by Waffle of Doom » Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:17 pm
I think my best memory was the day I adopted my dog from the pound. He is a pitbull, and everybody knows about their reputations, well the first time I saw him was when my brother took me to the pound to look at him so I could help convince my mom to let us get him, well I completely fell in love and started playing with Gus (my dog) when my mom walked in and saw this huge, fierce looking dog licking my face, she started screaming, "GET THAT THING OFF MY BABY!" I held onto him with all my strenght and refused to leave, just like my brother, my mom kept demanding that I leave with her, but I wouldn't go, so she left me and my brother and I was crying my eyes out, after about and hour the people at the pound took Gus and locked him back in his cage and told my brother and me that we had to leave. So we did and then every day for a week after that my brother drove me down to the pound, and even though the pound people wouldn't let us take him out we would still stand there and talk to him through the glass.
Eventually we managed to convince my mom that he was safe and she followed my brother and myself to the pound to adopt him, what really sticks out in my mind about that day is sitting on the floor next to Gus, while my mom signed the papers for him, all the while Gus was licking my face and waging his tale, I was laughing and at least 3 people thought that he was such a great dog, they wanted to adopt him, too. I felt so proud that he was mine. That was back when I was 8, so 7 years ago.
Wow, that's a lot.