Can You Guess What Animal I am.......?

 I stay small, medium or big. I come in all different colors. I only have four legs. I like too chase things around outside. I'm a house pet. Did you guess it by now? I'm a dog! I love how many different breeds there are of dogs. My favorite kind of dog would defiantly have to be a German Shepard. I think those dogs are so beautiful, and those dogs are very good when trained well.

 


 “We can judge the heart of person by his treatment of animals.” -Immanual Kant I love this quote because I really think it’s true. If someone’s going to treat a poor innocent dog like its nothing to them and abuse them, what makes you think that person even has a heart? Because I sure in the heck don't think he or she has one. That poor dog can't do much to protect itself is it won’t. Unless the dog does protect itself, then it could bite, growl and claw the person hurting it.

             

 Dogs have been around for so long. Back in the day, about 150 years ago, dogs were only used for an energy source. Nothing less and nothing more. Since dogs have been around for a long time, there’s obviously breeds older than other breeds. A breed is when an animal produces an offspring in a usual organized controlled way. Some of the older breeds of dogs that have been around a lot longer are, the Afghan Hound, Akita Inu, Basenji, The Chinese Shar Pei, and The Chow Chow. I actually had a Chow Chow so I think that's pretty cool.

 

          The average dog is as smart as a two-year-old. Dogs can understand about 250 words and hand gestures people say and do around them. They can count up to five and do a basic math problem.

          

           
 Dogs don’t really enjoy being hugged like the average person, but they will but one paw around you or on you to show their love or dominance. Which is weird, I hug my dogs all the time, they seem not to care.

I love dogs, but sometimes they can be a lot to handle. Especially when they are a puppy, it’s like having a child. On average, a dog can live up to 10-13 years old. Even if you don’t have a friend, or a significant other around, and you have a dog, you’ll always have a friend around no matter what. That’s why dogs are so cool!
 



Giraffes

Giraffes are my favorite animal, so they had to be next. They’ve been my favorite animal for a very long time. I even have a tattoo of a giraffe on my thigh. I have a million giraffe things from blankets, stuffed animals, figurines, a giraffe print phone and you name it. What’s your favorite animal?

                Giraffes get very tall, up to 15 ft. tall. There tongs are even pretty long, they get usually to 21 inches long. All the different types of giraffes has different types of spots. There is about 9 different types of giraffes. Thornicroft giraffe, Nigerian giraffe, Rothschild giraffe, Masai giraffe, Reticulated giraffe, Angolan giraffe, South African giraffe, West African giraffe, and the Okapi giraffe. All of these giraffes spots are shaped differently, either darker or lighter browns. They are all different.

                They can run up to 35 miles per hour. They live in grass lands with small groups of other giraffes. A giraffe is a mammal and it’s an herbivore. Their life span in the wild is 25 years. An advantage of their long neck is they can reach tall trees for food that other animals can’t reach. Also seeing over the trees helps them see other animals before they see them.  Giraffes eat almost all of the time, usually hundreds of pounds of leaves each week. They have to travel a lot to find good.

                Some animals that eat giraffes are, cheetahs and lions. Spotted hyenas, leopards and Nile crocodiles will all take ahold giraffe calves whenever they get a chance. Some other animals are too scared to try and attack a giraffe because of how tall they are. When a lion attacks an adult giraffe, the giraffes kick can kill the lion.

                A giraffe carries their young for 15 months. A baby giraffe is called a calf. A baby giraffe starts walking as soon as they’re born just in case they need to run off with the herd if they’re in danger. After about six months the baby giraffe leaves its mother. A group of giraffes can be called a herd, corps, tower, and a group.

                Mostly no giraffes are endangered. There is one species that is classified as being endangered. It’s the West African Giraffe. That makes me upset because giraffes are my favorite animal, and the way this world is…. I’m not sure there will be any left in the future or a lot left of certain wild animals.



               

                   

Tigers

Tigers are the largest cat in the cat family in the world. Some have orange fur and black stripes. Then some have white fur and black stripes. There are nine different types of tigers. Bengal, Siberian, Indochinese, South Chinese, Sumatran, Malayan, Caspian, Javan and Bali. Out of all these different types, the last three are extinct, another ones extinct, and the rest are endangered.

Tigers mainly eat certain things like deer, wild pigs, antelope and water buffalo. They hunt animals as well, crocodiles, monkeys and leopards. In the 1900’s 100,000 Tigers were around. Tigers range from South and South East Asia to far eastern shores. Today they are only found in China and the Russian east part of the world.

 Tigers have many different habitats, like forests, savannah, rocky county, and grasslands. Tigers are more active at night. There stripes provide a camouflage. Tigers are very heavy so they use their body weight to help get their prey. They then bite there neck to kill them. Tigers are very very good swimmers and can even kill prey while swimming. They love to be around tall grasses and trees so they can scope out their prey without them noticing and then they attack.

               
During mating season the female tigers get very protective and make their territory all around their home or habitat. November to April is usually mating season time. The female tiger carries her cubs in her womb for about 103 days. About three or four cubs are in a litter.

                The cubs stay around their mom for about 8 weeks, then become independent at 18 months. Then when two and a half years goes by, they leave there mom. Tigers live 10 – 15 years, and get to about 3/3 and a half feet at their shoulders. Then in length from head to body they get about 6 feet. They can weigh up to 400 – 675 pounds. They have huge paws and claws and could easily kill a human. The only predator a tiger has is humans and possibly a gorilla, but the gorilla still doesn’t have such a good chance at killing the tiger.

My favorite type of tiger is the white tiger, also known as the White Bengal Tiger. Mostly found in India. The white tiger is very rare and as years go by the get rarer. Tigers becoming so rare is due to human’s trophy hunting or people are capturing them for an exotic pet trade L

The Reason I chose this Topic is......

I chose this topic because my whole life I've been surrounded by cats and dogs. When I get older and realized there was more animals than just cats and dogs I fell in love. I could never chose which animal was my favorite, it was a different animal every day. From sharks, to hippos to snakes. Any animal you name it, it was my favorite at some point.

I've always loved going to the zoo and whatever animal was my favorite at the time, that's the animal I wanted to go see first. People need to know what cruel things people do to wild animals and non-wild animals, hunting tigers and killing them for their fur. Using bunnies and birds to experiment new make-up products on them. That's another reason why my blog is about any animal. Animals have feelings and that’s something some people don’t understand and it makes me sick. People abuse animals like there worthless.

I’ll be basically giving information about a different animal every blog post. Things like their habitat, what they eat, there skin type, like fur or scales, land or water animal, wild or not, you name it. I hope you all enjoy my blog and all the facts I’ll be posting about animals. So which animal do you think I’ll pick first?