Puppy Love

Last semester  I adopted a puppy (which is a HUGE responsibility!!!) My boyfriend and I decided to adopt a dog because we had the extra money, and had been wanting to adopt a dog for a long time. We wanted to adopt from a shelter, so we found a woman who takes in puppies from other high-kill shelters and adopts them out from her farm in Wautoma. 


Immediately after we got Gucci home I was surprised to see that even though it was a dog that we were taking care of, my boyfriend and I  took on certain parenting roles. I was obviously the mother and he was the father. When we would wake up in the morning it was just expected that I would take Gucci outside, and then I would feed him. I did the majority of the cleaning up of the puppy stains, and the laundry that went along with that. My boyfriend took on the disciplinary role, and he did most of the training. We both played with Gucci, but I was the one who took him on his daily walks. 


We both supported Gucci monetarily, but we each had our separate parenting roles. It was not something that we discussed, but it naturally happened because male and female parenting roles are so en grained into our minds as a society, it was like instinct.