Chapter 7 7. God-given horse

We dragged the dead sheep to the foot of Wolf Mountain, about a hundred meters away from the hut, where we could observe it from the window of the hut.We found two short wooden stakes left by the herdsmen to temporarily tie the horses, and nailed them to the ground three meters away from the dead sheep, one on the left and one on the right, and fixed two hidden cameras on the stakes to face the dead sheep.This camera has an infrared sensor and a night shooting function. As long as there is something moving in front of the camera, the camera will automatically start shooting, and it can capture clear animal images even at night.

On the first day, there was no movement around the dead sheep.On the second and third day, we stayed at the window of the hut and watched, but still found nothing.At noon, when the sun shines directly, the belly of the lamb corpse will slowly ferment and swell, until the leg of the lamb is bulging.At sunset, the temperature dropped, and the belly of the sheep slowly deflated again.By the afternoon of the fourth day, there was a faint smell of rancidity from the sheep carcasses.In the early morning of the fifth day, I suddenly found that the position of the dead sheep had changed, as if it had been dragged by something.

I asked Yifeng to call out the camera surveillance at night to watch.In the night vision footage, at two o'clock in the morning, a fox jumped up from the sheep carcass and ran away nervously while looking at the camera, but the fox didn't speak.Let's continue to look back.At around five o'clock in the morning, a big black dog came, dragged the sheep carcass around, and gnawed a hole in the sheep's belly. The big black dog looked up at the direction of the hut, and probably heard the roar of the stove at that time. With a loud sound, the big black dog lowered its head and took a small piece of intestines before leaving in a hurry.

At noon on the fifth day, I looked around and saw a dozen or so vultures parked on the opposite mountain ridge, all stretching their necks to watch the sheep.These vultures have been watching for several days, and the dead sheep are too close to others, they dare not come down.Anyway, the sheep are rotten now, so it's better to move away and let the vultures eat them.Yifeng and I endured the stench of the corpse, and dragged the dead sheep to a place more than 300 meters away from the hut.Go back to the hut and continue monitoring. After a while, the vultures parachuted to the sheep's carcass one after another, burrowed their heads into the sheep's stomach and ate the internal organs through the meat hole gnawed by the dog.

Vulture, nicknamed "Mountain Eagle", is a professional funeral worker on the grassland.They are large carnivorous birds of prey. The largest vulture is estimated to weigh no less than forty kilograms. It is more than one meter tall and has a wingspan of nearly three meters. Has the style of the king of the mountain.Vultures also like to hunch their backs and shrug their shoulders, burying their heads in their chests and staring at their opponents.The vulture's neck is as thick and long as a human's arm. Not only is his head hairless, but his neck is also bare, with only a thin layer of fine down.Although this bald-headed appearance is a bit ugly, it is justifiably ugly.Their heads are used to pick out meat, just as real people roll up their sleeves to the bottom of their arms when they are working, so God simply rolled up the vulture's head and neck hair to the bottom of their necks so that they can start working at any time.The front end of the vulture's beak is blunt and curved, and the upper beak has a small barb that buckles the lower beak. This kind of mouth is convenient for hooking intestines and stomachs, but not suitable for attacking and tearing.Therefore, vultures usually eat carrion and seldom hunt actively. They like to follow wolves to pick up dead bodies and leftovers.

Abba Nanka, an experienced grassland herdsman, once told me: "Vultures have three main ways of circling. You only need to observe the shape of those vultures circling in the air to know the situation of the wolves below. The wolves are preparing to siege. Sometimes, the vultures will circle the entire pasture in the shape of a 'flying saucer' at low altitude. That is because they are still not sure which yak the wolves will kill. They want to occupy a favorable position, but they don't want to fly too high to attract more There are too many vultures robbing food, so the flight altitude is lowered. Some vultures will consciously fly to the nearby hills and wait quietly without disturbing the wolves hunting. Hovering in a 'tree shape', the prey is under the 'root'. The vultures are pointing at the prey and hovering. On the one hand, this posture is conducive to swooping down to harass the wolves to eat. On the other hand, this conspicuous target will expose the wolves to herdsmen. When hunting the scene, let people drive the wolves away. When the humans and wolves are gone, the prey will be the vultures. If the vultures hover irregularly and land on the ridge to bask their wings, then the meal is almost finished. Don't look at the vulture's small head, it's bright."

According to Abba's description, wolves should hate vultures.But Dad said: "That's not the case. In summer and autumn, when wolves don't gather together, those wolves who are alone will follow the vultures to search for some dead animals. The vultures hovering are the wolf's meal signal. This pair of enemies is both rivals and enemies. Partners, mutual generation and mutual restraint, cannot be seen and cannot be separated." Yifeng took a close-up of the fluffy white hair around the vulture's neck, and said with a smirk, "Look, the vulture is still a white-collar worker."

"Hehe, of course, the sweetheart collar among the white-collar workers, even the celestial burials of grassland people have to beg him, this is the highest occupation on the grassland." I whispered, "We have been feeding for a few days, and we can see that The degree of scruples of several animals. When the dead sheep is 100 meters away from the hut, the prairie dogs dare to come, and the dogs dare to grab some food before retreating after hearing the movement. Vultures are afraid of people, but as long as the food is far away from people, they dare to eat in the daytime Feed in front of people, after all, they have wings. Foxes are more afraid of people, only dare to come to feed at night, and worry about traps at any time. Wolves are much more suspicious than these animals. If they are close to people and have little food, they may not be able to hook them. them."

"Well, we have to sum up our experience. Next time, feed farther away, and increase the temptation. If one dead sheep is not enough, then get a few more. It would be better if there are dead yaks. Please tell the nearby herdsmen that Tashi , All dead cattle and sheep will be purchased by us, and not sold to dead cattle dealers, this is good for both people and animals.” While watching the vultures eat the sheep, we talked quietly.Half an hour later, the dozen or so vultures feasted and dispersed.Only the head and skin of the dead sheep lay flat on the pasture, like a puppet. We didn't see wolves in the first feeding test, but we were not discouraged.Vultures and wolves are inseparable. If the vultures are coming, can the wolves be far behind?

One morning, Tashi came to our hut as a guest. Seeing the arrival of the stranger, Lu Wang retreated under the bed after yelling symbolically a few times, and slept with the puppet dog in his arms.Tashi looked at Luwang for a while, took out a piece of air-dried meat and brought it to the dog's mouth, Luwang wagged his tail and took it away. "No way," Tashi patted the crumbs of meat on his hands and curled his lips, "You have spoiled this dog, wagging its tail when it is eaten. The real good grassland dogs are half-wild and half-family. They can hunt for food by themselves. He only recognizes one owner. He wants to help the owner look after the house but never enters the house. A prairie dog cannot be pampered like a city dog, and he will not be able to survive if you leave in the future.”

"Don't worry, we won't leave him behind. I will bring him back to the city and raise him in a friend's orchard. The future has been arranged for him. He will have no worries about food and drink in this life." Yifeng poured a bowl of Tibetan Passing the tea to Tashi, he sat down beside the bed. "I think what Zhaxi said is right. Luwang is a prairie dog after all, so he should be let out to exercise. What does it look like to stay at home and pat and coax him?" I said and took Luwang's food bowl outside the door. "Don't be so unfeeling," Yifeng couldn't bear it, "It's freezing outside, what to do if it's freezing, we Wangwang are still injured, it's not too late to exercise when the weather is warmer. Right, Wangwang." Hearing him call "Luwang" "Wangwang", I suddenly felt that the room was freezing. Yifeng stretched out his feet to scratch Luwang's stomach, and then used his toes to pick up the doll dog to tease Luwang, showing the warmth of a loving father and dog.Yifeng was afraid that Luwang would be alone at home when we went out, so when we went to the city, he specially bought that puppet dog that could bark and walk to play with Luwang.Yifeng seems to pour all his undying love for Green into Luwang. Tashi shivered twice, and said with a dry smile, "Let's get down to business. Last time you said that any herdsmen who had dead animals should be notified first. A horse just died of illness on the Langdutan Ranch in front of Zhongfeng. ..." "Yes! Yes! We want it! Why didn't we say it earlier, what if we were eaten by vultures? Go, hurry up!" "Don't worry, the horse hide is so thick that vultures can't tear it apart. But why do you buy these dead animals? Some herdsmen sell you at a much higher price than the dead cattle dealers. " "That can't be helped." I smiled wryly, "If we don't buy it, the dealers will take it away. In the end, it's us city people who suffer." Although Zhaxi said that the dead livestock on the prairie would not be bought even if they lost their fortunes, the only thing we can do at present is to buy as much as possible to save food for wolves and other carnivores. We can observe the wolves and avoid These sick meat and carrion flow into the market. At noon, Tashi helped us bargain and gave the rancher 800 yuan to leave the dead horse in the pasture. This is a godsend horse!A dead sheep is a side dish, a dead horse is a big meal, and the location of the death is far away from human settlements. This time the wolves should be rewarded.We set up three hidden cameras next to the dead horses, and the next step was to get out of the stage and wait for the wolves to come on stage. We went back to the hut and looked at the direction of Zhongfeng through the window, guessing what surprises the camera could bring us.I was fidgeting, imagining the scene where the wolves were going to have dinner: "The wolves will come in the evening, the camera left there will be able to take a close-up shot, and they will definitely be able to take a clear picture of their appearance, and the level of each wolf can be known according to the order of eating. Is Green among them? What class of wolf will he be? Will he smell us on the spot? He may follow the smell and find it! I have to prepare for the son of the wolf!" Yifeng was dizzy from being wandered around by me, pinched my shoulders and pushed me to sit on the chair: "Can you stop for a while, be patient, the wolf's territory is too big, it will take time for the wolf to find the dead horse!" Having said that, neither of them could sleep at night, so they simply went out and climbed to the hillside of the hut to listen for howling wolves. The night is as thick as ink that cannot be melted, even if the eyeballs are pierced, you can't see the people around you.We walked hand in hand, not daring to turn on the flashlight, for fear of exposing the target.Even with a flashlight, the distance it can illuminate is extremely limited.We prayed for the clouds to bloom and the moon to rise. As long as there is a moon, everything around will become dimly lit. The naked eye can see the movement hundreds of meters away, and the wolf mountain will also show a quiet outline.The bright moon star is the only guide and hope in the dark night: with the moon, nocturnal people will no longer be confused and afraid; with the moon, tomorrow will be fine weather.In a city full of neon lights, the stars and the moon may not be so important anymore, and people only look up at them during the Mid-Autumn Festival. "Looking forward to the stars and looking forward to the moon" is definitely not the mood of urban people, because this ancient expectation can only be experienced by people living in a primitive state. Sitting on the top of the mountain, we look forward to the stars, to the moon, to Green rushing back home with the stars and the moon, to be stunned by the sudden happiness... However, none of what we expected came true, but snow fell in the sky. The next morning, thin snow has covered the mountains.A few ravens flew across the front mountain to the middle peak. A group of horses were grazing on the wolf crossing beach. Looking at the calm state of the horses, there were no wolves nearby. In the afternoon, several vultures began to circle over the middle peak, and they had apparently spotted the dead horse.Once a vulture locks onto a target, it can attract nearby wolves. As soon as I opened the door, I saw groups of vultures flitting across the roof, and the whirring sound of flapping their giant wings scared Lu Wang into the room with his tail between his legs.The group of vultures flew towards Zhongfeng. "I'll go and have a look!" I quickly changed into a white coat, a white hat, and black pants, and hung the telescope around my neck. Yifeng took a mouthful of instant noodles: "Wait, I'll go with you." I took a look at the instant noodles he had just made, and I turned around and went out the door before I could wait for him. I climbed up the ridge of the front mountain almost like flying, burying my head and feet and touching a pile of chaotic rocks, and lay in ambush and tried not to move. The white clothes and black pants looked like snow-covered rocks at first glance.I peeked around furtively. On the Langdu beach, dozens of vultures had already gathered, some hovered over the dead horse, some landed next to the dead horse, and some stepped on the dead horse, trying to find a place to bite.The horse corpse has not been opened yet.The vulture's mouth is blunt, round and thick, and its bald head and long neck are suitable for digging into the belly of the corpse to eat soft meat. As long as there is an opening the size of a coin, the vulture can eat the corpse into an empty shell.However, there was no wound on the dead horse, and the vulture could not bite.The vulture's claws and beaks are also considered powerful. He can tear open yak hide, but he can't do much with horse hide.why?On this plateau where the low temperature can reach minus 20 to 30 degrees, sheep and yaks need long coats to withstand the severe cold, while horses have short coats all year round. Why is he not afraid of the cold?It all depends on this layer of skin!Horsehide is much thicker and tougher than cowhide, and after being frozen overnight, the outer layer of skin freezes, and the dead horse is as strong as a tank. The vultures gathered more and more, Langdutan became a tarmac, and they urgently needed a Ripper.A group of more than ten experienced vultures flew up and flew straight to the main peak of Langshan Mountain, clucking, clucking, and circling back and forth. After a while, a big wolf was "invited" out of the mountain by them.My heart beat faster, and I hurriedly raised the binoculars to trap him.When the big wolf walked up the Zhongfeng mountain range, the vultures landed beside him one after another. They folded their wings and lowered their heads, showing a flattering expression, expecting the wolf to help them with "one bite". The big wolf passed by with its head held high, and the vultures flapped their wings and stepped back to make way for the wolf.The two falcons followed closely behind the wolf, circled twice and landed on the fence post of the mountain ridge, like the right arm of the wolf.In contrast, this falcon is only one-third the size of a vulture. It is a medium-sized carnivorous raptor in the falcon family. It usually preys on small mammals. When prey is scarce, it cooperates with wolves to eat meat.Falcons have sharp talons and a beautifully streamlined body that can lightly rest on fence posts.Despite their small size, falcons are much faster than vultures. This wolf looks very familiar... My heart skipped a beat, isn't he the big lion-headed wolf we saw on the top of Wolf Mountain with the eagle coming back?Two months ago, Zhaxi and we squatted on the top of the wolf mountain. We saw a pack of wolves and were waiting for this wolf to come back. As soon as he appeared, two sentinel wolves rushed forward to report to him, which shows that this wolf has a high status.The mysterious and deceitful temperament from the royal eagle is worthy of being a military advisor of the wolves, but I don't know if the wolves have this system. Some vultures leading the way for the wolves croaked and flew to the side of the dead horse, shaking their bare necks, so excited that the hair on their collars stood on edge.The wolf had already seen the dead horse, so he stopped, glanced down the mountain, pondered for a while, and sat down calmly.What is the way?The vultures have let you go, why don't you rush to grab the meat?I muttered in my heart. It was not easy to invite the "chief knife hand", but the meal was delayed.The vulture became even more anxious, and flew back and forth between the horse carcass and the wolf. If they had knees, they might all want to kneel down to the wolf.But no matter how impatient the vulture was, the wolf just stared at the dead horse and refused to go down the mountain, and even yawned and lay down. After watching it for a long time, I finally got a general idea of ​​the wolf's mind-the sky and the ground on the wolf crossing beach have already gathered hundreds of vultures, all of which are vying for a good position. ?If I were a wolf, I would never foolishly work for a vulture. Don't look at him as a "parent of food and clothing" now. After the vultures start robbing, I don't know if there is a wolf's share. I might be caught blind by the bird's claws Eyes are all possible.They are all "travelers" in funerals, and no one knows the nature of vultures better than wolves. It seems that wolves have to wait for their companions or wait for the sun to set.As soon as it gets dark, vultures have to get off work. For birds without night vision, night flight is too easy to collide with the plane.And night is the world of wolves. While the wolves were resting, I scanned around with the binoculars, and found two foxes squatting in the cove, also staring at the dead horse eagerly, curling up their tongues, constantly hooking back the saliva overflowing from their mouths.As far as the weak fox is concerned, no matter whether the wolf eats the meat or the vulture eats the meat, as long as he can steal a bone at the opportunity.On the harsh grassland, there is a heaven-sent feast, this is the temptation that no one can resist! The setting sun dozed off against the ridgeline.The vultures became even more restless, pushing and shoving beside the dead horse. Suddenly, the wolf seemed to have noticed something, stood up "whoosh", and looked closely at the horse corpse... He quickly took two steps back, turned his head to look at the eagle waiting on the fence, and shook his neck hair .The two falcons flew up and swooped over the horse carcass, and one eagle stopped on the hidden camera, pecking and peeking.Another eagle flew high into the clouds, and even circled and screamed above my head.The wolf suddenly raised his head, and his gaze shot through the telescope like a sharp arrow and pierced my eyes.I was so frightened that I shook off the binoculars. When I picked up the binoculars and looked again, I searched the whole mountain. The wolf disappeared, and the two eagles flew towards the back mountain. The broken reminder hired by the wolf has reported to him again.Where did it go wrong?I am higher than the wolves, and I am so well camouflaged against the wind. How could I be spotted by the wolves?Once the wolf became suspicious, he would not come again, and he didn't miss the feast—also, if the eagle could serve him, the wolf would definitely not be a constant starving master. Once the wolves left, the vultures had nothing to do. The vultures who invited the wolves before flapped their wings and flew towards the west mountain opposite the wolf's crossing beach. When the sun was halfway down, the vultures suddenly became restless and gave up the horse corpses one after another. A mountain vulture flew in the western sky, surrounded by vultures, he landed on the horse carcass, folded his pitch-black wings, and had a few tufts of flying feathers on his shoulders.Alpine vultures and vultures are both cousins ​​of vultures, slightly larger than vultures, and covered in black.The alpine vulture has a beak that is as sharp as an iron hook. Although it is not as sharp as a wolf's teeth, it can still be opened with a knife. The key is that he understands technology. The alpine vulture stood on the horse's belly and peeked forward and backward, like a "bag open" studying a combination lock.He picked the horse's genitals to stick to the weakest gap between the bellies.Use both claws and beaks, hook!tie!tear!pull!A few minutes later, the alpine vulture pulled out a piece of flesh as thick as a finger from the small opening in the horse's belly. We have found a breakthrough!There was a loud bang, and all the wings fluttered. The vultures changed their politeness of abdicating to the virtuous, and surged up. A burst of "wings, claws and kicks" blasted the alpine vulture aside, and even the piece of meat in his mouth was taken away. go. As soon as the cooking gong sounded, the vulture that first plunged its head into the horse's stomach had a blood-red neck and dragged out more than ten meters of the horse's intestines, while the rest of the vultures rushed forward and snatched it wildly.The horse's belly opened wider and wider, and the black bird shadows covered the sky and covered it, as if the god of death had come, and the horse's corpse was covered tightly.The vultures gathered into giants, and hundreds of wings more than two meters long blew a storm, and the wind was billowing. In an instant, my heart missed several beats, and my soul was blown away by those giant wings.A strange feeling of fear flashed through my head—fortunately I wasn't that horse. Any vulture that grabs a piece of meat from the bird array will be robbed by the "air force" immediately. The vultures fight from the ground to the sky, and then fight back to the ground from the sky.The sound of hissing, flapping wings, crashing, and fierce fighting echoed in the sky above his head.I didn't dare to vent my anger, and I felt guilty and wanted to see it.Suddenly I felt my cheeks were cold, and I touched it, and there was a splash of blood splashing out of nowhere! The chief swordsman of the feast, the alpine vulture, was probably unwilling to reconcile, and wanted to squeeze in and take a bite, but the bird's head was instantly pecked off by the vultures, and he lay on the ground and twitched.The red-eyed vultures swarmed up, and when they dispersed, the tragic chief knife hand was torn and eaten, leaving only bloody feathers floating in the wind.I was terrified when I saw it. The wolf is really wise. He would rather not eat than make a wedding dress for others. The eagle that retreated with the wolf is also a smart bird. In less than twenty minutes, the vultures dispersed one after another.All that remained of the horse was a pile of bones, an empty hide and half a head. "Oh... I'm done eating." A Sichuan dialect wafted down the wind. I turned my head and saw that it was Yifeng, more than 20 meters away on the other side of the stone pile.I was just looking at the vultures, but I didn't notice when Yifeng climbed up the mountain.He was wearing a grass-green jacket, squatting there like a big frog, with a bird feather falling from his collar, and a video camera was set up in front of him, and when he saw me looking at him, he stretched out two fingers and compared the letter "V" to me, Said he took pictures.I gave him a blank look, it turned out that the wolf's eagle minion found Yifeng when he was patrolling the sky. "Who asked you to follow?!" I said angrily, stretched my stiff legs and feet, and retreated while I could still see the mountain road! "Do you not accept the camera?" Yifeng hurriedly caught up with me. "No, the fox is still waiting to pick up the bones, don't scare them away." When we retracted the hidden camera the next day, there were quite a few raptor feathers scattered around yesterday's "picnic" scene.The vulture's large flight feathers are as long as a human arm, slender and sharp like a saber.In that thrilling melee, I don't know how many birds died for food. The hidden camera recorded the ravens pecking at the horse's eyes in the early morning; recorded that when the horses passed by at noon, the pony sniffed the horse's carcass and snorted in panic, and the mare drove the pony away; Feast; Recorded that after we left, the bearded vulture, who specializes in eating bones, took away the horse bones. He would take the bones to a high altitude and throw them on the rocks to break them. It is recorded that the fox came to steal the horse's head at night; it was recorded that the wild dog licked off the residual blood and dragged away the horse's hide in the early morning...a horse disappeared in the grassland.However, the cameras from three angles didn't even capture the shadow of a wolf. Yifeng was quite proud of this: "I captured that wolf. If I hadn't gone, such a precious image would have been lost." "If you hadn't exposed the target, the wolf should have eaten this meal!" Although I complained like this, I knew in my heart that the wolf was already suspicious before the eagle found us.What was it that made him suspicious?In the video, there was a moment that caught my attention: a vulture's wing hit the camera, the lens tilted, the exposure was exposed, and nothing could be seen clearly.I asked Yifeng what was going on, and he turned his head to look: "The camera is facing the sun." I compared the time when the wolves retreated, and I understood—the wolves were not suspicious when they were waiting on the mountain, because when looking down from the mountain, the top of the camera was covered with snow and could not be seen. blocked the camera.But when the vulture touches, the camera flips, and the lens reflects the sun, which immediately alerts the wolf, and then instructs the eagle scouts to patrol the field, and finally finds Yifeng. Wolves have wolf language, and birds have bird language, but how do wolves and falcons communicate?How do they reach a tacit understanding of cooperation and symbiosis?How many unknown secrets do animals on the grassland have? "Foxes can see infrared light!" I freeze-framed the video of the fox dragging away the horse's head at night. In the video, the fox is staring at the camera with his eyes staring at the camera. His eyes reflect light like a light bulb. In the night vision footage, the infrared rays activated by several cameras show a white light one after another.Infrared light is invisible to human eyes, but it is no different from a bright searchlight in the eyes of nocturnal animals.Foxes can see, and wolves can see even more. Yifeng tapped the mouse with his fingers to slow down the video: "So the hidden camera is not hidden at all, and it will be exposed as soon as the infrared light is activated. And our camera is installed too clearly, even if the wolf doesn't pay attention on the mountain, it can be found once it goes down the mountain. Based on the suspiciousness of the wolf, he will definitely not approach. Think about it, Green has learned to turn on the TV and play with the remote control after living in our house for a month. Isn’t it too insulting to the wolf’s IQ if we blatantly set up the camera to take pictures? ? We have to find a way to hide and camouflage the camera, get rid of the human smell, and prevent the wolves from finding out." I pondered: "No matter how disguised we are on the grassland, we can't escape the eyes of wolves. What is our purpose?" "Look for Green!" "Then what are you hiding?" I laughed, "Green is not afraid of cameras, so let Bunker discover us." Yifeng thinks about it too, we are not setting up a trap, we are just contacting and testing, placing artificial things in the open, and letting wolves inspect them, the simpler and more straightforward the better.One feeding is not enough twice, twice is not enough ten times, let the wolf understand that feeding in front of the camera is harmless, and these two people have no malicious intentions.We hope that Green will smell our breath as soon as possible and come back home. Judging from the fox we photographed, when he came to move the dead sheep for the first time, he was startled by the sudden activation of the infrared light, and he didn't dare to eat it, so he gave up.This time in front of the dead horse, although the fox was still guarding against the camera, he dared to drag the horse's head away. Everything has a gradual recognition process.Wolves are the most suspicious and vigilant among all animals, and it is a long process for wolves to clear up their doubts. We bought a lot of dead sheep from various herdsmen one after another, and put one under the wolf mountain every few days, installed a camera, and stopped disturbing it.Occasionally, aerial cameras are released to conduct high-altitude reconnaissance around Langshan. After each feeding, as long as the camera is installed, the wolves will not come; if the camera is removed, occasionally wolves can be found "floating".In response to Zeren's words: "wolves are so scared that they will never eat things that have been touched by people." However, wolves can hold back their saliva, but they can't hold back their curiosity.I still have to take the opportunity to check it out, and then leave quietly, waving my paws, without taking a lamb chop. Almost every dead sheep ends up cheap vultures, foxes and wild dogs.Over time, our feeding attracted many stray dogs, and one of the big black dogs wagged its tail at us after eating meat.