Personal Narrative: That's Just A Dog

How would you feel when you wake up one day and find that your first dog has died? I felt as if my world was going to fall apart. Years after his death I’ve had other dogs, but none of them had made me happy has my first dog has. Many people say that it’s just an animal, you can get another one to replace it. No dog in the world can be a replacement for my first dog. Everything in the world can not be replaced. It’s like saying you can replace one of your family members when they die. I mean you can replace them with another person, but the memories you had with the person can not be replaced. Sometimes we think that we can love them back to life, but in reality, everything comes to an end.

Hello pretty people, Sam here. I went through a specific process when picking Cooper to be my first dog. I wanted to walk you all through that process to hopefully make it easier on you when trying to pick out a dog.

They also save us mentally. According to multiple studies done by various sources, interaction with canines can decrease stress by a sizable amount. Playing with or petting animals can increase levels of oxytocin, a stress-relieving hormone, and can decrease levels of cortisol, a stress hormone. This lowering of stress can lead to many positive repercussions. It can cause children and teens to do better in school, can reduce blood-pressure in most cases, and can help people with sleep disorders find peaceful rest. In any case, these repercussions can be life-changing for a multitude of

Unconditional love: All training aside, dogs are animals who provide unconditional love to their humans, and this in itself can be a major encouraging factor for people with depression/anxiety to fight their illness. Moreover, knowing that your psychiatric service dog is there to take care of you encourages you to move out and meet people, which helps you manage the symptoms of your condition better.

Main point one: Companionship is important to have in your life, even if it comes from your dog. When life gets stressful it’s nice to have a companion to play with, take a walk with or even cheer you up. Companionship can be hard to come by with humans sometimes and easily found in dogs. While their personalities vary according to the breed of the dog, one characteristic remains the same, their loyalty. Dogs make great listeners, maybe because they can’t tell you to stop talking, but either way they seem to listen with interest. Many dog owners find themselves telling dogs things they can't seem to tell anyone else. This is what makes dogs good therapeutic animals. A dog is an especially good animal for someone who lives alone or suffers from depression. Having a dog present can also help people who have suffered a tragic loss in their life and need the company of another life for comfort. I know from my personal experience of losing a loved one, what a dog can do to help you through. Owning a dog gave me responsibility at me weakest and gave me a

Patience is a very important quality to posses when it comes to dog training. It might take to a child months to learn the ABC's as well as for a dog to develop a new skill. It is important to remember that each dog is different, for some it might take one class and for some more. Some dogs will be driven by treats and some by a game. It is essential to find what makes them feel good, to help them recognize that they did right. It is important to commit to the process and to make sure that everyone of the family are engaged in the process, not to provide mixed signals to the

Have you ever noticed that dog owners are happier and healthier than non dog owners?Dogs have been used for centuries and we still love them as our trusting companions. There are many reasons that dogs are called a “mans’ best friend”. Having a dog can have many benefits including lower risk of cardiovascular complications, they can improve your mood, and they can help with many physical and mental disabilities in the form of service dogs or mobility support dogs.

Though they are capable of learning and following several commands, they don't always feel the need to go along with your agenda. It's best to start training this breed as early as you can so he gets used to doing things the way you want. Prepare yourself for a bit of a stubborn streak, however, and some periodic mischief. First-time dog owners can do well with the breed but may want to consider some obedience classes. Getting Along

“A Healthy Dose of Puppy Love” by Kathryn Satterfield describes a new study that shows that dogs can improve an individual’s health by lowering anxiety levels and by improving cardiac function. Specially trained therapy dogs visited a hospital in November in Dallas, Texas to help conduct a study that animals can improve an individual’s health, to do this people split the seventy six patients into a total of three groups: visitors with dogs, visitors, and an “at rest group.” For accurate results researches preformed anxiety tests on the patients before, during, and after the visit, and the results concluded that patients who received visits from people had encountered a ten percent drop in anxiety, while patients who received visits from dogs

The road is so flat and straight; you can see them coming from a mile away. Six runners flow in arrowhead formation around the Canadian city of Saskatoon. The early November air is still and dry, the sky overcast, and the temperature hovers a bit above freezing, just as predicted.

Some would say that dogs have to be trained for mostly everything. Although dogs do need training, there are many ways to train them faster and more effectively. One of the tips is to be consistent. Whenever you're are training the dog, it's important to get as many family members to get involved, so the dog while know to listen to everyone. There also class for 240 dollars to 600 dollars for six sessions; where the professional trainers help the dog socialize and learn basic commands. To conclude, dogs can be taught quickly with just some easy tip and ways.

This one account shows how while many react the same way with the smile and laughs that people of all ages receive from a dog, others cannot have the same reaction and other “small” interactions can mean a milestone or a point of turn around for people needing that stimuli. This is only one of many accounts of accomplishments that take place with the aid of pets. Another case was a man who had just had a stroke and could not retain a long term or a short

When I was just a little boy, so was Tucker. It seemed as if everytime someone said I grew, Tucker grew with me. As he got older, he started getting slower, but was still an amazing dog. When he was older, around 8 years, he began getting sick more often. He didn’t get out and run at the farm as much. We began to worry, especially me, because he was my best friend. I finally talked my parents into taking Tucker to the vet, because they kept saying that he was probably just “sick”,and I told them wrong.

I do not have a magical story where my dog saved my life, or how she can do backflips, or that she can catch a Frisbee with no hands. I have a yellow lab named Marley—super original name right—she was bit dumb as a pup, which I believe has led to her current behaviors. She was dumb in the sense that she would run headfirst into the large poles holding our back patio up. Each time she hit her head she would look up at you and with a look on her face as to say, “what is that doing there.” I believe that her dare-devilish escapades led to her current belief system in which she thinks she is a cat. This was cute when she was twenty pounds, but is no longer cute that she is eighty pounds. As you step out of the back door she runs up to you slams into your legs, toppling toddlers, and crippling grown men, and proceeds to rub her back up against your legs as a cat would do. We cannot seem to shake that habit; the best part in the whole process is the ungodly amount of hair she just left on your pants.

I had moved out of my mother’s house and into my new boyfriend’s house six months prior.