The Day I Got My First Puppy Essay

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The day my life changed for the better. I am talking about the day that I got my first puppy. Considering that I have always wanted a puppy so bad, I knew that this day was going to change my life. It all started about a week before when our family was discussing what puppy we should get and how old it should be. This automatically filled me up with excitement and made me realize how much I wanted a dog and for how long. Then I knew that the day was finally going to come. Back and forth, my family was throwing out ideas of what puppy it should be, “What about a husky?” my dad said. We all thought that huskies would be a perfect pet until they were going through pictures of puppies being sold on the internet when all of the sudden they landed on a picture of some English bulldogs being sold. We opened up the picture and BAM just like that without hesitation we knew this was the dog we were going to get. The breeders were selling the English bulldog puppies in Saint George, Utah which in the photo, appeared to have about eight or so puppies. Immediately, we ended up calling the breeders and made sure that we would be able to come and get one of them in the upcoming week. Now, it was a waiting game as the days went by… slower and slower every day leading up to the trip. …show more content…
Which to me, was the last thing I was worried about at the time so I kept ensuring that my brothers and I would do anything to help take care of this dog as long as we get it. Now, knowing that we were around the age of about eight years old or so, we didn’t have the best responsibility in the world but we did have one thing in our mind, “We are getting a dog!”. As the day progressed on it was about 11:00 in the morning and we had finally gotten in the truck and began our journey to Saint

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