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Write about an animal who goes on a journey.

Posted in Kids on Apr 2, 2021

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Disobedience brings Distress

Submitted to Contest #41

The Yellowstone Timberland Reserve encompasses 2.4 million acres of natural luxury. It includes snow clad mountains, meadows, forests, lakes, geysers and the dormant super volcano Caldera. The forest is home to wildlife too- grizzly bears, wolves, bison, tigers, lions and the timid deer, zebras and giraffes. These animals move around in their own habitat suitable to their food requirements and climatic conditions. The animals have their own little hamlets- one such happened to be Yolo’s home.Yolo was quite an ambitious and daring tiger cub. ...

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Harry's New Hat

Submitted to Contest #41

This is a hilarious story about a hippotamus named Harry, he lives on a tame, game preserve in Newberry. Harry has an older sister named Sherry, and a younger brother named Garry. Harry's fathers name is Larry, and his mothers name is Mary. Harry the hippo loves to dress up in fancy clothes, he always wears a hat, he wears it where ever he goes, can you imagine that? Harry has a friend that is a toucan, his name is Gerald Gus, every one calls him Jerry for short. Gerald Gus can be seen riding on the back of the hippotamus, when ever Har...

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Mommy

Submitted to Contest #41

I remember that morning .The snow was covering the land with its beautiful  transparent ice stones.Those tall  pine and eucalyptus trees, along with the roofs of every single house of that steep little  prarie were also painted in that white.From the window of the kitchen of our two-floor house, we could appreciate the barn, with some ten or twelve chickens, two cows, the crops and an always absent cat.- Mom ¡ Have you seen Bill ¿ - I asked my mom, knowing beforehand the answer...

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Dog Tails

Submitted to Contest #41

“I almost got it,” I bark in my sleep, I narrowly miss the rabbit. Dang. I wanted that rabbit.  Then I hear, “Daisy” I hear. “Breakfast is ready!” I hear Ellie call. I open one eye. Eh, let me sleep I almost got a rabbit. I sniff. Breakfast equals human food and human food equals bacon. There’s dog math for ya. I jump out of bed and trot over to Ellie. She smiles “You actually woke up! Good girl.” She scratches me on the head. I hear, “Ellie, you know better, now wash your hands.” Ellie rolls her eyes. “Okay mom...

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Curiosity Helps The Dog

Submitted to Contest #41

Just as the ram-branded truck drove by the farmland, we leaped off its compartment and softly landed on the soft grass below us. A few metres ahead lies a life, an adventure. A new world.I really don't understand why most of us would rather prefer to live comfortably in our owner's home rather than venturing out to the unknown. I mean, is dog food what we really think it is? Are there trees we don't know of that are better than what we do know? Well, I guess you could say my sudden disappearance occurred thanks to these questions. Curiosity ...

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Buddy the Escape Artist

Submitted to Contest #41

Giggles filled the air from the little boy in the family. This only meant that he was about to do something that the rest of the humans in the house would not approve of. Then the little boy went to the front door. My ears perked up as I heard the front door open. No one in the family never let me go through this door. Now was my chance! Forever grateful to the little boy, I ran out the door. “Brother!” the girl in the house shouted. She was the human I considered to be my mama out of the four humans who lived at the house with me. Her hair ...

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Daisys adventure

Submitted to Contest #41

The trail had mist ubiquitously. The soggy midnight was just as much murky as it was drab, but that didn’t hold me. It never would. Mama escaped me just last week and now I’m on my own. Im just a baby, 7 years old. My sister repeated it every day when Mama squawked at me. She’d go right into Mama’s face and state, “jeez Louise, Mama! She’s just a baby, you know!” Mama would become fired up. One night mama just left, leaving me and my sister. My sister took off too the next morning. I knew I couldn’t continue all by myself. In the timber...

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The Primal Journey

Submitted to Contest #41

Spring in an old-growth forest, the backdrop for this story, is innately beautiful and teeming with life. Spring is a time of renewal, of birth and re-birth. The flora and fauna collectively hail its arrival. Welcoming Spring is an all-encompassing celebration, a fever, an epidemic. Our traveler not only encounters this Spring fever epidemic but participates in it as well.  Here is her story.  The primal journey continued. Dead brown leaves of oak, maple, ash, birch and other deciduous trees covered the forest floor. Mold upon...

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Rex's Trek

Submitted to Contest #41

Rex journeyed up the side of the roadway, keeping well to the grass. Ears perked and nose ready for even the strangest of scents, the brown colored mixed breed dog walked at a steady peace.     He stopped. A lush cool breeze embraced him and he closed his eyes, letting the rush bath through his thick fur, and he wagged his tail. It was good to be alive. Rex then took in the scenery. The field stretched far towards the distance, where the forest spread out without end. A few butterflies danced above the grass and blue...

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Hopie's Long Day

Submitted to Contest #41

Hopie sat waiting. She just knew that they would be back. After all, it had only been a day since they had left. They would be back. They had never left her before. But something seemed different.She looked around the house and saw that the couch she loved to sleep on was gone. Her dog leash was gone. Her food dish, water bowl, all gone. In fact, everything in the house seemed to be gone. Where had her owners gone?Hopie had the most amazing owners, Charles and Nicole. They had adopted her when she was just a few months old. They did everythi...

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"In Search of Home"

Submitted to Contest #41

Desmond is loyal, patient, kind. Desmond listens, he holds you, he wipes away the tears. Desmond is everything you could wish to have in a best friend. Desmond is a good boy, middle-aged- seven years old in human years. Desmond is also a black Golden Retriever. His buddy is Arney- a white human male, single. They live in a house that is small, but perfect for the two of them. Desmond grew up with Arney- he’s known him since he was a little pup, the runt of the family. But Desmond hasn’t seen Arney in two days, and this confuses him. They hav...

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Bear’s Big Journey

Submitted to Contest #41

      Bear woke suddenly. He shuffled in his small confining cage. The burrow he had built during the night was starting to cave in. He squeezed his eyes shut and popped his head out of the hole. The bright light of the pet store met him as he rose, and he winced. Nearby a small girl of about four was headed towards him and the other hamsters. She started squealing excitedly and Bear hissed. Hamsters are nocturnal and she was waking up all of them. He hoped she wouldn’t be the one to put him in a small cardboard...

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A Buddy In Europe

Submitted to Contest #41

Currently, I am on a flight to the Deep South of the United States of America. It is a flight coming out of London. I'm just glad that my wild ride through Europe is finally over. When I was looking out the window of the plane. I just stared into the night sky. About an hour later...We landed in Atlanta, Georgia. My owner Francisco told me that it was going to be a while until our flight. So, in the time between flights as Francisco was getting his energy out. I was talking to a group of tsum tsums that were around me. They were exchanging s...

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Me and Ernie the Wallaroo

Submitted to Contest #41

I met Ernie the Wallaroo while visiting Dharug National Park located in the Central Coast region of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. I was looking through my binoculars at gang-gang cockatoos, satin bowerbirds and green catbirds on the mountain slopes. I heard someone or something saying mate! Hey mate it shouted in an Australian accent. Help an Australian brother Roo out! I stopped looking at the wonderful sight to see who was calling me. All I seen was a moderately large macropod, intermediate in size between the kangaroos and the wa...

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Jodi's Day At The Zoo

Submitted to Contest #41

The sun was warm when Jodi woke up that fine summer day. She stretched and yawned her sharp teeth sparkling in the sunshine. Outside her enclosure she could hear the keepers preparing the zoo for a new day of visitors. Their voices were distant, happy, opening shops and preparing food. Jodi stretched again, her long spotted tail flicking gently as she gazed about. The sun was just topping the horizon. The new day cast gentle light throughout her enclosure while Jodi sat atop her favorite sleeping branch appreciating the beautiful view. She c...

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