Why Your Pets Aren’t The Same As Children

Some people are just animal people and others aren’t. For those that aren’t it, can be confusing and a little bemusing as animals lovers fuss and moon over their pets or go to the ends of the world to make sure an animal charity is supported. Alternately, animal lovers can find the seemingly callous nature of others cruel and uncaring. The two groups generally don’t clash as animals aren’t something which comes up regularly in most places but when they do, the debate can get fairly fierce.

The economy has been bad for a long while now and people are really starting to feel the fiscal bite of the recession. Without as much disposable income available to us, certain ambitions have to be put on hold. People simply cannot afford new cars, new homes or children. Surprisingly children are hugely expensive and people have estimated an expenditure of around £25,000 to feed, clothe and educate a child until the age of 18. Most people simply don’t have that kind of money and they believe, rightly so, that if they can’t afford kids then they shouldn’t be having them. Expecting the rest of the country to carry your progeny is wrong.

To fill the void until they afford children, many people are adopting pets instead. This is great news for the adopted animal and cats and dogs do have a lot of the same needs as kids do. They certainly lap up all the attention you give and dogs certainly reflect it back at you in the form of endless and boundless love. The issue is when this is taken too far and you start feeding your dog as you would a baby. The fact is at hat a lot of human food is incredibly bad for animals and feeding it to them could be potentially deadly. Chocolate for example is poisonous to dogs.