News.com.au – Pets are the new children…
// November 10th, 2009 // Renting with Pets
… Tell us something that we don’t know.
(original article at News.com.au)
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In a feel-good article for the weekend edition of The Sunday Mail, Samantha Healy has stumbled on a truth that many people with companion animals have known for a while: we treat our pets as our children.
And can you blame us? In a society where the cost of raising a family is starting to skyrocket along with divorce rates, the family unit is not very reliable anymore. Buying a house will be a far-away dream for many young Australians, and unemployment at some point in our careers is a certaintly.
Our animals, our companions, give us something that our professional and personal lives can’t provide consistently anymore: unconditional love and trust. They will be there when we get home, wagging their tails or chirping away happily. They won’t steal the car keys and go for a joy ride. They won’t leave us for anyone else.
This is not just a trend – this is a certainty of the future. Pets are important to the emotional well-being of single men and women, and now they are making an important contribution to the family structure of the dual-income couple.
Everyone should have the opportunity to have the company of a companion animal, no matter what their housing status is, if they can prove that they can also give the animal the love and care that he or she deserves.
