Some people think that keeping pets is good for children while others think it is dangerous and unhealthy. Which opinion do you agree with? Discuss both options and give examples.

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In recent years, researchers have studied how pets can help individual live a healthy life. People's believe that pets being dangerous and unhealthy are either the result of an incident or, a story that influenced them. In
this
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essay I will discuss both opinion and present relevant examples. Indeed, in my mind, I have enough evidence from the research done on the benefits of pets at
home
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to agree with the
first
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opinion.
To begin
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with, a
child
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has a tendency to seek attention from a living being around them. Having a
pet
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at
home
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keeps them
engaging
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engaged
and active at all times, in turn helps in their
better
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best
mental growth
.
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In a study conducted by a British
doctors
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doctor
shows that a
child
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that grows with a
pet
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at
home
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develop loving and caring as an attribute compared to one who
is growing alone
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is alone growing
. The reason
to
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for
of
such
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character development is they see the love and care the
pet
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has for them and they try to pay back the same.
Such
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mental and emotional character
developement
act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
development
will make them a better
peoson
a human being
person
in life and
centrainly
definitely or positively ('sure' is sometimes used informally for 'surely')
certainly
proves that, having a
pet
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at
home
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is good. There are
plethora
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a plethora
of animal species that
exisits
have an existence, be extant
exists
exist
around the world, but not all the animals and their species can be
tammed
brought from wildness into a domesticated state
tamed
themed
tuned
and kept at
home
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.
For example
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, animals like snake, lion, scorpion are
dangered
marked by extreme anger
angered
species and are not suggested to be
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pet
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petted
. The reason these animals are entitled as wild animals is due to their
agressive
having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends
aggressive
nature in comparison to the domestic animals. Domestic animals have a sense of
loyality
the quality of being loyal
loyalty
, love and care towards its owners
on the other hand
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wild animal can
harm
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the owner in case they sense the feeling of
harm
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.
Accept space
.
A recent incident that happened
in
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at
the zoo, where the
zookeeper
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Zookeeper
skipper
of the lions who have
pet
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them for the
last
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4 years were attached by the lion cubs. Upon investigation by the wildlife protection team it was found out that the
cubs though
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cubs, though
that the
zookeeper
a student who fails to attend classes
skipper
was trying to
harm
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them using the stick in his hand and in
defece
(military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
defence
they attacked him. In conclusion, I strongly believe that pets are good for children and should be part of their
lifes
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life
lives
as they grow.
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, the parents
neds
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need
needs
to
careful
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carefully
deciding
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decide
the type of
pet
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they want to leave their
child
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with. Animals with
agressive
having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends
aggressive
nature may
harm
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the
child
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.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • companion
  • responsibility
  • care
  • empathy
  • compassion
  • social skills
  • transmit
  • diseases
  • allergies
  • safety risks
  • time
  • effort
  • money
  • mature
  • handle
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