Personal Narrative: My Mistakes In Heartbreaking A Pet

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Everyone makes mistakes when they’re little. It’s how we learned and grew as people, no one can get everything right on the first try. This is especially true when it comes to new pet owners, or raising an animal in general. When you’re taking care of a pet for the first time there’s always something new to learn. There are plenty of mistakes to be had when it comes to caring for an animal, like thinking a hamster is sick when it’s just sleeping a lot because they’re actually nocturnal. Or the most heartbreaking mistake, losing a pet. When a child loses a pet sometimes parents lie so that their child doesn’t feel bad. Which is understandable, but it can hurt more when that child finds out the truth on their own.
When I was in sixth grade I had a black and white cat …show more content…

The only problem with that was that he was an inside cat, we didn’t want something bad to happen to him since we lived near a road and some aggressive neighbors that weren’t very kind to cats. One day after getting home from school neither of my parents were home and I didn’t realize Oreo was right at the door until I opened it. He bolted as soon as I cracked the door open. I tried to catch him, but he sprinted off into the woods. I was devastated for about three days until I thought I had found him. The cat I found looked just like Oreo, or at least I thought it did. Being an optimistic eleven year old of course I wanted to believe the cat I had in my possession was the cat I had lost. It was fluffy and black and white just like Oreo, but I didn’t notice that the markings were just a little bit different, or that this new cat was actually a little friendlier than my grumpy Oreo. The other thing I didn’t notice was that this cat was a girl. I really wanted to believe that this was my cat until the actual owners came by looking for their cat, they had a poster for her and everything. My parents decided to show them the cat we had found just to be sure. Being eleven years old and

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