--- title: Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A pet is not a toy: it depends on you for food, shade, calm company and fair play every single day, ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Caring for pets and staying safe aroun… # Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals Lesson 287 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 26 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/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/0/) — A pet is not a toy: it depends on you for food, shade, calm company and fair play every single day, even when you are tired of looking after it. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/1/) — Some foods that are fine for people are poisonous for pets: onions, garlic, chocolate, grapes and raisins, salty food and the sweetener xylitol in some sweets and gum. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/2/) — That is why pets get their own food, not leftovers from your plate. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/3/) — Wild, farm and zoo animals are not pets. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/4/) — A rooster may attack to guard his hens, and a bear may chase someone who runs, so we stay calm, move away slowly and keep behind barriers. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/5/) — Example: a boy in Montana sees a bear at the edge of the trail. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/6/) — He does not run. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/7/) — He stays next to his dad, they talk in calm voices and slowly back away the way they came, giving the bear plenty of room. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/8/) — Some fears are bigger than the danger: sharks very rarely attack people, because we are not their normal food. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/9/) — A real snake bite, though, is always an emergency. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/10/) — Pets should eat their own pet food, not leftovers from people's plates. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/11/) — Onions, garlic, chocolate, grapes, very salty food and the sweetener xylitol can make pets very ill. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/12/) — A new baby or a new pet should be introduced slowly, always with an adult watching, because animals can feel jealous or scared. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/13/) — A pet is a responsibility for its whole life; if a family truly cannot keep it, they find it a new home through a shelter. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/14/) — Abandoning a pet is cruel and against the law. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/15/) — In play, let a pet catch the toy sometimes; play that always ends in frustration makes animals stressed or snappy. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/16/) — Cages and hutches must be kept in the shade, because small animals can overheat and die quickly in the sun. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/17/) — If a rooster chases you, walk away calmly and tell its owner; some roosters attack to protect their hens. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/18/) — After any snake bite, call the emergency number, stay calm and keep still; never suck the bite or cut it. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/19/) — If you see a bear, stay with adults, do not run, speak calmly and back away slowly, because running can make a bear chase you. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/20/) — At the zoo, follow the signs, stay behind the barriers and never climb fences; zoo animals are wild and can be dangerous. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/21/) — Sharks rarely attack people, because people are not their normal food. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/22/) — A boy in Ohio patted a dog tied outside a shop without asking; the frightened dog bit his hand and he needed stitches and an injection against germs. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/23/) — A family in Australia gave their dog chocolate cake at a party; that night the dog was shaking and sick, and it needed an emergency vet. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/24/) — Dog bites send many thousands of children to hospital every year, often from a dog they know. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/25/) — Chocolate, grapes and the sweetener xylitol can poison dogs, sometimes badly enough to kill them. - ← previous: [Being trusted and what to do with things you find](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/) - next →: [Being gentle with small animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/288-being-gentle-with-small-animals/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)