Pet is an animal kept for companionship and enjoyment or domestic animals, as opposed to wild animals, or to livestock, laboratory animals, working animals or sport animals, which are stored for economic reasons or productive. The most popular pets are known for their characteristic loyal or playful, they are attractive appearance, or to track them. Pets are generally also seem to provide their owners with non-trivial health benefits; keeping pets has been shown to help relieve stress for those who like having animals around. There is now medically approved class of “therapy animals,” mostly dogs, who were brought in to visit a limited human. Walking a dog can provide both the owner and the dog with exercise, fresh air, and social interaction.
Many towns and cities have local regulations that restrict the number of pets a person may have, and can also restrict or forbid certain pets such as exotic. certain breed, like pit bulls and Rottweilers are banned in some places. Dogs / other canid / wolf mix is also banned in some places.
In many locations, animals are considered pets by their owners but are legally classified as livestock, including horses, pigs, camelids, and poultry may be banned from that stored in the city or are limited to properties with a certain size larger.
Animal protection advocates attention to the pet overpopulation in the United States. According to the Humane Society of the United States, 3-4000000 dogs and cats euthanized each year in this country and more confined to cages in shelters. This situation created by nonneutered animals (spayed / castrated) reproducing and people intentionally breeding animals. The combination of economic difficulties, especially problems combined with a love of animals contributes to this problem in parts of rural United States. In an average year, fertile cat can produce three litters a kitten to 4-6 kittens and dogs respectively. Based on these figures, one female cat and their offspring can produce up to 420 000 over seven years if the cat is not spayed or neutered. There is also a major overpopulation problems with other species of pets, like birds and hares. local humane society, SPCAs and other animal protection organizations urge people to their pets neutral and adopt animals from animal shelters instead of buying them from breeders or pet stores.