Tuesday 29 January 2008

Hampsters!!





Hampsters are a house pet, they are rodents. The best know species of hampsters are the syrian or golden hampsters. They love going in an exercise wheel, many hampsters carry food from the source, by storing it in their cheeks.

Hampsters live in cages that providee all they need, eg- food, water, exercise, bed.

They are omnivores which means they eat anything.

Some breeds of hampster are solitary and will fight to the death if kept together, while others will get along very nicely.

The main breeds are:

The Syrian or Golden Hamster.
The dwarf hamster-Campbell's Dwarf Hamster.
The Roborovski Hamster.
The Chinese Hamster.

Cats!


Cats are used as house pets but they tend to wonder. A baby cat is called a kitten.
Cats, especially kittens love to play, they will chase a laser pointer, they also cannot resist a dangling piece of string or rope, but this can couse the rope/string to be cought in thier intestines, which can couse death in extreme cases.
Cats have a fondness for heights, if a cat fall from a height then it can right itself.
Cats have excellent hearing, taste, touch and smell senses, this makes hunting easier.
Their vision at night is much superior to that of a human, however their vision at night is inferior.
They can also hear sound that are of higher pitch, they are also obligate carnivors
A cats act of self-defense includes hissing, arching their back, raising their fur and turning sideways.
Beware for cats may hunt and then bring their dead prey to you, so one day you might find a dead bird, mouse or rat dead on the kitchen floor!
Ethologist Paul Leyhausen proposed that cats adopt humans into their social group, and share excess kill with others in the group according to the local pecking order, in which humans are placed at or near the top. However, anthropologist and animal scientist Desmond Morris in his 1986 book Catwatching suggests that when cats bring home mice or birds they have caught, they are teaching their human to hunt, or helping their human as if feeding (his words) "an elderly, inept kitten". Another possibility is that presenting the kill might be a relic of a kitten's behavior of demonstrating for its mother's approval that it has developed the necessary skill for hunting. Indoor cats will often retain their hunting instinct and deliver small household items to their owners, such as watches, pens, pencils, and other objects they can carry in their mouths.

Wednesday 23 January 2008

Horses!



I love horses, i think they are great.
A baby horse is called a foal, a male foal is called a colt and a female foal is called a filly, an adult male is called a Stallion and a adult female is called a Mare.
There are many different breeds of horses, the different breeds excell in different things. For example a Hanoverian will excell in jumping, a Thoroughbred will excell in galloping and speed.
There are also Quater horses, Canadien horse, Lippanzear(SP) and Appaloosa plus more.

Horses can be used in a variety of sports....including Showjumping(Fave)Dressage(Borin)Polo and Cross Country.
Britains most famous family for Equestrian sports is the Whitickar(sp) family.

The whitickar(sp) family do the Poissonce(sp) which is showjumping, but it is in stages and the people who knock a jump down are out, also as you progress the jumps get higher. It is a very hard competition.

Showjumping is simple........all you do is ride around an arena in a paticular order and jump the jumps in order....if you knock one down it is a penalty.

Cross-Country is also simple.....you have to go cross-country and jump a variety of jumps along the way.

Dressage is very complicated.......you have to ride around doing a certain sequence of complicated moves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses