Psychology and pets in families

The study of the importance of the relationship between people and animals is a growing field and has the potential to be part of the whole human-health field, the social milieu on where animals fit into society has really changed in the last 13 years. We've gone from recognizing the potential of animals being a significant positive contribution to certain populations, such as the elderly, to actual documentation. The former words are of Alan M. Beck of Purdue's School of Veterinary Medicine and Aaron H. Katcher, psychiatrist and professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania that explores the emotional and even physical benefits of having a pet and analyzes the complex relationship between people and pets as in an experiment they got that people with pets had lower blood pressure and lower blood fat levels than those without pets, even though the two groups were alike in diet and exercise. And it is really interesting that now days you can hear of “animal therapy” so that Beck in his books talks about pets as family members, pets as therapists, talking to pets, and how pets can teach us to become better companions to friends and family. But it should not be forgotten that although they have a lot of benefits, they can create problems also. As Beck and Katcher say. "There is no medicine that doesn't have some side effects”. For example more pet ownership has public-health implications such as more dog bites, and some people whose pets die grieve to the point of illness. But grief of loss of an animal is not new, Beck says, even ancient Egyptians shaved their eyebrows after their cats died, and the Roman emperor Caligula had his horse entombed.
I suggest that if you treat pets as family to read the “Between pets and people: the importance of animal companionship” book by Alan M. Beck, Aaron Honori Katcher of Purdue University Press, 1996.

Philosophy and pets in families

I don’t know how long it is that human beings take care of pets but as much as I have got it is about 50 to 80 years that having pets has been a very common thing in the families of specially Europe and also specially in families of having no child or singles that are not married. It is really interesting that human beings little by little get used to the other kind of creatures that are on this planet. Although for a while it has been the neglecting period for the other beings but now it is seen that it has changed its face so that we can lose the feeling of loneliness by accompaniment of beings of having other level of life such as plants and animals.
Although it is good that human beings now somehow try to understand and accompany them but the main thing is that everyone just concentrates on his or her pet and forgets the others on the world although I also have seen people that by having pets have got to the importance and specially love of the life, other beings and their emotions have been more purified. That is great but what about the other part of the world that is almost 99% of all and 70% of them has no sympathy to the earth and all the life that is on it as a result of blindness of seeing how much he needs all of them and how all together live in one unified ecosystem. It is so simple and hidden to many that even in the whole word all being is one ecosystem and all are related to each other so that if one is good it passes it to all creation and it can be done by will, nice will of sharing nice things with the universe. But anyway I hope that having pets and sharing sentiment with them will teach human beings to share their feelings with the world consciously.