A new study has found that children with pets are not only healthier, but also miss school much less. Researchers at the University of Warwick who completed this new study found that pet cats or dogs have the most obvious "health impact" on children aged 5 to 8.
Zhu Ni McNichols, a psychologist at the University of Warwick, said: "Keeping pets can greatly improve children's truancy. Pets have a certain influence on students of all grades, especially the lower grades. The results show that children with pets spend more time in school every year than children without pets 18 half a day. "
This new study explores the interaction between students and pets. The results show that13 children will seek comfort from their pets when they are frightened. 28% children will stay with their pets after quarreling with their families. The study found that 3 out of every 65,438+00 children would share food with their pets, 265,438+0% children would like their pets to lick their fingers, and 38% children would like to play with their pets in bed.
However, Dr. McNicholas warned that pets can also bring many health problems to children, such as the transmission of ascaris by pets, which can lead to stomachache or eye damage in children. But in general, the advantages of keeping pets for children outweigh the disadvantages. Studies have proved that sharing a room with pets will enhance human immune function.
In the increasingly urbanized society, people's living and activities are getting smaller and smaller, and people's communication and contact are getting less and less. Dogs and cats can be good friends in life, which can help us clear the loneliness of life and adjust people's mental health. Of course, there are dogs out of love for pets. Here are some benefits of keeping a pet:
1. Pets, as friends of human beings, are the origin of our happy and healthy life. Keeping pets can make people's lives healthier and richer, and it is also good for people's heart, which can lower blood pressure and blood lipids. The discussion is that people are suffering from intentional heart disease and other chronic diseases. After raising dogs and cats, some psychological states of people can be adjusted through agreement, which can obviously alleviate clinical symptoms.
Dealing with some lonely old people who live alone is beneficial to their physical and mental health. People agree that being with pets will enrich the life of the elderly. Dogs are the best friends against solitary people. Dealing with some unexpected situations in the industry, such as sudden stroke and heart attack, can play an alarm role in time.
Keeping pets in an increasingly competitive society can provide spiritual recognition, especially in the case of being attacked. Communicating with pet dogs through consultation is beneficial to the mental health of breeders, reducing unnecessary stress in their lives, and thus improving the work effect.
Keeping pets can cultivate children's sense of responsibility, love and social skills. Children will play a positive role in raising dogs. In addition, psychologists widely use dogs to treat or rescue children or adults with problems. Keeping a puppy will bring children a sense of responsibility and understanding and sympathy for animals from an early age. These will always be transferred to people, resulting in the same understanding, sympathy and concern for people.
Keeping pets can protect the family, prevent the family from being stolen, and make the whole family have a sense of stability. Pets are very flexible in hearing and smell and very loyal to their owners' families. In unexpected circumstances, pets will stand up and defend their owners and families regardless of their own lives. If some gas leaks or they forget to turn off the taps of other families, they will also remind their owners in time.
6. Keeping pets can also achieve the effect of treating diseases. If a patient with gastropathy has a long-haired dog, holding the dog in his arms is generally beneficial to the recovery of his stomach.
7. Keeping pets can also bring endless fun and become a source of happiness. It can also promote people's physical exercise and provide opportunities for people to communicate with each other.
8. Looking at people who have dogs and cats abroad, it is found that keeping pets can obviously improve their health, and the number of visits to doctors is obviously reduced every year. Although the symptoms of illness are obviously lighter than those of people who don't have pets, keeping pets can obviously reduce our medical expenses for treating diseases.
9. As a kind of property, other pets are playing an increasingly important role in economy and society, which can handle the employment of many people and the growth of related property. It is reported that Shanghai has nearly 600 million yuan of pet-related property every year, including pet grooming, supplies, medicines, pet hospitals and pet feed. At the same time, some related properties about pets are being developed.
The harm of asking experts to keep pets?
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Of course, keeping pets also has many hazards. The biggest stress is that pets can infect many people and dogs. Some diseases are neurological and threaten the stability of our human life. We must fully cherish them. Because pets have an inseparable environment with us, we must prevent and master pet diseases while raising all kinds of lovely pets. We must prevent pet diseases from being transmitted to people. Otherwise, the risk will be great.
1. Rabies cannot be ignored. Rabies is the disease with the highest mortality rate for human beings and animals. Sick dogs and cats are the most likely to be infected and carry rabies virus. If you keep too many dogs and cats, do not carry out very effective rabies immunization, and wander around some dogs and cats that are not immune and undocumented, these pets will be slightly infected with rabies and other diseases, leading to the epidemic of human diseases. Once the rabies epidemic occurs, it will pose a threat to our human life. Therefore, effective rabies immunization should be done to keep dogs nervous.
2. Toxoplasma gondii and other people and animals are sick. Due to the living habits of dogs and cats, dogs and cats can be very widely infected with Toxoplasma gondii and some intestinal parasites. Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic disease. If pregnant women are in close contact with sick dogs, infection may lead to abortion and fetal abnormalities. So pregnant women should stay away from pets. If they want to fight, they should check the health of their pets to make sure they were infected abroad.
Nowadays, cats and dogs bite people because of keeping pets casually. There are many accidents that hurt people, causing physical and mental persecution to people. Some wild dogs and stray dogs have become hidden dangers of infectious diseases. At the same time, they have to pay higher treatment and immunization costs after being bitten, which increases our economic burden.
4. Other pets have various intestinal parasites and skin fungal infections. Being close to people is likely to infect the breeder. Pets can also infect diseases such as tuberculosis and brucellosis. Stress threatens our human health. Keeping pets should also arouse our attention to these diseases.
5. Environmental risks caused by keeping pets. Due to the poor environmental awareness of most pet owners, cats and dogs urinate everywhere in the community or at home, and the sick bodies of other pets are discarded at will. The tension and turbidity of our living environment have also led to the prevalence of animal diseases.
6. Keeping a pet may also affect the relationship between neighbors, because the houses in our metropolis have reached single-family houses in other countries. Keeping pets, especially the cries of some large pets, will affect the lives of neighbors. Some dogs will persecute their neighbors, causing unnecessary rubber and causing complaints from neighbors. This is very common. It is common for dog owners to meet at least once in their lives.
7. Keeping a dog is very expensive economically. This must be recognized. It also needs vaccination, pest control, support, feeding and taking care of it when it is sick. These have increased the financial burden on families. Every year, immunization medical expenses, feed supplies and other expenses are not small expenses for an ordinary family, which is financially difficult but likes keeping pets very much. Will bring a heavier economic burden. We must be well-off to realize that pets consume a lot of food and money every year in China, where the economy is not very rich. The money that big cities spend on raising dogs every year can feed a large number of poor people in China.
8. Restrict the liberation of dog owners. Because dogs need to be taken care of and helped, even on weekends and holidays (many people don't realize this before keeping pets). It will be too late to realize this later. Some people will abandon their dogs and go into exile. Some people are afraid of dogs, or some people love dogs too much and do not take appropriate defensive measures, which leads to problems. Or the dog is frightened and there is a crisis of biting and hurting people. These are common environments that pets will encounter.
So keeping a pet has advantages and disadvantages. Before keeping a pet, you should have money and weigh the pros and cons. After keeping a pet, you should minimize the disadvantages.
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