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National Pet Week Creative Writing Contest
The 2008 National Pet Week "Creative Writing Contest" was held in 2007 in conjunction with the National Pet week "Poster Contest". Entries were to be stories or poems with not less than 20 words and no more than 200 words. Students in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th greades were invited to enter.

Below is the 2008 national contest winner’s entry submitted to the Auxiliary to the AVMA. Congratulations to Samantha Carpenter, Monticello, AR.

Note: 2009 NPW Creative Writing Contest deadline has been changed to March 1, 2008.
2009 Creative Writing Contest Entry Form
(Note: Entry was hand-written but is reproduced by computer. as written)


“How Pets Jazz Up My Life”

When I get up in the morning my parakeet sings do-wop-a-do.
Then the rooster trumpets cockadoodle doo!

When I go to the kitchen the cats start to purr and twirl.
They make your feel want to swirl!

When you go out in the pasture you hear the geese singing bass going low low low.
Then as soon as you hear em’ you will know they don’t have a bow!

The dogs howl backup with a woo woo in the yard.
Soon as I hear them I am jumping and jiving hard.

Then I get to the barn I hear the horses tapping their feet to the beat.
The music that we are making sounds so sweet.

Samatha Carpenter
Monticello, AR

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