As humans, animals are part and parcel of our day to day survival, and are part of our present day culture. We use animals to satisfy our physical, emotional and even spiritual needs. We manage and uphold their survival in an effort to conserve that which we consider being our contribution to the prevention of life's grand scale. On the other hand, we destroy them when we want to reshape and reconstruct our surroundings, whether physically or otherwise. Therefore, as humans we relate with animals in so many ways. We keep some as pets, some to provide food (meat, eggs, milk), and some for prestige and a sign of wealth.
But why is the human life so dependent on animals? All living things were made to co-exist with each other. Plants exist to provide food and oxygen for animals. Both animals and plants provide survival for humans because they are food. The domestic animals that man keeps are for food and his other needs, such as companionship and prestige. Some animals domesticated by man offer a high degree of senses and intuitions such as love, attention, reason, memory, imitation, curiosity, among others. A human being needs all these and sometimes keeping an animal that provides one or more of these is a great satisfaction.
One of life's greatest peril is the fact that the food of human beings consists entirely of souls. Our livelihood is dependent on animals. Sometimes we kill them for food or to make ourselves clothes and other leather-made products. Even the government confines the wild animals in their natural habitats so as to earn revenue through domestic and foreign tourism.
The psychiatrists and psychologists nowadays use pets routinely in their practice to treat disorders. Why pets? Because animals have a special ability to increase a human's verbal and social behavior and, therefore, they serve as a mediator between a patient and the therapist. Studies have proven that animals can be used to break young children's socially unacceptable habits by making them socially accommodative.