Essay #3

The Best Friend
In this poem “A Dog’s Life” by Daniel Groves, I can’t really understand his feelings for his dog. Because when you have a good dog like he said, you don’t have to make the decision of putting him to sleep. The Dogs are the best friend for a man, and not matter how bad is his behavior is your friend and he will be there for you not matter what. Is like the people, they have different thoughts and behaviors but that does not signify that they don’t really loves you and wants the best for you. When we have a problem, we can’t solve it always running away of it or moving away. We have to fight for a reason and make a solution.
Daniel Groves tell us through his poem that he has a dog, a really good dog but he has to put him to sleep. Is the last day with him and Daniel is looking and talking remembering the good times that they had together. In other words Daniel is telling him why he makes that decision and what I can understand he makes it because the dog has bad behaviors and didn’t let Daniel sleep in the night. But that barks in the night that didn’t let Daniel sleeps is for “some menace looming in the dark” like he say in the poem, so the dog was protecting him. A dog sometimes has conducts that we can’t understand, like the people do, but we have to think that maybe that conduct is for something good and for our protection.
In my personal opinion I don’t believe in put to sleep a dog, because he has feelings and rights. And if is a good dog why I have to do it, I learned through all my life that a Dog is the best friend ever. He is always waiting happy for you at home and no matter how bad been your day, he is always there happy to make you laugh. Daniel knows that and I believe that he change her decision at the end.