Memory 3344

One memory that is really important to me and that I'll always remember is when I got my dog two days before Christmas. I remember when I first saw him as a newborn puppy. It was like the man upstairs had shined a light on him and telling me that he was just for me and I was determined to make him mine. Two days before Christmas my mom suprised me when she came into my room while I was still asleep and just dropped him right on top of me saying Merry Christmas. I named him Dimitri and we're like a match made in heaven. Dimitri taught me how difficult and sometimes really stressful it is taking care of a dog. Mom and I guessed that he was about 3 months old when we got him and a month later he became sick with mange. It started with a little scab between his shoulders; at first I thought our cat might have just scratched him but at the end of the week it had spread all the way to his tail. So I took him to the vet and she told me that he had mange. I was worried because mom and I had a much older dog and we were scared that he would get it too and not survive it, but the vet told me it wasn't the contagious type. My mom was talking about puuting him to "sleep" after hearing everything it was going to take to get him well from our vet, but I told her that that was not an option and I was determined to see him through this since he was mine. After all the vet visits, special food, special medicines, special baths, staph infections on 3 of his paws, having to fit him with a cone, and doing all the research I had to do on his illness it took him 2 years to finally be cured of it. And you talk about expensive, I swear after all that I realized and estimated that after how much I spent total on getting Dimitri cured, would probably estimate on how much I would spend on just the basic preparation if I had an actual child, like diapers, crib, clothes, etc. Of course that's not counting the discounts the vet had generously gave me on his meds and treatment. Thanks to this experiment I realized that I was no where near ready for an actual child yet and Dimitri is abput all the child I can handle right now; and he's 6 years old now. So quoting from my mom is that if you really want someone to love and love you back unconditionally instead of a baby, get a dog.