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A Pet Reader

Chapter 46: How We Care for Our Canary
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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.

How We Care for Our Canary

We keep the canary in a cage.
We place the cage near a window where there is much sunshine.
Every day we feed the canary.
We put some cuttle bone between the bars in a corner of the cage.
We do not give our canary sweet or salty food.
We call our canary Dickie.
Dickie is fond of lettuce.
So we often give him lettuce.
We feed our bird apples, too.
Sometimes we give him crackers.
We give bird seed to our canary.
We put the seed into a dish.
Then Dickie helps himself.
He often spills the seed.
Then my mother has to sweep it up.
Of course we remember to give our bird fresh water to drink every day.
Indeed, we try to take good care of our canary.
Because we care for him, Dickie sings sweet songs for us.