In the increasingly urbanized society, the space for people to live and move is getting smaller and smaller, and the communication between people is getting less and less. Dogs and cats can be people's good life companions, which can help us to alleviate 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. As our companion animals, pets are the source of happiness and healthy life. Keeping pets can make people live healthier and more fulfilling, and it is good for people's heart, which can lower blood pressure and blood lipids. It is found that people with chronic diseases such as heart disease can obviously alleviate their clinical symptoms by adjusting some psychological states after keeping pets. Walking the dog and playing with it can relax people's spirit.
2. For some lonely elderly people who live alone, it is beneficial to their physical and mental health, and the life of the elderly can be enriched through mutual communication with pets. Dogs are the best companions for people who live alone. For some single elderly people who have some accidents at home, such as sudden stroke and heart disease, trained companion pets can play an alarm role in time.
3. In the increasingly competitive society, keeping a pet can provide spiritual support, especially in the event of a blow, communication with a pet dog is conducive to the mental health of the breeder, reducing unnecessary pressures in life, thus improving work efficiency.
Keeping pets can cultivate children's sense of responsibility, love and social and social skills. Children will play a positive role in raising dogs. In addition, psychologists widely use dogs to treat or help 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, which will often be transferred to people, producing the same effect of understanding, sympathy and care for people.
Keeping pets can protect family members, prevent them from being stolen and guard them, and make the whole family feel safe. Pets are very sensitive to hearing and smell and very loyal to their owners' families. In the event of an accident, pets will step forward to protect their owners and families regardless of their own lives. In addition, if some gas leaks or forgets to turn off the tap at home, they will also remind the owner in time.
6. Keeping pets can also achieve the effect of treating diseases. If a person with stomach trouble keeps a long-haired dog, holding the dog in his arms is conducive to the recovery of the stomach.
7. Keeping a pet can also bring infinite fun, become a source of happiness and joy, promote people to exercise and provide opportunities for people to communicate with each other.
8. A survey of dog and cat owners abroad found that owning pets can obviously improve their health, and the number of visits to doctors is obviously reduced every year. Even if people get sick, their symptoms are obviously lighter than those without pets, so keeping pets can obviously reduce our medical expenses for treating diseases.
9. In addition, as an industry, pets play an increasingly important role in the economy and society, which can solve the employment of many people and the development of related industries. It is reported that the pet-related industry in Shanghai is nearly 600 million RMB per year. There are pet grooming, supplies, medicines, pet hospitals, pet feed and so on. At the same time, some related industries about pets are developing.
harm
Of course, keeping pets also has many hazards. Most importantly, pets can infect many people and dogs. Some diseases seriously threaten our human life and need our attention. Because pets are closely related to us, while keeping all kinds of lovely pets, we must prevent and control pet diseases and prevent pet diseases from being transmitted to people, otherwise the harm will far outweigh the benefits of keeping pets. The following are descriptions respectively.
1. Rabies cannot be ignored. Rabies is the highest mortality among human infectious diseases, and dogs and cats are the most susceptible to infection 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 without immunity and license at will, these pets may be infected with rabies and other diseases, leading to the epidemic of human diseases. Once the rabies epidemic occurs, it will bring us life-threatening. Therefore, to raise a dog, we must first do an effective immunization against rabies. Ensure the life safety and social stability of breeders and others. Therefore, rabies immunization is compulsory in every country.
2. Toxoplasma gondii and other people and animals are sick. Toxoplasma gondii and some intestinal parasites are very common in dogs and cats because of their living habits. Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic disease. If pregnant women are in close contact with sick dogs, it may lead to miscarriage and fetal malformation after infection, so pregnant women should stay away from pets. If you want to contact, you should give your pet a Toxoplasma health check to ensure that there is no infection before you can contact safely.
3. At present, dogs and cats bite and injure people frequently because of keeping pets at will, which causes physical and mental harm to people. Some wild dogs and stray dogs have become hidden dangers of infectious diseases, and at the same time, they have to pay higher treatment and immunization costs after being bitten, which has increased our economic burden.
In addition, intestinal parasites and fungal infections of pets are also common. Close contact with people is likely to infect breeders, and pets will also be infected with tuberculosis, brucellosis and other diseases, which seriously threaten our human health. Pay attention to these diseases while keeping pets.
5. The harm of keeping pets to the environment. Due to the poor environmental awareness of most pet owners, dogs and cats defecate at will in communities or public places, and the bodies of pets are discarded at will, which seriously pollutes our living environment and creates the possibility of animal diseases causing epidemics.
6. Keeping pets may also affect the relationship between neighbors. As the housing in our city has not yet reached a single-family family, the barking of pets, especially some large pets, has affected the lives of neighbors. Some dogs can do harm to neighbors and cause unnecessary disputes. Keeping pets caused complaints from neighbors. This is very common. All dog owners will meet at least once in their lives, which will arouse the psychological preparation of dog owners.
7. It must be recognized that there are many expenses in keeping a dog economically. Vaccination, pest control, feeding, and taking care of when sick have increased the economic burden of families. The annual expenses for accreditation, immunization and feed supplies are not small expenses for an ordinary family. Families who are in financial difficulties but love pets will bring a heavier financial burden, and we must fully realize this. Today, when China's economy is not very developed, pets consume a lot of food and money every year. The money spent on raising dogs in cities every year can feed a large number of poor people in China.
8. Restrict a lot of freedom of dog owners, because dogs need to be taken care of, even on weekends and holidays (many people didn't realize it before raising pets, but later realized it was too late, so some people abandoned the dogs and exiled them). Some people are afraid of dogs, or some people like dogs too much and don't take proper protective measures, which leads to problems, or dogs are in danger of biting people because of fright. These are all common situations that pets will encounter.
So keeping a pet has advantages and disadvantages. Before keeping a pet, we should fully weigh the advantages and disadvantages, and try to reduce the disadvantages after keeping a pet.