Animal Detective

Chapter 296 - 246: Kill But Don’t Bury

In other words, she knew what she was doing was illegal beforehand and deliberately took precautions to distance herself from it, like sending her son abroad.

Seeing the atmosphere grow a little heavy, Chen Chao said, "Alright, let’s focus on solving the case first. One step at a time."

With that, he told Shen Xin to get back to his real work.

Shen Xin’s "real work" right now wasn’t Chen Fang’s fraud case, but training police dogs.

Staying here wouldn’t be much help anyway.

"Right, right." Liu Baoqing also nodded eagerly, urging Shen Xin to get going.

Shen Xin had promised him he’d help the Criminal Investigation Division train a tracking dog.

Since they both said so, Shen Xin had no choice but to go and deal with the police dogs first.

’If I’d known this was going to happen, I wouldn’t have checked out a gun this morning. Carrying it around now is just a hassle.’

He rushed to the K-9 base.

Li Jiahui and Li Mo were leading all the police dogs in some simple physical training.

The other dogs were all behaving, except for Tiger Stripes and Tian Kui.

Those two were utterly rebellious.

When Shen Xin arrived at the training grounds, Tiger Stripes was sprawled out on his back on the grass.

Li Jiahui was beside him, trying to reason with him.

These were police dogs; even if they were only candidates, they were still colleagues.

What could you do when a colleague was disobedient and didn’t take their work seriously? You couldn’t just beat them, so all you could do was try to persuade them.

This helped Shen Xin understand why the K-9 base had such a high washout rate during the puppy stage. Disobedient and naturally stubborn dogs were all eliminated. After all, when they misbehaved, you couldn’t just beat them.

Tiger Stripes was used to being a sneaky slacker.

And Tian Kui was copying his bad habits. Li Mo would pull on his leash, but he’d stubbornly refuse to move.

If Li Mo pulled too hard, he would even bark arrogantly at him, trying to intimidate him.

One look was all it took for Shen Xin to grasp the situation. He strode over quickly.

Tiger Stripes was squinting his eyes, enjoying himself, when a shadow suddenly fell over him. His nose twitched—he must have caught Shen Xin’s scent—and he scrambled to a sitting position in an instant.

Too late!

Shen Xin kicked him squarely in the rear.

With a yelp, he took off running.

Nearby, the defiant Tian Kui sobered up instantly. This time, he didn’t need Li Mo to pull him; he started dragging Li Mo along as he ran.

"Get back here!"

Shen Xin roared.

’Trying to run away?’

Tiger Stripes skidded to a halt and timidly approached Shen Xin.

Over on the other side, Tian Kui also stopped, warily observing the situation.

"Slacking off, were you?"

Shen Xin walked up and gave him a couple more kicks.

’I still haven’t punished him for what happened yesterday.’

[I was wrong.]

Tiger Stripes whined, begging for mercy.

Black Panther was incredibly sharp—or rather, he never missed an opportunity to see Shen Xin discipline Tiger Stripes.

He immediately ran over and started barking furiously at Tiger Stripes.

At that moment, Tian Kui seemed to understand what was happening. He instantly switched sides, ran over, and joined Black Panther in barking at Tiger Stripes.

He even started nipping at him.

"And you!"

Shen Xin reached out, grabbed Tian Kui by the ear, and pulled him close. "If you’re disobedient or run off again," he warned, "I’ll break your legs."

Tian Kui’s eyes were incredibly expressive.

His gaze was a mix of ’As if I’d believe you’ and ’Go on, I dare you,’ all while feigning obedience.

This angered Shen Xin so much that he gave him two more smacks.

Li Jiahui didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. "Shen Xin, you’re the only one who can handle these two."

The problem was, Shen Xin’s method of readily scolding and hitting them was something they really couldn’t do at the K-9 base.

Shen Xin called Ding Yuwei and asked her to come by when she had a moment to pick up Tiger Stripes and Black Panther.

As long as Tiger Stripes was here, Tian Kui wouldn’t learn any good habits.

After making the call, Shen Xin grabbed Tian Kui again for another stern warning.

He told him that he was going out, and if he heard from Li Mo that Tian Kui had been disobedient when he got back, he would get a beating—a severe one.

Tian Kui’s eyes darted around, and he immediately ran over to Li Mo to rub against his pant leg.

’This guy is too smart.’

So much so that as Shen Xin and Li Jiahui left and headed for Yanling, Li Jiahui couldn’t help but worry, wondering if a dog as overly intelligent as Tian Kui could ever be trained as a police dog.

Extremely smart dogs have a strong sense of self and don’t obey commands readily.

For example, if a suspect had a knife, the dog would know it could get hurt and refuse to engage.

Shen Xin said, "It’s fine. Look at Tiger Stripes. He’s smart enough, right? As long as someone can keep him in line, he’ll still do his job obediently."

Li Jiahui shook her head without a word.

In any case, she had never heard of training a police dog this way.

The two of them arrived at Gu Shaolong’s breeding farm.

Their colleagues from Yanling had cordoned off the area and left people behind specifically to look after the cats and dogs.

They were living creatures, after all. They couldn’t just be ignored.

This was also why Shen Xin found people like Chen Fang so detestable.

These people really only started problems without ever cleaning up their own mess. Finding homes for all these stray cats and dogs, for instance, was going to be an incredible hassle.

And the moment they stepped inside and saw the miserable state of the animals in the cages, Li Jiahui’s brow furrowed and never relaxed again.

When she saw the incinerator and slaughter room in the backyard, she began to tremble.

But beyond her anger, Li Jiahui’s thoughts aligned with Shen Xin’s: what were they going to do with all these cats and dogs?

This wasn’t just a few animals, but dozens, even a hundred.

The shelters would have a hard time taking them all. As for rescue organizations...

An idea struck Li Jiahui, and she said, "Shen Xin, why don’t we contact Li Dian and his group? See if they can temporarily take in all these strays."

"And don’t you have a short-video account? You could see about posting some adoption information."

"There are so many of them. We can’t just ignore them or release them back onto the streets."

Besides, many were injured and needed medical treatment.

Shen Xin thought that was a good idea.

Cai Huafeng and his team would also have a hard time handling so many cats and dogs.

Finding a rescue organization like Li Dian’s, combined with publicizing it and posting adoption information, should be a proper way to handle all these cats and dogs.