Name: Cylder Lim (49512061)
Instructor Yi-Ming Shi
English Composition II 2020
Date: 23th June 2008 (Argumentative Essay)
(Revised) Does keeping a pet reflect the kindness of pet owners?

The Humanity of Pet Owners

Nowadays, keeping a pet has become a social trend in every household. A recent survey in America shows that more than half of the pet owners want a family pet instead of another person with them if deserted on an island. However, does keeping a pet reflect the kindness of pet owners? Are pet owners taking the full responsibility while taking care of their pets? In my opinion, keeping a pet doesn’t reflect the kindness of pet owners. To illustrate, the unfolding news from BBC news has revealed the cruelty and neglect of pet owners and what has happened on the pets.

Generally, pets’ obesity needs all pet owners’ attention because obesity would eventually lead to health problems. An example from BBC news is terrifying that a podgy dog couldn’t move after a full English breakfast and needed to be carried to hospital thereafter. The owner was then “banned from keeping pets for life”, and accused of neglecting his pet’s health. Pets’ life are as fragile as human’s. They can be sick for reasons like humans. Therefore, pet owners should be aware of the danger of pet obesity. Seriously, pet obesity can cause arthritis, high blood pressure, poor liver function and diabetes, just as human obesity. For instance, some of my friends who are pet owners do not really concern about their pets’ weight. They feed whenever their pets ask for more beyond feeding hours. As a consequence, some of the pet dogs are overweight. According to Dr. Brinson, the most frequent cause of obesity in pets is owner indulgence. Owners do not realize that they are killing pets with kindness.
The BBC news headline “Pet owner jailed for pet cruelty” implies the inhuman act of the convicted pet owner. Mr. Jones was found guilty under the sentence of letting his pet dog starve to death for three weeks. The visage of the dead dog is horrible, and the veterinarian diagnosed that it was suffering through an agonizing period before it died. The wall has left some scratched marks, indicating the dog deprived of food and drinks was once struggling for escape. This is not news just on conscience, but also on morality. Mr. Jones was found guilty and he confessed that he was scared to be charged the moment he locked his dog accidentally. However, he was still considered irresponsible for not rescuing his dog. As is known to all, dog abuse is not a new issue. Today, we can even find that some websites established on the Internet for the purpose of animal protection. Hence, pet abuse mainly happened because of a pet owner’s cruelty instead of kindness.

Nonetheless, a global survey also defines that there are still a large number of pet owners willing to spend their time and effort on their pets. For example, pet owners tend to bring their pets for shampooing, brushing, and glooming. They patronize pet shops to buy some new products, such as more comfortable baskets, cages and leads, as well as toys for entertainment. Moreover, some pet owners put their pets at pet shops while going away for vacation or some errands. According to Euromonitor research, the increased expenditure spent on pets has simultaneously shown how much care the pet owners give out. In my opinion, despite the merchandises in pet market have increased and more pet owners are willing to spend money on their pets, not all owners keep pets out of kindness. Some people keep pets in order to prove their wealth; thus, spending money on their pets is necessary to show off their financial ability. Furthermore, keeping a pet is just a personal entertainment. As a consequence, no matter how much it costs a pet owner to keep a pet, it is not equal to a pet owner’s kindness.

A household pet is a loyal companion for pet owners; but when a pet owner neglects his pet for health and care, he or she is not loyal to his companion. Likewise, taking care of a pet needs time and effort, so make sure you are not the one who is lazy to feed and take care of your pet.

LiTTle CoOL 2

Remember once I told you about the story of little CoOl? Well, today it’s the time to show you my bike, which I newly bought from Taipei last month. Believe it or not, I have fallen in love with it when I first met it in the Yahoo auction. It was a time after I had failed in finding a bike in Taichung for about 10 times in three months. Actually I had a least wish to buy it at that time, didn’t think of I might have the chance to take a look at it by myself, because I was too busy to go for Taipei within a week while the auction will be lasted for only 10 days. Although my schedule was hectic during that week, I made a decision to go for Taipei one week later, just if there was no one bidding for it. Very soon, it had become a real wish which I hardly expected.

Until today, the story of little CoOl 2 and I have been started for a month. It is really cool of its new outer covering with metallic black, and I bet you could barely pay with such a price anyhow like I do. It is really cheap if I take this fair and reasonable price to compare with the price which those ten motorbike workshops offered me. What a scrupulous market price they had given me!
To my pleasant, I bought a new helmet for little CoOl 2. It was a long story if I wanna talk about the helmets which I bought previously while I was with little CoOl 1. All in all, it was a tragedy for they were confiscated by Malaysia Customs. In fact, I was totally out of the sense that they were against the law without paying some kind of tax. So next time don’t send something you don’t know whether it is legal or illegal without paying compulsory taxes to other countries, as silly as I did!

After some time, I bought another new helmet because I think it is necessary I need to drive someone important behind me. So now I have a cool bike and two cool helmets, I promise I will take good care of it. And I really do implement my promise because I always keep it clean while I have the time to do so.

A day of Self-h@tred

Today I lost something important, but I don’t think I can talk about it at here right now because my life will be totally ruined if I talked of something unhappy for I’m already in the situation. Everybody is busy for his/her assignment and the preparation of final exam recently, and so do I. I feel helpless whenever my schedule messed up. So I messed up everything in my life these days. I don’t know why, everything just run off schedule that I wasn’t able to fix things up on time. And I’m very hate of these things now-- writing journal, handing in homework, preparing something I should have done a week ago, going to work that would slow me down for other things… Why not just call them off for a second? Come on, I need a break. In this second, I’m crazy. I have nobody to talk with, and I have no one with me, because I refuse to speak up. Coz no one would understand me. So I better hide myself at a corner, keep myself quiet.
The conclusion is-- I lost my faith today. I feel angry to myself, I feel angry what had happened on me. I even dunno why I am typing this ridiculous thing on my journal, leaving myself a nonsense memory. Phew… sorry I shouldn’t have written this. But this is still my journal. So, leave it clear or I will score zero.
This is not the worst day in my life, but worse enough for me to have typed it down.