How adopting a dog has prepared me for the first day of school
For a few months, my wife Kim and I have been discussing adopting a dog. After a lot of careful thought and reflection we decided to adopt Molly a 3 year old puggle. Between the time we decided to adopt Molly and when we brought her home, I did a lot of reading about how to welcome a new dog into our home. While reading information from the web and talking to employees at the Open Door Animal Sanctuary I realized that bringing Molly home for the first time wouldn't be all that different from starting the school year with a new group of students. Here are five ways that adopting Molly has helped me prepare for the upcoming school year...and vice versa: 1. Each day will not go as planned. After we got home from the animal shelter, we decided to take Molly for a walk. We tried to put her new harness on her, but no matter how hard we tried, Molly wouldn't put on her harness. After about 20 minutes of trying to put on her harness and...