When people adopt pets, they often choose a puppy or a kitten. but people should give more serious consideration to adopting an older animal. older dogs and cats make wonderful, loyal companions. some people do not want to adopt an older animal, because they think they are too stuck in their ways and may have bad habits. this is often untrue. older animals usually require much less training than younger ones. my neighbor, mrs. hendricks, said, "older pets are already house trained, they are less likely to destroy items within the home, and many of them know basic commands." so the next time you visit the pet shelter looking for a new member of your family, think seriously about adopting an older animal. it just might be the perfect pet
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Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. 1. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) 2. o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) 3. nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) 4. at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet