Read This If You Can’t Get Rid Of Your Pet

TO Sea our pets to the point of considering them part of our family, caring for them and ensuring their well-being is undoubtedly something good and normal. But some people can cross this threshold, turning these beings into substitutes for personal relationships and humanizing them to the extreme. ¿ It is difficult for you detach yourself from your pet?

¿ Do I have an excessive attachment to my pet?

Let’s agree that you pay close attention to the animals that share your home is not bad; quite the opposite and welcome is that take care of he you properly .

The problem arises when your dog, you cat or animal ito that you have chosen to have, becomes e l center of your life : the only one who loves you, tea understand and tea accept as you are.

The fact that you cannot detach yourself from your pet can be interpreted, then, as a mechanism compensatory -either psychological or emotional- that most of the time is generated unconsciously and that is reinforced as time passes, getting to hinder relationships with friends and family.

Some causes why you can not detach yourself from your pet

Among the reasons why a person presents an excessive attachment to your pet, we can point out various difficulties to interrelate and communicate with their peers. For instance:

• Shyness
• Complexes
• Unsafety

In addition, they are beings that, among other things:

• They need to be accepted
• They suffered a disappointment
• They feel let down

It is also often found, among those who cannot detach themselves from their pets, people who cannot did not have children or what suffered a significant emotional loss (family, friends, partner).

Attitudes that reveal that you feel too attached to your pet

To find out if you are part of the club of those who cannot detach from their pet, see if you recognize yourself in any of the behaviors included in the following listing :

• You avoid social contact so as not to leave the alone. For instance: you don’t attend to places because they do not allow the entry of animals or you avoid family or friends gatherings because you furry was not invited.
• You invest too much time and money in things that your pet may be of little or no interest to – clothing, grooming, accessories, etc. – to the point of not meeting your own needs.
• You take her to the vet at the slightest symptom and you spend finding out information about diet, care, diseases, etc.
• It is the center of your conversations.
• You do not stop taking photos and showing them by all possible means. You have even opened accounts in his name on social media.

Risks of humanizing animals

You must bear in mind that the fact of deal with your pet like with a person can bring you serious harm, simply because it is not s respecting its nature.

There are cases where l or s pets they become treated or I know how kids spoiled. Y some people finish worried going more for they than for their own children.

Some examples of humanizing pets can be :

• Dress them or disguise r them, causing discomfort, skin problems, excessive heat, etc.
• Atosigarl to s with food, even those that are not suitable for their species, thus causing serious nutritional imbalances, including being overweight.
• Not tell him s no rules of behavior and coexistence, leading to significant behavioral inconveniences.

OR a relationship of love and respect

As specialists explain, as people who show excessive attachment to their pets are not aware of this fact, it is necessary that they be helped by family and friends who have noticed this situation. And it is very possible that it is necessary to turn to a psychologist.

So, as love can be as great as it is dangerous and this rule applies both to relationships between people and those we establish with beings of other species, it is very important that you learn to detach yourself from your pet and that  develop a link responsible of respect or its nature, without forgetting never that you have a life beyond it.