In Britain, about 50% of homes hove got a pet.Almost six million people in Britain have got a dog and five million have got a cat.Dogs, cats, birds and fish are the world’s favourite pets.
But people in other countries have got different ideas about pets.In Arab countries, for example,dogs are not popular because people believe they are’nt clean.And in Africa, very few people have gotanimals as pets.
Same people in China and Japan have got small but noisy pets.They aren’t dogs, cats, fish, or budgies: they’re fighting crickets.These pets are very noisy.
The Inuits of nortern Canada keep bear cubs, foxes and baby seals.They look after them until the animals grow up.
Another example of an unusual pet is the Madagaskar hissing cockroach.It’s quite big. I’ts clean and doesn’t bite, and it sometimes makes a loud noise.Madagaskar hissing cockroaches make good pets for children.In Australia and Indonesia, some people have got ‘sugar gliders.’ They are marsupials (that means they have got a pocket or ‘pouch’ for their babies-like a kangaroo) and they ‘fly’ from tree to tree.
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