Chapter 112: The Madness of Teddy

Sensing that Song Jiawei’s tone was off, Zhang Congwen asked, “What’s going on?”

Without warning, Song Jiawei snapped, “Just watch the video and you’ll see.”

With that, Song Jiawei pulled up the footage of the dog.

The Canine Communication and Training Base had recently implemented a standardized procedure. Due to Zhang Congwen’s poor condition over the past few days, many orders had been put on hold, so Song Jiawei had taken it upon himself to record some daily footage of clients’ dogs.

Watching the video, Zhang Congwen began to understand Song Jiawei’s frustration.

The dog was a five-year-old toy poodle. According to the records, it had lived with the current owner for three years.

Before that, the poodle had changed hands five times, making the current owner its sixth.

Seeing this, Zhang Congwen felt a chill. Changing owners five times in just two years suggested deep-rooted issues with the dog.

The records even stated that on the very day the current owner adopted the dog, it had bitten her.

The video spanned just one day, a mere dozen hours, yet in that short time, the poodle bared its teeth at its owner more than a dozen times.

The woman stood to fetch something, and the poodle seized the moment to leap onto the chair she had been sitting in, claiming it as its own. When the woman tried to reclaim her seat—barely having touched the chair—the dog was already baring its small, sharp teeth.

Its low growls persisted relentlessly.

The scene shifted.

The woman was cleaning the house, and the poodle lay quietly on the sofa, seemingly calm.

Yet suddenly, without warning, the dog jumped down and lunged at her.

The poodle’s behavior was odd; regardless of whether it succeeded in biting, it would snap once, then dart away to hide in a secluded corner.

After a minute or two, seeing no reaction, it would launch a second attack.

Song Jiawei then played a third clip.

In this one, the woman was examining the dog’s health.

According to the records, the poodle had suffered a fungal infection on the back of its neck recently, causing ringworm, which had only just healed. The owner insisted on daily checks to prevent relapse.

But in the video, the moment the woman reached out, the dog growled fiercely and advanced threateningly, forcing her to halt and raise her hands in surrender.

Only when the dog calmed down would she resume the examination.

Unexpectedly, when she tried again, without any warning, the poodle suddenly bit her right hand.

The woman screamed sharply as several puncture wounds appeared instantly.

Yet, surprisingly, she showed no anger or intention to punish the dog.

The footage then cut to the street.

This segment was recorded by the woman herself on Song Jiawei’s instruction.

Song Jiawei had asked her to focus the camera on the dog, but she seemed to ignore this, filming the dog intermittently, then herself, then unrelated objects—turning the shoot into a casual vlog.

The footage was shaky and unfocused, with many quick flashes that made it hard to discern details.

Still, Song Jiawei managed to extract some useful segments.

The first showed the poodle urinating—not on grass or in a yard, but inside the building’s elevator.

The second showed the dog urinating on a stone pillar supporting a public bench.

The third caught the dog urinating on a car tire nearby.

Several subsequent clips also showed the dog urinating in various places.

From the building’s lobby to the street, a short distance, the poodle urinated at least twenty times.

It marked the elevator, the bench, car tires, public fitness equipment, the community’s entrance gate—and even outside the neighborhood, on the door frame and wall of a shop.

Throughout, the owner did nothing to stop the dog’s indiscriminate marking.

Forced to endure this spectacle, Zhang Congwen watched as the scene shifted to another street.

Two elderly people walked toward them, accompanied by a small child. They found the poodle adorable, and the child knelt down to greet it.

Though knowing the dog was prone to biting, the owner made no effort to restrain it.

Because the dog showed no outward signs of aggression, everyone naturally assumed it was harmless to strangers.

But reality was quite the opposite.

Just as the child stood up, the poodle suddenly lunged for the child’s hand.

The child screamed in fright but froze in place.

Fortunately, an adult nearby reacted swiftly, pulling the child into their arms and shielding them.

The owner managed to pull the leash just in time, causing the dog to flip midair.

Before an apology could be uttered, the dog lunged again.

The elderly bystanders hastily retreated with the child.

Except for that child, the owner showed no awareness or concern for keeping distance from other strangers.

After walking a short distance, a passerby brushed past them, and the poodle bit at the passerby’s foot without warning.

The stranger rebuked the owner, who showed no remorse and instead argued back.

Eventually, unwilling to waste time in dispute, the stranger let it go—since the dog hadn’t actually broken skin—but warned sharply, “Count yourself lucky your dog didn’t bite me. If it had, I’d have put it down today.”

The woman bristled at this, and before she could argue further, the poodle darted forward again.

But this time, it wasn’t toward the stranger.

The camera panned to reveal another dog approaching—also a toy poodle.

Placed side by side, the contrast was stark.

The other poodle was startled by this aggressive one and tried to flee, but its owner held the leash firmly, forcing it to circle nervously.

The woman struggled to control her own attacking dog, preventing it from approaching.

Unable to get close, the biting poodle barked furiously at the other.

“Why is your poodle so ferocious?” the other owner joked.

The biting poodle’s owner replied dismissively, “It’s nothing. It just gets a bit excited when it sees other dogs. No harm.”

Finally back home, the poodle was noticeably calmer, no longer causing trouble, so Song Jiawei skipped this part of the footage.

*Knock! Knock! Knock!*

The woman’s door was suddenly rapped.

Immediately, the poodle leapt from the sofa, back into combat mode.

“Sit still. Don’t move,” the woman said casually as she headed to the door.

But the dog ignored her, rushing ahead to bark fiercely at whoever was outside.

Bizarrely, the woman paid no attention, neither calming nor restraining the dog.

The visitor was the woman’s son.

“That’s why he asked us to come train his mother’s dog,” Song Jiawei explained, pointing to the man on the video.

“Don’t bite your brother,” the woman said lightly as her son entered.

The poodle suddenly lunged at him.

Again, the woman remained indifferent, barely reacting.

Their brief conversation revealed that the son had called the training base to assess the dog’s situation and inquire about when Zhang Congwen would come to train it.

They didn’t talk long before the son wanted to leave.

But as he opened the door, the poodle barked and lunged again.

Both stood frozen, unwilling to make a move.

The son complained, “Why not put a leash on it? You hold it, and I’ll leave.”

The woman replied flatly, “No need. It doesn’t bite when we go out.”

As soon as the son moved, the dog bit him again.