How To Shoot The Centipedes

In order to keep the rattlesnakes away without killing them, the author captures a gopher snake. He releases this snake inside his house and feels attached to the snake when it says, “We are compatible. From my point of view friends”(Abbey). The author shows that animals considered to be scary can be friend and not foe. By releasing a snake in his house, the author portrays the narrator’s trusting view of nature. Edward Abbey also touches on pathos by creating a sense of fulfillment, even though the snake who the author has become so accustomed to has left. The snakes leave for second time and it says, “I will not see the gopher snakes again. Nevertheless, I will feel their presence watching over me like totemic deities” (Abbey). The author causes the reader to feel sad about the snakes leaving, but it helps to lead to his next point. He transitions from a relaxed tone to one of judgement of others when it says, “ I suggest, however, that it’s a foolish, simple-minded rationalism which denies any form of emotion to all animals but man and his dog” (Abbey). By saying this, he points out that many people only care about their pet dogs, rather than the many other living species. The author also tries to portray his view of the value of life by saying that “We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter as it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are

One early saturday morning my dad (Shawn), my cousin (trey), and I woke up at 2:30 a.m. to go duck hunting. When we get out there we are one of the first people there and 4:00 comes along and we sent out to our spot. When we come to a spot that boats can't go we have to walk for about 15 minutes. As we are putting out the last of are decoys we here so more people throwing out decoys and they are pretty close. Well, we start talking to them and they are pretty nice and they ask if they can hunt with us and we said yes. Then, daylight comes and a group of ducks come in and we shot but I was the only one that killed one that we could find and it´s a drake which is a male mallard. Then, my dad shoots and we could not find his ducks.

My daughters sitting in the back seat of the car are trying to take a picture of it with their I-phones. I’m the only calm one and tells my husband to get back in the car and let's go back the other way and call the Forest Ranger. As we turn the car around, the kangaroo starts following us, hopping alongside the car. Then he jumps in the backseat of the car, and my goofy husband decides to stop. The hairy kangaroo stretches over the seat and punches my husband in the face. While my husband is trying to fight Edward off, other kangaroos are surrounding our car. We all get out, and they take us into the dark, creepy wilderness. Then we slowly come out of the wilderness in the morning and guess what? We are all kangaroos. I felt itchy and full of energy for the reason I just wanted to hop. I wanted to hop all around the wilderness like no body’s business. I seemed anxious and on edge not knowing if I’m going to return back to a human being. My human body felt trapped in this skin tight hide. I couldn’t breathe or talk. I would just make loud funny noises. I wanted

A young man named Isherwood Williams had been researching alone near his cabin for two weeks when he was bit by a rattlesnake. Although he hadn’t seen anyone during that time, he didn’t think anything was wrong because he was used to being alone. After a few days of going through a little bit of sickness from the rattlesnake bite, he drove to the nearest ranch, but he didn’t find anyone

It’s walking in, branches breaking while he’s walking into the bait pile. I feel like my heart is going to jump right out of my chest. I sat there patiently while letting it eat for a while. I grabbed my gun and put the shiny bullet in. I really didn’t know if this was real or if I was just dreaming, but this had to be real. Once I told my dad that I was ready to shoot, he told me to

I remember as a little girl my dad had trucks and cars of every make and model. We’d fly up and down those dirt roads, sloshing through mud and drifting around corners. As kids, my friends and I would play chase and hide and seek in the corn around my house. We had a game called “Ghosts in the Graveyard,” but it was later renamed “Flowers in the Garden” as to not scare my baby sister. My dad would cut logs in the woods across from my house for firewood.. In that woods was a broad ditch, and in the winter, I would ice skate across the water that was left in the ditch. Where I live everyone has critters crawling around. On the grounds that I lived so far out in the country, I could have whatever animal I desired and that my parents would allow. Through the years I’ve had horses, donkeys, goats, pigs, cows, rabbits, ducks, chickens, dogs, cats, guinea pigs, hamsters, guineas, and even turkeys. My neighbors even had bears and wolves. One day my dad took me to see them! It was astonishing, and I’d say the better half of most people would be frightened knowing that someone close to them had bears living in their

I was in my Grandfather’s garden picking grape tomatoes when I saw something jump up out of the tall grass. It was unusual, so I walked over and I looked in the grass. All I saw was a not small, but medium sized rock. When I lifted the rock up, I saw a creepy looking praying mantis feasting on a small rodent. The mantis looked up at me, jumped up, and poked me in the arm. The last thing I saw was a mantis with it’s prey. The rodent, growing larger by the second, sadly looking at me. When I awoke, the rock and the grape tomato plants in front of me were huge! When I went to

When I was three I wanted a dog, but I could not get one because my sister was one. Two years later we when to a dog store.When we entered it did not smell good it smelled bad like dog’s hair it was also loud because the dog’s barks.First we started looking at the bigger dogs we saw a husky but did not want one.Then we looked at bloodhounds, but we decided no.After a long day we started to head home. But then when we were heading home, we found a house with dogs for free so we looked around some more and found a brown and white

An hour past and I understood then why waiting was the boring part. I was extremely bored and cold. My imagination was playing tricks on me, was that a deer, no only a tree branch, but that’s a deer, wait no it’s not. When will this end? I thought and repeatedly thought that question over and over and over. Suddenly weird vibrations disturbed me and my thoughts. “It’s your mom telling me that she’ll have your brothers and dad ready and over at the house by two o’clock for your birthday party.” Then I had realized that I out of all the people forgot about my birthday and birthday party being that very day. Oh no I’m in the middle of the woods and today’s my birthday party, well the good news is that it is only nine in the morning so maybe we’ll get there before people start to show up. Wait what if I miss the change to get a deer. I can’t leave. It was an hour later and I was still trying to solve my problem. Okay I guess it’s time to give up. Then something got my attention. Movement in the bushes. When I looked through the scope on the gun I saw three deer, a big doe, a little doe and a baby buck. I lined up the gun with the big doe then she ran, so I lined the gun up with the small doe and then Grandpa stopped me. “Do you want to shoot the deer?” He asked. Why would he ask me that question? “I need you to answer that question, because if you don’t and you pull that trigger you’ll regret it if you don’t want to shot and I don’t want you to.” “I want to.” I answered nervously. “Okay go ahead, pull that trigger.” He told me. Shoot it! Wait don’t! Don’t you listen; he said you’ll regret it. It was like I was arguing with myself in my mind. Don’t you do it? My finger tightened around the trigger. Wait don’t, BOOM! Before I realized it, I fired and the doe just dropped to the ground. As I slowly put the gun

I think the zoo used good judgement, when they decided to shoot the Gorilla (Harambe). A kid was in danger, and they had no other choice. I understand that those Gorillas are endangered, but to think that a set of humans would lose their own child. I also think that if the Cincinnati Zoo didn't save the child, there could have been a lawsuit filed against the zoo. The parents should not have any type of consequence. There is a lot of ways that kid could have fallen over the ledge and landed in the Gorilla habitat. Yes, silverback gorillas are again endangered, but losing your own child is even worse. However, the Gorilla was treating the little boy as his own.

“She served an oily, slick portion of the squirrel to me for supper. I pulled the stringy meat from the bones as best I could. Everyone else ate spaghetti and meatballs. I could not finish my serving. After supper, I felt tired and fell into a deep sleep. I woke up close to midnight and cried out. My grandmother rushed into my room and my parents came in soon after, just in time to see me vomit. My father walked me outside to get some air. I heaved and sobbed for what seemed a very long time. I think it was guilt that I was trying to expel from my body. My father put his arm around my shoulders and held me close to his side. I was a hunter for one day and on that day I had killed a squirrel. That day was also the last time I held a gun in my

It was late November, all full on Thanksgiving turkey, when I decided to take a stroll in the woods. I came upon this grove of Cypress trees.They were beautiful. I, at that moment, tripped over a root. Falling hard on the ground and scraping my knee, noticed a good number of roly polies(woodlice), and remembering my cute little hedgehog grabbed a bag from my pack and grabbed a handful of them. At that moment something jumped from the tree and landed on my head. Caught completely off guard I fell over with it on my face. It gave a loud shriek and swung at my face with it’s seemingly razor sharp fingers. I didn’t know what to do, for I was disorientated and had no idea what I was dealing with. Only when

Last night I was sleeping when I heard a loud bang. I woke up frightened and went out to look around.To my surprise, I saw a huge tail dangling around.

So the next day I went out to the woods again and started looking for arrows. I found a few good sticks and took them back to camp and started sharpening them. I put a little crease in the end of the arrow and then put in the quiver then I shot it and surprisingly it went pretty far probably a good 20 feet. So I took it out and started looking for food then I saw it a rabbit sitting right in front of me I put the arrow in the quiver and I shot it. I took it back to camp and I realized I had to skin it so I used my rock knife to skin it and I found another straight stick to stab the rabbit and then I cooked it over the fire. I was

Our old red van squealed as it halted to a stop. One Pitbull, no two Pitbull’s were in a big bay window of our new dogs old home, barking at our arrival. They welcomed us into their home with open arms as if we were royalty. Once inside their house, my mouth went upside down like a rainbow and my nose scrunched up in disgust. My eyes narrowed to find the horrid smell, as they adjusted to the dirty and dark room they searched for the source when they saw some glass terrariums. My brain must have told my feet to move towards them because as soon as i saw them i was right next to it the tanks. i put my finger on the glass tank where the log inside was touching. i didn’t see anything, but i stayed there. i turn thinking nothing was there when something struck the glass. i jumped back examining my finger. Nothing. Now knowing nothing could bite through the thick glass i put my finger by on the glass. it came back. it was a brown snake. There was at least 6 tank exactly like the others. The only difference is that they were different kinds of snakes. “Oh i forgot to tell you, we have snakes; hope you aren’t afraid of them.” said the mom. When she said that my mom was just stepping into the house and let out a nervous laugh and stated that she was very afraid of snakes. She tried to stay away from them, but they were everywhere. There were seven of them, but it was a tiny living room, so it seemed like everything. After about five more apologize for the