Animal Shelter Research Paper

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A few years ago at the end of the 6th grade grade, the only thing that I wanted was a dog. I was kind of lonely because I am an only child and I didn't have many friends in my neighborhood. I begged my parents for a puppy. For a whole 3 months all I did was ask my mom if she had finally had decided if I could have one. After about another week she finally said yes, but I had to pay for the dog myself. How on Earth could I pay for the puppy that I wanted. Me and my mom came up with an idea that we would help both of us. We would sell things at my Grandma's garage sale. My mom would sell her old junk and I would sell cookies and lemonade. The idea was not a complete success, I made $100 in 3 days. And that was not even close what I need to …show more content…
For the next month all I did during the day was look a dogs on the animal shelter website. My mom and dad promised me that after our trip to Wisconsin dells we would go and pick out the dog that we all wanted. Well that did not happen, after the three day in Wisconsin my dad was not happy. The bed in out hotel room was uncomfortable and the neighbors were very loud. So he was in a bad mood all the way back home and we did not stop at the Golden Valley animal shelter to get the dog that we wanted. A few days later I cautiously brought the subject up to my mom and she said that she would take me to the buffalo animal shelter to see a dog named Max. We got there and we had to wait for it to open. We went inside and met Max, he was a giant German Shepherd, we walked him around the area and then sat and played with him. The only problem is that I figured out that i am afraid of big dogs that I am not familiar with. So we went and looked around at the other dogs that were for sale. We saw a litter beagles, but they were to rambunctious for my mom. We also saw a little black dog that was there but when I went up to pet her she growled at me, apparently she did not like kids. After that we left and I was crying all the way