I want a pet

Pets helps human beings to develop the ability to care for others. "Nurturing isn't a quality that suddenly appears in adulthood when we need it. You don’t learn nurturing because you were nurtured as a child. People need a way to practice being caregivers when they're young."

In our modern world, there's little opportunity for kids to provide for other living things aside from pets. "In many other countries, siblings look after one another, but in the U.S. that's not culturally acceptable,"