Elsa the Lion in Joey Adamsen

Elsa the lion was only born two or three days before her mother died. I took it out of the crack in the rock, stroked it, and fed it milk powder and a drink made of cod liver oil and glucose. Soon, its small eyes covered with blue film opened, and its watery eyes turned round and round. Five months later, it grew up and was very strong. It never leaves me for a moment and sleeps with me at night. In the middle of the night, it often licks my face with its rough tongue and wakes me up.

When summer comes, elsa likes to take a bath in the river for several hours. After washing, she went to rest among the dense reeds. It saw me squatting by the river, deliberately flapping the waves, gently throwing me to the ground with its front paws, and making fun of me happily.

One night, a rhinoceros came. Rhinoceros has a bad temper. No matter what it is, even the locomotive, dare to hit it. The rhinoceros pounced on me. I don't have a gun, and there is no place to hide around. I thought this was over. I shouted, Elsa came from a distance and bravely fought the rhinoceros. The rhinoceros can't beat it, so it turns around and runs. Elsa drove it away in one breath.

When Elsa began to change her teeth, she opened her mouth to me like a child. I gently shook its deciduous teeth that were about to fall off. It closed its eyes and did not move. Sometimes I lean on Elsa to read or draw. She sucked my thumb and soon fell asleep quietly.

We went to Lake Rudoll, 370 kilometers away, mostly on foot. Along the way, Elsa jumped around like a puppy, chasing rabbits and killing antelopes for us. We use some donkeys to carry our luggage. At first, Elsa could get along well with them, but one night in the middle of the night, Elsa suddenly broke into the donkeys. The donkeys fled in fear, and one of them was scratched by Elsa. At this time, it occurred to me that animals are prone to animal cruelty at night. I have a whip and really taught it a lesson. Elsa bowed her head and squatted on the ground without saying a word, as if begging for my forgiveness. Looking at its pitiful appearance, my anger was forgotten. I stroked its head, comforted it and told it not to do this next time. It seems to understand what I said, sucking its thumb like a coquetry, rubbing its head against my knee and humming a song gently in its nose.

Elsa is almost two years old. I want to send her to the zoo. Later, I thought I should send her back to nature and choose a good environment for her to live by herself. It is not easy for human-raised animals to survive when they return to nature, because they carry the smell of people. However, this is also a scientific experiment, and I am determined to train it to return to nature and let it live a happy life there.

I taught him to catch food by himself first. I threw the beaten antelope in front of it, let it bite and cut it open. Slowly, it will grab some food by itself After a few days, I quietly put it into the lion's rich living resources and left quietly. Several times, it came back hungry. I received it with joy and sadness, just like my married daughter came home unfortunately. A few days later, I sent it back to nature. I miss it very much after it left, especially on the night of the snowstorm. I've been thinking about it all night, and I don't know what happened.

Once, it had a high fever. I never leave it, and it always sleeps gently with two claws around my neck. I give it a blood test, take medicine and sleep with it. I forgot that I was alone and elsa was a lion. It gradually returned to health, but I couldn't bear to leave it. On second thought, it will always come back to the beast, so I decided to leave it.

Elsa and I lived together for three years. I felt great pain when I left for the last time. I hugged its neck and kissed it; It seems to realize something and rubs me with its smooth body. Then it wandered in the forest and looked back at me again and again until we couldn't see each other.

So I sent Elsa back to nature.