People just dump their pest for taking a walk alone. Why be so mean? Don’t just dump a pet because it runs away! Or did something you did not like that makes you not like the pet. Just DO NOT dump it!  Find a good home for it. Give it a good life not a life in a cage!

I woke up to a butterfly today. I was going to check my cocoon and I found a butterfly!!!!!!!

There is a secret island in Club Penguin. Go onto the map and you will see a big iceberg. It doesn’t say any name but if you click on it, it will take you to the secret island. You can play Aquagrabber on the island. There are certain games at certain places. It tells you how to play Aquagrabber. I like the game.

1. To Have or to Have Not?

Identify 4 animals that would make good pets for you. Identify 4 animals that wouldn’t make good pets. Consider daily needs, how well it would fit in with your home life, the cost of keeping it and how long it generally lives.

I thought about it. I think these animals would make good pets. They are rabbits, fish, dogs and cats. I do not think rats, birds, hamsters and snakes would make good pets.

2. Be Responsible

Take responsibility for a pet – yours or someone elses – for 2 weeks. Provide food, shelter, exercise, water and grooming. Did you spend more or less time caring for the pet than you thought you would? Which tasks were fun? Which ones were not so much fun?

Taking care of my bunny took more time than I thought it would. I played with her and cleaned her cage. This took more time than I thought it would. Feeding her was easy.

Playing with her is fun. I take her out of the cage. I hold her on my lap. Sometimes, I put her down on the floor and watch her. She sits still. Then she hops. Sometimes if I have black pants on (she is black) she will hop right back onto my lap if I am sitting on the floor. I think she thinks this is a safe place. Rabbits are very timid.

Cleaning the cage was not fun. It is yucky. That’s why I keep it clean every 3 days.

3. What’s the cost of owning a pet?

Figure out for a pet you have now, or for an animal you’d like to have as a pet. What does the pet eat? Does it need a special place to live? What will the space cost? What are its medical needs? Does it require special equipment, like a leash (dog), litter box (cat), a saddle (horse), or an air pump (fish)? Does your community have any laws regarding that animal? Are there fees? Figure out the daily, monthly and yearly costs of the animal

My Netherland dwarf rabbit eats rabbit pellets and timothy hay. She drinks water. She also likes to eat carrots and lettuce and sometimes a little bit of apple.

My rabbit lives in a cage. She is a house rabbit. I let her out of the cage and I put her on a rug in the study and she runs back my room and her cage. She likes to go into my dollhouse!

My rabbit does not need to go to the vet unless she is sick. It is a good idea to have rabbits neutered.

My rabbit needs some things in her cage. She needs a litter box, a water bottle, a food bowl and some things to chew on. Her bedding and litter need to be changed every 3-5 days.

Rabbits are good pets because you don’t need special permission to have one (except from your parents). They do not need animal licenses.

It cost $65 to buy my rabbit its cage, food bowl, water bottle, and litter box. I spend about $45 a month to take care of my rabbit. This includes $10 for rabbit pellets, $10 for timothy hay, $15 for bedding, and $5 for rabbit litter and $5 for rabbit chew toys.

4. Facts of life

Is your pet a male or female? If female, how many young could your pet produce at a time? How many pregnancies would be possible in a lifetime for your pet? Would you be able to take care of that many animals? What oes a vet or an animal shelter recommend?

I don’t know yet if my rabbit is a boy or a girl. She is still young. She is about 15 weeks old. The only way to know for sure if to have a vet who really knows rabbits to take a look at her. It can be very hard to tell. When she is older it is easier.

A female rabbit can have babies as often as every 31 days. This means she could have about 11 litters every year. The lifespan of my rabbit is 7 to 10 years. This means my rabbit could have 77 to 110 liters over her lifetime. The average litter is 4 to 6 bunnies but can be anywhere from 1 to 10 at a time.

I could not take care of all of those rabbits! That would be a nightmare.

Vets recommend that rabbits be spayed or neutered. This keeps them healthy and then they can’t make any babies.

5. Staying healthy

Find out about illnesses that are common for your pet. How can you prevent them? What are their warning signs? How can they be avoided or treated? Learn how to give medicine to a pet, if possible, and how to seek emergency treatment for your pet.

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6. Identify two diseases that pets can get or spread such as tick-borne Lyme disease, tularemia (rabbit fever), or rabies.

Find out what is being done to control these diseases and what you can do to prevent your pret from getting them. Do something that will help educate people bout a pet disease or help prevent a common pet disease.

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7. What is a good diet for your pet?

Collect ads for pet food. What information do they give you about the nutritional needs for your animal? Read labels on the food containers. Compare them for food values.

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8. Animal Talk

How do you communicate with a pet? How do you show a pet what you want it to do? How does your pet communicate what it wants? Describe some specific behaviors that your pet uses to comunicate anger, fear, hunger and loyalty.

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9. Book It

Create a scrapbook about your pet. Include pictures from when it joined your family until the present. Write about how you felt when you got your pet. Keep licenss, vaccination forms and other emergency information in the scrapbook, too. If you don’t own a pet, create a scrapbook for the type of animal you’d like to have.

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10. Other Ways to be Around Animals

Find out about groups and places that care for pets in your area. Are there rescue societies? A foster care program at an animal shelter? A zoo mentorship program? A bird rehabilitation clinic? Is there a group that fits your interests and abilities where you could volunteer? Share what you’ve discovered with a parent or guardian.

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Can you believe this? You can play a computer game, learn at the same time, and help other kids who live all across the world. Wow!

Why is this important? Because you can help feed other people who don’t have food. All you have to do is go to FREERICE.com and play on the website. That’s it.

You can work on your vocabulary or you can do math problems or you can guess what words mean in other languages or match paintings with their artists or you can….. Go check it out for yourself and see.

For every CORRECT answer you receive, the website donates 10 grains of rice to feed people. So, play alot and everyday. It only takes a few minutes.

Just for your information, my brother and I counted out grains of rice. It takes about 5,000 grains of rice to make 1 cup.

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A shark.  It was a shark. A big one, too. It had teeth as big as 2-3 feet big. The shark was 50-100 feet. It is like 5 cars!!!

I love this shark:)

Too bad it is extinct

This is Frida Kahlo and she is a famous artist from Mexico. When she was 18 years old she was hurt in a bus crash. She began to paint because she had to stay in bed to get better from her injuries and she was bored. When she got better, she met a famous Mexican artist named Diego Rivera. He thought she was very talented. They got married. She lived in the United States for three years but was homesick for Mexico. She had her first art show in Mexico in 1953 but died a year later.

I read a really good book for kids about her and her paintings. It is called Frida Kahlo: The Artist in the Blue House. Here are some of my favorite paintings.

1. My Dress Is Hanging There – 1933

This painting describes how she felt about living in New York. She was from Mexico. This painting shows how she saw America.

2. Self-Portrait on the Border Between Mexico and the United States – 1932.

This picture was telling people which place she thought was better for her. The Mexican side has ancient ruins, flowers and a sun. The U.S. side has pollution from car makers and things that use electricity.

I learned about this woman artist for my Girl Scout Troop. I had fun looking at her colorful paintings.