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D.O.G.S

(Day I Obtained Great Stress)

“Eagle one, this is hornets nest, do you copy?”

“I am hearing you loud and clear hornets nest.”

“Eagle one; you got four unidentified aircraft heading your way. Twenty degrees north.  We need you to identify, over?”

“Reading you loud and clear. Eagle one out.”

On June 11, 2008 four dogs were born, two of them would be mine forever and the other the other two were given to my aunty.  The two that I kept changed my life forever. They were now my responsibility, my assignment.

“Hornets nest; I have all four bogies in sight. Awaiting instruction”

“We hear you eagle one, eliminate the two of the bogies. We need you to take two hostages.”

“What are you going to do them?”

“Not us Eagle one, you. You’re going to train them.  Now complete the mission.”

From the day they were born I took care of them. I cleaned them, I fed them, and I bathed them, but I had also made mistakes and forgot about them.  These were the things that changed me and made me grow.  I made mistakes, but I learned from them.

One of the biggest mistakes that changed me was the day I had left their dog food in the rain.  One of the rules of the dog food was that it can never get wet or it will mold.  Well, I obviously had left it in the rain and it got moldy. I had been irresponsible, but I had learned from it.  The reason I learned from my mistakes was because I did not want my dogs to suffer without food like how they did.  I had learned to check my area before I had put them away.

“Hornets nest, this is eagle one.  I have eliminated two of the birdies, but I am having trouble with the hostages, I think I may have lost them.”

“Did you check your six?”

“Yes sir. I have checked all areas……No wait I see them, they are diving straight into the ocean.  I am going into save them.”

“Just bring them home safely.”

My dogs have not only given more responsibility, but they have also opened my eyes to what parenting is like.  They have changed my thought process from “my parents have an easy life, just go to work and come home”, to my parents work hard by juggling life, work, and kids.  I have not had a full taste of what they feel with me, but I have insight to what it is like to have kids; stressful, but fun.  The day I got my dogs was the day I inherited responsibility. 

Having dogs taught me a lot about time management, which will help prepare me for college.  It helps me to balance all the aspects of my life which are school, sports, and home life.  Being able to keep up with all the aspects of my life and fitting in time to be able to walk and take care of my dogs will help me to be a more responsible person.

Being able to take care of my dogs was like being in a dogfight, or going on a mission.  I had to take care of one kill box and move to another.  I took everyday as one kill box, trying to not make or forget any responsibilities that I had to do to take care of them.  If I made a mistake, such as forget to cover their cage properly, it affected not only me, but my dogs.

The reason why my dogs changed me was because it changed my way of thinking.  I have been applying the way I think with my dogs to almost everything I do in life.  I us it when I in school, especially when I do my test.  I take it one class at a time trying to make as little mistakes as I can.