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Reasons for Keeping Dogs
养狗的理由
If you are in town in a western country, you will often see people walking with their dogs. It is still true that a dog is the most useful animal in the world, but the reason why one keeps a dog has changed. Once upon a time, a man met a dog and wanted it to help him in the fight against other animals，and he found that the dog listened to him and did what he told it to. Later people used dogs for the hunting of other animals, and the dogs didn't eat what they got until their masters agreed, so dogs were used for driving sheep and guarding chickens.
如果你在西方国家你就会经常看见人们遛狗。确实狗仍是世界上最有用的动物。但是人们养狗的原因已经变了很多。曾经人们养狗用来抵御其他动物，狗会听话做主人所说的。后来人们用狗狩猎其他动物，在没有得到主人允许之前它不会吃猎物。狗也用来赶羊和保护鸡。
But now the people in the towns and cities do not need dogs to hunt other animals. Of course they keep them to frighten thieves, but the most important reason is that people feel lonely in the city. For a child, a dog is his best friend when he has no friends to play with. For a young wife, a dog is her child when she doesn't have her own. For old people, a dog is also a child when their real children have grown up and left. Now people do not have to use a dog but they keep it as a friend, just like a member of the family.
现在在城镇或城市的人们不需要用狗对抗其他动物了。当然他们需要狗来防小偷。但养狗最重要的原因是城市里的人会感到孤独。对于小孩，当他没有朋友一起玩狗就是他最好的朋友。对于年轻的妻子，当她没有自己的孩子时，狗就是她的孩子。对老人来说，当他们的孩子长大不在身边时，狗也成了他们的孩子。现在人们养狗不是为了使用它，而是把它们当作一个家庭成员。
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