Being Kind to Animals Are Animals Special Be Sure Your Cat Or Dog Wears to You? Maybe You a Collar with Tags

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© 2010 Universal Uclick Friends With Fur, Feathers and Scales from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick Being Kind to Animals Are animals special Be sure your cat or dog wears to you? Maybe you a collar with tags. Think about getting a tiny computer chip have pets. Whether identifier for each of them. This can you are loving your help people return a lost pet to you own pets or love to safely. watch creatures in the It is important that even your indoor wild, animals bring cats wear tags. Accidents can happen. Cats can get out. Experts joy to our world. It is important that say fewer than five out of every people treat animals well. 100 lost cats without collars are Be Kind to Animals Week is May returned to their owners. 2-8 this year. In celebration, The Mini Keep your dog on a leash. If a pet Page interviewed an expert from the gets lost, it can’t tell people where it lives. American Humane Association, the

sponsor of this special week. photos courtesy American Humane Association You are needed Showing and needing love Loyal friends You may be big and strong. You can Have you ever missed supper? How Our pets are completely loyal to us. probably get yourself something to eat did it feel to be hungry? We need to treat them well. and pick out your own clothes. But Do you believe animals have some Pets will can you take care of everything you of the same feelings that humans love you need? Can you pay for your food and all the do? Your pet can feel hunger, fear, time. They housing? You need a grown-up to do affection, thirst, pain and pleasure, that for you. don’t just like you do. care what You are the Your pet can’t say the words “I love you are grown-up in your wearing you,” but when it sleeps at the foot of or if you pets’ lives. They your bed, jumps in your lap, licks you depend on you know or puts its paw on you, it is saying, “I what the for everything. love you.” latest fads For example, are. We An animal’s love is need to if you forget to special. For many people, fill your dog’s water bowl, it is a big love and an animal’s love is the protect deal for the dog. He can’t fill the bowl only love they have. these himself. He needs you to do it for him. friends. Please include all of the appropriate registered trademark symbols and copyright lines in any publication of The Mini Page®. ® 18-2 (10); release dates: May 1-7

from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick A Family Choice Asking questions This girl cares for donkeys. People Responsibility for a pet begins who live in the before you even choose it. You and country may get your family need to think carefully to be around about whether you will be able to many kinds of animals, such as care for a pet. horses, cows, Whether to get a new pet needs to pigs or chickens. be a decision the whole family makes. Caring for animals Ask yourselves, “Are we being fair to is a serious responsibility. the animal?” Will you be leaving your pet alone for long periods of time? It is especially unfair to leave a young dog alone for a long time. Ask yourselves other questions: photos courtesy American Humane Association Does your landlord allow pets? Can your family afford to care for a pet? The right thing to do Is there enough space for the animal Deciding not to have a pet can be Think about how you’ll feel when to exercise? the responsible thing to do, too. your animal is older. It might have Remember that if Often when people get mats in its fur or not you adopt a pet when a new pet, they are happy have the energy to play. you are 8 years old, to pay attention to it and An older pet is the same that pet might still care for it. But after a few animal it was when it be alive when you go weeks, the excitement was a puppy or kitten. It away to college. Be sure your parents might wear off. still needs to be loved. will be happy to keep caring for it.

from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick TM Basset Brown Be Kind try ’n The News Ready Resources Hound’s to Animals find The Mini Page provides ideas for Web sites, Words that remind us of being kind to animals are hidden in the block below. Some words are hidden backward or diagonally. See if you can find: CARE, books or other resources that will help you learn CAT, DEPEND, DOG, EXERCISE, FEELINGS, FOOD, HOMES, KITTEN, LAP, more about this week’s topics. LOVING, LOYAL, NATURE, PAW, PET, PUPPY, RESPONSIBILITY, On the Web: SHELTER, TAG, VETERINARIAN, WATER, WILD, YOUNG. W Y T I L I B I S N O P S E R • www.americanhumane.org Pets make • www.avma.org/careforanimals/kidscorner/default.asp our lives C I W L T E P K E R U T A N P • www2.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=kids_home happier! K A L A O D S G N I L E E F U • www.kidsplanet.org I Y R D T Y O L G N I V O L P T O F E C E A G S E M O H V P At the library: T U O T P A R L D N E P E D Y • “A Dog for You: Caring for Your Dog” by Susan E N O A A N T M R E T L E H S Blackaby N G D G W L V E S I C R E X E • “A Cat for You: Caring for Your Cat” by Susan Blackaby P A L N A I R A N I R E T E V Please include all of the appropriate registered trademark symbols and copyright lines in any publication of The Mini Page®. ® 18-3 (10); release dates: May 1-7

TM TM Rookie Cookie’s Recipe Mini Spy . . . Pimento Cheese Spread Mini Spy loves to play with her dog, Sherlock, in You’ll need: the back yard. See if you can find: • 2 cups (regular or reduced-fat) shredded sharp cheddar cheese • pig’s face • dolphin • bird • number 2 • 1/4 cup low-fat mayonnaise • frog • fish • monkey • bell • 1 (2-ounce) jar pimentos with juice • 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce • number 3 • dragon • word MINI • snake • 1/8 teaspoon onion powder • funny face • carrot • heart • dash of garlic powder What to do: 1. Pour cheese into medium-size bowl. 2. In a smaller bowl, combine all other ingredients. 3. Pour mixture into bowl with shredded cheese and blend. 4. Chill to combine flavors. 5. Spread on bread, crackers or celery. You will need an adult’s help with this recipe. from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick Meet Bindi Irwin Bindi Irwin stars as Kirra in the DVD movie “Free Willy: Escape from Pirate’s Cove.” This is her first acting role as a fictional character in a movie. Bindi starred in her own TV show for Discovery Kids, “Bindi the Jungle Girl.” She has appeared in several nature specials. Bindi loves to sing and dance and has her own group, The Crocmen. She has appeared on DVDs/ photo by Joe Alblas, courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures CDs against childhood obesity: “Bindi: Kidfitness” and “Bindi: Kidfitness Vol. 2 — Jungle Dance Party.” Bindi, 11, was born in Queensland, Australia. Her father was the late environmentalist and TV host Steve Irwin, and her mother is naturalist Terri Irwin. She appeared in her parents’ nature programs from the time she was a small child. She is home-schooled. She helps with many charities, including her father’s charity, Wildlife Warriors Worldwide. She volunteers at a wildlife hospital and sponsors a needy child through World Vision. from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick

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from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick How to Be Kind Shelters Some more tips Experts say that in the last 25 • If you see an animal being hurt, years there has been a big change tell an adult. Do NOT approach the in how people think about animals. animal or mean person yourself. Kids today are much more concerned • Remind your parents to about animals’ feelings and health. take your pet to the veterinarian About 15 years ago, from 10 regularly. million to 20 million animals were • Ask your parents to get your killed each year because there was dogs and cats spayed or neutered. no room for them in shelters or homes. This means the vet will do a simple Today it is down to about 4 million to operation so your pet can’t have 5 million each year. People are being puppies or kittens. This helps make more responsible about their pets. sure there are enough loving homes But there are still too many for all the animals. homeless animals. Every day, about a million animals in shelters wait for someone to give them a home. photos courtesy American Humane Association Be sure to care for all pets, such as these ferrets, properly. If an animal is wild, leave it in the wild. Don’t bring it home.

Shelter rescue Many animals in shelters were left there by people they loved. The dog or cat may have gone from sleeping at the foot of the bed to a cage. These animals didn’t do anything wrong. Rescuing an animal from a shelter is a great thing to do. You might also help raise money for your local Dogs love to share activities with people. Cats need a lot of love. Be sure to keep shelter. their litter box clean. Some kids are having shelter Look through your newspaper for stories The Mini Page thanks Jane Greco Deming, birthday parties. They ask their and pictures of animals. director of humane education, American friends to bring donations for a Humane Association, for help with this shelter instead of birthday presents. Next week, The Mini Page offers some issue. suggestions for fun summer reading. The Mini Page Staff Betty Debnam - Founding Editor and Editor at Large Lisa Tarry - Managing Editor Lucy Lien - Associate Editor Wendy Daley - Artist Please include all of the appropriate registered trademark symbols and copyright lines in any publication of The Mini Page®. Read about being kind to animals photos courtesy American American courtesy photos Humane Association in ®

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from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick ® TM Standards Spotlight: Being Kind to Animals Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page’s content and offer activities that will help your students reach them. Supersport: Maya Moore This week’s standard: Height: 6-0 Birthdate: 6-11-89 Hometown: Lawrenceville, Ga. • Students identify the needs of plants and animals. (Character Education: In March, it was time to clip nets and hoist big trophies. Maya Caring) Moore and the Connecticut women’s basketball team know the Activities: routine well. 1. Use newspaper words and pictures to make a poster showing how to care for The unbeaten Huskies captured their 33rd Big East championship pets. and won the Division 1 NCAA Women’s championship in San Antonio, Texas. 2. Divide a circle into three sections. In the sections put newspaper words/pictures Moore had 23 points in the final game and was the tournament MVP. for pets that could live in an apartment, a house, and a farm or ranch. As usual, Moore played a major role. The 6-foot-tall junior forward — voted 3. Circle newspaper words and pictures that show things to use in taking care of National Player of the Year in 2009 — averaged 17.3 points and 8.3 rebounds pets and things to use in playing with pets. prior to the NCAA Tournament. She led UConn in assists (133) and steals 4. Why is it important to be responsible for (a) feeding a pet, (b) giving a pet (72). She’s more than opponents can handle. water, and (c) making sure a pet gets exercise? Moore, whose father, Mike Dabny, played on Rutgers’ 1976 Final Four team, 5. Make a daily schedule showing how you would take care of a pet (or a pretend began shooting at an early age and recorded her first slam dunk when she was 16. pet). But Moore does more than swish shots and win games. Well-rounded and a (standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi) hard worker, she earned All-America honors in academics as well as in basketball.

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