Personal Narrative: Has An Animal Ever Changed Our Life

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Has an animal ever changed your life? An animal is able to change lives in many ways and these are 2 biggest overall they give many people responsibility and something to do and they also are able to love the owner and make them happy.

Animals can give people responsibility to people by making them take the litter box or take them out for walks. On page 154 in the autobiography named “My story” the author Temple Grandin states “Animals kept me going. I spent every waking minute that I didn't have to be studying or going to school with those horses.” So in the quote it is stating that these horses gave her something to do, it connects to the thesis by letting Temple see into the horses day to day life and expanding her thinking in many ways.

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