When children start begging for a pet
Yesterday Big Girl and I were Googling popular dog names, and after she’d gone to bed I found myself brushing our new Cavalier King Charles Spaniel sleeping on the floor next to her bed.
Our dog looks almost real. It’s breathing and it’s very soft to touch.
But right now, I’m also thrilled the toy dog Grandpa P bought her from Perfect Petzzz seems to have fulfilled her wish of owning a pet.
For those who need more than a toy pet, I think fishkeeping sounds like a good place to start. There are even Tetra Finding Dory-themed aquariums for children now, and I’ve recently read about how fish keeping requires little maintenance.
More importantly, I’ve been surprised to hear about children being stressed from an early age, and having a pet can have a calming effect, helping children de-stress. Tetra, the aquatics specialist, did research on this earlier in the year, and the survey showed the most common age for stress in children is between 9 and 11 years old, coinciding with exams in year six.
It sounds like those years could be stressful for parents too–and perhaps that’s when we’ll have a Finding Dory aquarium in the sitting room instead of a toy dog called Ginger.
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Quite lucky I didn’t have this worry as we already had this cat, my fear now is how to handle my son’s emotions when inevitably our pet passes, which will be devastating for the whole family! Right now my son is 8 months old and they get on like a house on fire http://www.whiitelist.com/2016/06/10-ways-to-introduce-your-pet-to-your.html?m=1 so I imagine growing up with a pet and not knowing any different is slightly different to getting a pet at an older mature age!