In Britain, about 50% of homes have got a pet. Almost six million people in Britain have got a dog and five million have got a cat. Dogs,cats,birds and fish are the world’s favourite pets.
But people in others countries have got different ideas about pets. In Arab countriees, for example, dogs are not popular because people believe they aren’t clean. And in Africa, very fev people have got animals as pets.
Some people in China ana Japan have got small but noisi pets. They aren’t dogs, cats,fish or budgies: they’re fighting crickets. These pets are very noisy!
The Inuits of northern Canada keep bear cubs, foxes and baby seals. Theys look after them until the animals grow up.
Another example of an unusual pet is the ‘Madagascar hissing cockroach’. It’s quite big. It’s quite big. It’s clean and doesn’t bite, and it sometimes makes a loud noise. Madagascar hissing cockroaches make good pets for children. In Australia and Indonesia, some people have got ‘sugar gliders’. They are marsupials and they ‘fly’ from tree to tree.
Անաստաս Սահակյան 