Sunday, March 25, 2007

"Our Pets"




We had a lot of pets before. But now, we only have dogs and cats because the others are already dead. The pets that we had before are chickens, pigs, goats, and fishes but now we only have three adult dogs and two cats.

Before, we had a lot of chickens in our backyard. We started from few chicks and they grew up and produced new chicks and again they grew up and produced another batch of chicks. We had chickens that are colored gray, orange, white, black, and others. But some of them died because of rats and others are already eaten by us.

We also had two goats. They were male and female. We were hoping that they would produce baby goats but unfortunately, the male goat died because of a certain illness that’s why we sold the other to the eatery near our house and they cooked it and sold it.

We also had a lot of fishes before. We had fishes colored orange, white, yellow, red, and others. But they one by one died until the only one left is the janitor fish and we still placed it in the aquarium and we didn’t buy new fishes because we were afraid that what happened might happen again to our new fishes. But not long after, the janitor fish died.

We also had two pigs before. They were all female pigs. We were also hoping that they could produce new pigs but the babies were premature because the mother pig was very scared of the fireworks because it was Christmas that time. Many of the baby piglets came out dead and there were some who were alive. But not long after, they died until only one piglet was left. When the night came, when the mother pig was sleeping, she accidentally rolled over the baby piglet and so it died. Because they didn’t produce any babies, we just decided to cook them and sell some of their parts.

We also have many pet dogs. Our very first pet dog was Bogs. But he is already dead right now. Next to Bogs, we had Tiny. Unlike the pigs and the goats, Tiny bore a lot of puppies and I think she bore more or less five generations of puppies. One of her first puppies, Buddy, is still here with us right now. Next to Buddy, we had a lot of puppies and some of them died and some were given away. Now, the only dogs that are with us are Tiny, Buddy, Razor, and two puppies.

We also had many cats before. But now, we only have two. We also had many kittens before but most of them died because they don’t have any mother because we just found them by the road. The others died because they were run over by a car. And some died because of sickness. Our cats never produced any kittens but we had a lot of them because they just came into our house and lived with us the rest of their lives.

These pets have special memories to me and I will never forget them because I had a hard time taking care of them because I was assigned to feed them every morning and every night.

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