OUR "PETS" CORNER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 26 November 1938, Page 12

OUR "PETS" CORNER

We have a pet lamb which we call j ] Bob. My little brother is making such ! j a fuss of it. We have ten black and < white chickens now. j —Audrey Middlemiss (9 years), C/o Post Office, Whangamoa. On the roof above our kitchen is a nest of baby blackbirds. It is really , funny to see the poor, flustered mother and father rushing hither and thither ' looking for food for their hungry little i nestlings. We are all waiting impat- * iently for the first flying lessons. I think , baby creatures are the sweetest things on earth, don’t you? —Azile Stephens (12 years), | 1 Tipalii street, Nelson.! We have six cows, and sometimes 1 have to milk them all, and feed five ! pretty little calves About ten days ago an old hen of ours brought out ; eleven little ducklings. We also have 1 six bantam chicks. The mother of them : has five little ones under her every night, and the rooster has one —Ross Burnett (11 years), ' R.M.D., Wakefield. ; I have a pet cow and calf, a dog, ' some bantams, and a nice little fowl 1 called “Dot.” —Margaret Wyllie (13 years), Hospital, Murchison. Only one of my chicks lived and I gave it to another boy. The mother canary is sitting on four more eggs. —Earle Norris (6 years), Britannia Heights, Nelson. We have got ten chicks out which all j seem to be very healthy but one, and ; the ducky fowl stood on that one s leg, i but Mother thinks it will be all right. —Pauline Goodman (11 years), High Street South, Motueka. We have a little black kitten named j Tui. He is so playful and happy with , us. Sometimes he sits on Mother’s lap j and licks her hand so affectionately. ! and then he will give her a sharp little nip with his tiny white teeth. —Ruby Smith (15 years), 108 Vanguard Street. Nelson. I When Mother cuts the grass our pet cat Tiny always puts his paw through the hedge and nearly gets it cut off. Our mother cat has had four kittens, and we kept one for a friend. It is a very dark tabby and Tiny doesn't like it. He spits whenever we put the kitten near him. The kitten is two weeks old. Tiny will be a year old on 22nd January, so j he will have to have a party. I take Rosy the lamb for a walk, and when I run she will, too. I can let go j of her rope and go away somewhere else, and she will still follow me. She j is getting very fat so I might put her in j the Motueka Show. —June Eginion (8 yc<rs>, Thorp Street, Motueka. We have a black and white pet goat; which we call Bc-Be. She is a very playful little pet to have. She likes ‘ mashed bran, clover and warm milk, I although I do not feed her with a i bottle now. I think it is always nice to have a pet I of some description. Once Norah and I j had a little pet rabbit each, which we j called Colly and Willy. When we were ! in Christchurch we had some white i rats which we kept as pets for some time until they managed to get away from their cage one day. —Dorothy Cottingham (12 years), Lower Queen Street, Richmond. We have two Shetland ponies on our farm at present. The smallest is black and thirty-two inches in height. The other one is much taller and is a smoky colour. Their names are Topsy and Smokey. When Topsy was younger she used to come into the house and would not go out unless we gave her some cake or sugar. We used to have a saddle' and bridle and a cart and harness for j her, but now the cart and saddle are J •

. ! 7 broken. One day when I was on Topsy. she started to gallop up the road. I : hadn’t gone far when l was on the 2 ground again. My Arm was broken 1 by that fall, although it was not far r from the ground. Smokey is not broken in yet, but 1 when he was brought to our place he t was put into the back of a sedan car, ' because it was the easiest way to carry 1 ' him. •j —Sheila Reay (12 years', Appleby. f