
Photography: My puppy, Trasto (Beagle)
Many people have this type of relationship with their pets, including me. When you have a dog, a cat, a bird or other animal you don't have just a pet, you have a friend. It's normal to treat it like a member of your family: you care for it, feed it, play with it... You would do the same with a son or a brother. At first, it is the centre of attention but when time passes by, it becomes one more of the family.
For me, a pet means sacrifice, t you have to renounce for a lot of things, like sleeping more time at morning or going out when it's raining. But beside the things that you have to do for it, to have a dog means to have someone with wet snout waiting for you to come after school. A tiny tail moving every time that you open the door. In one way, you know that it's always going to be there with you.
This relationship is not bad at all. When you have a pet you gain responsability and you become more serious. Moreover, It's such a good way to madurate. The important thing is to train it and not to let it do everything that it wants.