Sick Raccoons

       A couple of weeks ago we had some sick raccoons in our neighborhood,but then we found out that they were all over town.We have a ton of raccoons in our neighborhood and sometimes we have to be careful at night because we do not want to come across one.

      One morning my dog copper got out of her collar and we had to put a bow around her neck. My brother Albert was walking  Copper and the bow snapped right off of her. So we had to run after her and she is  fast  so we ran after her. She went by the ditch and found a  raccoon. We heard her barking and me and Albert were down there before our parents.We saw Copper barking at a sick raccoon. Albert and I knew to stay back, so we did. When our parents came down they stayed away too. My dad grabbed a stick and tried to get Copper to get the stick.We finally got her though. She could have gotten really sick.

 

My Dog

I have miniature dachshund (also known as a wiener dog) and her name is Copper. Dachshunds are short- legged, long bodied dogs. They are made to flush out badgers and other burrow-dwelling animals. The word "dachshund" is German and literally means "badger hound". 

My dog Copper loves to play around all day long. She also chews off all of her collars. Copper loves to go in rabbit holes, too. My grandparents have a lot of rabbits and they sometimes keep them in her chicken coop, but the bunnies dug holes in the dirt floor. Copper went in the holes and tried to get the bunnies, but she never got one, and I'm glad she didn't. It took for ever to get Copper out of the bunny holes, and she was doing  what she was made to do.

                    Here is a picture of Copper.

My First Blog Post

Hi, my name is Adele. Thank you for visiting my blog. I will be posting an interesting story every week.

My dad has a fishing camp in the swamp. We went to visit on Tuesday. On the way back we saw a man in a canoe. The canoe was piled high with stuff and on top of it all was a bicycle. We stopped and talked to him.  He said he started from Wetumpka, Alabama on August 27th. That is about 150 miles away. He had been paddling for almost seven months on the Alabama River. He had his bicycle so that he could go to the grocery store when he had a chance. He said he had just finished working at Hurricane Landing for a while to make some money. He looked like a homeless man. My dad asked him where he slept and he said "I sleep on other people's camps." My dad said he could sleep in our camp. He slept on our deck.

Here is a picture of our fishing camp when the water is really high.