Cats, a before and an after.

I didn’t know what can I write about, so I decided to write about cats.

I had never lived with pets like dogs or cats. When I was a child, my parents didn’t let me get a dog (and I was very very very insistent, asking for a dog day and night. Everyday. I was very annoying. Nowadays I’m grateful for that, because I think I wasn’t mature enough and probably my parents would have probably ended up having to taking care of him).

For that reason, while I was growing up, I didn’t understand why people with dogs or cats talk to them as if they were children. I thought they pet owners (they could refer to "dogs or cats" or "people", so it might be good to use "pet owners" or "people" instead of "they", to be more clear) were a little crazy and it made me laught.

But everything changed some years ago when I knew met my boyfriend. By  At that time he had two cats, so it can be said so you could say that I became their “stepmother” (in my opinion, it would be better if you said "so you could say that they became my step-children", sinch this story is in your point of view. But both work fine). Cats usually have a bad name (also, you could say "cats usually have a bad rap". Rap=criticize sharply. It is informal). People say that they are too independent and they only look for themselves. But it is not true! They are even annoying asking bother you asking for love and care and they do everything in a herd: they sleep together, they play together, they clean each other ..etc

Since I have lived with pets, my vision about animals in general has changed. Before I lived with them, I liked animals but... I don’t know how to explain….I just saw “an animal”. But now I can say they are like people and if you live with them, they truly became part of the family. And now, I see myself talking to them and I know that, for those who have never had pets, I look like a crazy woman (yes, I was in their shoes). But I don’t care :).

Nice work! I love the story. I grew up being a dog lover, and never had cats. Then I met my boyfriend, and ended up loving cats. I now have a cat, haha. Looks like we have similar stories. 

You did an excellent job with your writing. Most of my changes were just reworking the sentences to sound a little better. Example: annoying vs. bother. 

This has inspired me to write a notebook entry in Spanish! If you want to check it out, it's titled "Mi gato :D" on my profile. 

Saludos!