Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Our Menagerie








Bonjour,

This is Tommy.

We have seven animals here at our house in Rabat. We have three stray cats, two tortoises, a hamster and a bird.

Dad said we could get pets if we got 100 points for doing well at school. So, when we got 100 points, we went to the medina and looked at three pet shops. Anna got a bird at the first pet shop. I got a hamster at the last shop.

This is my hamster, Coco. She is not as fun as my cousin's hamster. My cousin's hamster does anything he wants. Coco doesn't.

These are the tortoises, Hercules and Persephone. At first, we thought Persephone was a boy and named her Perseus. But then Dad said when he bought her at the medina, they told him it was a girl. Hercules was already here when we bought Persephone. He and Persephone mated yesterday, and we think Persephone will lay eggs.

Here is Anna's bird. Anna's bird is a boy, and his name is Billy. Billy is at the stage of just getting on Anna's finger but not going out of the cage.

Finally, there are three cats we feed: Bub (the orange one), Fluffy (on my lap in the picture at the top), and Star (the white/tabby in the close-up).

Bub is very skinny but eats twice as much as the other two (and he's getting bigger fast).

Star is very timid. When the cats first started coming over to our house, Bub started scaring her away, but he has stopped now.

We think Fluffy is pregnant and that Bub is the proud father. We think that Fluffy used to be someone's house cat because she jumps on everybody's lap.

Au revoir,

Tommy

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