practice Q: What are the pros and cons of owning a pet? I have a pet. It's a wonderful sweet cat. So I'm on the side of pet owners, but not all of them. On one hand it's a very good experience of compassion. Because a pet can't care of itself and you have to help it anyway. It needs to be feed, bathed and go to the toilet. But in return you get a joy of communication with it and as some people think - its love. I'm not sure about love, but some of them are getting used to people and they wait them from work and trying to communicate when a human is finally arrived home. I think it can reduce stress from work and vanish a little some bad things, that happen in our lives. On the other hand - sometimes pets are very noisy. And they can damage things at home. Depending which animal you have you will have different damages. And dogs have to be walked. And every nice person must clean the shit after his/hers beautiful doggy. I haven't seen anyone in Russia doing this. In the end I can say that I like pets very much. But only those, who are already domesticated. I hate people who took a wild animal from nature and left it at home. Or those ones who buy exotic animals like lemurs.