Animals Deserve Our Love and Our Patience

“I have always loved animals. When I was in kindergarten, my class did a project on what we wanted to be when we were older. I wrote that I wanted to be a doctor for animals.I was in first grade when we got Blacky, my first dog. My dad got him from a neighbor because we had really wanted a dog. That was 2009. We still have him. Later, we ended up getting a dog we found through the Pennysaver magazine. My mom and I drove to Sacramento to pick Princess up.”

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