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Chapter 4 - Alice!

As the day carried on visitors started coming to the zoo a ticket in the world zoo is only 5 dollars they have managed to get 50,000 visitors last year and have a few loyal visitors after all this is the only zoo next to the city of appleton well real zoo with exotic animals, drake was still studying at his office to be honest as the owner of the zoo he doesn't have a lot to do but he wants to change that and be active and work with the animals and he needs to find ways to get more money after all half of private owned zoos are non profit the amount of money it takes to maintain the animals and food aswell as salaries they are barely making by his parents had to take a loan just to get it running that's why with so many free acres of land around the zoo has never expanded because it has no money but for drakes goals and ambitions he needs alot of money thinking of the amount of money needed for his ambitions drakes face gets a little ugly but relaxes as he remembers he gots a system and asks "is there a way to make money system?"

[every visitor that leaves satisfied, happy and has learned something will contribute 100 dollars to your account]

'So with our 50,000 visitors a year we can get 5 million but that's still too small considering all the animals,buying acres and food we will need way more to expand the zoo but for now it'll do' as drake was thinking of these things he got up it was currently the time to feed animals again but this time was public feeding as it's the afternoon as drake made it out the office building he was momentarily stunned because the zoo was truly beautiful it has a sense of nature with a lot of trees around but not enough to affect your vision although public feeding is a form of enrichment where the public feeds the animals at this zoo it's a little different it's where the zoo keeper goes in to the exhibit and feeds the animal this boosts the enrichment and relationship between animal and human ofcourse the bears and tigers have been socialized and trained with humans since baby's so this also help and reduces risks as drake was walking down the path leading to the tiger exhibit he saw some visitors sitting at benches eating snacks and he waved at them and continued his way as he reached the tiger exhibit he was shocked at the amount of people that were waiting there r were atleast 20 people waiting as drake made his way to the back the exhibit to the door that leads inside he met with Arron the keeper of the tiger he is 40 years old with 20 years of experience with tigers at different zoos as drake walked up Arron smiled and gave him a big hug and said "Drake it's been a month since you last visited her she will be happy" said Arron as drake hugged him and said "yeah she would after all I'm her relative in her eyes and do you think you can let me do the public feedings today" said drake as Arron released his hug and held his shoulders as he looked in his eyes 2 seconds later he smiled and said "ofcourse you can do the public feeding while you do it I'll be with the crowd to educate as you feed" said Arron handing drake a bucket of beef he put on the ground as he made his way to the crowd he turned and said "make sure nothing happens we don't want to traumatize the crowd" said Arron while drake smirked and said "yeah right" said drake as he opened the door that lead into a room with equipment and toys there was also a separate room surrounded by steel bars that led into the zoo this is where the tiger sleeps as he made his way to the doors that lead into the exhibit he takes a deep breath and opens it as he looked around he saw a heavily wooded area luckily the lake was near by as drake walked for a bit he made it the a grass land and a huge tiger playing with toys that was infront of the lake and behind the lake where huge glass panels looking at the tiger he could tell she was atleast 500 pounds and 8ft long which made his breath heavy and get himself ready as he made his way to the grass land which caused to tiger the immediately see him which she dropped her ball and immediately ran at drake ofcourse drake is a little terrified but he steeled himself and put the bucket down as he waiting for the tiger, the crowd was equally terrified as they never saw the tiger behave like this on public feedings Arron just chuckled and said "just watch and see" which caused the crowd to calm a little as they intently watched as the tiger approached drake with no intentions of slowing down as it got close it only slowed but still ran and jumped on drake causing him to hit the ground as the tiger starts furiously licking him while purring the tiger licks every part of him like taking care of her own baby "cmon Alice you missed me your crushing me" said drake jokingly as he starts rubbing her sides with a smile the tiger as it could understand him rolled the side of him with her belly exposed waiting for scratches