The Bond Between Dogs and People

Dogs are known as people’s best friends. It’s scientifically proven that owning a dog has some health benefits like reducing stress, sharing loneliness, encouraging exercise. The bond begins the moment they come into your life and lasts forever. They also help people as service dogs and search-and-rescue-dogs. 

 

People feel better when they talk to a friend about a problem, but it’s proven that spending time with your dog is better and more relaxing. Other research shows that while doing a stressful task, people get less stressed when they are with their dogs. 

 

If you live alone, it’s a good idea to have a dog. Since you need to take care of it, it keeps you busy and you don’t feel lonely. As you know, dogs need to be taken out and this obligation forces you to go out for a walk. When you’re walking with your dog, some people, especially little children, approach to pet it and start a conversation. 

 

Dogs also help people as service dogs or assistant dogs. A service dog is a specially trained dog which helps people with certain disabilities and special needs. For instance, guide dogs are the ones which assist blind people, their duty is to take their owners from one place to another safely. While walking, they stay on the left and ahead of their owner and guide them to walk safely. Fifteen-year-old teenager Liam, who lost his sight at the age of five, has had a guide dog since 2012 and stated that he had become more independent after the arrival of his companion. His dog helps him get to school, meet his friends when his parents aren’t available to take him somewhere. If he didn’t have his dog, he would be more dependent on his family to go out. 

 

Rescue dogs are hardworking, intelligent and strong heroes who save lives. Elderly couple Norman and Eve owe their lives to Shana, the dog which saved them from a snowstorm. They got stuck under a huge pile of snow and Shana dug out a tunnel through which she pulled them out.