Personal Narrative: Twelve Year Old Black Lab To Sleep

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On December 19, 2014 we had to put our twelve year old black lab to sleep. His name was Bailey, we got Bailey when I was four years old. He was my best friend growing up, and putting him to sleep was extremely hard on our family. We had all kind of agreed that we wanted another puppy. After a week of Bailey being gone we decided to put a deposit on a puppy that was due to be here in March 2015. When March rolled around the breeder told us that there wasn't enough puppies in the litter so we would have to wait until May, we were upset because we wanted a puppy. My cousins Aaron and Aimee bought a puppy from a lady in Thomaston and brought her to my house. Her name is Sadie, and she's a black lab. They proceeded to tell us that they still had two male puppies left for sale if we wanted to go get one, so we went to check them out and decided to buy him. It was snowing that day and very cold, so the puppy was extremely snuggly. …show more content…
He weighed about 19 pounds and he was 11 weeks old, he was a pretty big boy. We tossed up between two names, Remington and Gunner, I thought Gunner fit him best, so thats the name we chose for our new fur ball. It was hard getting used not calling him Bailey or one of Bailey's many nicknames and it was hard to get over losing Bailey and loving another dog. Gunner made it so easy to love him, he mended my broken heart. He loved to snuggle and always be at our feet. He was smart and he learned all the things we started teaching him, really