Benefits of Keeping Dogs

    Today pets is one of many factors that can make our life more colorful. Various studies confirmed the existence of psychological and health benefits are felt by pet owners. In a society in industrialized countries, increasing prosperity, birth rates decline 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. With 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 interwoven. Friendship may mean having a dog for a playmate or likely as a friend to work for a particular task. The dog is a partner and a trustworthy friend.
    Many of us, a dog to relieve loneliness. Often we talk to dogs, pouring 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. Comfort derived from direct physical contact such as stroking, kissing and hugging our dogs or just from affection shown toward you.

•     Relaxation

    Your dog will help you to be more relaxed. Heart rate and blood pressure of someone who was nervous going down when looking at their pets. Getting a dog can be stressful 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 possessions from crime. In this case usually tend to choose the breed of 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 be aware of 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, the dog can also provide psychological gave to us. Dogs can provide emotional security to confront and overcome the fears we have, such as in the dark or when left alone at home.

•     Help foster new friendships

    Considerable evidence indicates people who keep dogs, more social interaction. So by having a dog, you will be more skilled at fostering new friendships. Bring your dog walk around your house, there would be a neighbor or someone completely unknown to invite you to chat about your dog.

•     Achieving goals and self-esteem

    Everyone needs a sense of pride and self-respect. Many of us accomplish this by achieving success in family relationships, work, sports or other activities. There are also accomplish this with a sense of pride to have a dog that is the object of prestige. Might have a dog that is a rare breed and win the race and became champion dog. For some escorted us, responsibility of caring for another living creature can evoke a sense of pride.

•     Aesthetic satisfaction

    Not only by having a dog that won the race who can make hearts and our feelings to be happy, but with features and its appearance is 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. With feeding, straightening hair 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 caring for a pet is more likely to be caring towards fellow human beings.

    There is also the value of 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.

     Lifespan of a pet dog approximately 10-15 years, and may correspond to the period of our children grow up. Living with a pet dog to help teach them about to grow up, learn, old age, sickness and death. With a dog throughout his life can teach them some skills 'parenting' is good.

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

    Research shows that young children are often told secrets and things they experienced to the pet dog, as they do to you or their parents. The presence of dogs can be a surrogate parent or sibling when they do not exist. Children who speak familiar with his grandparents and 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 aware 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 friend and faithful 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. Better motivated and more purposeful
5. Being more altruistic than their own interests
6. Reduce stress and recover faster from the tension
7. Stronger emotionally and suffer less depression
8. Less aggressive
9. More tolerant of other people's mistakes

•     The relationship of man and dog that fails

    Not all dog owners and pet relationship is progressing well. If you have a dog's first experience is not unpleasant, should not be traumatic for a dog. Many things that make dogs and human relationships to fail. A dog may be a problem because:

1.  You choose the wrong dog, and does not fit with the environment, family and your lifestyle
2.  Dogs are not trained adequately because of ignorance or inaction on the part of you.
3.  There is a problem in genetic composition inherited the 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 get a dog again.

   Well, so important benefits when you get a dog ... Having a pet dog is fun and can strengthen a tenuous relationship .. may be useful yaa .. :)

By: Friends of Dogs