My Love For Animals Research Paper

Growing up in a dysfunctional family from alcoholism, fighting, and mental illness one thing that has comforted me throughout my life is my love for animals. At the age of four I was introduced to my first kitten named Patches. When I was a having a hard time coping with things in my environment my feline was always there for me as he never got mad at me, listened to my feelings, and just wanted my unconditional love. Soon my love for animals took a turn and I remember having twelve cats as they were all provided with more than the basics for life of food, water, shelter, and love with an acre and a quarter of land for their lurking and mouse hunting pleasures. However, when I turned eight years old that world that I knew unraveled through my eyes as we had to sell the property that we lived on because my grandparents passed away and it was their estate. With my grandparents passing away and their estate I had to come up with a plan to keep my animals I had as I felt I could never give them away. I had to fight for them as they were not able to speak their mind and opinion on where they wanted to go. I remember I went as far as to bringing some of them over to my best friend Amanda 's …show more content…
I remember I would go to Amanda 's house everyday after school to help raise and support those cats as they were my fur babies. When no one else was around to support me the cats were my escape goat for coping in a world of dysfunction as they got me through the war of my life. I felt like they were my children as I needed someone to care for because no one was there to care for me. I don 't feel like I had much of a childhood because I had to take adulthood on at an early age. The event of not having animals around to relax my environment created anxiety and stress that I would not wish on my worst enemy to have to go through on a daily