Chapter 493 Praise of Life

There are two rows of bungalows, Zhang Zian and Lao Yang followed Fu Tao into one row of residential rooms, and Fei Max walked to the other row of kennels alone. It doesn't know why it's doing it, it's just...a feeling.

Fu Tao didn't lock the door after bringing the old and frail German Shepherd into the kennel just now, but just pretended to hide it, probably thinking that the gate of the yard should be locked, since no one will steal anything anyway, so as to prevent the poor children in the country That's all.

Femas raised his paw and pushed open the door of the kennel, and a burst of spring came rushing to his face. The temperature in the room is very suitable, and there is a wall-mounted electric heater on the wall, which is neither too cold nor too hot for the dog.

It can be seen that the design of the kennel is thoughtful. It was originally used as a kennel instead of being rebuilt later. The interior is divided into many compartments, and each compartment has a dog, most of which are German. animal husbandry.

The level of sanitation is relatively average, and it is definitely incomparable with pet stores, but Femas can also understand that it only smells Fu Tao from this courtyard, and he wants to manage these ten pets by himself. The elderly German Shepherd is very difficult, and it is normal to be too busy. Fu Tao himself is also a middle-aged and elderly person in his fifties and sixties. In a few years, even he himself may need someone to take care of him.

"Woo~"

The German shepherd just now was lying in the No. 1 cage. It had just walked around the mountain, lying on its side on the blanket exhaustedly, and looked up at Femas for a short while, as if envious of it. young and strong.

The surrounding scenery briefly fluctuated.

Femus is familiar with this feeling.

Xinghai and Laocha can forcibly pull it into their mental world, because they are strong enough, and their mental world is also strong enough, but these ordinary cats and dogs can't do it, their intelligence is not yet developed, and their memory is incomplete. Phymas is just a non-existent spectator in their mental world.

The owner of this German Shepherd is Fu Tao, the current owner is him, and the original owner is also him. He built this nursing home for it.

It is very happy to be with its owner for a long time and has nothing else to ask for.

Famus bypassed the No. 1 cage and came to the No. 2 cage.

In the No. 2 cage is another beautiful German shepherd, about 9 years old, standing in the cage very energetic, slightly smaller than Femas, because it is a female. It looked at Femas curiously, but soon lost interest, and turned to look out the window, as if waiting for something.

A 9-year-old is not too old for a police dog, it's just past its prime. Some 10- and 11-year-old police dogs are still in service.

This German Shepherd is very ordinary as a police dog.

Also very typical.

It has four brothers and sisters in its litter, and it is neither the strongest nor the weakest. It had a happy and carefree childhood and grew up healthily. After growing up a little bit, it and its brothers and sisters were taken away by different people. When they were separated, they were a little sad, but they were more looking forward to it, because it had had enough of competing with their brothers and sisters for their mother's love, and it only hoped Can meet a person, a person who only loves itself.

Its owner is a relatively rare female trainer in the police dog base. He named it Luoluo, probably in the hope that it will grow into a graceful lady.

After that, Luoluo ate, trained and played with her, almost inseparable. Those were the happiest days of her life. The training is tiring, but after finishing the training, she can get her praise. If the performance is outstanding, she can also eat the luncheon meat and chicken legs that she secretly bought for him, so Luoluo works harder in the training, hoping to get more love from her.

However, the reality is not as expected. Although Luoluo has passed the training and successfully became an official police dog, her grades are not top-notch in all aspects. This is also normal. After all, police dogs that are top-notch in various subjects like Chilong and Prince are very rare. They are equivalent to human academic masters. In fact, most of them are ordinary people with average grades and graduated from ordinary colleges. , doing ordinary work, just like Luoluo is an ordinary police dog.

Luoluo's trainer is also an ordinary person, with the joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys of ordinary people. When he is happy, he will hug her tightly in his arms, and when he is angry, he will severely reprimand him. She also has a little secret, that is, she has a boyfriend in her hometown. This is a little secret that only Luoluo knows, because when she is alone with it, she will show her boyfriend's photo for it to see, and whisper to it how he is. What a wonderful person, he would occasionally call other people behind his back, and said that he would introduce him to him in the future.

Fei Max thinks of Wu Ning in the mind image world, she is somewhat similar to Luo Luo's trainer, she will also whisper to Fei Max and Lao Cha how handsome the handsome man she met on the street, or wantonly imagine "Declaration" " and "New Youth" by the voices and smiles of the authors of the articles, guess whether they are men or women, and guess what kind of life they lead.

Luoluo thought that this kind of life would last forever, but one day, she suddenly bought a lot of delicious food, and happily told it that her boyfriend proposed to her, so she wanted to leave the base and return to her hometown. Her smile caught it, and it was genuinely happy for her, though it didn't know why.

The parting was not too painful, because she promised repeatedly that she would take it home when it was discharged from the army, and play with her boyfriend with it.

Luoluo watched her leave expectantly.

However, it and she both overlooked one problem, that is, Luoluo is still young, and she is still far away from being discharged from the army.

Luoluo was sent to the police force and handed over to a policeman with a dog. Although the new owner treated her very well, she would never forget her.

She has visited it several times, and her identity has been changing from trainer, maiden, and newlywed wife. Every reunion is very happy, and every parting is full of expectations. She has repeatedly promised that she will wait for it to leave the army. Will definitely pick it up later.

The last time she appeared, she had a big belly, and it was difficult for her to bend down. She held its head, put its ears on her belly, and let it listen to the baby's heartbeat.

That is the sound of life.

After hearing this, Luoluo looked at her belly in awe, as if it was a holy object.

Later, Luoluo's second owner was transferred and left the police force, and she received a third owner, and she also gradually aged from a young police dog to become a predecessor of other police dogs in the police force.

She never came again.

When going out on a mission, Luoluo knew that she should concentrate, but her eyes could not stop falling on the young woman holding the child, trying to find her from the crowd.

Luoluo's various subjects were not particularly outstanding, but when she got older, she was in an awkward position at the end of the crane during training.

Luoluo's third owner didn't know what it was thinking. Considering its age, it reduced the intensity of training and the number of times it went on missions—this was for its own sake, but it regrettably lost There was no chance of finding her on the street.

Later, when the National Games was held in Luoluo's city, in order to strengthen security, nearly half of the police dogs in the police force were eliminated and retired early.

The eliminated Luoluo has no one to adopt, because the cosmopolitan city where it is located does not allow private raising of German shepherds. Its third owner happened to know Fu Tao, so he sent it here.

Femas knew from its eyes that it still did not give up, and kept staring outside, whenever there were strange footsteps passing by the courtyard gate, it would stand up, waiting for her to appear in front of it again, to pick him up.

Almost a year has passed in the blink of an eye, and Luoluo is getting old day by day while waiting.

Maybe her husband doesn't like dogs, maybe her job and family have changed, maybe she's too busy taking care of the kids, maybe she's been put off by other chores... too many possibilities, and of course she just forgot about it .

Fei Masi remembered Cui Yi and Baofeng who parted at the gate of the base. After a few years, will Cui Yi fulfill his promise to take Baofeng away?

The world is impermanent, many things are not determined by people's subjective will, and it is hard to say what will happen in the future.

Fei Max came to the No. 3 cage again.

The German Shepherd in cage No. 3 is already very old, at least 14 years old, his teeth are almost completely worn out, and his life is like a candle in the wind, which may go out at any time.

There is half of the food left in the food bowl in front of it, and a loss of appetite is a bad sign.

Femas approached tentatively, and looked through the cage. It lay on the ground and moved its nose, without opening its eyes, and even lost the instinct to protect food.

The food bowl is mainly made of commercially available dog food, soaked in water to soften it, and some stewed meatballs made of vegetables and minced meat are added—this is softer and more suitable for its teeth.

The German Shepherd in the No. 4 cage is the youngest, about 8 years old.

When he saw it for the first time, Femas was startled because half of its right hind leg was missing. Instead of a hairy calf under the knee joint, it was equipped with a curved blade prosthesis like those disabled athletes on TV.

The production technology of the prosthesis is very rough, it is obviously a copycat version, it may be hand-built with some tools, it is fixed on the knee joint through nylon Velcro and the bottom bracket, and the curved stainless steel plate is used as a support.

"Woof!" It watched Femas vigilantly, and called.

When the four eyes met, Phimas saw its past.

Its owner gave it a foreign name, called X.

Like Luoluo, X was not born in the police dog base of Binhai City, but from the remote border between Guangdong and Guangxi. He is a border police dog.

It was born and trained in the Southwest Police Dog Training Base, and its training performance is exceptional, no less than Chilong and Prince, even worse. Therefore, when X graduated from the base with excellent grades, he was assigned to the Border Armed Police Force, which has the strictest requirements for police dogs.

The lightning played by Fei Max in the movie is a border police dog, but he doesn't know what a real border police dog looks like, and just acts according to the script.

In the hot subtropical forest, the environment is unimaginably harsh, especially during the rainy season, when the air is hot and humid, and after a few steps, it is so hot that you can hardly breathe.

X is carrying out the most dangerous anti-drug mission. Foreign criminals have not only pistols, but also light weapons such as grenades and automatic rifles. Therefore, X has to wear a bulletproof vest for dogs when performing the mission, which is even more exacerbated. degree of stuffiness.

During the training, X fainted several times due to heatstroke, and continued to put in rigorous training after hanging up for a few days.

Due to the high air humidity, after a mission that lasted for several days, its back, abdomen, sides, and all the positions that had been in contact with the bulletproof vest for a long time were worn off by the bulletproof vest, revealing bright red tender flesh , and then infected with eczema due to mosquito and parasite bites, large areas of skin are red, swollen and inflamed.

After each task, X almost peeled off his skin, so X's hair was ugly and mottled, with new and old hairs growing together.

X's owner loves it very much, and often seeks medical treatment while holding it. He also bought Chinese herbal medicine and tortured it day and night, and applied it on the eczema-prone parts of X's body.

From its memory, Femas saw that not only X was like this, but almost all police dogs in the border armed police force were like this. German shepherds, or their ancestor wolves, are not animals suitable for living in the subtropical rainforest, but in order to protect the peace and tranquility of the border area, they have devoted themselves to it from generation to generation, and even buried their bones here.

Near the station of the border armed police force, there is an unnamed hill, which is a police dog cemetery set up spontaneously by the border armed police officers and soldiers.

Through X's memory, Feimas saw its owner take it to the cemetery.

It was a weekend, and the sky was cloudy. Almost all the officers and soldiers in the station who were not on duty came to pay a funeral for a minesweeper dog who was struck by a mine and died while on duty.

There are dozens of tombstones in the cemetery, and X was led by its owner. On the nearest tombstone, there were several dark red characters written on it: "The Tomb of the Police Dog Boy", and there are two lines of small characters next to it, which are " German Shepherd" and "Sacrificed in the Duty of Project 528".

The tombstone is very clean, apparently often cleaned by people, green weeds grow around it, and a beige dandelion stubbornly emerges from under the tombstone. The breeze blows, and the white pappus is scattered in all directions with the wind.

A hole was dug under another tombstone, which was prepared for the police dog buried today. The large characters on the tombstone read: "The Tomb of Police Dog Michel", and the small characters next to it read "Labrador Retriever" and "Due to minesweeping missions." public sacrifice".

The duke's master held a small urn, and weepingly lowered it into the pit. The other armed police silently waved their shovels and filled the hole with new soil until it was leveled.

"salute!"

In the solemn atmosphere, the officer gave an order, and the armed policemen stood at attention and saluted.

The border guards are not good at words, so they can only express their memory of their dead comrades with salute.

The environment is harsh, the enemy is ferocious, and the casualty rate of police dogs in the southwestern border area is astonishingly high, and there are very few police dogs that can be discharged normally. Days passed by, and bad luck finally found X one day.

It was a major anti-narcotics task, which had never been disclosed to the public. The armed police officers and soldiers stationed there almost came out in full force to crack down on foreign criminals.

The criminals were not willing to stand still, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides in the jungle.

During the battle, a pulled grenade was thrown near Master X, but he was so focused on the fight that he didn't notice it. X, who had been trained in the identification of explosives, didn't think about anything, but instinctively rushed forward, throwing his master to the side.

The grenade exploded, and X had a hind leg severed by shrapnel, while its owner survived with only minor injuries thanks to his heroic rescue.

At the commendation meeting for the action, X won the second-class merit like the lightning in the script, but he was discharged from the army because he could not continue to perform the task.

Both Luoluo and Baofeng had their owners leave the army first, and then waited for them to also leave the army. Only X left the army first, and its owner was still on the front line to perform tasks.

X's owner is from Binhai City, and his parents have passed away. During his vacation, he took X back to his hometown with a cool climate, and put it in Fu Tao's nursing home for police dogs. He picked him up when he was discharged from the army.

Femas believes that the owner of X will definitely come to pick it up, because they are comrades in arms who depend on life and death, and nothing can separate them, and Binhai City does not prohibit raising German shepherds. Femus felt a little regretful, if he could meet X earlier, he would definitely be able to interpret the role of Lightning even better.

The prosthesis on X's leg was built by Fu Tao with the help of a carpenter.

Although disabled, scarred, and mottled and ugly, X still maintains his vigilance and pride on the front line. It has a right to pride, a crude prosthetic like a shining medal.

Away from the front line, it is still a true soldier.

Fei Max squatted on the ground straight, raised his right foreleg, imitating the appearance of a human, and saluted X.

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