my scout badges

On Wednesday the 2nd of September I earned my scout badges. The scout badges were called the pet badge, the musician badge (level 1) and my other musician badge (level 2). To earn my pet badge I had to look after my pet which means walking my pet every day, feeding my pet and even picking up my pet's poop!!!! I had to do this for two months. 

I also had to find out about two diseases that dogs could get and I chose the diseases called blindness and the disease that canine fleas give to dogs and us. Canine fleas give diseases by biting the dog and getting its spit onto the dog which the dog is allergic to. red pimples occur where the dog itches. If the dog continues to itch, their hair will start to fall off. You can get rid of the disease by bathing your dog with  flea repellant,  groom your dog with a comb, have your dog wear a flea collar and clean all your furniture so fleas do not leave their eggs in these places. 

Blindness can occur in many different ways, however my dog became blind because of retinal degeneration this happens when blood gets into the dogs eyes and the blood vessels at the back of the eye begin to disappear. At first the dog can not see at night but when more and more blood vessels begin to disappear the dog begins to become completely blind. Sadly you can not make the dog see ever again.

I worked with my friend to do our musician badge but we had to play three pieces on a violin.

We played the music to other scouts. The pieces were called Can Can,Old Macdonald had a farm and Twinkle twinkle little star. We also had to draw the symbols of music and learn about a composer called Beethoven. I chose beethoven because he went all over the world playing his violin to kings and queens even though he was deaf and when he died of illness people believed someone poisoned him. We also had to play different scales on the violin and explain the different parts of the violin. We demonstrated how to take care of our instruments.