Derek Wheeler
12-3-07
Blog 12

If I had to prefer dogs or cats, I would choose dogs. Dogs are easier to teach tricks to than cats. Cats also never want attention so you rarely ever see them. But my favorite house pet would be a bearded dragon. Bearded dragons are lizards that have a scaly “beard” that turns black if they feel threatened. They can also change the shade of their backs to being dark when they are stressed and light when they are calm. They are like a chameleon except they don’t change their color to match their surroundings. When bearded dragons are young, they also “wave” when they are stressed out. And when they are older they turn their “beard” black and nod their head up and down. And from my personal experience, I found that they can jump very high. I had to put a lid on their tank to stop them from jumping so high. And the walls of the cage was about two feet high.