Why do people own a dog !!

This article is about a dog and how it changes you for good and your perception towards life.

As cliched as it might sound but, this is a fact. Research has proved that dogs can relieve you from your stress twice as quick as music does and it has the ability to sense your mood and comfort you accordingly. Now it may totally depend on how good you treat your dog.

It’s like a basic rule of nature; the dog will love you only if you are willing to care enough for it

Why am I so fussing about it because I've got a dog at my home, and it has really changed the way I see things and the way I see life.

Initially I wasn't really fond of pets, my elder brother always wanted to home a dog, so he bought a pup (20 days old) last year (a black Dartmouth Labrador).

He instantly became a star in the eyes of my mother and my brother’s wife. I was still neutral and was not so emotionally attached to him despite his cuteness and those “puppy eyes”.

What came as a shocker was how humbly my father acknowledged and welcomed DARRELL (yes that’s his name) into the family. Shocker because my father is one of those people who’d never open up with people around him and would not accept change so easily.

What changed him? Well, I guess the selfless affection that DARRELL gave him and expecting nothing but the same gesture in return. You see that is how dogs are. They’ll be loyal and affectionate until their last breath.  

 It was later in the previous year when I grew closer to my dog, when I could understand his emotions, and he could understand mine. The dog treats your happiness and sorrows as his own; this is what I could figure out in this 1 year of petting my dog. He has always been there with me in both good times, bad times.

People get a dog for several reasons, well obviously primarily to guard their homes. The bigger your home the nastier is the breed of dog.

I have a friend who owns a dog by the Ronnie, a Rottweiler, a breed of dog that is bred only to guard and kill, and they have kept him for the same reason. He is so aggressive that he has killed/injured numerous stray dogs and cats and whoever tried to cross the fence; he has even attacked an electrician who came to their house to fix some wires. It was the dog owner’s presence of mind that saved that guy or else he would have been mauled to death.

Call the above incident as the dog’s breed specific aggressive nature or a habit to attack anything and anyone apart from the residents of the home he guards or call it his blind loyalty towards his owner. It all depends on your intentions and how you have groomed it to be, an affectionate being or a killing machine.

I know people who are so ignorant that they get a dog to ward off “evil spirits” that might be circling around them or in their house, they get a dog for a purpose and they treat it like a feng-shui object.

It so happened that one of my friend’s dog passed away due to some ailment; they were less sad about their dog’s demise and more relieved as they believed that the “evil spirit” got their dog instead one of their family members.

Some people pet dogs out of fashion. Just because it increments their status in the society that they are part of, unaware of how to take good care of the they fail make the bond with the animal, which results in communication gap between them and they later start abusing the animal physically because they fail to understand the dog or the dog does not “obey” orders given by them. The end result is the dog runs away from the house and lives a life of a stray dog. If the dog is accustomed to live a luxurious life, confined within the four walls of the house it earlier used to live in, it becomes very difficult for the dog to survive in the harsh world outside. As a result he is bullied and victimized by the stray dogs, which makes the life of the dog more difficult.

So it’s important that you treat your dog like you would treat own your kid or your own family member

My dog taught me to love selflessly although I’m still learning to do that and try to share your happiness and sorrows with people around you   I’m a man with more patience .

At the same time do not spoil your dog so much that it refuses to listen to you and ends up giving you a hard time
It is really difficult for a non-dog owner to understand how deeply you get involved and attached to the animal who does not speak your language but can still gauge your feelings sometimes better than your own race. Own a dog and then know how it changes and brings out the better of you.