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Originally Posted by heatherm0890  with repsect,circumstances change regardless of if you are in school or out,personally i think twenty year olds are perfectly capable of making a decision like this, im 18 and I am 100 percent sure it was exactly the right decision, i asked for college students success stories,not your negative view of it!I live on my own,pay part of my bills and am finacially able to care for a pup so i dont really think you have the right to say that all twenty year olds can not make a decision like this...once again another thread that was supposed to be fun has turned sour |
I don't think she was trying be malicious or offend anyone. She never said "all twenty year olds cannot make a decision like this", she said that it was an awfully hard decision to make and one that is worth considering. She is absolutely right.
Like I said, I love my dogs and would never trade them but in retrospect it might have been a better idea for me to wait until after I graduated. I knew getting a dog the responsibility of owning a dog and I also knew what lay ahead of me career wise. I knew I would be able to keep my dogs no matter what. I did not know that Franklin would get sick and cost me $1600, money that I didn't really have. I did not know that my schoolwork would suffer. I mean granted, I do what I need to now but it was so tough at first. I did not know that he would tear a whole in my roommate's $1200 couch, a couch which I will most likely have to replace.
Getting a dog is a HUGE, huge responsibility, one that I underestimated. I'm sure that if I underestimated it, there are many others that have/will also. My decision to get a dog wasn't on a whim, either. I have wanted a dog for years and seriously considered one for a whole year before we actually got one. You just never really know what you're getting in to until you have one.