Compared with Xia Sen, who focuses more on nutrition, Xiao Shen is more skilled in surgery.

"The operation went smoothly, but the female fox is still in poor condition. The infection has lasted too long, and I'm afraid she will develop a coagulation disorder. Someone must be on guard tonight."

Sister Dai offered to stay on duty first, and someone else would take over tomorrow morning.

"No, it's too tiring to guard the whole night by myself. How about this, Sister Dai, you guard until one o'clock, and then I will take over. Xia Sen will replace me at five o'clock tomorrow morning."

The rescue veterinary team of the management station also has professional nurses. Although they are responsible for taking care of other rescued animals, it happened that the management station did not have any new rescued animals in the past two days, and the previously rescued ones were also taken care of by dedicated keepers.

After hearing Ruan Mengmeng's words, the two nurses discussed it and decided that they would take turns on duty tonight, and the veterinarian would just come over to check on her at regular intervals.

"Meng Meng, you've been busy for more than three hours. Go and have a rest. You'll be busy tomorrow."

The female fox's current condition won't be a problem for tonight. The following week will be a critical period. We can't let Mengmeng endure it alone for a week.

The two nurses discussed with Sister Dai and decided to leave one person here to help Chen Ying and the others take care of the female fox.

Even though Xiao Shen is good at surgery, when it comes to taking care of animals after surgery, he can't even catch up with the girls.

After Chen Ying applied medicine to the female fox, he changed his clothes and sat down to rest.

"Where's Xia Sen? What is he still doing in the mixing room?"

"Brother Sen said that the little foxes haven't been weaned yet, so the mother fox can't feed them, so they can only be fed artificially. He is studying the formula of milk powder for the little foxes."

Chen Ying was completely focused on the mother fox's condition and only now realized that based on the uterine infection, the fox cub should be only about twenty days old.

I almost lost my mother just a few days after I opened my eyes. It was so tragic.

I cheered myself up and took a look at the male fox who was huddled in the empty animal house with his cubs. Fortunately, the father fox was still quite healthy.

Chen Ying guessed that it had tried so hard to catch pheasants before because it probably wanted the female fox to eat more. For animals, eating more and sleeping well can drive away the disease.

But if its crazy chicken-killing behavior had not been discovered by Lao Gao and the others, the female fox would probably have died.

(End of this chapter)