Humans Need Animals

A life without animals would be hard. Having animals in our lives can change people internally by bringing companionship to us everyday. Every new experience can make a person change; sometimes the change is positive, and others times it is negative. Either way, there is no avoiding change. Animals are caring, helpful, and can be humanlike.
The autobiography, Dogs Make Us Human, by Temple Grandin, is a story about an incredible dog, “named Max who had trained himself to monitor his mistress’s blood sugar levels even while she was asleep (Grandin, pg 154, pp 2).” The lady who owned him was a severe diabetic. When her blood sugar levels dropped too low during the night Max would bug her husband until he got up and took care of her. He changed her life by keeping her alive. Max helped her a lot with her diabetic issues.
In the biography, Hampshire School for Wayward Wizards, by Temple Grandin, the horses helped an autistic girl. She could see things about animals that others could not. Having autism made her school and social life hard. “Horses, like autistic people, are very …show more content…
The school she was sent to was a special boarding school for gifted children. Her parents sent her there because she had emotional problems. Temple described the school as having “had a stable and horses for the kids to ride (Grandin, pg 159, pp 6 ).” She realized that the horses were like her and had challenges too. She loved the horses so much that she spent a lot of time taking care of the horses, cleaning their barns and saddles, and grooming them. Taking care of the horses helped her emotional problems, they kept her going through tough times. The horses had been abused and she loved them, so she spent every waking moment she could taking care of them. Humans need animals for a variety of things. People and animals are supposed to be together and they need each