Cruz-Santos,+Stephanie

﻿ ﻿Stephanie Cruz-Santos Responsabilities of Dog Owners Proposal

Intermidate Proposal

My orginal solution is help dog owners learn how to properly care for their dogs.

Yes it is. My ending product is possible to do. I just need to do more thinking on my overall project, before I begin to write my first draft. My solution is specific because I am focusing on dogs & dog owners.

My overall Thesis :

How can we as dog owners avoid dog abuse & neglect. Clearly by properly caring for our dogs as we would for a person. For my social action project I will be discussing how to properly care for your dog and I will share stories of dog abuse and neglect.

My audience is dog owners. Possibly, if I was to go further , even shelters could be directed to my social action project.

My audience is directed to my topic because, dog abuse & neglect most of the time starts with dog owners.

Sources :

1. ASPCA 2. MSPCA 3. Petcareeducation .com 4. __Understanding your dog__ by Dr. Michael W. Fox

Internet sources is giving me the best information.

I still need more sources, statics and I need to clearly decide my audience.

Strategies :

Definition : This will help because I will need to clearly define my social action project Anecodote : I will use dog abuse stories to help bring a cross my SAP topic and truley show the problem. Statics : I will show how many dogs are abused in Massachuetts every year.

Works Cited {, By. "Animal Cruelty Laws." //MSPCA Homepage//. MSCPA-Angell. Web. 19 Dec. 2010. .This source will help me understand the laws of massachuetts about animal cruelty.

Bahney, Anna. "So You Think You Can Just Adopt a Dog?" //New York Times// [New York] 26 Mar. 2006, E1-E2 sec. //SIRS Researcher//. Web. 8 Dec. 2010. . I am going to use this source so that I can show that adopting an animal is harder than people think. Responsabilities come with the ownership of the animals.

Fox, Dr.Michael W. //Understanding Your Dog//. Toronto: Longman Canada Limited, 1978. Print.

PetCareEducation.com. "Dog Care | How to Take Care of a Dog." //Pet Care//. PetCareEducation.com. Web. 08 Dec. 2010. . This website helps me to understand tips to care for a pet. I will use some of these tips to explain to pet owners how to properly care for their pets.



I have the rest of the annotated bibs on the bottom of this page from my other proposal.

My social action project will be focusing on the responsibilities of dog owners. I know that in homes today that some new dog owners don’t know how to treat their dog’s right. This sometimes can turn into dog abuse or neglect. The problem is that we need to inform new owners how to take care of their dog as if it was a person.

I think that by informing dog owners about the care needed for dogs, that we can save more animals and give them good homes. My solution to helping owners of dogs is to make either a pamphlet or a website to give owners a resource to help care for their dogs. ﻿Good, how will you get this information to the owners? How will you know if it's working?

My purpose is to inform dog owners about the responsibilities of a dog, so that dog owners can take care of their dogs properly. ﻿Do you also want to persuade them that it is an important responsibility that they should consider before taking a dog?

My research action plan is as followed. I will need to check out a book source in yellow IRC. I will also need two database sources and two web sources. Also, I need to either decide to make a pamphlet or a website for dog owners. I will use the book source, __Understanding Your Pet__ by Dr.Michael W.Fox ,to help me with the pamphlet or website. I will also, be able to use my computer at home to help me with this project. My project will be complete by the due date of January 14, 2011.

Book Source :

Fox, Dr.Michael W. Understanding Your Dog. Toronto: Longman Canada Limited, 1978. Print ﻿This source is a little old. Is there anything newer on this topic in the IRCs? If not, or if this is better than the newer ones, why this source? How will it help your SAP? - This is the only book source that I could find in the IRC. I am using this book so that i could use the facts that it states about nutirtion for dogs. Data Base : ﻿  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; overflow: hidden;">Bahney, Anna. "So You Think You Can Just Adopt a Dog?" New York Times [New York] 26 Mar. 2006, E1-E2 sec. SIRS Researcher. Web. 8 Dec. 2010. <http://sks.sirs.com>. I am going to use this source so that I can show that adopting an animal is harder than people think. Responsabilities come with the ownership of the animals. <span style="color: #1300ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; overflow: hidden;">﻿Good, clear reason for using this source! Well-formatted.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; overflow: hidden;">Online Source :

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; overflow: hidden;">PetCareEducation.com. "Dog Care | How to Take Care of a Dog." //Pet Care//. Web. 08 Dec. 2010. []. I will use this source to get facts on how to properly care for a dog and so that my information is accurcate. Why this source? What information does it contain that is useful, and did you evaluate it since it's on the web?

Stephanie, you have a clear and specific topic, and it is a real problem that people don't always think about. You will make this even more detailed as you go along, I'm sure. Your second bibliography entry is well-annotated for the initial stage. You will need to do that for each source. --Ms. D