--- title: Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: On the way home from school a scruffy street dog starts trotting behind you. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety… # Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal Lesson 371 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 21 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/0/) — On the way home from school a scruffy street dog starts trotting behind you. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/1/) — It looks friendly, but you do not know it and it does not know you, so the safe rule is simple: never touch a strange animal. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/2/) — If a dog comes close, stand still like a tree: arms in, hands together, look away and do not run. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/3/) — Running makes a dog want to chase, just as a ball rolling away does. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/5/) — A stiff body, raised hair, a growl, a curled lip or a hard stare from a dog, or flat ears, a puffed tail and an arched back on a cat, all say «go away». - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/6/) — In many countries street dogs can carry rabies, a deadly virus in the spit. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/7/) — Any bite or scratch from a strange animal is washed with soap and running water, a grown-up is told, and a doctor is seen the same day. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/8/) — Many cities and kind people look after street animals: feeding them at fixed places, vaccinating them and having a vet stop them having more babies, so fewer homeless kittens and puppies are born. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/9/) — Any dog can bite if it is scared, hurt, or guarding its food or puppies, however friendly it looked a moment before. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/10/) — Running away from a dog can make it chase; standing still with arms in and looking away is safer. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/11/) — Rabies is a virus carried in the spit of infected animals, and in many countries street dogs are the main source. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/12/) — Once a person is ill with rabies it almost always kills, but vaccine given quickly after a bite stops it. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/13/) — A wagging tail does not always mean friendly: a stiff, high wag with a stiff body can mean danger, while a relaxed dog wags its whole wiggly body. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/14/) — A scared cat flattens its ears, puffs its tail and arches its back; it would rather run, but a cornered cat scratches and bites. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/16/) — Food left lying around brings rats, flies and fights between animals. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/17/) — Istanbul is famous for its street cats; people put out food, water and little cat houses, and a film about them called Kedi, Turkish for cat, became popular around the world. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/18/) — Many cities catch street cats and dogs, have a vet do a small operation so they cannot have babies, vaccinate them and let them go back; a clipped ear or ear tag shows it has been done. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/19/) — For years people reported street dogs in Moscow riding metro trains between stops to reach places with food. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/20/) — A dog has 42 teeth and a cat has 30, and their long pointed canines make deep narrow holes that trap germs, so even small bites can get infected. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/21/) — An adult person has at most 32 teeth, and they are blunter than a dog's. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/22/) — Kittens found alone usually have a mother nearby looking for food, so watch from far away and tell a grown-up rather than picking them up. - ← previous: [Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches/) - next →: [Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)