MY PET COMMUNITY
MEET MY PET Resident Submissions
Cornelia is a lot of fun. She has more energy than the other chickens we have and she loves to be around her human overlords. She is a wonderful addition to our family.
Izzy is a sweet dog. She’s an X-Malinois (German Shepherd Malinois mix). She loves wrestling with other dogs, playing chase, playing with children, and playing fetch.
Kitty McKittface is a rescue cat. She was abused by her first owners and given up by her last owners. Teaching her to trust and watching her learn to receive love has been very rewarding.
Meet Rosie! 3 years old full breed Red and White Basset Hound. She is sweet and affectionate, loves to cuddle, loves people and likes to play fetch. We love her and her loving and sunshine filled personality!
Meet Ted! 1 year old full breed Red and White Basset Hound. He is a class clown, makes us laugh every day, loves affection, let’s everyone know his emotions and loves his sister Rosie. We love him and his funny and emotionally in-tune personality!
Teddy is our little teddy bear. He’s a Mini Goldendoodle who gets excited really easily, loves to snuggle, and pouts all day when his mom leaves the house.
8 MICE, MOZART, & AC/DC Resident Submission
by Ethan Wright, age 14 There was a young girl named Ashley Bytheway who created an experiment for her school science fair. She bought 8 mice and put them in 2 containers, 4 in each. Then with a laptop and two speakers, she played hard rock AC/DC in one container, and classical music Mozart in the other. Right away she knew the rock mice hated their music. Every night at 7:00 she would put them in a maze with food at the end of it. All the mice made it through the maze in 5 minutes the first time, but since she did it every night, she knew there would be a learning curve. The science experiment was about what the 6
difference between the two containers of mice would be. At the end of the month, the hard rock mice were able to complete the maze in a little over 3 minutes. The Mozart mice were able to complete it in just 16 seconds. Next, Ashley put a cardboard tunnel between the two containers and put all the mice in the middle so they could choose which music they wanted. The next morning she found that all eight mice were in the Mozart container. Psychologically, something about the hard rock music was naturally repellent to the mice. With this project, Ashley won the science fair, of course!
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(Fun fact: classical music has increasingly gone down in popularity, but stores will still play it to repel loitering teenagers).
