At present, people’s expenditure on pets accounts for an increasing proportion of their total household expenditure. Pets have become a part of many people’s families.
Are you also struggling with whether to keep a pet? Before deciding to keep a pet, let’s learn about the advantages and disadvantages of keeping a pet with the editor, and then it’s not too late to decide whether to keep a pet or not.
The significance of keeping pets
In fact, keeping pets can definitely relieve the various pressures faced by humans. If you don’t believe it, you can take a look at the more advanced countries, the more developed the pet industry is.
Because in more advanced countries, the more pressure people face, the more people seek pets to relieve stress, which leads to the prosperity of the pet industry.
Although I can’t explain the significance of keeping pets in relieving people’s various pressures from a psychological perspective, in fact, I think that as long as a person is close to pets, whether it is dogs, cats, fish or birds, many daily trivialities will fade, and all kinds of mental pressure will disappear in an instant.
The reason may be explained by a psychologist. In any case, for those who can’t bear the pressure, it is recommended that you try to keep a pet first!
In an increasingly urbanized society, people’s living and activity space seems to be getting smaller and smaller, and people’s communication and interaction are getting less and less. Dogs and cats can be good life partners for people, helping us to relieve the loneliness of life and regulate people’s mental health. Of course, there are also people who keep dogs out of their love for pets.
The benefits of keeping a pet
1. An extra companion.
There is a small pet accompanying you. It follows you wherever you go, and acts as your little follower and bodyguard, paying attention to you and protecting you at all times, so that you no longer feel lonely.
You have a companion wherever you go, and you are no longer a loner. It accompanies you for a walk, goes to the supermarket with you, buys groceries with you, and even goes to the toilet with you.
2. Being needed makes life more meaningful.
If you keep a small pet, you need to be responsible for its daily life, eating, drinking, and defecating. When it is hungry, it will come to you to act coquettishly, lean its little head against you, shake its little tail at you, and tell you that it is hungry.
When you get home from work, it will be extremely excited, happy and excited when it hears your familiar footsteps. When you open the door, it pounces on you, asking you to hug it, touch it, and comfort it.
It has been waiting for you at home for a day. At this moment, you feel that you are needed by your pet, and you feel that life is more meaningful.
3. A sense of happiness is overflowing, and more fun.
When you encounter something unpleasant in life or work, and you are depressed and sad, your pet can detect your emotional changes in time, come to comfort you, lean on you, and hug you. Although it cannot speak, it comforts you in its own unique way.
Your pet will also be happy to share its treasures with you. Sometimes it will bring its toys or things picked up outside to you, indicating that you can play with it. Do you feel that raising a small pet is full of happiness and fun?
4. Physical exercise.
To raise a small pet, you need to take it out for exercise, once in the morning and once in the evening. You need to take the pet out to defecate and let the pet play with its companions for a while. Your pet makes you who likes to stay at home have to go out for a walk.
In this way, day after day, accompanying your pet to play and exercise, not only your work and rest schedule becomes more and more regular, but your body is also well exercised, and your physical fitness is getting better and better. And studies have shown that people who keep pets are less likely to get sick.
5. Stress relief.
Raise a pet, watch it run around happily every day, watch it smile full of healing, your stress will be released in an instant. It will make you laugh and make you happy. Some pets are cute and often make people laugh and cry. When you look at it, you suddenly feel no longer upset, and all the troubles are gone.
6. Make many friends.
When you take your pet out, you often meet people who also have pets. At this time, your pet will rush up excitedly to play with their pets, so you also smile awkwardly, and then chat, from pets to yourself. Then add friends and develop into good friends. You are happier than before.
Disadvantages of raising pets
1. Increased expenses.
It is not difficult to raise a pet, but it is still a bit difficult to raise a pet well. For example, raise a dog. The dog should be taken to get vaccinated one or two months after it is born. Prepare dog food, toys, blankets, dog chains, and clothes for it. In order for it to grow up healthily, buy nutritional paste and calcium tablets for it.
Go to the beauty salon regularly to trim your dog’s nails, bathe it, and style it. Dogs are prone to parasites, so take them to get dewormed regularly. During the teething period, dogs will like to bite the slippers at home. At this time, to prevent them from biting randomly, prepare teething sticks for them.
Many dogs have bad breath, so buy dog-specific fresheners. If the dog is sick by accident, take it to the pet hospital for injections and medication.
If the dog is disobedient and will tear up the house, then replacing the furniture will be another expense. This is not a small amount when it is added up.
2. The house is easy to get dirty.
Sometimes we go out to do things or go to work, and there are only pets at home. It is too bored and will do some small damage. When you come home, you will find that the house is a mess.
Some pets will poop everywhere at home, and poop and urine are everywhere, which can easily spread germs. The floor that has just been mopped is dirty again. At this time, you will feel tired and just want to teach the pet a lesson.
3. It takes a lot of energy.
Since you have a pet, you have to spend a lot of time and energy on it. Take it out for a walk every day, go to the supermarket to buy dog food, bathe it and blow dry it, take care of it when it is sick, clean its nest, etc., all of which consume a lot of your energy and time.
4. Disturbance.
When you leave home, your pet doesn’t want you to leave it and will start barking. When your pet is at home, when it feels a little danger, it will bark as a warning.
At this time, you are most worried about being reported by neighbors. If your pet can’t help but poop at the door of the neighbor’s house when it goes out to play, the neighbor will come to your door to argue with you. This is also a headache. I believe that people who have raised pets have this problem more or less.
Raising a pet is a happy thing, because they bring you company and joy, and bring you spiritual comfort, but raising a pet is a time-consuming, labor-intensive and expensive thing.
But there is no gain without effort. When you just get home from work and see your pet rushing towards you excitedly, don’t you feel that all the effort is worth it!
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