My speech Pets generally seem to provide their owners with non-trivial health benefits;keeping pets has been shown to help relieve stress to those who like having animals around. There is now a medically-approved class of "therapy animals", mostly dogs, who are brought to visit confined humans. Walking a dog can provide the owner with exercise, fresh air, and social interaction. Yes. I copied this from wikipedia. See, it says we can have many benefits from getting a dog, a pet. But it is not the entire story of having them. I think having a pet is similar to having a baby. What is your purpose of having a child? Do u just want to have a good interpersonal skill, taking-car skill or want to have exercises when holding a baby in your arm? No! we want it can have good life and for no reasons when treating our own baby well. We choose to have a new life in our family, whatever it is a baby or a pet, we need to give it the best thing we have. Did u want the film “10 promises to my dog”? 12-year-old Akari fell in love with a puppy that had wandered into her house and adopted it. She names it "Socks" as its paws looked like they had white socks on. The girl and dog are inseparable, and the pet was a great comfort to Akari while grieving her mother's death. However, as Akari grows up, her feelings and interest moves away from Socks. Year by year, their distance grows, which also leads to her physical distance as she moves to a far off city, and must leave Socks behind to a childhood friend. One day Akari remembers the 10 promises that she had made to Socks and her mother. She knows that the dod was bought by her mother for getting her responsibility to take care Akari. The modified version of the 10 promises is as below. 1. My life is likely to last ten to fifteen years. Any separation from you will be painful for me. Remember that before you buy me. 2. Give me time to understand what you want of me. 3. Place your trust in me - it's crucial to my well-being. 4. Don't be angry for me for long and don't lock me up as punishment. You have your work, your entertainment and your friends. I have only you. 5. Talk to me sometimes. Even if I don't understand your words. I understand your voice when it's speaking to me. 6. Be aware that how you treat me. I'll never forget it. 7. Remember before you hit me that I have teeth that could easily crush the bones of your hand, but that I choose not to bite you. 8. Before you scold me for being uncooperative, please ask yourself if something might be bothering me. Perhaps I'm not getting the right food, or I've been run in the sun for too long or my heart is getting old and weak. 9. Take care of me when I get old. You too, will grow old. 10. Go with me on difficult journeys. Never say I can't bear to watch it or let it happen in my absent. Everything is easily for me if you are there. Remember, I love you. These are the 10 promises that a dog wants the owner to make. Although these are not really said by a dog’s own fair hand, I trust them. I had a little dog, it was a Chihuahua, and we called it baby. It was very very tiny. We couldn’t find it all the time. It’s because sometimes it hided under the sofa or it ran upstairs. The only way we could make it come out was yelling “mummum”, that means food. One day, it cramped and couldn’t open its eyes, we delivered it to vet, knew it got CANINE DISTEMPER, a viral disease that cannot be cured by nowadays technology. I and my mum cried in the animal clinic. The vet asked whether we wanted to leave it in the clinic for observing. We rejected. It’s because we knew that recovering was not possible. We wanted to stay with it by its remaining life. We fought for time of staying home to take care it. We held it in our arm even we were sleeping. In a certain week, I needed to leave Hong Kong for some purposes with my father. In there, I called my mum. I asked her how was baby. Although she said it was fine, I got something from her voice. I cried again. After coming back Hong Kong, although I got the psychological preparation, I couldn’t accept the reality, I cried again and again. This was the first time I cried for somebody. It was my family member. No, it is not my family member, it is not my friend. Your pet would stand by u all the time no matter u’re facing any sort of problem. It is a special relationship between u and your pet. In this case, I’ve learnt the weakness of life. I’m not saying that I can now accept anybody passes away but without sadness. I mean I’ve learnt to be optimistic. Many people say I seen to be without any stress and pressure. No, I do have. But I’ve learnt how to treat them. I’ve learnt sharing with others. I’ve learnt putting a smile on my face all the time. I’ve learnt this is life. I learnt all of these from my lovely pet. Miss u, baby. |