Current Event #3

Title: Animal shelter’s behavior experts face life and death for animals

Author:  John Owens

Source: The Miami Herald

The topic of the article is facing animal behavior.

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The main idea of the article is Animal Shelter’s behavior experts face life and death decisions for animals. The main idea is stated in the title.

The author’s purpose for writing this article is to inform readers about how animal shelter owner specialists try different kind of methods and techniques to learn about an animal’s behavior and how to communicate with them without being attacked or possibly killed.

The author’s perspective in this article is objective because he states quotes that owners of animal control think about the kinds of animals they’re controlling and how they are sometimes to aggressive. The author also include dog’s point of view which is that humans also need to understand their culture and treat them kindly and not always think that the animal is always the one who does something wrong.

The pattern of organization of the article is cause and effect because in the article it shows the readers how control specialists do different kind of experiments on dogs to see their behavior when they try to play with the animal.(cause). As a result, owners figure out how to communicate with their animals and then know exactly how to warn a costumer when they adopt an animal.(effect)

The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is to show at the beginning about a dog and how its family moved away and didn’t take him with them, and slowly why that family gave up on their pet which was because of its aggressive behavior for them to handle.

The text features included in the article are quotes that different animal controller said about animals to their own beliefs about it, and bring up a real story about a dog named Yokie who was send to an adoption because of his tough reactions to show readers what the they are going to read about in the article.

This article is about (a summary in your own words) an animal adoption for different kinds of animals like cats and dogs and how they are being controlled by experts. The owners study those animals behavior and try out different methods to see their reactions to the playful activities they do with them.

The significance (importance) of this article is to teach families with an animal to know how to control their pet with the steps experts provided to the reader. Also to know how to respect the animal and treat it kindly so they won’t attack their owner or hurt them.

What I learned from this article is how to communicate with an animal in a friendly way without it hurting me or me hurting it. I also learned when to play with an animal and when to just leave it alone so no one gets harmed.

What I liked about this article is that the author mentioned a bunch of quotes experts said about an animal control. I liked that part because it wasn’t just a regular person teaching the reader how to handle an animal’s behavior, but it was an expert who actually did many observations and experiments which is why it’s 100% safe for a person to play with their pet and know how to control them correctly and know that if experts didn’t get hurt after doing the experiments many times to see for a fact the true behavior of that pet, they won’t get hurt either.

What I did not like about it is that there wasn’t any pictures of experts actually sitting down with the animal and testing their true reactions. I didn’t like that specific thing the author did because on most articles I read, there’s a lot of pictures showing the reader a visualized photo of what they are actually reading in the article. I wanted to see with my own eyes how experts manage to sit with the animal and observe their behavior.

Who should read this article and why: I think everyone should read this article even if they don’t have a pet so they will know step by step of how to communicate with an animal so if they have one, they will know how to treat it kindly and get used to their behavior, and even people who don’t have one can learn to do the same thing if they see a dog in the street and want to play with, learn the exact procedures experts include in this article.

This article reminds me of (text-to-self) because I used to have the sweetest dog ever when I was a little girl. I played with him a lot and he actually never tried to hurt me. He was like my security and I still remember him and will always consider him as family.

(text-to-text): I read a book called “Because of Winn- Dixie and it was about a girl who found the friendliest dog ever and named him Winn- Dixie. He was a wild dog, but very friendly. He was treated kindly and loved others, but when he saw a problem, he suddenly got aggressive and wanted to attack them. On top of all that, he was a very cute and sweet dog!

(text-to-world): A lot of people have aggressive pets, but kind too. Most of them get hurt by their animal and decide to give them up for adoption for their own safety. Some of them know how to handle their pet and have control over them like that experts do in the shelter. Not all animals have the same humor, and for that, we need to know how to control them so no one gets hurt.

Word	Contest Clues	Meaning
1.    Advocacy	“So they need to have some sort of advocacy.”	I think it means to have control; management over someone or something.
2.    Controversial	It’s a demanding, controversial and sometimes emotionally draining job, but an essential one…	I think it means a slow process of something that has to be done emotionally.
3.    Extensively	“ So it is difficult when there’s an animal that we work with extensively who just won’t come around.”	I think it means to work with something or someone continuously or a long time now.

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