Sunday, March 4, 2012
Intro-Classification Essay#1
How does a person choose what type of dog they would pick for a pet. They say that the type of dog reflects on the type of person it belongs to. Or is it, the dog starts looking like the owner? You have the small petite poodles. The ones you see all the rich folk carrying around like they were a purse. Pet or accesory, I often wonder. The ever so popular labrador retriever. Every family with children should have one. Nothing say a Christmas card, then having the family picture by the fireplace with good ole Rex by their feet. And who can forget the famous 'rip your face off if you even look at me' pitt-bull. Not everyone's favorite choice, by all means. But can hold some piece of mind for protection. Maybe it all depends on a person's stage in life, alone, with children and then finding something that will take place after the children leave home.
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I can see the categories okay, but the essay will only work if we get you, your dogs, your observations about real people and dogs.
ReplyDeleteBut you have to avoid stereotypes and making stuff up in those support grafs! I mean, take me, for instance: I'm not rich, but I love toy poodles or poodle cross dogs in the 20 lb range, and, believe me, they are real dogs, serious dogs, farm dogs, dogs who love to run and chase stuff and guard my dooryard. They don't spend a lot of time under a hair dryer and getting perfumed for a show and would be pissed off extremely if someone tried to treat them like an accessory.
One of the toughest guys I know, an old Mainer who does foundations and landscaping, has two little poodles who sleep with him and his wife every night.
I really can't see pitbulls as vicious either. My experience with them, though limited, tells me they have wicked bad PR but are otherwise just dogs.
So, unless you can bring that personal observation into the support, think again about the topic.
I was thinking to place my personal experiences in each graf per dog. I have had each type of these dogs in my life. So, I do know about each of them and wanted to show the opposite side of their "sterotype". Would that not work?
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