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A Pet Reader

Chapter 23: The Dog’s Food
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Aimed at beginning readers, this collection presents short poems and simple prose about household and farm animals, including dogs, cats, birds, poultry, horses, rabbits, and small pets. Brief anecdotes, descriptive pieces, and rhymes portray everyday pet behavior, care tasks, and gentle moral lessons about kindness and responsibility toward animals. Sections group similar creatures and alternate playful vignettes with practical tips for feeding, housing, and helping wildlife. Illustrative scenes and accessible language support early reading and introduce empathy for animals.

The Dog’s Food

I feed my dog.
After we have eaten our meal, we give doggy the food that is left.
We always put his food on a saucer.
Then doggy eats the food.
Dogs like meat and bones.
Our dog drinks milk, too.
My puppy is fond of bread and milk.
I saw one dog eat some salmon.
A dog named Sport eats potatoes.
Another dog, Skip, eats candy.
He likes candy as well as I like it.
One dog eats oatmeal.
I think he knows that oatmeal is good for him.
Still another dog likes apples.
My sister’s dog eats cornflakes.
One dog even likes beans.
Once we saw a dog eating popcorn.
Some dogs have to hunt their own food.
But most dogs are fed by people who give them good food.
All dogs should have water to drink and good food to eat.
We take good care of our pet dogs.
We feed them every day.