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Take the animal from the street. Advantages and disadvantages
June 18th 2015
Someone never faces this, and somebody is just chased by kittens crying in the rain, abandoned puppies mewing at the front door of the front cat, adult dogs with a ragged leash and kind eyes. Or your child brings home a tiny, sobbing wet creature and says: "Ma-ah, can he stay with us?" Perhaps this is your personal test for kindness and compassion - to take in the house a homeless animal that came to help you. But for many people this is not an easy decision. We try to weigh "for" and "against" animals from the street.
"Behind"
Psychologists believe that if a child brings home a beast, it speaks of the nobility and spiritual qualities of a small person who should be encouraged and supported. So in that case the animal from the street is a help in raising children. Teach their responsibility for the rescued and tamed kitten.
Salvation of a living being in any philosophical and religious system is treated as an objectively good act. Who knows how in the future it will be useful and what will the newly found puppy help you with? Maybe he will grow up in your faithful defender and will be your devoted friend, will give you boundless love and immeasurable joy? An animal from the street - the opportunity to make the world a little kinder and better, and a single creature - happier.
Often, kittens born on the street are stronger, livelier and healthier than domestic, specially bred cats. They are born from the strongest individuals who survived in the urban jungle, which means they adopted their health and stamina.
If you take a lost animal, you save it not only from cold and hunger, to which it is not adapted. You save him from deep grief and longing for the owners.
"Against"
The main argument against domestic animals from the street is their "dark past". It is not known, through which I had to pass this abandoned and beaten dog or this worn out cat. Sometimes past injuries affect the character of the animal, and it remains aggressive even with new loving masters. Your love and your patience will help. For the sake of justice, it must be said that the animals born in the apartments are also not insured against bad character, so it's not worth blaming on one's origin.
Animals from the street often fall into the house in a deplorable state and can be carriers of hidden infections. This can be a Koch's wand (a pathogen of tuberculosis), and intestinal infections, and eggs of helminths and other parasites, as well as fleas infected with dangerous infections. It is not often, but it does happen that contact with such an animal can lead to significant health problems in both children and adults. However, this problem is easily solved by quarantine, a visit to the veterinarian and treatment if necessary.
If the animal has been long "out of the blue", it may not get used to living in an apartment and will always ask for back. In this case, you can not keep it: the cat will run through the slightly opened door, and the dog will break from the leash.
The most important thing that you have to decide, facing a lonely kitten or puppy: can you truly love, take it and leave it for yourself forever? Often such an animal has already survived the betrayal of a man who threw it in the rain, and doom it for such a second time - simply inhuman.