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 I would feel hurt because he scratched me and Bit me

I think… the cute side and the killing side  

I think we should not get rid of cat  

  50% of cats   Hunt so the other 50 percent don’t.