Hi! My name is Pip. My parents named me “Pip” because it was the very first sound I made when I was born. I like my name and the super-duper amazing place I’m about to show you! I live in the Arctic aka the North Pole aka the home of Santa Claws. I live in an ice cave with my mum, dad and millions of siblings. And I’ll be telling you about my everyday life.

I stretched my back against the soft snow as I was tempted to go back to sleep. I felt a heavy paw rest on my face, squashing my snout. Opening my eyes, I realised that it was my mum!

“Time to wake up Pip. It’s breakfast time and you don’t want all the good food to get taken do you?” she growled.
“Of course not! And besides it won’t, I’m a quick hunter so there’ll always be food leftover for me.” I replied.
“Then get up and head out the cave! We’re not waiting any longer.” she concluded.

I watched her leave the cave and I followed close behind. The newly risen sun blinded my eyes. I held up a paw to shield my face whilst walking towards the enormous lake. Taking a deep breath, I plunged into the freezing water. Rocks, rocks, seaweed, algae, more rocks… ah jackpot! An entire school of fish would be a piece of cake.

Diving downwards I scooped up as many as I could and hoarded them inside my mouth. I waited until they stopped squirming, and made my way back to the surface. My family stared at me in amazement as they all began to paddle towards me to get breakfast. I spat my hoard out and we all took our share. I won an award as the best junior hunter in the North Pole last year! Now I’m getting better and better everyday! I buried my face into my pile of fish, but instead bonked my head on the hard ice. I growled as I turned my head to look at… Lil Cutie. She’s always stealing my hoard and saying that SHE hunted them. She’s a Hare!

But that’s when Fish and Salmon came in. I watched as two pairs of familiar flippers poked out of the water and slipped the dead fish back into the water. Confused, I continued to watch and wonder, What were they doing?. Eventually, they managed to take all the fish from Lil Cutie. In an instant, they swam over to me and handed the fish back. I thanked them and ate my fish in silence. Fish and Salmon were my two best friends. I actually hunted Fish and wanted to eat her but as soon as we met we clicked! And somehow we became best friends. Not long after that I met her sister, Salmon, who became my friend too.

There you have it. My home sweet home.