Kids and pets

a bit unsanitary,dangerous there is indeed!but as it said,it's beneficial for kids,I think that it's a kind of temper of love to the animal on the nature.especially for a child.but if for the babies or toddlers,it must pay more attention.keep a distance between them as possible,can see but not touch.also to take any other toys to instead of.till he grow up a little older,they could take care himself

Hi artemis, as I know most the kids love small animals as well as my kid. Actually all pets with fluffy fur are cute and lovely and we like to hug them in our arms and pat them softly . While my kid was still a toddler I kept a pair of small tortoises and a tank of peacock fish for him. I didn’t keep any small pets that had fur as I was afraid that the germs that harbored in the furs or the fur itself might cause undesirable disease liked asthma or other to my little loved one. Anyway he was happy together with the pets . He enjoyed watching us feeding them and watching them most of the time posting and have a nice day.

we have always had pets. we now have some birds and a cat. and some mice. we have an 7 year old and a 2 year old. the 7 years old i believe it helps her get some responsibility she gives them food and water every day. she really takes good care of them. and the two year old it is helping her learn to respect the anials and pet nice so when she is older. i think pets are a wonderful wat to teach kids responsibility but they should always be watched around them.

I had pets when I was a child for as long as I can remember. My mum told me that we had pets in our family even before I was born. The first pet that I remember was my white rabbit with pink eyes that I got when I was four years old. We had two cats; a Foreign White with china blue eyes called Silvester and a Burmese with a brown coat and a white patch on her chest called Sophie. I grew up loving those wonderful cats and think back with fond memories. I got a sandy and white rabbit when I was a teenager and my sister got a black Lop rabbit. They were called Sally and Tiggy. Little did we know they were both both female and Sally had seven bunnies. We found a home for two of them and kept the rest. Then I got two gerbils, a gray one called Nod and a brown one called Wink. My mum's American friend moved home giving us four rabbits and a parrot. He still lives with me now and he is about 21 years old. His name is Bingo and he is a White Fronted Amazon. In 2004 I bought Secret a black and white Poodle and in 2006 I bought Magic a black Poodle. In 2007 Leo my son was born and he gets on well with my pets. He actually plays with Secret but I watch that Magic doesn't lick Leo. So my pets that I have were living here before Leo was born so they get along well. Helping care for pets teaches children about compassion and responsibility. A small percentage of children suffer a fur allergy though.

Pets have been in my life I think since I was in my mother's womb...LOL. Both my mother and father were pet people and my father's father breed hunting dogs. I sure wish I could find that picture of me...it's SOMEWHERE...but obviously neither my mother or father had a fear of a pet near me...In fact this one picture I have is of me when I'm only a year old. I'm sitting on the living room floor and right next to me is this gargantuan behemoth of a dog...That took a lot of trust that one, being so young I wouldn't pester the dog like yank it's tail or something, and two trusting the dog not to bite my head off..LOL Who knows though? Maybe at even such a young age, I had respect for animals and not afraid of them

I had cats when my son was a baby. I never had any trouble with them. Some cats will jump up in the crib and their is a risk of them laying on the baby and smothering them but mine never paid any attention to the crib. I have two kittens now and they do scratch my kids when they pick them up wrong but other wise have not had any problems.

My children are older and yes I still have big dogs, I can remember when my oldest was first born, I had a wolf for about 2 years before I had my daughter. I was told by many that wolf's are pack animals and they would not let anyone other than the original pack be involved in the family so I was to watch very carefully over my baby because the wolf may harm the child. I ended up putting the wolf outside,with a 6 foot privacy fence all around. One day I was unloading groceries and my (at the time) 3 month old baby was crying on the living room floor, as I was trying to hurry to get groceries in. She became silent, then a funny kind of laughing noise came out of the house. I panicked, ran in the house to find my wolf, licking her toes and letting my daughter slap the crud out of her. She had watched my daughter through the sliding glass windows and jumped the fence to get in the house to make my little girl stop crying. I found I had nothing to worry about, my wolf loved my daughter and from then on slept under her crib and pretty much became her watch dog.