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~My theme for the Social Issue project was Animal Abuse. Animal Abuse was something I could connect to, so I thought it was a good topic for me to do. This is a very known subject and it’s sad that animals are abused everyday. My personal connection with animal abuse is that the dog I have now was abused in a way. He is a Pit Bull Lab mix, we named Buster and the people who had him before us swear up and down he was never hit, but his doghouse was. He was fed daily but that’s it, no attention nothing. When we first met the dog, he wouldn’t come out from under a camper, I dragged him out and all he did was pee himself he was scared. He was afraid of men, and getting him home was a challenge. He hated the doghouse we got him for the longest time, and we recently put hay in there for him- and now he loves it. When we first got him I sat outside in the rain for hours with him, ever since he’s definitely been my dog. I can let him off and run around and know he wont run away, I can’t leave his sight for more than 5 minutes without being followed or him going to look for me, following tracks of were I recently was. Loud noises scare him, men and new people he isn’t a fan of, he’s bulked up and is slowly getting better and better. ~When I first started this project I thought of doing something more with a dog house that the guy and animal inside being the main focus, and I quickly realized I didn’t know where to start and that was more about the abuse its self and I wanted to promote stopping animal abuse more. So I kind of changed my idea up some and instead of the doghouse idea, just when with a black board with pictures and facts on the side, fence over top of them and a purple animal abuse ribbon in the middle with “ STOP ANIMAL ABUSE” over the center. A few problems I had was matching the purple every time, finally after many coats I made a lot of one color purple and used that for the whole thing again. Another problem was getting the bottom fence to stay on, finally I got it to stay but was difficult. I had troubles with my figure itself to but I got over the fact that I don’t really like it and figured out how to make it work. Some decisions I had to make where, how to put things together, what to do and how to make everything work and not look like a “Science Fair project”. ~Overall I do think this piece is a successful piece. Gets the point across. I don’t really like the lettering on the ribbon, I think if I did something different it would look better, but I just went for it and yeah; don’t think I like that. If I had a chance to re-do this- I think I would definitely do the letters differently. Make sure I have enough time to do what I needed to do, and maybe use a couple different things and add more to the project.