Dialogue

Dialogue

I saw my mom reading the paper and was glad she was up early enough to see if she wanted to go to breakfast with me this morning.

“ Hey mom wanna go to breakfast?” I asked but she looked away from the paper just enough to tell she didn’t want to go but with out saying it.

“Depends who’s paying” she replied rather rude.

“Well, how much money do you have?” I asked rather suspicious hoping that I wasn”t paying again.

“Let me check, thirty-five cents.” she whined in a way that told me she was asking if i would pay.

“Thirty- five cents?” I said and she nodded her head. I walked away and decided i wasn’t paying again.

Show! Don't Tell

The puppy is undisciplined.

When i walked through the door "Biscuit" immediately put his yucky paws all over my clothes while he held a new shoe in his mouth. I tried to sit down to eat dinner but couldn't because he had chewed off the leg to it. So i settled on standing but still found it hard to focus as biscuit was as close as he could get to my legs, drool dripping on my shoe and eyes deep gazing at my sandwich. I walked to the front door, opened it and pointed outside but almost as if he was laughing  at me he jumped up grabbed my sandwich and raced outside to eat it.

Adopted a Puppy Mill Survivor (Free Write)

I had kept seeing a dog on petfinder (a website that shows dogs at animal shelters for adoption) but decided that i just couldn't take him at the moment because i was to busy and didn't need another dog. After a few months i looked on the website and saw the the dog "Niko" was still up for adoption which i thought was strange because he was a Japaneses Chin and that's a very rare dog to see at an animal shelter. The info box about him said he was maybe from a puppy mill and he spins in his kennel and runs in circles when he's outside but given the time would bond with some one. So i called the shelter in Polson and set up a meeting for her to bring him to the Kalispel animal shelter. When i saw him he was  so small ( a change from the giant American bulldog i already had) and shaking terribly. She told me he had been adopted to four or five homes already and returned each time. I had worked with terribly shy animals before and figured after some time he would come around, but i was in for a big surprise. I took him and as i guessed he lived under the bed, i had to move my bed every time I took him out potty. Which I had to do so on a leash because he would run away and hide in the back yard if i let him off leash. After Two months and still having to move my bed also never seeing him wag his tail decided to take the frame off my bed so he couldn't hide and I didn't have to move the bed each time to get him. I took him to the vet to get him a check up and had to pay 400 dollars so he could get infected teeth removed then he got into the habit of going to the bathroom on my bed which was new. I have now had him for 7 months and need to buy a new mattress, I have to take off my sheets and blankets every time i leave so i don't have to wash my blankets everyday its also still a struggle just to get the leash on him. After this experience I did research on dogs from puppy mills and realized just how much it messes up putting an animal like that in a small cage with no contact. It has been one of the biggest wake up calls about the way we use dogs as profit and thanks to Niko I am reminded of it everyday.

Been a Vegan (Free Write)

It all began with a book i read "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safran. Ever since i was about 11 or 12 i decided i wasn't eating animals. When i was 15 i moved up to Montana and became familiar with hunting and thought that was just the greatest and most natural thing because I am against factory farming, After reading that book though i decided to go all out and not eat anything that came from animals that was factory farmed. I gave up cheese, eggs, milk and meat. Some people go as far as not eating honey because it comes from bees but i didn't go that extreme. After being introduced to hunting and farming life when i moved to Montana i decided to eat meat and eggs but buy them from local farmers. Being a vegan in Montana is highly criticized and most people don't want to hear a word that comes out of your mouth after you say that you don't eat meat. I unlike most vegans don't believe that eating animals is wrong i just believe that the treatment of putting animals in small cages and feeding them hormones is unnatural and unhealthy. So being a vegan has played a very huge part in my life and informed me about farming, hunting and eating animals in general that i knew nothing about. When i first decided not to eat meat it was all based on the thought that  killing and eating animals was wrong but as i got older my belief started to change and i decided that i felt that eating animals is a natural thing i just don't like the system we have about going about. And decided that small farms and hunting is the way I am striving to support.

Jumped in a Frozen Lake to Save a Dog (Free Write)

When i lived in Ferndale on loon lake I used to walk around the Lake with my dog and my dads dog in the spring time when it was to warm to walk on. I could see both dogs walk on the lake and fall through a bit them swim back to shore and go on again. I wasn't worried since they both seemed to get the hang of walking and falling through then swimming back. After i was getting to the end of the lake i could see my dads older dog cowboy walk out to the middle on a log then walk around, right before he was at the edge of the ice he fell through and made a little circle. I watched him for a minute or so trying to get out of the hole using his legs to pull him self out but just couldn't do it. He had been hit by a car a few years ago and had a little bit of a harder time jumping and doing things. Once i realized he was starting to bob under and take longer to come up i decided to go help him. I ran to the shoreline and took off my boots and jacket and walked in the freezing water till it was deep enough i couldn't touch and i had to swim till i reached the ice and used my forearm to break it, once he was free from the little hole he started to swim back with me to the shore and i grabbed my stuff and carried it until i got home.

Have You Ever

Have You Ever...

• Jumped in a frozen lake to save a dog?
• Swam with stingrays?
• Lived in Californiaa?
• Been in a car wreck?
• Worked in a nursing home?
• Been a vegan?
• Volunteered at an animal shelter?
• Visited Mexico?
• Adopted a puppy mill survivor?
• Lived in four different states four years in a row

google docs

After watching the video i think google docs would be very helpful for school, i just started using it in my English class in high school and find it much more simple. For my English papers i  turn in, she is able to correct them and write notes right on the page with out having two different copies of the paper. I also think it would be helpful for sending information to my family over the Internet since they live so far away, there wont have to be copies all over the place just one that everybody can see.