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How Pets Can Improve Your Health

4 The Love Of Animals

Caring for a pet can bring pleasure and help boost your morale and optimism. Choosing to adopt an animal from a shelter, especially an older dog or cat, can add to the sense of fulfillment, knowing that you’ve provided a home to a pet that may otherwise have been euthanized.

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Canine Inequality

Animal Ethics

They have the best food money can buy, climate-controlled shelter, comfortable bedding, ample exercise, liberty to move about, toys to play with, and medical care (including control of parasites). Inequality per se is morally irrelevant. How many are suffering for lack of food, fuel, shelter, clothing, or medical care?

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