Personal Narrative: The Day I Got My First Dog

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The Day I got my First Dog “Everything I know, I learned from Dogs” –Author Unknown I had always wanted a dog. I waited 11 years asking for a dog almost every day. I finally convinced my mom to take me to the animal shelter. It was around an hour ride to get the place where we got my dog. We got Murray at Pets Inc. It was November 27, 2016. I was with my mom and we had nothing to do. I suggested that we look up animal shelters around the area. We did and we found the local animal shelter. The local shelter was closed because it was a Sunday. We then looked again to see if any other animal shelters were open. My mom pointed out that pets Inc. was open. After we looked at the website we decide it was not too far away and we could

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