Mindy B
Bear
The word pet reminds me of my old dog. We got him when I was four. But yet I still remember when we got him. He was the tallest dog out of his brothers and sisters. The people that we bought him from said he was born on March 28th. Then I got really excited when my mom told me we had the same birthday. I remembered that was my birthday too! On the way home we tried to find a name for him. We came up with all kinds of names. Some names were silly like Bigfoot and Bob. But we thought those names were too silly. Then when we got home, we put him in the backyard and saw that when he walked, he tripped over his paws. He was as clumsy as a one week old baby trying to walk. And bears have clumsy feet, so we named him Bear.
When Bear was six he was really playful. But one day Bear had a limp. We thought it would go away, but it didn't. The next day we took him to the vet for x-rays. They found a disk in his spine was out of place. They said we could put him through pain and do surgery. And after the surgery he would never be the same. And when he had to use the bathroom we would use a crane to lift him up. After hearing that we said no to the surgery. Then the vet gave us one last thing to do: put him down. We were heart broken. He would have turned seven next month in 2013. It was hard for us to put him down. But we keep his ashes in my mom's room to remember him. We all remember him to this day.
When Bear was six he was really playful. But one day Bear had a limp. We thought it would go away, but it didn't. The next day we took him to the vet for x-rays. They found a disk in his spine was out of place. They said we could put him through pain and do surgery. And after the surgery he would never be the same. And when he had to use the bathroom we would use a crane to lift him up. After hearing that we said no to the surgery. Then the vet gave us one last thing to do: put him down. We were heart broken. He would have turned seven next month in 2013. It was hard for us to put him down. But we keep his ashes in my mom's room to remember him. We all remember him to this day.