Getting a pet for my kids

i think this could be a great article if you put a bit more information into it. Thanks.

All those questions are great to concider, but my theroy is, no matter what if you buy your kids a pet, you are still going to be the one looking after it... Take a dog for example : they loose their cuteness after being a puppy, for a kid anyway.

I think you should have added, are you prepared to call the dog yours?

My husband brought my step daughter a dog. Which was great, but our step daughter was only with us every second weekend.... So in turn this dog would be looked after by whom.. Yep me....  When my step daughter came, it was so hard to get her to pick up the dog poop, or take him for a walk so who did it me.. She was more then happy to play with him. But anything that involved looking after was my job... Unfortuantly with baby on the way we had to give the dog up for adoption because he was way to excitable and very jealous of the cat, so I was afraid for what would happen if i was holding Francis all the time. He used to nip at the cat if I went to pet it..... Imagine that with a baby.. No thank you....

This time when my husband brought a dog, he asked me if I wanted a dog, if I was had the time between looking after Francis and Jack together.. My step daughter still thinks the dog is hers and Francis's. But we know he is mine... I clean up after him, I play with him, I walk him and feed him.......