Who knows! As soon as I returned to the mountains to farm, I encountered a natural disaster.

It is a relatively tall thatch bush, with jagged spikes on the edge of the long thatch.

Zhao Yeqing gently peeled away the grass with his hands, and was so frightened that he almost sat down on the ground.

Lying in the grass was a leopard nearly one meter in length with cloud-like patterns on its light yellow fur.

Before Zhao Yeqing turned around and ran away, he noticed the bloody wounds on the leopard's body. The beautiful fur on its body was cut open, and the bones were deeply visible.

The most fatal thing was the two bloody holes in front of his chest, which may have been punctured in the lungs. At this time, the body had almost no movement.

And underneath this leopard was the source of the cry just now.

They were two leopard cubs. It seemed that not long after they were born, their mother had passed away.

Zhao Yeqing picked up a wooden stick from the side and boldly touched the female leopard's body gently. The touch was still soft but there was no reaction.

Apparently deceased.

Zhao Yeqing discovered that there was a cub half stuck in the body of the female leopard, which was not born. She reached out and touched it, but her body was already cold.

Zhao Yeqing couldn't bear this scene the most. This should be the mother leopard trying her last bit of strength to give birth to two children. The last one couldn't hold on until she was halfway through the birth and died.

It hasn't even had time to lick off the amniotic fluid and afterbirth of its own child.

Zhao Yeqing's eyes turned red. She took off the waterproof hiking clothes she wore outside, took off the pure cotton bottoms underneath, and wrapped the two little cubs, which were squealing with milk and shivering from the cold.

The wounds on the female leopard's body should have been made by wild boars, and her chest was pierced by the tusks. If it was not about to give birth, the female leopard could have run away without being beaten and would not have died.

The wounds on the body of the female leopard were relatively fatal, but there was no wild boar around. It was estimated that the wild boar was seriously injured and ran away, but it was not ruled out that it would come back later.

Zhao Yeqing hurried down the mountain with the two cubs in his arms, fearing that the two little guys would attract the wild boars with their screams.

When I returned home with two cubs in my arms, I noticed that the chickens and geese were clearly retreating and huddled in the corner without asking for food.

The afterbirths on the two cubs had not yet been completely removed, but they had only been pushed open a little while struggling inside. Zhao Yeqing carried them to the fire.

Gently remove the afterbirth and wipe off the amniotic fluid from their bodies with cotton cloth.

The eyes of the two cubs were closed and they had not yet opened. They may have warmed up from being close to the fire source, so the milk squealing slowly subsided.

Before, she was only worried about encountering wild beasts on the road, but now she felt at a loss when she returned home and settled these two animals.

The two little things were soft, as if they had no bones, and their pink mouths opened and closed.

Zhao Yeqing: Who can tell me how to raise leopards...

She found the information, recalled the female leopard's coat color, and looked through the information.

It’s not difficult to find. I just turned two pages and saw a large high-resolution picture with the same coat color as a female leopard. The big font next to it said——

The clouded leopard is a mammal in the order Carnivora, family Catidae, and is a national first-level protected animal.

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Clouded leopards go into estrus every winter and give birth in the spring and summer of the following year, with an average of 2-4 cubs per litter.

Zhao Yeqing looked through the information carefully, but couldn't find any information on how to raise clouded leopards. How could it be possible?

She squatted next to the sleeping little cub, putting her chin on her knees and looking at it blankly.

Leopards are cats, so it should be similar to raising cats... right?

The fur color of the little leopard is yellow and black, and the pattern is not very obvious. Only deep lines can be seen, making it look like two little civet cats.

Just when they were looking at each other, one of them started to make a sticky little milky sound and started to call again, and the other one was also woken up and started to call too.

Zhao Yeqing was at a loss and didn't know what was going on. When he saw the little mouth opening and closing, he suddenly realized that he was probably hungry.

Usually cubs drink breast milk when they are born, so she ignored it.

When the baby leopard was born, even the amniotic fluid and afterbirth were still on his body, so he definitely had not received milk, but he did not have infant milk powder or pet milk powder on hand.

Cow's milk is definitely not good now. The kittens have weak spleens and stomachs. Kong Sisi's previous cat died while giving birth, leaving a litter of kittens. The doctor at the pet hospital said that they should not feed cow's milk, but goat's milk.

Where is she going to find goat milk for these two little guys?

She rummaged through the supplies that had been moved from the truck. There were several cartons of milk, but there was no goat milk or milk powder.

Zhao Yeqing found a box of Shuhua milk among the milk, opened it, took out a bottle and looked at the ingredient list. They said that cats are lactose intolerant, and Shuhua milk does not contain lactose. I wonder if it is acceptable.

The screams and screams became louder and louder, as if urging Zhao Yeqing.

There is no other way. We can't stay hungry all the time.

Zhao Yeqing poured out some milk, put it on the fire to warm for a while, picked out a few drops with a straw and tested the temperature to make sure the temperature was right. He sucked up half of the tube with a straw and fed it into the little leopard's mouth.

He was really inexperienced, and the food always flowed from his mouth when he first started feeding it. Zhao Yeqing fed and wiped it all, which made him very confused.

After gaining experience, the little leopards finally started to drink milk successfully. Both of them were fed four to five milliliters. She remembered that at the pet hospital, the doctor used a syringe to feed them, and it seemed that only three to five milliliters were given at a time.

When the two little guys were full, they chirped and fell asleep again.

Zhao Yeqing finally breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on the chair.

This is really no easier than working.

The place where the two cubs slept was a temporary nest she made using her pure cotton clothes in a bamboo basket. The open space had poor thermal insulation, and it would probably be cold if there was no fire nearby.

Zhao Yeqing was going to make a small nest for them.

Her handiwork is not very good, so the quickest and most convenient way is to DIY one from a cardboard box.

The old bedding at home was no longer usable, but she didn't throw it away. She bought new ones when she came back, and the old ones came in handy now.

I left the washed old sheets and quilts in the sun for an afternoon.

She found a large cardboard box, opened it, and sewed cotton batting and old sheets to make a square mat to lay underneath. A hole was cut in the front of the box for easy entry and exit.

They say cat owners are picky and won't live in a nest they don't like. I wonder if leopards from the same family are also picky.

Zhao Yeqing looked at the cat nest and leopard nest she had made, and felt that it was indeed a bit crude. She wanted to put cotton wool around the box when she moved it in, but now that the weather was getting hotter, she was worried that it would not be comfortable to stay in it. .

Let’s do this for now, and we’ll make something better later when we have the conditions.

Wrapping the two cubs in the pure cotton clothes and putting them into the box, I gently used my hands to tidy up some of the wrinkles in the clothes underneath them. I was caught off guard by four little paws hugging my fingers.