Take Responsibility

For Your Dog

To the Editor:

Many people do not take responsibility for their dogs.  Responsibilities include taking your dog for walks every day, picking up after him, feeding him regularly, and respecting him. Some owners do not know that their dog needs you to look up to. All dogs need good owners to live properly.

If the dog’s owner doesn’t take care of him or respect him, he will start thinking that he doesn’t need a owner to make him live properly and he will think he can do whatever he wants. When you think of dogs you probably think of chewing on couches, biting, being energetic, etc. This can be bad news. Letting a dog run your family won’t be much fun if your dog eats your couch, bites, and runs through your house knocking over all of your stuff. Once your dog thinks that he is in charge, it will be hard to retrain him again.

If you do not want this to happen, love your dog, take responsibility for him, walk him every day, and clean up after him.

Greta Capeci

52 Bear Hills Road, Newtown                                      August 6, 2010