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Many pet owners celebrate a Gotcha Day - the day they brought their pet home from the shelter.
We've decided he has two birthdays; there's the day he was born, September 27, and October 3, the day we call Gotcha Day.
On March 11th we will finally have our "Gotcha Day" and Charlie will be ours forever.
Celebrating your pet’s Gotcha Day is just one of the many ways you can show them how much you love and care for them.
Gotcha Day has many defenders, but arguments against include the opinion that it puts the focus on the adult’s experience of events and demeans that of the adoptee.
They take part in a custom called "Gotcha Day": every year, on the day their parents picked them up from the orphanage, the girls are treated to a party much like a birthday.
Her book noted that the adoptive family is rarely present for the child's birth and recommended a celebration additional to the birthday celebration, that is, the "gotcha day."