Farm Animals

By Anabell Tapang

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 Batanguenos are known for their unusual accent and sweet personality. This is one of the reasons why they can take care lot of animals and for the fact that they are literally surrounded by farmlands.

 Batanguenos categorized their animals into three parts. First from their classification are animals for helping they are popularly known as farm animals. They are the ones who helped their owners for their livelihood examples of these animals’ carabao and goat. 

  

 Another category for is the animals that is made for eating. It may sound wrong but we have to face it were in the top of the food chain. Examples of this category are pig and chicken, they are the most common cuisine in a banquet for a feast in Batangas. 

  

Lastly are the animals for companionship, most commonly known as the pet animals. They give accompaniment with their owners, gives joy and at the same time protection to their owners. Examples of which are dog, cat, dove and a bird called Martinez 

  

Martinez bird. (Whenever I am bored I talk to our grandmother's pet Martinez bird, I told Rony (pet bird's name) every single detail about my swelling tooth. Rony was fascinating he was the doorbell of ancestral house. Whenever someone will pop on our gate he will squeak, May tao, May tao! or Aida, May nabile.(Aida was the name of my grandmother) )

 To sum everything up Batanguenos are lovable with their animals they can take care of them and at the same time treat them as a family whether in what category they belong to.  

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