There has ____ been a strong bond between humans and ____. Today, there are over 27 million pets in the UK, which ____ that over 40% of British homes have got a pet. In a recent ____, over a quarter of pet owners said that they had bought or ____ their pet from an animal welfare charity or rescue centre. The Blue ____ is one of these pet charities. It started in 1897 and ____ after working horses in London Today, the charity looks ____ cats, dogs, and other pets which need help. The ____ also provides education about pet care and animal welfare. ____ like these tell pet owners how to look after their ____ properly. They are specially designed for ____ animals and provide advice on how to deal with certain situations. If an ____ admitted they couldn’t look after ____ pet, The Blue Cross would find a new ____ for it. But pet ____ isn’t all one way. In an article ____ by the British Journal of Health Psychology, a leading psychologist claimed that ____ a pet was extremely good for your health. She said that ____ who owned pets were less ____, had fewer medical problems and found it easier to make ____. She also added that owning a cat or a dog could lower your blood ____ and cholesterol levels by ____ you to get outside more Animals can also help us in ____ practical ways. Around 360,000 people in the UK are ____ as blind or partially sighted. Guide ____ are trained to help visually impaired people deal with everyday ____, like going to the shops or crossing the road. Tony ____ is a guide dog trainer. He explained how ____ dogs helped visually impaired people lead full and healthy lives. “They can give them ____ and the confidence to go out on their own, ____ before they might have been stuck in the house.” Guide dogs are just one ____ of how animals can help people. Emergency ____, like the police or search and rescue teams, often use ____, too, mainly because their sense of smell is ____ stronger than ours It is almost ____ accepted that animals are ____ for us, so it’s very important that we look after them. This is Nikki Smith. She works for The Blue ____ and organizes new homes for over ____ animals every month. If people want a pet, they ____ to the centre to find one. Nikki matches each animal with an ____ who can look after it well. As well as cats and ____, the centre finds new homes for small animals like rabbits, ____, rats and unusual pets like degus, small ____ that are usually found in central Chile. Some animals might stay at the centre for several months, but usually ____ find a new home quickly. Kittens are very popular pets. These kittens ____ born at the centre. They’ll stay with their mother ____ they’re eight weeks old, and then they’ll be ____ to go to a new home Nikki told us that she had been ____ for The Blue Cross for almost a year. ____ that, she had worked at another British pet charity, the RSPCA, and had ____ zoology. “I started to do ____ work at the RSPCA, which is an animal charity, when I was ____ years old. I then went to college to study ____ care, before moving on to university to study zoology. I worked at a ____ of animal care places before coming to work at The Blue ____ last year. Nikki added that she ____ loved working for The Blue Cross, but ____ out that the work they did was expensive. If people didn’t ____ money to the charity, she said, it wouldn’t be able to help all the ____ it needed to. Luckily the British public are very ____ and people do a lot of different things to collect ____. Many people give donations to the charity. ____ people bake cakes and sell them at Blue Cross tea parties. There are also lots of ____ events like dog walks, runs, ____ jumps and even overseas treks. There’s a lot of ____ about these events on The Blue Cross website. When asked whether pets ____ people’s lives, most pet owners said yes. So it’s ____ we look after our animals, because, in lots of ____ ways, our animals ____ after us, too.

insight 1.7.

Imprimir
Incrustar

Tauler de classificació

Estil visual

Opcions

Canvia de fonament

Restaurar desada automàtica: ?