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    Man’s Best Friends discusses the important role that pets have played throughout the author's life. The author details how growing up with numerous pets, including dogs, cats, chickens, and more, helped them develop empathy, responsibility, and an ability to form strong emotional bonds. Specifically, the author's Chihuahua/Shih Tzu named Aspen has been a source of comfort and unconditional love for over 13 years. Owning and caring for pets as a child helped the author work through traumatic experiences and taught valuable life lessons about responsibility. The author believes that pets contribute greatly to happiness and preparation for the future.

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    Man’s Best Friends discusses the important role that pets have played throughout the author's life. The author details how growing up with numerous pets, including dogs, cats, chickens, and more, helped them develop empathy, responsibility, and an ability to form strong emotional bonds. Specifically, the author's Chihuahua/Shih Tzu named Aspen has been a source of comfort and unconditional love for over 13 years. Owning and caring for pets as a child helped the author work through traumatic experiences and taught valuable life lessons about responsibility. The author believes that pets contribute greatly to happiness and preparation for the future.

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    Man’s Best Friends discusses the important role that pets have played throughout the author's life. The author details how growing up with numerous pets, including dogs, cats, chickens, and more, helped them develop empathy, responsibility, and an ability to form strong emotional bonds. Specifically, the author's Chihuahua/Shih Tzu named Aspen has been a source of comfort and unconditional love for over 13 years. Owning and caring for pets as a child helped the author work through traumatic experiences and taught valuable life lessons about responsibility. The author believes that pets contribute greatly to happiness and preparation for the future.

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    Man’s Best Friends discusses the important role that pets have played throughout the author's life. The author details how growing up with numerous pets, including dogs, cats, chickens, and more, helped them develop empathy, responsibility, and an ability to form strong emotional bonds. Specifically, the author's Chihuahua/Shih Tzu named Aspen has been a source of comfort and unconditional love for over 13 years. Owning and caring for pets as a child helped the author work through traumatic experiences and taught valuable life lessons about responsibility. The author believes that pets contribute greatly to happiness and preparation for the future.

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    Man’s Best Friends ​ ​ ​By: Irelan Bailey

    Animals are everywhere, they are


    all around us. No matter where you stand,
    you could find an animal in that area.
    What’s more fascinating is when, we
    humans, create precious bonds or
    friendships with them. These animals that
    we have special friendships and
    companionships with
    are known as pets. Of
    course, we know that pets can be trained and can perform
    really cool tricks that leave us in awe no matter what they
    do. Pets and animals have made us laugh, cry, and feel
    special connections whether we own them or watch them
    on the internet. However, pets can do more than that.
    They can be your friends and keep you company. Or on
    more serious conditions, they can
    be there to save your life. I find that
    owning a pet or pets is important in
    an individual’s life. There are
    wonderful benefits and lessons that
    come along with owning a pet. Owning a pet can and will contribute to your
    life journey.
    Throughout my life, I’ve never gone a
    year without having a pet in my house or
    owning one. Animals have always been
    around me and have played important roles
    in my life. If someone ever asks me how
    many pets I’ve had in my life, I wouldn’t be
    able to give an accurate answer since there
    were numerous. I’ve had dogs, cats, fish,
    rabbits, guinea pigs, a pig, ducks, chickens,
    frogs, snails, and turtles. I’m proud to say that every single one of them was
    or are my best friends. Each pet has helped me
    form my personality, learn important lessons,
    and live happily.
    As a kid, I didn’t care about anything or
    have an attachment to anything in my life. My
    parents were always at work when I was a kid
    and they aren’t the type to show their
    emotions or feelings for people. My family
    has that sort of personality where we don’t
    show our feelings of love for others. We keep
    everything to ourselves. So when I was
    younger, I didn’t really care for the pets that
    wandered in the house and I struggled to
    have sympathy or express my true feelings
    to people throughout my life. It is still a
    struggle for me to understand how others
    feel or have sympathy. It frustrates me so
    much. However, I’ve improved drastically
    on connecting and loving people in my
    life. It all started because of my small
    Chihuahua/Shih Tzu that I got when I was 6
    years old, her name is Aspen. She has followed
    me everywhere in my house for the past 13
    years. She is always stuck to me like glue, or
    how my older brother says it, “like my
    shadow”. I’ve had my ups and downs with her,
    but in the end, she is my best friend. I’ve
    grown to love her and care for her so much.
    I’ve worried for her when she
    would get sick, or when she
    nearly died from an infection. I
    found myself somewhat changing
    in my emotions for others
    because of Aspen. She still is
    having problems because of old age and she worries me whenever she is in
    pain or sick. Having her by my side has trained me to make sure others are ok
    or feeling well.
    There have been traumatic times in
    my life that I do not really like looking back
    on. Through those times, my mind has been
    somewhat mentally scarred from events in
    my life. However, it’s not that bad now that
    I look back on those moments because I had
    an outlet to keep my mind off of certain situations when they happen. Taking
    care of my many pets kept my brain occupied from getting my mind twisted
    up into knots. The pets that I had to
    care for the most were my chickens,
    ducks, pig, and rabbits that were all in
    my backyard. The times that I wanted
    to escape life always lead me back to
    taking care of them. I find that my pets have done more than keep me
    company, you could even say that they’ve saved my life.
    Taking care of so many pets
    while growing up not only helped me
    through dark times, but they’ve also
    taught me how important
    responsibility is. My mom liked to
    give my brothers and I pets
    throughout our childhood. Usually, we were assigned to which pet we had to
    take care of and we learned the basics of taking care of them. Once we were
    comfortable with the tasks that we were given, our mom would completely
    rest all the responsibilities on us
    without her supervision. No
    matter what happened to our pets
    that we were in charge of, all of
    the responsibility was on us. One
    summer when I was about eight
    years old, I was able to have five chickens of my own since I was jealous of
    one of my older brothers having his
    own flock of chickens. Back then, I
    was the type to be laid back and quite
    lazy; the one that would be known to
    take shortcuts whenever possible. I
    actually did a good job of making sure
    my chickens were fed, watered, and
    living comfortably. Doing the same
    thing for a couple of years does get
    quite boring and I began to slowly
    neglect their needs because I wanted
    my brother to start taking care of
    them. However, as I began to turn a
    blind eye towards their needs, one of them died from being attacked by a cat,
    three of them died from disease and seeing their health decline right in an
    instant snapped me back to reality. The pain of losing my four chickens,
    Rose, Lily, Daisy, and Tulip, taught me the importance of responsibility. I
    had one chicken left and her name was Petunia. From that point on, I began
    to treasure her and make sure she lived the rest of her life happily. Petunia
    was able to live out her entire life in peace.
    Taking care of pets bring along responsibility,
    love, bonds, and emotional or physical support.
    Gaining all of these traits throughout my life has
    prepared me for my life now, and I believe that it’ll
    prepare me for my future. This will include helping
    me with friends,
    family, marriage,
    having kids, and
    working in a career in the future. Owning a
    pet has contributed to who I am today and
    my personality. I know that owning a pet
    changes your life and contributes to the happiness in your life. I know that
    everyone should have the wonderful opportunity to own a pet sometime in
    their lifetime.

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