Although the League had always promoted the ideal of humans and Pokémon living in harmony and worked hard to improve Pokémon's status, some people actually regarded Pokémon as nothing more than slightly smarter pets, discarding them when they no longer wanted them. As a result, the number of Pokémon the League took in and released each year remained high.
And those were only the stray Pokémon the League had found. Some stray Pokémon were still hiding in cities, undiscovered by the League, like Ekans and the others in Viridian City. Those little ones had wandered the city for a long time. Although the Officer Jennys knew about this group of Pokémon, they generally tried to leave them alone as long as they did not harm humans.
So the smarter stray Pokémon did their best to avoid conflicts with humans. If a conflict broke out, they would face a thorough search by the Officer Jennys. With Arcanine around, very few Pokémon could escape, unless they were Ghost-type Pokémon.
Heath had heard from Sister Feng that the Jenny Family was researching ways to track down stray Ghost Pokémon. However, there had yet to be any large-scale incidents of Ghost Pokémon injuring people, so everyone's enthusiasm for the matter was fairly low.
Heath shook his head. The issue of stray Pokémon was not something he could solve alone, so he could only set it aside for now. Matters like this had to be left to the League. All Heath could do was give these stray Pokémon a chance to eat their fill.
"Hello. Huh? Heath?" At the surprised voice, Heath turned to look and saw Miss Saya staring at him in surprise. Heath was a little surprised too. It had been a long time since he had last met Saya, and he had