People should treat their birds, cats, or other animals as members of their family. In your opinion, are such relationships good? Why or why not? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. I think the fact that many people treat their birds, cats, or other animals as members of their family is good. Having a pet in our life will help us get rid of loneliness and learn how to have a good time. First of all, suffering from the loneliness which is prevalent in big city, many people have little time to communicate with others and spend most of their time with their pets. For example, I have a little dog, I like to share my feelings both in time of happiness and in time of sadness with it. When I talk with it, it will do something such as jumping or bark as though it can share my good fortune and troubles. On the other hand, I also like to communicate with my friends. But the fact is, people nowadays have little time to do anything including chatting with their close friends. In addition, pets give our life a lot of rejoicing. Television and computer, with their wide availability, become as part of our life as our meal, work, and school. Therefore, Today's young people spend most their free time inside, either watching television or playing computer games. But excessive inside activity is detrimental to people's health. If you have pets, you will have to go outside with your little animal such as cat and dog. They provide you more opportunities to take exercise. For example, I have to take my little dog outside after meal every day. I also like to go hiking and climb mountains with my pets. My family will also take part in my outside activities and during these activities we will talk about many funny things such as newspaper, magazines and television programs. My pet teaches us how to have a good time in life and prevent me from spending copious amounts of time inside. Therefore, having a pet would not only get rid of our loneliness, but it would also make our life more enjoyable. We should treat our pets as our family because they will always be around whenever we need them.