Should children be allow to keep pets?

to me pets can also become friends. when i was growing up i had a cat and if i had a really bad day i would sit outside and pet her and talk to her. she would always listen and never judge and was always there. as i got older at the end of highschool i got a dog and i feel the same way i had a friend. she stay somewhere else now (still in the family and well taken care of) but i still play with her and have her there to comfort me. i think that a pet teaches a kid good responsibility so yes i think kids should have pets for all these reasons.

Pets provide unconditional affection, loyalty, and comfort to our children. Events take a walk with the pet, it will also benefit the child physically. The task of bathing the dog, or cat fur brush, will be a fun activity for our children. In addition, pets can exercise responsibility to our children.

Unfortunately my son wanted to keep a mouse as pet and at first I agreed, but it soon became evident that he was not willing to feed, or look after it! After finding the mouse staring at me in the kitchen, I had no choice but to ask him to remove it and take it back to the place where he bought it! When we did that we found that the mouse had been sold illegally anyway! I don't mind keeping dogs, but I think I will have to draw the line there from now on!

It depends. Children have different characters. If your children loves animals, why do you stop them. But if your children have no interest in keeping pets, will you do it for them? I used to buy several chickens for my son. However, he rarely remember feeding his starved chickens.

I was raised never to expect a pet in my life. As a child I had a rabbit for a few years. Pets were never allowed in the house, with few exceptions. Not that I could blame my parents. I raised my children with pets. The kids are grown and gone yet we still have two dogs. I could never tell someone else to get a pet for their childrens sake. Just the idea of getting a brand new puppy is a sweet thought. It makes you feel all warm and fuzzy. Thinking about your children having a pet to play with and taking responsibility for one is fun to think about. However, before getting a pet you really have to think about all the drawbacks of owning an animal. There are many. It costs us $80 a month to feed our dogs. Ask yourself if you can handle the extra cleaning involved if you have animals in your home. They shed, they shake, all the left over food and water they can't to on their face goes flying sometimes 6 feet up your walls. Whatever they stand or walk in comes in your home with them. I am scrubbing walls once a month. They have "accidents" in your home. Because they shed you get 5 times the hair than dust. Then there's the vet bills and licensing to consider. Putting aside all the possible good things a pet can bring to your family is the best way to judge whether a pet should be brought into your family. Looking at possibly getting a pet has got to be looked at logically. Make a list of assets and drawbacks helps a lot. At the top of the list of drawbacks you should put "money". Can you afford it? Don't forget about the leashes and collars. Second on the list should be "time investment". Does your family have the time to put into the care and feeding a pet? This will go on for years as a pet is going to be around for 10 to 15 years or more! Your children are going to grow up and go out on their own, leaving the animal in your care.

Yes, why not. But I think parents should take care. It is not good for children to keep pets. Mabe it is not good for their health.

I think they should be allowed to keep some pets. Of course, we should take care of the healthy problems related to raising pets. Because pets may take some diseases or pesticide. Keeping some pets or growing some plants can teach kids how to take care of others, to how procedure of life, to know better about nature, which is very important in thier life. As parents, we should know what kind of pets are suitalbe to our kids, we should choose right ones for our kids according to their ages and health.

Absolutely, my daughter is the only child for us and we both are working and i since she is 6 years old, she have decided to get a puppy for her so that she does not feel alone when we are busy working and by giving her an important role to play by taking care of her pet, she will learn a lot along with us helping her

When it comes down to it, the pet is the adults responsibility. The kid can think it's their pet, but in reality unless they are rick kids, they can't afford a pet. They might do a lot of the work, but the adult has to be sure it's done and done properly. Kids go to sleep overs or out to have fun and the pet needs care. The pet doesn't care if the kid has a sleep over at a friends, they want to be fed. If the pet needs vet care, the adult has to pay it. A kid doesn't have a few hundred to a few thousand dollars for it. A kid can't pay a pet sitter for the family vacation. It's just to much money for them. The adult has to pay the bill. I spend about 100 dollars for a bag of dog food, plus buy raw food for my 2 dogs. It's a lot of money. I walk my dags every day, take them to the park and watch them play. It takes a lot of time. Plus all the extra house work because of the fur. Scooping the litter boxes every day. It's yucky but part of having a pet. As a kid, my mom did it. It was my cat, but she paid the bills and did 90% of the work.

We have the same thought actually, it will get the children more responsible, and having a pet is really good,of cousre too much exposure to the animals can get a illness,we must balance that,as i remember when io was a child we had a dog, having dog is really fun, when you are lonely there is someone to talk too, ,

It depends, but with pets children learn early how to be responsible with others, because they have to take care of them. But everyone has to be aware that having a pet means long term relationship, and they have to take care of them in all the pet's life. About pets spreading disease - not impossible, but many studies have shown that children who grew up with pets are less prone to allergies.

Yes, it will teach children responsibility- get pets at a young age and guide children properly and soon they'll be able to fit the pets into their schedule.

being a pet lover, like me i have 2 dogs, 1 rabbit, and 1 cat for about 9 years, i learned a lot of things from keeping and taking good care of them. they're like children or sisters/brothers or bestfriends. i can speak with them, i can share my emotions with them, i love them all. i encourage those pet enthusiasts to love and take good care of their pets.

growing up we always had a pet, usually a cat but as us kids got older we got dogs. I don't know which I liked better than the other, or if I enjoyed both the same. I think having a pet teaches the kids responsibility, and to be gentle to others I believe it's a good thing to have pets in a home. We have pets to this day and my children love them, they don't fight to clean up after them or feed them but they do spend time and play with them.

I still think that it is better for children to keep pets. The advantages are more than disadvantages. You shall also give the children some guidelines so that they can handle their time better. Even if they don't have pets, they can still spend time watching TV or playing the computer. So we can't blame the pets. The pets can not only stay with the children and play with them. But also the children can learn how to take care of others. I love China

Hello there, Yesterday we went and brought our 12 year old daughter two guniua pigs to look after. She has been asking for a while now. We already had the hutch in the garden as until the last two years we have always had som g pigs in the garden but I have always cleaned them out and in the winter made sure that they had food and water etc as they were really my g.pigs but shared with the family, in the summer the children would cuddle them and feed them. Our daughter is now the same age that I was when I first had a g pig all of my own to look after and clean out so we decided that since she was asking she could have two as they like ot be kept in pairs. She has been told that if in the winter she doesn't look after them properly, ie clean them out every week, feed them every day then the g pigs will go along with the hutch and we won't have any more g pigs. We think that is quite fair. It is good ofr children to have pets in the house as they are growing pu as it teaches them many very good things. We have had other small pets in the past, now we only have one cat and the two new g pigs. We would like a dog at some point but we don't really have the time to putinto a dog.

they said when you give pets to your child they will become more loving and caring. i agree with that though we do not have pets at home yet. but as a kid i once have a pet dog and i do agree that i have learned to be responsible and caring. if one day my son will ask me to have a pet, i will let him have one or two...

Yes, having a pet for a child is also helpful. Having a pet is like taking care of someone who is so special. I was not able to have an opportunity to take care of pets. It didn't interest me at all. If only I could, I want my son to have a pet but because of his Asthma he can't take care of a pet because it can add danger into his health.

I think rather than children having pets, I think families ought to have pets. A pet should be treated as a member of the family and children should have certain responsibilities towards those pets.

hello friends, children should be allow to keep pet bcoz what ever the child learn in childhood days as a great impact throughout their life in childhood only the children are thought how to be kind , lovable , helpful etc which are really need throughout for a happy life for them self and the people surrounding them so slowly the violence in their mind can be controlled