Chapter 469: Nine Dogs and One Mastiff
The name "Tibetan mastiff" does not refer to a specific type of dog, but to a large mastiff that lives on the Tibetan plateau, as long as it is large and hairy, it can be called a Tibetan mastiff. In this sense, there is no such thing as a purebred Tibetan mastiff in the classification of pets. Dogs that don't even have a standard of appearance will collapse sooner or later.
Zhang Zi'an held his breath and stared at the projection screen without blinking.
He had heard a little about the economic collapse of the Tibetan mastiff, but after all, it was too far away from his own life to pay special attention to it, and only by witnessing it through unedited videos could he truly understand what a nightmare created by human beings was truly understood.
Tibetan mastiffs are too big, eat too much, and have too little food on the plateau, so they can't eat enough, whether it's or food thrown by tourists, it's all for their hunger. Driven by hunger, they can do anything.
As soon as the camera screen changed, Xu Gang continued to explain.
"What you are seeing now is a shelter for stray dogs that the local government and the temple have jointly funded in order to alleviate this hidden danger. There are five such shelters and about 5,000 stray dogs, but there are many more mastiffs roaming the area, mating at will and breeding more Tibetan mastiffs. In order to fill their bellies, they have been seen attacking livestock together with wolves – but they are supposed to protect them from wolves, but now they are being raped by wolves. ”
A vast field fenced with barbed wire is densely packed with hundreds of stray dogs, most of them Tibetan mastiffs. At the end of the site was a simple little building, in which there were two peasant-like men, who stirred together the barley flour and the main food with a shovel, and there was hardly a scrap of meat to be seen. After the mixing was completed, the two knocked on the floor with shovels to signal eating. The dogs immediately gathered around several U-shaped troughs, scrambling for the seemingly unnutritious food.
The food in the trough was quickly snatched up, and they looked up at the small building, but it was empty, which meant that today's lunch was over, and the next one was tomorrow.
"An adult Tibetan mastiff needs to eat three or four catties of cooked beef every day to be full, but the thousands of wandering Tibetan mastiffs here can only feed on a few hundred catties of flour every day, and even then the monthly expenditure on food is 20,000 or 30,000 yuan, which is spent by the local temple, and it is unknown how long it can last. ”
Seeing this, Zhang Zi'an noticed a problem, it stands to reason that these Tibetan mastiffs eat so little every day, they should be hungry and skinny, but obviously some of the Tibetan mastiffs in the video are still as strong as cows.
A somewhat emaciated yellow Tibetan mastiff did not grab the food and still lingered near the trough, trying to find some food scraps. It was too hungry and too focused to notice the approaching crisis.
Suddenly, a huge black shadow swooped down on it, opening its bloody mouth and biting the back of its neck. The yellow Tibetan mastiff was aroused to the wild, roared and resisted, turned its head to bite the attacker, and the two figures, one yellow and one black, scuffled together.
The yellow Tibetan mastiff is much larger than ordinary dogs, but the attacker is larger, like a combination of a lion and a bear, and occupies an overwhelming advantage in strength.
Blood, dyed red yellow Tibetan mastiff neck hair, the smell of blood and made the black Tibetan mastiff fierce, strong neck twisted, suddenly a lion shook its head, and threw the yellow Tibetan mastiff out more than two meters.
There was a muffled thud, and the yellow Tibetan mastiff fell heavily to the ground like a sandbag, and after a few convulsions, it stopped moving.
During the fight between the two of them, the other Tibetan mastiffs watched from a distance in fear, not daring to take half a step.
The black Tibetan mastiff walked over majestically like an emperor, pulled the yellow Tibetan mastiff a few times with its front paws, and when it saw that it did not react, he immediately lowered his head and began to gnaw on its corpse.
A few Tibetan mastiffs salivated, and they were brave enough to come over and get a piece of the pie, and the black Tibetan mastiff raised its mouth with blood foam and let out a roar that shook the four wilds, which frightened the Tibetan mastiffs and shrank back with their tails between their legs.
It was only at this time that everyone saw the true face of this black Tibetan mastiff, it was an iron-clad gold Tibetan mastiff, most of the hair on its body was black, only a little yellow on its limbs and chin, and the yellow on its chin had been dyed red by the blood of its own kind. Thick, dense hair covered its entire body, its long mane made it look as formidable as a lion, and its black eyes were slightly reddened by long-term cannibalism.
Zhang Zi'an felt a chill in his heart, and his hands and feet were cold.
He remembered an old saying that has been handed down since ancient times - nine dogs produce a mastiff, which means that a few young mastiffs are placed in a pit and only a small amount of food is provided, so that these young mastiffs commit suicide and cannibalism in order to survive, and the only mastiff that survives in the end is the mastiff of the mastiff, with a ferocious temperament.
Isn't the shelter for stray dogs, where food is scarce, like an oversized pit?
This iron-clad gold killed from these thousands of Tibetan mastiffs must be regarded as the king of mastiffs!
No wonder...... The number of Tibetan mastiffs in this shelter is obviously less than 1,000, and it turns out that a food chain of big fish eating small fish has been formed, even those dogs that are sick and starving to death, I am afraid that no one dares to go in and fish out the corpses, and naturally it will become food for other mastiffs to satisfy their hunger.
This is the end of the video.
Zhang Zi'an couldn't help it for a long time, and immediately raised the question in his heart: "Director Feng, do you mean to let Pegasus and the police dogs escape from the siege of these Tibetan mastiffs?"
"Yes, you listen to me first. Feng Xuan raised his hand to signal him to be calm. He can understand Zhang Zi'an's feelings, this part of the script is extremely dangerous to shoot, and no one wants their dog to take this risk.
He stood up, paced and weighed the words, and then said earnestly: "You may laugh at me for being an antique, but I always believe that movies are not only for entertainment, but also for carrying some social responsibility." I never make vulgar movies, maybe that kind of movie is easier to achieve fame and fortune, but there are already too many people to make it, and I am not the only one who is missing. I made anti-Japanese war movies because I didn't want young people to forget that period of history, I made police movies because I wanted to promote social justice, and in the same way, I made this movie—"
He pointed to the mastiff king frozen on the screen and continued: "I want the society to pay attention to these wild beasts roaming in Tibet and attacking people and animals, so that more people can know how much damage they have caused to the Tibetan people and the local ecological environment." If someone can help, whether it's a donation or a donation, then my film has more meaning to exist. ”
Zhang Zi'an was full of complaints, thinking that Feng Xuan didn't consider the safety of these police dogs at all in order to make the movie more thrilling, but when he heard this frank heartfelt words, he couldn't say a word.
Xu Gang took over and said: "According to statistics, 180 people are bitten by stray dogs in Tibet every month, and this is only statistics, plus those that have not been counted, the actual data may more than double." In addition, these wandering Tibetan mastiffs do not simply attack humans and animals, they can also transmit hydatid disease to humans, and in some areas 1 in 8 people are infected with echinococcosis, which is also known as 'worm cancer', which is extremely difficult to treat and has a very high mortality rate. ”
Speaking of which, Xu Gang turned off the video and put a few pictures on the projection.
"This is a child infected with echinococcosis. The main cause of the prevalence of hydatid disease is the water source infected by dog feces, and the local drinking water disinfection is obviously not as good as in the mainland. ”
Several little boys and little girls are lying on the hospital bed, their faces are yellow and thin, and they look at the camera with a dull expression, which makes people feel distressed and sad at a glance.
"Can't you just slaughter them?"
Lao Yang, who had been silent, suddenly said something very cold.
"Unfortunately, no, if only it were that simple. Xu Gang shook his head regretfully, "That's the most troublesome problem – the Tibetans are not allowed to kill stray dogs, even though they are causing great harm to the local area." We have to respect the local customs, we can't kill them, we have to set up shelters like this, keep them in captivity and sterilize them. It's a race to see if the stray dogs breed faster or if we move faster. ”
Feng Xuan sighed: "I know that filming this scene is dangerous, and I will provide security measures within my ability, set up a power grid and a barbed wire, and let the new pyrotechnic master bring a tranquilizer gun, but after all, I can't guarantee the safety of Pegasus and other dogs...... So, I asked you to choose those eliminated German Muslims as stand-ins for Pegasus and other police dogs, and use them to shoot this shot, what do you think?"
He looked into Zhang Zi'an's eyes and said in a consultative tone.
The eyes of everyone present all fell on Zhang Zi'an, and he scratched his head bitterly, unable to make a decision.
In fact, Feng Xuan didn't need to ask him, he could forcibly shoot this scene and ask him out of respect for him.
Feng Xuan's idea is right, these eliminated German pastors are bound to die, if their death can be exchanged for the society's attention and improvement of the Tibetan mastiff flood, then they can be said to die well, and they will not necessarily die.
The only problem is that Pegasus definitely doesn't agree to let other dogs take risks for him, and he doesn't have to ask.
From childhood to adulthood, Zhang Zi'an has the most headache for this kind of choice between the "small self" and the "big self", if he stays out of the matter, he will definitely say - this still needs to be considered? Of course, it is to sacrifice the small self and complete the big self!
In the midst of it, he couldn't say it so easily.
After thinking about it, he stood up and shook his head, turned around and walked out, "I'm sorry, Director Feng, I ......"
As soon as he took a step, the corner of his pants was ripped off.
When I looked down, it was Pegasus who bit the corner of his pants.
"Pegas, want to be an angel. It said, its pupils shining with a holy light.