Another Side of
Dog Adoption
Many studies reveal that having a dog can offer various benefits to the owner, both from a physical and mental health perspective.
By: Anastasia Merry Linda
Translator: Raden Destyana Yunissa Prizka
When someone has health issues, dogs can be utilised as guardians and rescue dogs to help save their lives. In order to assist people who require therapeutic or non-therapeutic care, dogs are also frequently trained as therapy dogs.
Getting a dog adopted is an option instead of getting a pet. Adopting a dog is possible from both the owner and a shelter. People have been urged to adopt dogs because of several factors, such as the fact that buying one doesn’t cost anything and that some of the dogs are already vaccinated or even spayed or neutered.
Dogs that have had vaccinations are more immune than those from breeders or pet stores. In addition to helping to prevent cancer and neoplasms, spaying and neutering dogs also helps to limit their population by shielding them from ovarian and uterine cancer in particular and encourage the dog to become less agitated and hostile.
Adopting dogs from shelters is a good act that can give the shelter dogs chances to have a better and loving life.
The prospective adopter’s primary responsibility is to show the dogs commitment and affection for the duration of their lives.
A good adopter will also not discriminate based on the breed of dog, believing that all dogs are deserving of affection. Adopting shelter dogs will also have a significant positive influence on them and may even be the healing process after the trauma of being abandoned and abandoned by their prior family. Although the situations they experienced force them to do so, they do not belong in a shelter.
Source:
1. Personal experience (writer) as an adopter
2. Personal experience as a Pejaten shelter volunteer, etc
3. Article “Benefits of Pet Sterilization” www.hewania.com
4. Article “How to Make Your Dog a Service Dog” “ Pet’s.webmd.com
