Treat pets as family member to extend benefits of your society.

Generally a family consists of members having blood relations. Family members are those whom we care & love like our own. If we care & love our pets the way we do for our own, then Why can't the pets be our family members? Some people don't treat pets as family members but I highly recommend you to treat pets as family members. If we consider pets as our family members, then the benefit we get from pets will extend into society.

Which benefits will you get from pets as family members?

We will get several benefits from our pets as family members. The top 5 benefits are given below:

Pets can be your child's best friend: Research shows that children who grow up with a pet develop higher levels of empathy and lower stress levels. So, give opportunity to your child to play with pets. Children can gain confidence by having the responsibility of caring for a pet. Pets can help to socialize children & increase verbal skills.

Pets can improve your immune system: Pets spend most of their time outside so you can be afraid of thinking your pets as carrier of germs. Don't get afraid – the additional germs can help improve your immunity to colds and other mild illnesses. In fact, previous studies have shown that babies who live with a dog tend to experience fewer infections and are generally healthier than those who don’t.

Pets keep you fit: All breeds of dog need regular, daily walks in order to stay happy and healthy, and so do we! However, we sometimes have the tendency to get a bit lazy – if that sounds like you, a dog is the perfect cure! They’ll be dragging you out the front door and making you run around the park each and every day. Yes, a dog is possibly the best personal trainer you could ask for.

Pets can help you make friends: The pet owner community is an incredibly friendly one – you’ll often find that people will stop to talk to you about your dog in the park. Having a pet is a great way to meet new people and create bonds quickly, especially if you’re not too good at small talk. You never know, owning a dog may help you meet the love of your life!

Pets protect your heart: Owning a cat could lower your risk of dying from heart disease, a study in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Neurology reports. The researchers found that those who said they’d owned a cat at some point in their lives had a lower risk of dying of a heart attack during the 20-year study than those who’d never owned one. Cats might help relax people during stress, or cat owners might tend to have traits that make them less at-risk, the study authors say.

There are much more benefits, we get from our pets. So, we need to treat our pets as family members.

"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms."-George Eliot