Personal Narrative: A New Responsibility

A New Responsibility Having to take on a new responsibility can be a scary and challenging experience. It was challenging when I had to take care of my dog for the first time. I really wanted a dog, and thought it would be good exercise for me and the dog and would keep us both healthy and in shape. Having a new challenge can make me feel nervous. I thought it would be fun to take care of a dog. It turned out to be fun at the end but at first it was very hard, gross, and the smell was unbearable. When I had to take care of my dog, Dottie, my dad had to help fix a set of apartments my granddad owned, my mom was working, and my sister had to go to summer workouts so I was all alone with Dottie the big German Shepherd for a whole entire week in the summer of 2015. The first day was terrible, I woke up and went outside to wash Dottie and to clean her “mess.” The fresh mud puddle swallowed my sandals and the mud went all the way up to my knees. As soon as I walked into the dog house there was poop and pee all over the cage so the next day I needed to fix all those issues I had. I took a wooden plank and that literally covered the mud problem and then got the food and water. That was my routine for the next couple of days, go …show more content…
When I went to refill her food and water everything was going accordingly; open the gate, get food and water bowl then close the … “OH MY GOSH! THE GATE IS OPEN!” I yelled. I forgot to close the gate and ran out of the shed and saw the paw prints leading to the bayou behind my house. I was fully sprinting towards the smelly, ugly bayou. I saw her standing there,muddy, and her tongue was hanging out. I was so happy to feel her jump all over me. Afterwards, we both looked like monsters made from the earth so I bathed her then cleaned up everything. Then when I was done I closed the gate. Then,finally, took a long,warm