Cats








Kitten in lap, My Friends House. Personal photograph by author. 2012.

Kitten peeking out of a barn, My Friends House. Personal photograph by author. 2012.

Cat in a blanket, My Cousin's House. Personal photograph by author. 2012

Cats

My experience with cats

The sky was pitch black. I was walking and saw my friend walking as well only thing was she was carrying a bowl of food. I caught up to her and asked her, " what are you doing?"  "Shhhhhhh!" she exclaimed. "There is a little lost kitten, and we are going to see if we can rescue it!" she hissed, so we found the kitten put down some food, and waited. Little by little the kitten came out, unfortunately I sneezed and the kitten quickly retreated, but it must have been hungry because it came out again,and started eating. I wanted to try something so I got some food in my hand and waited. After 5 minutes my hand was numb and I was going to let it drop, but the kitten came and started eating out of my hand! I risked it, and started petting the kitten it started purring , so I pulled the kitten into my lap, and stroked it. The kitten purred even louder,but I had to let it go. I followed it, and it led me to a pile of bricks behind my neighbors house. I told my friend that the kitten ate out of my hand, and we spent a few days scouring for a kitty carrier. We finally found one,but on our way we heard loud barking, so we ran back to see what it was what we saw horrified us! The kitten was wedged behind our neighbor's dogs doghouse meowing for help, and the dog was trying to get it! Luckily the kitten escaped,so we once again found it, put the carrier down, and crouched down to persuade the kitten to go into the carrier. The first time we almost had him and he was in the carrier, but alas once again I sneezed and he bolted out. Then we got him in there again, and we got it zipped up. We had successfully caught a kitten! Because he was scared, I put a towel over the carrier to make him feel more secure. When we got back to my friend's house we pulled him out of the carrier, since I was the only one wearing jeans I got to hold him first, and he started purring. my neighbors took him to the vet, and found out he is a boy so now his name is Ginger, but I call him Dart because he looks like he has a Dart on his back! We are still considering names, but besides looking like he has a Dart on his back he strikes me as a Snickers because we found him in October and October is what my friends and I call Candy month! He has a collar too, it is black with a silver moon and stars that reflect on it plus a black bell.  He is very playful, and has a very good attitude considering he was feral (an animal born and raised in the wild). Now my neighbors are trying to find someone who can take him (they can't take him because their dad is very allergic but weirdly Dart is not making him have an allergic reaction, so we hope they can keep him) hopefully he will go to a good home! I have had other experiences with cats like my cousin found a tiny Tabby/Rex on the fender of a truck, so they took it home and named her Bella, but sadly two years later she got out, and she was killed by a car that was backing out (I was sad, though it was annoying when she always hissed at me and attacked my shoes). They now have a tuxedo cat named Oreo, along with their old fat tabby named Scooba, and two new kittens named Nessie and Bob. Oreo is so funny,one time I was at my cousin's house, I was bored so I threw a marble under the bed. Oreo stalked the marble, so we threw more marbles and she kept stalking them, grouping them, sitting on them, then she stalked my head ( I haven't met Nessie or Bob yet) ! I love cats, and I hope you do to!      

Kitten in a barn again, My Friends House. Personal photograph by author. 2012.



Kittens in cups. Digital image. Stuffpoint.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <www.stuffpoint.com>.

Alaska The Last Frontier

Moving howling wolf. Digital image. Gif Animations. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2012. <www.gif animations.com>.

Alaska The Last Frontier

This summer I went really far north, I went to Alaska! I had to ride a plane for twelve hours, and my family and I flew from Houston to Salt Lake City where we had to run for our connection that would take us to Alaska. While we were on the plane, it started getting dark, what confused me was the daylight never faded. It was beautiful endless blue with soft orange and yellow light mixing together to make the best sunset I have ever seen! When were about to land you could actually see the shape of the state of Alaska! Of course when we landed in Alaska it was past midnight, but I was happy, my first time in Alaska! Alaska is really beautiful with a lot of scenery, and animals. When we were in Alaska we went to Denali state park where we stayed in the Princess hotel, which is this awesome hotel with lots of metal statues we also got ice cream, Alaska has a lot of selections and most of them I didn't even know existed like Cotton Candy for example, not in the mood to try something new, I got Triple Dark Chocolate and my great aunt got Cotton Candy ice cream. We also went on a tour, but to get there we had to go on a train. Where we did stuff like drink the best hot chocolate in the world, eat reindeer sausage (I told my friend that I ate a reindeer and she accused me of eating Bambi), see Mt. McKinley(Koyukon Athabaskan for the high one elevation is 20,320 ft.), and eat reindeer chili in a sourdough bread bowl (the chili and the bowl were delicious). We also saw stuff like a half eaten moose carcass( gross), a baby moose, a 600 ft drop into a river, the small town of Sherman(a town hall and a few buildings) and a beaver dam. When we were in Denali on the tour we saw so many things like a Wolf (aawwwrrrooooo), a Ground Squirrel, a Red Fox, The state bird of Alaska, a Lynx (we would've gotten a better look, but a stupid bus drove in front of us), Mountain Goats, Caribou (the leader was wearing a collar to track the herd's movement), another baby Moose, and Bears. In Alaska there is 21 hrs. of daylight and 3 hrs. of darkness, so it was weird to be going to bed during daylight plus even though it was summer the temperature ranged between 54 to 64! We also went to Homer, Seward, and in Homer we went Halibut fishing (Halibut are like a larger version of flounder), and when we went Halibut fishing we saw otters and seals and  the bait we used was Herring we didn't have to bait it ourselves all we had to do was yell BAIT! and a helper would come bait the line for you ( good thing too I hate fish and try to touch them as little as possible) Halibut are bottomers so the weight was useful because in Alaska while fishing for Halibut 140 ft. is considered shallow!The weight we used was literally a solid block of 3 lb lead , and the hook was half a foot long! I caught a 2 ft. long 40 lb. Halibut, then a 4 ft. long 200 lb. Halibut, then a fish called a scorpion fish (a fish almost completely covered in spikes) what I didn't get was I was catching a lot of fish my brother was catching none, so he moved to my rod and when I moved to his I started catching even more then before! When everyone had caught either the limit(2) or none at all in the time of one hour the boat guide showed me how to clean it (or rather cut off it's head and gut it) then he let me do it! I am normally really squeamish of fish, but it was something new and I wanted to try it, but I got A LOT of guts on my hand. We also went to a this center for animals, and saw all sorts of stuff like a Puffin, Salmon, very venomous Jellyfish, a sea lion named Woodie that weighed 17,000 lbs., and a seal. While we were in Alaska because my great aunt and uncle own a plane we flew out to a cabin they have,( if it had been winter we could have walked, during winter the lake the plane is parked at freezes completely solid)  a really old two roomed cabin with no electricity, and the only bathroom is an out house with a heated toilet seat (it was Disgusting!), but the cabin had a zip line, and was a lot of fun, but the only way to go swimming is to wear a wet suit plus the only way to get where you can swim is by hooking a motor to a square dock (cool) and motoring out to where you can swim, I was bored, so I said sarcastically to my brother, "Push me in please!" he actually pushed me in! I was so mad! No one got any sleep that night because there were so many mosquitoes we were swatting all night even though I was wearing jeans and an under Armour shirt the mosquitoes flew up my pant leg and down my shirt and bit me everywhere! I got 48 mosquito bites that night. At 4:00 am I couldn't take it any more, so I moved to a creaky old couch that creaked every time I shifted a little bit in the living room/kitchen as far away as I could get from the mosquito's in the two roomed cabin, but since I was up I got to see the best sunrise I have ever seen. The next morning due to the creaking of the couch my dad sprayed oil on the couch's hinges to shut it up. When we went back to my great aunt and uncle's house we had to fly again, and on the way back my great aunt's dog a Westie named Katie was in the back seat of the plane we were going to have sandwiches for lunch, but we couldn't because it turns out Katie was sitting on the bread...so the bread was literally dead! The last thing my family and I did was we went on a big cruise ship where we saw Orcas, seals, Sea Lions, a whole colony of sea lions, more Puffins, Otters, Dolphins, caves, and waterfalls. When it was time to leave, I didn't want to leave, but we had to. Maybe you should visit Alaska too, see the beautiful scenery of Alaska The Last Frontier!   

Horses

                                                Horses

Galloping horse. Digital image. Horse forum. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Oct. 2012. <www.horse forum.com>.

Cantering horse. Digital image. Photo bucket. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Oct. 2012. <www.photo bucket.com>.

Horse trotting. Digital image. Pets Foto. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Oct. 2012. www.pets foto.com.

This blog is about horses please read and enjoy the information.

Horse Breeds

• Arabian
• Pinto
• Grey
• Chestnut
• Quarter Horse
• Dappled
• Appaloosa
• Lipizzaner
• Morgan
• Thoroughbred
• Shetland Pony
• Tennessee Walking Horse
• Palomino
• Welsh Pony
• American Saddle Bred
• Bay
• Clydesdale
• Aboco Barb
• Ranger
• Percheron
• Paint Horse
• Newfoundland Pony
• New Forest Pony
• Missouri Fox Trotter
• Miniature Horse
• Icelandic Horse
• Highland Pony
• Gypsy Horse

Well there are more, but too many to list, so I am going to move on to the diseases.

Horse diseases

• Colic
• Hoof Rot
• Colitis X
• Cantharidin (comes from a blister beetle)
• and Fever

My experiences with horses

I have been riding horses for as long as I can remember. I rode a horse for the first time when I was 6 years old, and have ridden since then. Over the years I have mastered all three styles of riding... English, Western, and Bareback, and I have also mastered calming down a cranky horse, getting a stubborn horse to move,

being a complete brainiac about them, writing poems about them, saddling, bridling, grooming, trotting, galloping, cantering, turning, barrel turning,  stopping a flat out sprinting horse, soothing a spooked and running horse, and knowing the signs when they are sick. My experiences have not always been good, like just two years ago I was in a show at a summer camp, my horse Tova had already been a little skittish moving when I tried to mount her, so she started trotting. I slowed her down but then she started...FLAT... OUT... SPRINTING! She was going like 25 miles an hour, so I yanked back as hard as I could, unfortunately she had a bit less bridal, so she didn't stop. Realizing I had no other choice, and realizing that I was lucky (and glad!) that I had decided to have her saddled western, I grabbed the saddle horn, locked my feet around her stomach, and held on. I started screaming because the saddle was leaning like a foot to the left almost putting me underneath the horse and I could see her ears bouncing up and down up and down I was bouncing around so much I thought I would fall off! She didn't stop, she headed towards the bleachers full of my family, friends, and other girls at the camp, but my dad did something, so she started heading for the forest! Thankfully they caught her before she could get to the forest and get me and herself lost, or attacked by coyotes, or some other natural disaster, but it took them 15 minutes to get me to unlock my legs from around Tova's stomach, and another 15 minutes to get me off her back! You may think I am a lunatic, but I got back on and finished the show, but not on Tova, on an old rodeo pro named Okie ( I made sure he had a bit and his saddle was nice and tight) now I am a residential cowgirl at the camp. I may be crazy, but I still ride today. That's my story.

All About Wolves




 

Howling wolf. Digital image. Scientific Camera. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2012. <www.scientific camera.com>.



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