On the streets of Brazil, people who rest take their dogs out to hang out, Brazilians are not busy at work, so people's favorite thing is to go out and walk their dogs, which has gradually become a kind of socialization for people.
However, one family is different from other families, and when his "pet" appeared, the dogs on the street retreated, and this situation has been happening for nearly 9 years.
This special pet is an adult tiger, and the person holding him is the "warrior" Lao Bo in the hearts of his neighbors.
Every time Lao Bo goes out with his tiger to walk around, it will attract everyone's attention, even if he has been watching for 9 years, the surrounding neighbors still can't help but sigh, "In these 9 years, no one must dare to go to Lao Bo's house to find things."
Yes, this delivery to the door, it is estimated that it is the tiger's "snack".
So why would a person retire a tiger at home and raise it for 9 years?
This matter has to start from 9 years ago.
9 years ago, Lao Bo, who was still a member of the Brazilian Animal Protection Association, has always liked small animals since he was a child, and soon after working, he joined the Animal Protection Society, determined to do something for the abused small animals.
Over the years, he followed the members of the association and rescued dogs that were kept at home by their owners without food and drink, as well as skinny cats that were raised...
These countless examples make Lao Bo extremely serious about the choice of his own pet, and Lao Bo's wife and children want to have a dog, because they have not thought about whether to adopt or choose from a pet store, and this matter has been shelved.
However, the family never expected that this choice would have an answer a few months later.
One day in May, Bo's Animal Protection Society received a report that a tiger under the age of one year in a local Circus in Brazil had been abused and often whipped with a whip by a trainer and not fed.
The whistleblower claimed to be a logistician in the circus and was not accustomed to tiger abuse, so he came to report it, hoping to get help from the Animal Protection Society.
The people of the Tiger Animal Protection Society have also heard about it, after all, some time ago, the propaganda on the street could be seen as long as you walked on the street, but if it was really animal cruelty, then the zoo had already broken the law.
Thinking of this, the people of the Animal Protection Association held a meeting, first of all, someone borrowed to watch the performance to understand the situation first, if the state of the little tiger is really not good, then the follow-up will be the association's people to come forward and directly interfere.
The person who received the reception to watch the performance was Lao Bo, who picked a special performance time for a tiger drilling a fire ring.
After entering the arena, the atmosphere in the audience was very warm, the field was surrounded by wires to prevent injury to the audience, among the five or six tigers, Lao Bo saw the target of their coming this time, a small tiger that looked only five or six months old, looking intimidated, and there were animal trainers next to it constantly communicating.
The little tiger looked malnourished, its fur dull, as if it had not eaten for several days.
Lao Bo's gaze is basically on the little tiger the whole time, the little tiger's cooperation with the animal trainer is obviously not very high, the completed project is very small, the location of the old Bo is very close to the center of the field, when the little tiger came to him, the old Bo saw the faint scar on the leg of the little tiger, and the old Bo can now basically determine that the circus is suspected of animal abuse.
After returning home, Lao Bo reported his situation to the Animal Protection Society, and after research, lao Bo led the team and carried out a surprise attack with the circus.
After examination, Lao Bo found that not only a tiger, but also a young tiger was recuperating in a cage at this time.
After an injury examination, it is confirmed that the circus has reached the level of animal cruelty, the animal association will hold it accountable, and the circus will be suspended.
However, although the circus is suspended, the location of the little tiger has not yet been determined.
On the animal protection society's side, there is no extra place to collect tigers, and tigers will also affect other small animals.
Lao Bo looked at the two weak little tigers and finally made a decision to take the little tiger home to raise.
Of course, such a big decision, Lao Bo still sought the opinions of his wife and children in advance.
The children are looking forward to the tiger's arrival, and the wife is also very supportive of Lao Bo's action.
After receiving the support of his family, Lao Bo built a place for the little tiger to live in his yard, and after the tiger's injuries were almost healed, he brought the tiger home.
The children also named the two tigers, David and Green, and during the period when David and Green were recuperating, Lao Bo often took the children to visit the two tigers at the animal hospital, in order to let them get acquainted with the family's breath as soon as possible.
And David and Gus also lived up to expectations, and when they came to Lao Bo's home to officially settle down, they got along very well with their families.
Lao Bo would get up every morning to prepare breakfast with his wife, his wife would prepare his family's, and Lao Bo would prepare two tigers.
Raising tigers sounds very imposing, but the cost of raising them is not low.
The two tigers are at least thirty pounds of meat a day, which is still in the middle of adulthood, and when they are adults, the demand will be more.
Lao Bo's three daughters are very fond of two tigers, which sounds more powerful than raising a dog, every day the two daughters will play with two tigers for a while, and the youngest daughter will also ask to touch this "big cat".
Tiger and Lao Bo's family get along very happily, it seems that they can sense the family's love and concern for themselves, and accompany the family to eat and play together.
Of course, if the youngest third daughter comes to play with two tigers, the two tigers will obediently lie down so that the little one can touch himself, and many times, when the wife is busy with the things in her hands and comes to the yard to find the children, she can often see David and Green one left and one right, while the younger daughter lies between the two sleeping soundly.
Of course, David and Green got along happily with the Bo family, but the others didn't think so.
It was two tigers, and whenever Lao Bo and his daughter led the tiger out for a walk, the surrounding area would always become a vacuum, and no one dared to approach them, for fear that the tiger would suddenly hurt people with animalistic nature.
Some people also feel that the Lao Bo family raised tigers in their own homes, ignoring the nature of tigers, and tigers should live in nature, rather than being raised in human society, which is also abuse.
In this regard, Lao Bo did not agree.
"David and Green were rescued from the circus, and they were no longer fit to live in nature. As for hurting people, we were home almost every moment, and we gave David and Green enough respect, food and love, and they now trusted us so much. ”
For Lao Bo's words, many people expressed their disapproval, but at this time, the Animal Protection Association also stood up and said that Lao Bo took the tiger home to raise it, which was a decision after the inspection of the Animal Protection Association and joint consultation.
After the animal protection association spoke out, the objections to the lao Bo family raising tigers gradually subsided, of course, for the old Bo, these objections did not have much impact on himself and his family.
In the daily dog walking time, it is still someone else walking the dog and he walks the tiger, which looks really different.
Lao Bo's three daughters have gradually grown up in the company of tigers, and the eldest daughter and the second daughter have also started a family.
The husband of the eldest daughter said that he was very cool about his husband's behavior of raising two tigers, and quickly took over the behavior of Lao Bo walking tigers every day, while the husband of the second daughter said that he respected the behavior of the old man who loved animals, but he was afraid and avoided direct contact with tigers.
As for the youngest third daughter, in the company of the tiger, this little girl soon grew up, because there is a tiger as a "backer", from childhood to adulthood, no one dares to provoke the third daughter, and soon grew into a generous little girl.
From the rescue of the tiger to the present, it has been 9 years, and the two tigers have also given birth to a litter of cubs, but only three have survived.
As the cubs grew older, Bo had a plan to breed tigers, and he also looked forward to the tigers being released into the wild one day, but the plan was quickly stopped by the local animal protection society.
Under the contact of the Animal Protection Association, the three newborn tigers were accepted by the newly established nature reserve in recent years after reaching the age of one, and officially began their rewilding training.
David and Green, because they live well in the old Bo family, are not accepted by the reserve, and old Bo also feels that David and Green can have better care in their own home.
After 9 years of getting along, the surrounding neighbors have been able to get along with two adult tigers very naturally, after all, there has not been a tiger injury in so many years.