How Raising Pets Can Influence Your Child’s Development and Behavior

My friends were suffering from the misbehavior of her young child, as he has great energy in playing and
at the same time he gets bored quickly and starts to “fornicate” continuously until he loses her temper.
Amazing! Over time, he turned into a responsible, patient and affectionate child as well.

Does raising animals affect the behavior of our children? This is the question that will be answered in
the coming lines, Dr. Berg Yacoub – Prof. of the famous veterinary medicine.

1. At first, Dr. Berg said: The culture of the Egyptians was not accustomed to the process of raising
animals and their love and dealing with them with love, and not for the purpose of personal
interest, such as raising them to guard or to show off their looks and abilities.

This is the result of false beliefs that the person who owns a pet is a “clean” or “empty” person who has some
money and does not know where to spend it.

All of this is very wrong because raising animals of any kind affects the individual’s personality in general and

the children’s personality in particular in a positive way. You may not even think of people who own animals.

2. For example, animals teach children responsibility, self-reliance and patience, and they are
useful in filling the spare time of adolescents and the elderly, and scientific research has proven
that people who raise animals are less likely to suffer from heart disease, diabetes and
pressure.

3.In addition to the fact that raising animals instills in children the value of “compassion”,
“tenderness” and a feeling for the other. Animals are called “the deprived liquid” who cannot
speak to ask for food or drink, and accordingly, when we assign to a child some of the
responsibility of caring for the pet, we grow He has a sense of compassion and kindness, and
most importantly his mental abilities and his skills in deducing the animal’s need from its
movements!

4. Dr. Berg continues: It is also remarkable that all our information about animal husbandry is
limited to “dogs and cats”, and everything else is strange, and this is due to the type of people
who want to own a pet. That he owns the rarest or most expensive and best breed of dogs or
cats, and finally those who are kept for the purpose of guarding or trading.

5.On the contrary, there are people who do not know how to own a pet that suits their material
and social capabilities, and here comes our role in guiding them so as not to buy an animal and
neglect it, and this animal in the end is a “soul” created by God, it should not be treated as an
“antique” piece in the home.

For example, the principles to be followed when buying a pet:

1. Does anyone in the household have an allergy to pets?

2. Ensure that there is a designated place for this animal inside or outside the house.

3. Providing vaccinations and appropriate food for the animal.

4. Making sure that there is time to take care of it, because animals feel just like us if their owner
neglects to take care of them, even if by “playing with them” and they may get sick and die!

5. Accustom the cat or dog to eating in the house so that its owners do not feel the burden of the
financial cost.

6. Know all the necessary information about the type and species of the animal you own.

7. In the event that the owner is unable to take care of him, he must put him in a petting house
and not leave him on the street, because in this case he will inevitably die and will not be able
to live.

Dr. Berg Yacoub adds, about the strangest cases that he met in the clinic, saying:

8. A family had bought one of its sons a “small dog” to raise, and indeed with time it became very
large and difficult to control at home, especially since it only accepts food from the owners of
the house, and therefore the opportunity to get rid of it means eliminating his life, and the child
was closely related to him, But we found a suitable treatment for him, and this means that
anything around us in the surrounding environment can be raised and taken care of.

9. We must also pay attention that animals have a psychological nature just like humans, the
animal grieves, rejoices, hates and loves, and if a mother wants to improve her child’s behavior,
let him entrust him with the responsibility of caring for a pet..

10. For example, each child according to his appropriate age, you can set a schedule for your child
to feed the animal or play with it, participate in the purchase of its food and prepare its hygiene
tools with the mother. Knowing the dates of vaccinations, and thus you will ensure a child who
is busy all the time with important, useful and enjoyable responsibilities for him.