Meee-OWOOOF WOOF! WHY is it important for kids to own a pet(s)?

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Just thought I.would throw this out there, I had pets growing up, guinea pig, cat, etc.

What do animals teach us?

Can a kid having a pet be a bad thing?

What experiences have you learned (good and bad) from children having raised pets?
(Be kind, your kids could be listening :D
 
Animals and Children

1. Discipline (having to monitor the pet going inside and outside, food, and litter box)
2. Caretaking (may make them less selfish, and able to understand that humans and animals have needs, and that when we make choices, it is for real)
3. Heal their hurts from maybe bullies at school or rejection in the family (a pet, more cats and dogs, can be a symbol of unconditional love and acceptance)
4. Solution for boredom
5. Gives them a good mind, maybe a child would grow to like animals so much that they then pursue this field as a career in their adulthood
6. Teach a sense of responsibility and attachment.
7. A knowledge of loss and death when the pet dies after many years of taking care of it.
8. All these could be prepartion for a real life

An example from my life. Once or twice, I saw a violent, aggressive, scary young boy, who lived in the same neighborhood as me, as children, murder a cat, and a bird. Some say no big deal, childhood boy behavior, but guess what, later on, there were many rumors, enough to lead me believe it was true, that he ended up in a mental insitution for aggression and violence. And he scared me. But I had no choice my mother always told me to stay out of the house most of the time, after school, or the babysitter did.

So, if a child takes care of a pet approriately, an adult may be able to judge such human qualities as compassion, focus, tenacity, remembrance, you know.....it is obvious.

Hope this helps with whatever goal you are trying to accomplish.

God Bless You.

If you are interested, because many christians say this is all wrong, but look up information/books by the author Sylvia Brown, she has wrote at least one book on the spirit and intuitive nature of animals. How they seem to sense good and bad people, or sense when someone is sick.
 
I have three dogs, I've had different types of birds, 2 hamsters, 2 doves, my grandpa had a cat and a parrot(I almost count them as mine because I visited my grandparents often). I think having a pet makes you appreciate the environment and wild life a little more, and gives you some kind of peace I can't describe. Just looking at my dogs I feel more relaxed and sometimes they make me laugh (they are so dumb sometimes=cute ) . I don't know how much my pets have taught me because I've had pets since I was very little, but I think I have learned from them.
Also, they can work as a good company and some pets are really smart. I think every person should have one kind of pet,either is a cat, or a dog, a guinea pig, a fish (idk if a fish counts lol ) etc , depending on the owner's personality.
 
Right, mamared, and, okayem, both all good reasons.

Mamared, my hope putting this thread in family and not my usual posting threads in 'singles forum' is that kids are now out of school for summer and its a perfect time for a parent(s) to give their child(ren) a pet or a whole menagerie, IF the Lord leads. :D

My mom and dad gave me a pet when I was 12, I don't think I asked for this cute black and white furrable G-force mass of squeaking but I got him. Spook, I named this lovable, beautiful pet, however, as time went on age 13, 14: I was too into other things like soccer and movies and riding bikes and cleaning droppings regularly became semi regularly and, by age 15, I was not taking care of Spook well. Spook was gone one day, not even sure when, about age 15. I never really experienced his death because I don't remember Spook dying.
Anyway, I loved Spook, but I really needed CONSTANT discipline to feed, change water daily, and never really got that. I was semi-motivated on my own to take care the little fellar, but , as time went on, I was less and less into him.
For what it's worth, I don't blame mom and dad for getting me Spook but was just hard for a pre-teen and then teenage kid , me anyway, to do necessary things .

I had a dog too, family did, wienerschnitzel, a dachsund, BEST dog in world for kids but I was more into.other things than him. Yes, dogs can look dumb but be smart, kayem, and, mamared, rterrible how kids hurt animals, I like all you reasons listed, starting with disci0line. good menagerie, kayem
Had a cat too, from 10 to 19, Dit, my cat, that cat slept with me every night for all his life.
 
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I was talking about Spook, MY guinea pig, hence, the 'G-Force' movie reference. Those be guineas in that flick .:D

--I got a American pit bull terrier and German shorthair mix 5-year old now (you see her in that avatar) , she's soooo much fun. :)
 
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