Personal Narrative: Break Her Down

Break Her Down Children want many things. There are days when they want to play with people and days when they don’t. As a baby through my toddler years we had a dog, Kilo; I’m not sure of the breed. He was very overprotective over our family, especially my brother and I; however he was still a friendly dog. When I was around five years old, my mom went outside to find Kilo had somehow hung himself by his chain. Usually, when he ran around the tree, the chain would snap so that he would not hang himself. She, as well as the rest of us, loved that dog so much. I swore I would never want another dog after that. We tried having fish and cats, but that didn’t turn out too well. I was really just a dog person. Finally, my brother and I started wanting a dog. He wanted a pit bull or a bulldog. I, on the other hand, thought that Yorkshire and poodles was the cutest thing, I also thought it would be cool to have a pit or bulldog. My mom was totally against getting a dog because she said that after Kilo no dog could ever come to the house. …show more content…
My brother and I kept trying to come up with ideas on how to talk our parents into getting us one. My mom strictly told my dad that we could not have a dog, because no other dogs could come to the house. My brother and I had this whole drawn out reason we needed a dog. We knew that having a dog came with lots of responsibilities, such as: cleaning up behind it, feeding it, showing it affection, care for it, and bathing it. My mom still was against it because she didn’t think we would be responsible enough to take care of a house dog. She still was completely against pits and bulldogs, so we were still