Keeping pets

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Keeping pets
In recent years, pets, including all kinds of dogs, cats and some other little animals have been more and more popular among people, no matter how old they old they are. Feeling lonely, the old usually keep little dogs as their pets to ease their aloneness; some young people keep pets on account of heavy social and work pressure; quite a few children raise pets to keep them company. As far as I am concerned, there are many reasons for the popularity of pets, and it has both good and bad effects on people which depend on the degree they are stuck on pets.
The most important reason for keeping pets is that people are facing with more psychological pressure and mental stress than ever with pace of life accelerating in the modern society. Especially in the background of urbanization trend with rapid development of industry, people tend to be more and more indifferent and independence, communicate less and less although they are neighborhoods. Interpersonal relationship becomes thinner and aloneness becomes stronger. For this reason, more and more people feel like keeping pets to kill time and eliminate emotional disturbance. Feeding a tank of goldfish or raising some cats and dogs or keeping a cage bird can comfort people much when they feel lonely.
Another important reason is considered as the benefits to health, that is to say, keeping pets is good in curing some chronic disease such as cardiovascular disease and anxiety. Because of one-child policy and the difficulty of raising children, quite a few families keep pets as their children, taking good care of them and loving them every much .
By raising pets, people adjust the emotion, alleviate or reduce the psychological pressure; witch can play the role of some medication.
In addition, with scientific and cultural development, protecting environment has been not a slogan but also a watchword carried out by people to their greatest abilities.As a result, keeping pets is the best way to protect animals and form a good habit.
From above, we are aware of the advantages of keeping pets. We can come to an conclusion that keeping pets has good effect on people, for instance, it helps people forget loneliness and relieve the pressure, makes people feel happier and responsible. However, there is also bad effect if people have excess infatuation on pets. In this case, they appear to evade their responsibility of educating their children and the problems in their life such as communication gap and love failure.
Generally speaking, people keep pets for various reasons and for the benefits as above.。