Assignment 4 Duncan Wingfield

     As a kid I had never really had a pet. When I was very little we had a really old dog but that was about it. My little brother had been begging for a dog for basically as long as he had known what they were but I had always been opposed to the idea, I liked being different from everyone in not having a pet and I didn't want my brother to get what he wanted. His begging became more and more prominent until I was in 7th grade when him and my mom came back from an average shopping trip with a puppy. At first I was very upset with them, partially because I didn't like my parents setting the precedent for my brother but mainly because I just wasn't expecting it. This challenged my ideas of how I veiwed my life as I had always seen it as not having room for a pet. The change in life and thinking that the puppy caused me to change and adapt to how I thought about things  and became very attatched to the dog.