Dogs!!!!

There are loads of breeds of Dogs, like Dalmation, German Shepherd, Husky, Labrador and Golden Retriever. Each has a different personality and some dogs may be good at some things, while others are not, like German Shephers are good Guard dogs, Husky's are good sled dogs and Labradors are good guide dogs.
Some dogs need different things, like certain breeds have a long coat of hair, while others have short hair, the long hair breeds need lots of grooming, the short hair breeds don't.

My fave breeds are Husky, Dalmation, German Shepherd and Labrador!
There are about 800 breeds of dog, some like the Cavilear King Charles Spaniel are bred for their colour, they are also used as pets, the German Shepherd is also bred for it's colour and it's guard dog skill.

There are estimated to be 400,000,000 dogs in the world.(WOW)

Some dogs are cross bred.....that means their parents were two different breeds.....thay may have the skills off both parents.
A dog that is a cross is called a mutt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs

Animals!!

There are many animals on our planet, some can only be found in special places.
The Galapogos island is a home to a diversity of species.
Some animals are so rare that like the Snow leopard are almost extinct.
Others are endangered, some have a low risk and some are extinct.
The Panda,Snow leopard,White lion and Grey wolf are endangered.
Endanged species is a type of animal that is at risk of becoming extinct, because it has a small population or it's habitat is threatened.
The conservation status is a conversation status of a species is an indicator of that species becoming extinct.
It looks like:


Conservation status

Risk of extinction

Extinction
Extinct
Extinct in the Wild
Threatened
Critically Endangered
Endangered
Vulnerable
Threatened
Lower risk
Conservation Dependent
Near Threatened
Least Concern

Some species like the Dodo, mammoth and the thylacine are extinct.
Others are extinct in the wild like the Barbary lion and the Pere david's deer.
Some are critically endangered like the Red wolf and the Giant sable antelope.
The Siberian tiger is Endangered.
With the Polar bear and the Dugong Vunerable.
The Bay checkerspot butterfly is an example of a threatened species.
The Southern right whale and the Leopard shark are Conservation dependent.
Near threatened spesies include the maned wolf and the small clawed otter.
Many animals are in the least concern, some are Spiny dogfish and Moss frogs.


One man spent five years in the mountains where Snow leopards live and never saw one!
Zoos have breeding programs for certain species, that will breed the animal and release it back into the wild.
Animals live in many different places and survive in different ways.

Animals eat different things, some animals are Carnivores (Meat), some are Herbivores (Grass,Leaves,Twigs....), Omnivores (Everything) and some are Insectavores (Insects) We don't use Insectavore much anymore.

My fave zoo is Chester zoo, because it is fantastic, i used to go there with my parents friends, because my brothers b-day is close to one of theirs, so we used to go to the zoo, as a b-day treat. It has lots of animals, including, Lions and Elephants.

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