The benefits of maintaining Dogs

   Today pets is one of many factors that can make our lives more colorful. Various research results confirmed the existence of psychological and health benefits are felt by the owners of pets. In a society in industrialized countries, increasing prosperity, declining birth rates and a loose family ties make pet psychology plays a more important role.

   A dog is a pet in the most liked and often referred to as the friend of man, for his friendly and loyal to his master. By maintaining a dog can provide some important benefits for you.

•     Friendship

   For dog owners, the most important thing of having a dog is a friendship that can be intertwined. Friendship may mean having a dog for a playmate or likely as a friend to work for a particular task. Dog is a partner and reliable friend.

   Many of us, getting a dog to relieve loneliness. Often times we talk to the dog, pouring out our hearts to it, laugh and cry with him. This is a normal action is usually done by the dog owners.

•      Comfort

   Subtle aspects of friendship with a pet is the physical proximity of pets with their owners. Sense of comfort derived from direct physical contact such as stroking, kissing and hugging our dogs or just the love shown toward you.

•     Relaxation

   Your dog will help you to be more relaxed. Heart rate and blood pressure were strained someone who will go down when he saw pets. Getting a dog can be stress drugs for people who experience stress.

•     Physical security and protection

   Due to rising crime, many are choosing to keep guard dogs to protect themselves and their property from crime. In this case usually tend to choose the type of descent that was a large and potentially more aggressive, like Dobermen, German Shepherd or Rottweiler.

   However, not only with a larger body size and more aggressive which can make us feel safe. Generally, a sense of security lies in our awareness and knowledge that the dog will more quickly recognize and react to strangers or intruders before we can recognize their presence. So the dogs with a smaller size can also provide security for you, although not specifically trained.

•     Emotional Security

   In addition to physical protection, dogs can also give us psychologically. Dogs can provide emotional security to confront and overcome the fears we have, such as in darkness or when left alone at home.

•     Help develop new friendships

   Considerable evidence indicates people who keep dogs, more social interaction. So with a dog, you will be more skilled at fostering new friendships. Bring your dog to walk around your house, there would be no neighbors or people who had no known will invite you talking about your dog.

• Achieve the ideals and self respect

   All people need a sense of pride and respect ourselves. Many of us achieve this by achieving success in family relationships, work, sports or other activities. There also are achieving this with a sense of pride to have a dog that is the object of prestige. Maybe have a dog which is a rare breed and win races and be a champion dog. For some escorted us, the responsibility for maintaining other forms of life can evoke a sense of self-esteem.

•     Aesthetic satisfaction

   Not only by having the dog who won the only race that can make our hearts and our feelings to be happy, but with performance characteristics and its so funny you will feel happy when I saw your dog

•     Filling activities in leisure time

   Dogs love to play and it will stimulate us to play with him. This situation helps us to relax, develop a spirit of living a more active, eliminating the stress of assignments and a tedious job. By feeding, fur trim and bring your dog can walk into your activity at leisure time.

•     Benefits for children

   Many escorted us to think that by maintaining a pet dog will help our children to be responsible. A child who learns treat pets more likely to be able to care for each other.

   There is also value education. A child can also learn about the process of growing in dogs, such as sexual maturation and reproduction, and how to cope with health problems or illnesses. They will have a better preparation for his own experience in life.

   Pet dog lifespan of approximately 10-15 years, and perhaps the period of our children grow up. Living with a pet dog to help teach them about growing into large, learning, aging, sickness and death. By keeping dogs throughout their lifetime to teach them some skills "to be parents' are good.

   The presence of a dog in your home can help your children cope with anxiety, aggression control, develop self-awareness, and to face life's problems.

   Research shows that children often tell secrets and things that happened to her dog, as they did to the brothers or their parents. The presence of dogs can be a substitute for a parent or sibling when they do not exist. Children who talk familiarly with his grandparents and with their pets can learn to develop social skills and empathy to others.

•     Emotional support

   If you lose the people who loved or are feeling very sad and depressed, the presence of your dog can provide much needed emotional support.

•     Responsible attitude in keeping the house clean

   Families who have pets are generally more conscious of cleanliness compared with families who do not have pets

•     The benefits for the elderly

   Dogs can provide special benefits for the elderly. By feeding the dog will stimulate them to come eat with dogs. The dog becomes a good and loyal friend to accompany the elderly.

•     The value of treatment

Your dog can provide many other benefits, such as:

1.     Outlive
2.     Have lower blood pressure
3.     If you have heart disease, less likely to get heart attack
4.     Having a better motivation and more to have a specific purpose
5.     Being more altruistic than their own interests
6.     Reduce stress and recovered faster than tension
7.     Emotionally stronger and suffer less depression
8.     Less aggressive
9.     More tolerant of others' faults

    The relationship of man and dog that failedNot all pet dog owners and the relationship is going well. If you have a dog's first experience was not fun, should not be traumatic for a dog. Many things that make dogs and human relationship to fail. A dog may be a problem because:

•     You choose the wrong dog, and does not fit with the environment, family and your lifestyle
•     Dogs are not trained adequately because of ignorance or inaction on the part of you.
•     There was a problem in genetic composition derived dog.

   If you can find out the reason for the problem you experienced with dogs you will ever have, and eliminate the problem then you can try to look after the dog anymore.

   Well, says the important benefits if you have a dog ... Having a pet dog is fun and can strengthen the tenuous relationship .. hopefully useful yaa .. :) "

by: Dog Companions