{"id":401,"date":"2012-01-20T13:21:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T21:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2014-01-13T21:01:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T21:01:46","slug":"do-you-love-animals-but-for-one-reason-or-another-cannot-have-one-for-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/do-you-love-animals-but-for-one-reason-or-another-cannot-have-one-for-yourself","title":{"rendered":"Do you love animals but for one reason or another cannot have one for yourself?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you love <em><strong>animals<\/strong><\/em> but for one reason or another cannot have one for yourself?\u00a0 There are many options to consider that will be able to bring you closer to furry friends and satisfy that basic need to connect with animals.<\/p>\n<p>You may not be permitted to have <em><strong>animals <\/strong><\/em>at your apartment or house you rent, health issues may stop an animals from living with you or you may have such a demanding work schedule that having an animal would not be feasible.\u00a0 Whatever the issue may be, there are solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteering at your local <em><strong>Humane Society<\/strong><\/em> is a great way to spend time with animals, especially those in need that are waiting for their forever home.\u00a0 Check with your neighboring Humane Society to see if you can start volunteering; they usually have various programs for a wide array of animals with a temporary home.\u00a0 This also helps the animals connect with people more often and prepare them for human contact with their forever home.<\/p>\n<p>Help your neighbor or friend.\u00a0 If you know that one person that certain someone that doesn\u2019t have time for their pet, make an effort to walk their dog every day or visit their cat and play with him or her.\u00a0 This will not only make the pet owner feel less guilty, but will also bring enormous joy to their pets, instead of being stuck at home alone.\u00a0 Walking your neighbor\u2019s dog will not only provide a break in the day for the dog alone at home, but will help you get exercise as well.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Volunteer <\/strong><\/em>to pet sit for someone when they go on vacation.\u00a0 You can have your animal fix for a couple weeks and then when their owners come home, you are back to only worrying about just yourself.\u00a0 The pet owners will feel comfortable knowing you are taking care of their pets and the pets will have someone to occupy them and help avoid missing their owners.<\/p>\n<p>Our last suggestion is to visit a dog park.\u00a0 If you are allergic to <em><strong>animals<\/strong><\/em>, this is a good solution.\u00a0 You can simply sit on a bench in the dog park and watch the dogs playing with each other.\u00a0 A lot of dog parks are operated and managed by volunteers.\u00a0 <em><strong>Volunteering <\/strong><\/em>at your dog park can help give you your animal fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you love animals but for one reason or another cannot have one for yourself?\u00a0 There are many options to consider that will be able to bring you closer to furry friends and satisfy that basic need to connect with animals. You may not be permitted to have animals at your apartment or house you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[56,17,18,33,40,57,25,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}