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I recently posted a short video on pet responsibility and kids, I'll link the video at the end. Essentially what I spoke about was getting a pet because you want to teach your kids responsibility or because they want one. Understanding that you child says they will walk the dog and feed it or clean out the hamster cage and feed it, we have to be realistic and understand that kids get board of shiny new things fairly quickly, that goes with animals as well. they get board of them or look at them as a chore after a while. This usually ends up with you the parent taking over the duties of the animal and end up being the one to walk the dog, feed it and clean up after it.
This can all be avoided from before you even bring the dog home, mainly by just not getting one (haha). For real though, a discussion and an agreement between the parents and the kids will help stop this issue from occurring. You can create a written contract with your kids and have them sign it or you can make a verbal agreement. Depending on the ages of the kids, they may not be able to do everything like walk the dog. This is where you start dividing up the work. You can walk the dog, if they can feed the dog and maybe clean up after the dog. If there are multiple kids, you can have a rotating schedule where they each have a day of walking, feeding, cleaning, playing ect.. There should also be some kind of consequence thrown into this deal where if they don't want to do their part there is some kind of punishment. Having this kind of discussion ahead of time, will save you a lot of trouble later on
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