24 Adorable Stories About Meeting Your First Pet Fun Love
Getting your first pet (or any pet, really) is one of the happiest days of your life. I asked BuzzFeed writers about their first time meeting their furry best friend.
Photo provided by Rachel Sanders
1. "My first dog (and best friend) was Barkley, a sweet, playful cairn terrier that was already a few years old by the time I was born. I'm assuming one of my brothers is at fault for this weird logic, but I grew up viewing Barkley as my equal in the family. I would never pick him up, because I would think to myself, I can't. Barkley is older than I am. We went on like that for 13 years." —Jen Lewis
2. "When I was 5 we brought my first dog, a gorgeous, burnt sienna golden retriever, back from the Humane Society. She was sweet and gregarious, but we were worried that she was deaf or kind of stupid because she wouldn't respond to the name they gave us at her shelter, Misty. 'Misty!' we kept yelling. 'Misty!' Later that night, my mother looked in the paperwork they had given us. 'It says her name is Tawny?' The dog came running, smiling ear to ear, and we never mentioned 'Misty' again." —Joe Bernstein
3. "My family had a dog and two cats when I was born (winners, all!) but the first authentically NEW pet in my life was an Airedale terrier puppy named Punto. On the day we went to pick him up, we knew which one he was because this ribbon around his neck was purple, a noble color. He was very small and curly, and peed on my mom's lap on the way home, which we all optimistically interpreted as an expression of his deep sense of comfort and belonging. We named him in honor of a previous fox terrier my mom had as a kid (Punto is a Norwegian name, I think?). He grew up to be fairly large and unfailingly sweet. He was once tied by his leash to the leg a garden chair, at some point tried to get up and run after a tennis ball or something, and was TERRIFIED to find that the chair was CHASING HIM. From that point on, he was always nervous around furniture, thunderstorms, and arguments. I loved him with all my heart." —Rachel Sanders
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