Listening 14 – Listen for specific words

ADAM

I wanted to tell you about my pet. My pet’s name is Nightshadow. It’s a little cat, it’s four months old, and it got the name because my liked the color, the color is totally black, and he wanted to name it “Night,” and we used to have a dog named “Shadow,” so I said hey, let’s call it Nightshadow. He and he loved that.

I have two little boys and we wanted a pet in the house and so we went ahead and we got this cat. Now the way we got the cat was really nice. There’s an auction site that I go to and I buy things from. The lady who worked there put a cat up on sale and it was for . It needed a good home because it was a rescue cat and the other cats in the house weren’t it so nice, so she needed to find a good home for it.

So I said “Hey, we’re looking for a pet,” she gave me , and we talked for a little bit and she said, “Wow, I think that would be a great place for the cat to live,” because I told her about me being a dad, and my two boys, my being autistic and them really wanting an animal in the house.

So she came over, brought all the – it was really cool too because the cat was not only fixed, it had a chip inside of it and it’s got our address, she made sure it went to our address in case the cat ever gets . She brought food, she brought over cat litter, a cat box, a cat drink bowl and food bowl – I mean, she gave me everything, even flea and tick repellent.

So it’s a really great pet, she’s so much fun, she , she even jumps up on my shoulder, she’s really fearless, jumps everywhere. Loves to play, loves to , and so – really great cat.

CHRISTINA

Hi, my name is Christina and I want to tell you about some of the animals that I have at my house. The only animal that we have living indoors with us is a white Labrador puppy, and her name is Izzy. We’ve had her for about a month now, and she is about four months old.

I usually get up about six AM and I feed her and her outside to go to the bathroom, and then we spend about five minutes running around outside, chasing each other and tossing a ball. She’s always to go early in the morning, and I usually am not – so it’s a good way to get my body moving and wake up.

Izzy is really, really good with kids, she really likes them a lot, and she loves to kiss them and she is very of them, especially my four-month-old son. Whenever he is crying, she is always going over to him to try to take care of him – but she doesn’t how big she is, and so usually we have to pull her back so she doesn’t hurt him.

Since I’ve only had her a month, I can’t really say that she’s been in a whole lot of trouble – but she did get into a little bit of mischief about a ago. It had rained pretty hard here and there is a part of the road that runs into a hill. And between the road and the hill is a small drainage area for water to go into the creek. It was with water and my boys made their way over there and started splashing in the water.

Well, they had their raincoats on and their rain boots on, so that wasn’t so big of a deal, but my little dog Izzy had no raincoat and no boots, and she went splashing through all of the water – so as I told you before, she is a white Labrador, and after she did this, she was more of the color of a brown Labrador. I immediately had to her up right away and make sure she didn’t have any ticks on her. But she’s been a real blessing in our house and we really love her very very much.

I also have some chickens, and the chickens are pretty to take care of. We go outside in the morning, usually when I’m taking my dog out, and I’ll let them out of their chicken coop so that they can around. I usually feed them once a day.

I also have a rabbit that my oldest got when he was two years old, and so of course he named the rabbit Two after his age. And this rabbit is so much because every other rabbit I walk up to runs away from me as fast as possible. But this rabbit, Two, will actually run me, and I’ve grown really fond of him.