Our Pets

Our family has had lots of pets since I was born. We have had two dogs, one bird, two rats, four rabbits, and two cats.

The four rabbits are all dead. The first rabbit was named Cottontail, it was a very sweet rabbit. One day it got out of its cage and started happily hopping round the yard. Our dog saw it and was walking up to it when Cottontail saw the dog and had a heart attack.

The other three rabbits we got from the same person at a fair. Two of them died from a sickness after two weeks. The other one, Peter Rabbit, had a very happy life. We did had a problem with a neighbor taking him out of the cage petting him and then walking away and not shutting the cage door.

The bird was for my birthday, I named her Tweedy. We had to give her away because she made the house smell, but I did teach her to stand on my finger. Once we had some friends over and one of them wanted to put her finger in so the bird could stand on it, she opened the door too wide and Tweedy flew out and then under the bed, my brother Luke got bit but we got her back in the cage.

My brother Luke has had two rats, they both got sick but they were fun. Every time I told one of my friends that we had a rat they would get grossed out, but as soon as they saw how pretty the rat was they would want to hold it. Both rats were brown and white, and they were both named after a Pokemon. One of the rats loved to chew through his wire cage. Once he got out and was exploring the house when the same dog that scared the rabbit, found the rat, picked him up, and took him to the dining room where we were eating breakfast. The dog went up to the table, dropped the rat and looked at us as if to say "can I eat it?" we said no.

The two dogs we have had were both named after brand food, Hershey, and Mellow Yellow. Mellow is the same dog that scared the rabbit and caught the rat. She was a very sweet dog, half siberian husky and half mutt, she was a very pretty yellow color.

The other dog Hershey was a Labrador. He was a very nice but wild dog that invisible fencing would not work on. If he heard us playing in the front yard we would know by sound he was coming to play, YELP! (him leaving the back yard) YELP! (him entering the front yard). We had to finally give him away because he was so full of energy that it was mean to tie him up.

Lastly the two cats, one named Linus (from the peanuts cartoon) and Lewis. Linus is a cat we got from a friend, Lewis is a stray who Linus invited to dinner and never then left. They are very sweet cats- the neighbors are starting to leave out food for them, so they are now fat cats!