Monday, March 11, 2013

Lifescouts: Pet Owning

Hello!

The weather might be great where you are reading this, but I just want to comment on how bizarre the winter has been here where I am. One week it's 70 degrees with the sun shining and seems like we completely skipped over winter again and then the next week it's 30 degrees with wind blowing at like 15 mph. To make it worse, when it's warm it rains and when it's cold it doesn't so there's no chance of us getting snow even though at times it's cold enough.

Moving on to my new badge:
Growing up I had always wanted a pet whether that pet be a dog, cat, or guinea pig. However, I was never allowed to get one because my parents didn't want to have to take care of it for me and my mom is allergic to so many different things. But things looked up for me when I entered 3rd grade and for a science project the entire third grade class began making aquariums and terrariums so that we could take care of fish, frogs, crabs, and roly polys. After building the homes and taking care of them at school for a while, all the kids were given the opportunity to take the animals home. Everyone's favorite, including mine, was the crab and they were the first to run out. So I was left bringing home two frogs. I loved my frogs so much and named them Strawberry and Blueberry. But just like any other kid, I got bored of them. Then of course they eventually died. Not from my lack of care for them though! Since then I've had some fish, but having those types of pets never stuck with me because you can't really interact with them, you know?

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