A pet is a household animal kept for companionship and a person’s enjoyment. The most popular pets are noted for their loyal or playful characteristics, for their attractive appearance, and/or for their song. Pets also generally seem to provide their owners with non-trivial health benefits; keeping pets has been shown to help relieve stress to those who like having animals around. There is now a medically-approved class of “therapy animals”, mostly dogs, that are brought to visit confined humans. Walking a dog can provide both the owner and the dog with exercise, fresh air, and social interaction. The most popular pets are dogs and cats.

While little children are too young to worry about preventing stress or lowering health care costs, there are numerous benefits they can experience from having a family pet. Positive influence of pets on the soul of the child is perfectly sound scientific knowledge. It has Univ.-Prof. Dr. Giselher Guttmann and Dr. Michaela Zemanek is determined by the Department of Psychology, University of Vienna in a study. Thus, the animals produce in the personality development of children, that skills such as consideration, responsibility and socialization is better developed and more rapidly. Incidentally, the effect is compounded when the children had contact with the animal as a baby.