Animal in one house with the small child. This situation is quite acceptable for someone, and someone considers it inadmissible. Both those, and others are right, it is kind of paradoxical did not sound. The main rule of such neighbourhood is an observance of certain conditions of cohabitation which will help to avoid problems.
In nine months prior to …
Serious concerns are caused, as a rule, to future mothers of a cat. In most cases they have access to any corner of the house. And cats serve as messengers toxoplasma. This disease can threaten a fruit with various uglinesses. The percent of developing of infection is very low, but it is necessary to be careful. The first that needs to be made is to make the test on existence toxoplasma, and to both an animal, and his owners. The second is to protect a pet from communication with foreign cats. And the third – future mom not to be engaged in care for a cat, and to shift care for an animal to someone from members of household.
The person was born!
Long before this happy moment of parents the alarm covers: the kid can have an allergy to wool, there is a risk of infection from an animal with parasites, the dog can bite the kid, the cat to scratch. The set of negative examples from life and television reports scare stiff. But practice shows that the animal, but not the child suffers most often. Owners for a while forget about him, having completely plunged into efforts about the kid. If in your house there lives an animal, then remember that we are responsible for those who were tamed.
- Daily do damp cleaning of all house. To reduce time for this occupation, it is possible to get rid for some term of carpets and small objects of a decor.
- You hold a door to the room of the kid closed to exclude there access of an animal.
- Do not leave the child alone with a pet what safe and lovely it did not seem.
- Remove bowls and a toilet of your animal to the place, inaccessible for the kid.
- Regularly visit the veterinarian, do inoculations to an animal.
According to age
From 2 to 5 years the kid studies communication and interaction with the outside world. Communication with animals will teach him to kindness, care of the one who is weaker, and to mercy. Bring the unpretentious pet, for example, a rabbit or a guinea pig. Children are more senior than 5 years already can undertake obligations for care for an animal. To walk the pet, to feed – these simple affairs will teach responsibility, condescension and will serve as a peculiar training of skills of adulthood.
Whom we choose
Families with little children need to treat the choice of the pet very responsibly. Once you choose as that who wants to get a dog from such breeds, a collie, a poodle, a Labrador or a retriever. Dogs of small breeds, for example, a dachshund, a cocker spaniel or a Pekinese, do not differ in patience and condescension, are more spiteful and can do harm to the kid. From cat's breeds Persians and sphinxes, Scottish lop-eared, the British perfectly get on with children. The child's neighbourhood with a Siamese cat is not allowed! To children with problems of the speech there will be the excellent friend a parrot capable to speak. Joint classes "language" will do good to both of them.
In America and Europe the union of the child and an animal is considered many decades the normal phenomenon. The correct approach to the choice of the pet, observance of simple rules of leaving, the attentive relation will bring not only pleasure, but also advantage.