Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Maggie
By Brooke Wardrip
The thing I never thought was possible, happened three years ago. The year Aurora started "Pitt Bulls are illegal unless listened and the owner payed the city a Hundred dollars a year and other stuff like that." Well my family and I owned a American Pitt Bull. We did everything we were told to do by law. The Animal Shelter cops came to owner house and toke pictures of Maggie and granted us with a license.By the time we got her licenses only 41 proud families of Pit Bulls were willing to do anything to keep our dog including us.

It was a week max before our dog got us into trouble with the law. What happened was Maggie got out of the back room into our back yard and thought the dog behind us was trying to hurt us and our puppy Brat, so she was acting like a mother for Brat. Well they were fighting though the fence and that's when it happened.My family and I were out of the house when we received a phone call from our neighbor Larry that Maggie almost killed another dog and the cops were involved in it. A year before this fight a neighbor's dog broke through our fence an Maggie was over that dog like a ant under a shoe. She had the dog by its neck and she would not let go unless the dog would stop fighting back and trying to free its self from her. that dog left with nothing not even a scratch. Before this one a fence was down to our other neighbor Larry and their dog ground at brat the youngest one and Maggie did the same thing that she did to the other dog, but she almost killed that one to. After the first two we should have put her down but we didn't.After the fight she lade in our back room and she was panting like she ran a mile.

The next day my dad told us all that he was going to put Maggie down before the city did.That made my brother am I very sad to hear.We did everything in our power to change his mined but it never happened.I seemed to take it the hardest because my friend was going to be gone.My brother and I did everything we where told to do in the passed. We felt the need to cry but we tried not to. Then my brother and I were off to school and when we got back home we were aloud to say our last good bye and my mom picked us up and we were off for the weekend.My dad text my mom and told her that Maggie was gone.He also told us that she fell right asleep. When we came back she was gone like he had told my mom.

The plus out of all was that my dad did the unexpected thing by getting Maggie's ashes and a week later Animal cops came to take Maggie, but my dad told them she has been put down.When he told us the big news we gave him a slight smile and walked up to our rooms on stated thinking that it probably happened for a reason.My mom told me to write my fillings down and it will make you fill better. To this very day I'm as sad as ever but we all learned to move on from 2005's nightmare. I still remember the times when she played in the summer with us and was always barking and wagging her tail. She always use to chase the water on the fence when we spread the fence. My family still suffers from the 2005's nightmare and we have learned to keep the past behind us but we can tell people that we had a loving and genital animal in which was a American Pitt Bull but just broke the rules.

The good thing I still remember are the things that we us to do like, in the summer when we have the sprinklers set up Maggie would chase the water on the fence. I also remember when Maggie would play with my brother and pull his pants down because he was running from her. She would also sleep up on the stars and when we less expected it she was snoring. That was the good days of Maggie. The biggest lesson we learned was enjoy your pets while they last because one day the may be gone. This was the story of Maggie Wardrip.

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