Chapter 24: Precious

In the mouth of the old Berkshire butler, the zoo in front of him has become a money-losing goods, and it costs a lot of money every year.

The keepers hired to take care of the pandas and other animals cost a lot of money, so the daily expenses of the pudding are not worth mentioning in comparison.

Before heading out, the old Berkshire butler discussed with Katie that he planned to donate all the animals in the zoo to the London Zoo to avoid unnecessary expenses for the elk ranch to continue to maintain.

Katie hadn't agreed yet, she wanted to come to the zoo first, and then discuss the countermeasures with the two from the Pudding Trust.

If the zoo is unable to generate profits, it seems that the most appropriate solution would be to continue to make ends meet as it is now, and donate all the pandas and other animals.

Pudding is a cat, so whether it is Katie or the old Berkshire housekeeper and others, they all subconsciously think that they should help it make the right decision, and the elk ranch has not had a good time in recent years, and it is impossible to lay off a group of ranch employees for the sake of the zoo to save money.

The money that usually subsidizes this zoo is paid by the elk ranch, and occasionally Mrs. Ross has to pay out of her own pocket......

The Elk Ranch is adjacent to the zoo, the Black and White Bear, located on the edge of the ranch, which is full of old disrepair, rust on the railings, and most of the cages are empty, and the animals inside may have been sold or have long since died.

"No wonder no one wants to visit. Katie looked at it and said to herself, in these days, people used to use their mobile phones to check before going to a certain place, and if they saw such an old zoo and there were not too many animals in it, it would be strange for them to come and play.

There are some tourists on the ranch, but they don't see anyone here, because no one comes, so they don't bother to invest money, and there is a lack of funds, and no one wants to come, and in the long run, they fall into a vicious circle.

Otherwise, as long as it is a zoo with pandas, the visitor flow will not be bad, the elk ranch is not far from the city of London, with a population of more than 8 million people, it should not be difficult to make up for at least part of the expenses.

Du Yu also felt that this kind of ghost place was too deserted, which was completely different from what he originally imagined, and walked along the trail for a while, and finally saw the first animal, which was four huge silverback gorillas, three adults, and one was held in his mother's arms.

From a human point of view, they are in good shape, but Du Yu is now a cat, and these fierce guys are so big that they are perverted.

The people at the Elk Zoo are having a hard time, and neither are the animals, with signs that say "mountain gorillas," and the number of these animals is very rare, only 400 to 700 in the world.

In other zoos, they will definitely be offered as treasures, but in the Black and White Bear Zoo, their territory is only about 100 square meters, probably because they have little contact with outsiders, causing these big guys to be grumpy, and one of them is roaring.

There are both pandas and mountain gorillas, and Katie and Du Yu are a little confused, recalling that the old Berkshire housekeeper said that the animals in the zoo are very rare.

It wasn't clear how rare it was, but now they guessed something, and then they saw another animal, the Po deer.

When Katie heard the name for the first time, she searched for it and said in amazement: "My God, there are less than two hundred heads left in the world, and there are one, two, three, and four here...... Seven heads?!"

These fawns, much better tempered than the mountain gorillas, looked at her vigilantly, as if they were ready to run away at any moment.

In addition to them, Du Yu also saw a black rhinoceros, two Asian elephants, and even a white lion and an Angoroka horned tortoise!

Compared with these animals, fennec foxes, red pandas, crocodiles, giraffes and the like are nothing, a total of 31 animals, 19 of which are on the list of endangered species, such as Poe deer, silverback gorilla, southern coot, etc., which will become permanently extinct if you are not careful.

It's hard to imagine that these animals live in this small and dilapidated zoo.

At this moment, I finally met someone else, who was about forty years old, with a beard on his face, and an iron bucket in his hand, which contained two fresh leg of mutton.

When he saw Pudding, he took a few more looks and asked Katie, "Are you the new owner of Pudding?" I saw the news of Moretz's arrest in the newspaper, and I hate that woman. ”

"No, no, no, I'm just its butler, hello sir, my name is Katie, Katie Stewart. ”

Katie shook her head and smiled, she had a very clear position about her identity, and if you calculated it carefully, Pudding was her boss.

The other replied, "Call me Carl, but I'm not Superman, a zookeeper."

When I saw a picture of the pudding in the newspaper, I thought it had become fatter, and I realized it when I actually saw it...... Fatter than I thought, ten kilograms?"

"Eleven kilograms, I'm going to help it lose weight. ”

Du Yu was speechless, he didn't like others to make fun of his weight, other cats couldn't understand human language, but this fat cat had a human soul in his body.

What can he do if someone else says it? He can only roll his eyes in protest.

I heard Katie ask, "Mr. Carl, I came to visit this zoo and found that the animals here seem to be very precious?"

"Well, most of them are protected animals, and there used to be a zoologist who would help Mr. Ross collect rare animals, and he likes these rare animals, and he can be regarded as a hobby, very powerful.

Unfortunately, he was later killed by a lion, because he got drunk and strayed into the lion cage and wanted to sleep with them in his arms. But don't worry, we're doing a good job of security right now, and we're checking it every day. ”

Carl was carrying two legs of mutton, which were not light, and pointed to them and said to Katie, "I'll feed the lion first, and I'll talk to you later?"

"Okay, you go get busy first, I'll just take a look, where is the panda?"

"Continue along this road, and soon you will see a female panda called Donut being sent for breeding, and you can see two ......."

Continue the visit, Pudding has short legs and suffers, and Katie takes one step, and it has to take several steps.

When he looked up at Katie, he found that she was wandering, and he didn't know what she was thinking, the smell of the animals made Du Yu slightly uncomfortable, especially the stinky monkeys, and he almost vomited when he stayed near the cage.

The probe looked ahead, and saw a panda that had climbed out of the fence and was walking slowly.

When it saw the pudding, it stopped and froze for a few seconds, and suddenly accelerated and rushed over!

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