Make a COPY and save to your reading folder. Look at each picture and answer the questions.

You’ve just got your new kitten. She’s fluffy and very cute, and you fall in love with her right away. Then you discover that she has sharp claws and even sharper teeth. Sometimes she scratches and bites you when you play with her.

How do you think you would feel when she scratches and bites? Why?

One day, she brings her first dead bird into the house. She’s really proud, but you’re not. You start to see that there might be two sides to your cute new friend.

What do you think the two sides to the cat are?

Two sides to cats

Gareth Morgan thinks that we should get rid of these predators from New Zealand completely.

Why does Gareth Morgan think we should get rid of cats? 

Two sides to cats

However, Bob Kerridge of the SPCA says that only about 50 percent of cats actually hunt.

How does Bob Kerridge disagree? 

I think she will feel angry

I think the

2 side of the cat is cute and cuddly and dangerous and sharp

I think it's because cats kill endangered animals

they’re fussy about

what they go after. Rather than birds, their first choice

of prey is usually an animal that lives on the ground,such as a rat, a lizard, or an insect.