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20-year-old Chinese girl rises to fame for feeding #wolves

4,058 views · Published 6 December 2018 · 0:27 · Indexed 18 October 2026

Channel: People's Daily, China 人民日报 · 2018 · News & Politics

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A recent video has gone viral on Chinese social media, in which a young girl is feeding eight wolves while playing with them, making the girl the latest online celebrity in China and sparking a heated discussion among Chinese netizens.

Wolves are usually thought to be a threat to human beings, but in the video, the girl, Zhou Xinyue, feeds wolves even by her mouth and plays with them as if they are huge pet dogs.

Some Chinese netizens wrote that they admired Zhou’s intimacy with the wolves, while others questioned the safety behind such intimacy. Some also raised concerns as to whether such intimacy could make wolves lose their wild behaviors.

Zhou, 20, has fed wolves for four years in Fushun in Northeast China’s Liaoning province. She said she has liked canine animals ever since she was a kid. Four years ago, she came to her uncle to help him feed his four wolves. 

“At first, I was afraid. But after frequent contact with them, I found them to be cute and docile,” Zhou said.

Now, Zhou continues her wolf breeding work at an ecotourism spot in North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. She gets up at 7 o’clock each morning to prepare food for her beloved eight wolves.

“Each feeding takes about an hour as the wolves are naughty and I have to discipline them first,” Zhou said playfully, because they often compete for food. When they are eating, she will keep close watch on them and give more food to those that fail in the food competition.

Other girls at Zhou’s age often go out shopping or enjoy parties, but Zhou spends all day attending to wolves. She said she cannot leave them behind and said that they bringing her great happiness.

Moreover, Zhou never carries any protective tools with her to prevent attacks from the wolves. She said she treats them like family members and believes that her dear wolves will not hurt her. However, to avoid unintentional scratches caused by their sharp paws, Zhou often wears thick, heavy traditional Mongolian clothes when feeding them.

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