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Mogool is presenting an open debate challenge for children. Submit your stand and arguments in the form below. Entries will be evaluated based on the research, analysis, and originality of arguments presented by participants.
Do you know debating can have many benefits? It makes you confident and improves your brainpower. Are you ready for the challenge? Here we goooooooo….
Topic: Should we adopt a pet or not?
Pets are great friends of humans. They share a special bond with us. They bring joy and fun family time. But they also need special care and love. Adopting a pet is a huge commitment. If a pet is not taken care of properly they often suffer illnesses or end up in dog shelters. What is your opinion about this?
Who can participate?
Category A: Grade 2nd - Grade 5th
Category B: Grade 6th - Grade 8th
Each category will have 3 winners
Winners
“Winners don’t wait for chances, they take them.”
And the winners for the open debate challenge are...........
Category A
1st Mehar Mathur
2nd Shaurya Nag
3rd Ansh Gautam
Category B
1st Srikar Vemuri
2nd Ayushree Beura
3rd Sanaya Gilra
WHAT WINNERS SAY...
Category A
Meher Mathur
What is your stand?
: We should adopt a pet.
Grabber: Dogs teach us many things, but none is more important than to love
unconditionally. ~ Deavita
Intro: Hi my name is Meher Mathur and I am on the side of this debate
affirming that you should adopt a pet.
Definition: For this debate, I am setting a definition for a pet from
dictionary.com a domestic or tamed animal kept for companionship or pleasure.
Framework: My framework for this debate will be Utilitarianism or the
greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people.
Contentions: Our contentions are
1. Pet’s give you company
2. Pets are helpful
3. Pets keep you active..
Contention #1: Now my first contention: Pets give you company.
Reasoning: Have you ever felt lonely? Like there's nothing to do or no one to
cheer you along hard paths? Well, if you get a pet . . . that will change. Your
pet will be there for you at all times no matter what it is. For example, look
at dogs. Dogs are some of the most obedient pets on earth. They love you more
than they love themselves. You won’t be lonely with them because they will
always be there and will always make you feel comforted. Even a fish might be a
nice pet. Evidence: according to neswinhealth.nih.gov an estimated 73% of U.S.
households have a pet to accompany them through life. Impact: The impact is if
people get pets they aren't lonely and depressed. This is a big impact because
so far all over America 32% of people are lonely and depressed so if they get
pets their life will change.
Now on to our second contention, Pet’s are helpful. Reasoning: Pets have
been helpful companies to us for centuries now and still are. They help us in
many ways. For example, Dogs help police and blind people find their way. There
was a parrot named Griffin that outsmarted students in a memory game and that
taught the kids. I know a story of a house pig who lived with an old lady. The
lady got a heart attack and the pig went out on the street and asked people for
help. Evidence: According to dogonews.com During the middle of Covid -19 dogs
became valuable allies sniffing out who had Covid and who didn't. Impact: My
impact is : Pets helping us is useful. Without it we would have many problems
in life so pets are nice to have.
Now onto our third and last contention: Pets keep you active. Reasoning:
Pets keep you active. These days humans are becoming lazy. But when having a
pet you will stay active and fit because your pet will have many needs that you
will need to do for them. You need to play with it and take it for walks which
you can take as your exercise. Evidence: according to heart.org It’s no
surprise that people who walk their dogs are more likely to get the recommended
amount of physical activity than those who don’t. One study found that pet
owners who walk their dogs got up to 30 minutes more exercise a day than
non-walkers. Impact: My Impact is Staying fit and healthy is important. If
you're not able to get the habit, simply get a pet. Like a dog. Because about
31 million people are not active enough and get a lot of health problems through
out the world. Getting pets can fix that.
Before I end this I just want to say that Pets are a lot of work but
once you get one it's part of your family so you need to be ready to sacrifice
anything.
Conclusion: Once again my name is
Meher Mathur and my contentions were 1. Pet’s give you company 2. Pets are
helpful 3. Pets keep you active. Thank you.
Master Shaurya Nag
What is your stand?
: We should not adopt a pet.
We should not adopt a pet because animals have their own style of living
in nature, they have their own family like us. And we should not separate them
from their family and nature.
We use the word pet, which means talking about those animals which are domestic
and easily can adopt. So many will answer we should adopt them, I was also
thinking so but we just think about our thoughts and feelings for them. But if
we think about them so the answer will be we should not adopt them. Because
they are not stuff or our entertainment living organisms. Mostly we love puppies
and kittens and we take them at home, tight their neck by costly purchase belts and
make their pet. It's matter to think, how that 1-month puppy will feel, by
separated from his Mother or other newborn brother-sister puppies. I think we
should take this on ours. Think if aminal comes to our home and takes one or two
kids. How we will live, think for that mother how she will live..
I think we are also living organisms and we have the best civilization
in all living beings, we are the most intelligent living beings in this universe. But
after all we are also social animal, if we have rights to born our kids and
cares them as owner of them or in other words as parents. We should also think the same for animals, if we love animals we should care for them but not make them
members of our family because they have their own family and culture of living.
Yes in we found and child animal which needs care of us so we should adopt it
and cares it out from home without tightening their neck.
My conclusion is we should not adopt animals but we are talking about
animals that are named for adopt only as PET, so should adopt because there is
no rule to not adopt animals. But it's not correct to take any animal kid from
their family. Like birds, we keep parrots in cages and try to make them learn our
language and we well qualify people but never think for that animal which
living at our home jail. Birds are made to fly in the open sky and in nature. We
are here wrong to make them inside jail up to their end of life. Mainly ppl
adopt dogs bcz as they say they are good housekeeper, it we ever think why pet
dogs are more dangerous from open street dogs bcz they are not happy they are
not having freedom of their living.
Ansh Gautam
What is your stand?
: We should adopt a pet.
Pets are like your best friends and require care, time, and attention just
like human babies they can guard our house, play with us and we shall never feel
lonely.
We should adopt a pet from a shelter because it is cheaper and people
sometimes kill the dogs because they have no place to keep them so you maybe
saving an animal by adopting one.
Pets love us unselfishly and can sometimes even protect our lives. There
are many incidents where dogs stopped thieves from breaking in their owners
house.
From my point of view, I strongly recommend people to adopt a pet who live alone or have space in their house, pets are our friends and they care for us and we should care for them too. We should never ignore the other animals on earth because mother-earth is for everyone but we humans snatched their home so we will have to share our home with them. Thank You!
Category B
Srikar Vemuri
What is your stand?
: We should not adopt a pet.
Adopting a pet of any kind requires proper care, vital to all household
animals. This is achieved by providing the responsibility of caring for such a
pet to professionals who are trained and capable of handling daily tasks,
necessary to these animals. Understanding the specific characteristics of a pet
and their behavior takes a great amount of time and specialized skill. "An
estimated 70 million dogs and cats are struggling to survive in the United
States,... that... continues to climb whenever someone decides to buy a dog or
other animal from... pet stores or anywhere," states an Animal rights organization.
Additionally, this reflects the importance of supporting animal shelters with
substantial funding instead of staying naïve about caring for the pet.
Providing guardianship to a pet may also result in the diversion of
extremely important activities to the attention of a pet that results in
distractions all throughout. These distractions may be minor or major that
would definitely affect a task or any variation of work. A statement from a
teacher and pet owner reveals, "For students with attention and focusing
needs, class pets can provide too much stimulation and distract them from their
work." The idea of work and future necessities may definitely become
affected by the adoption of a pet. Concentration plays a vital role at any age
which may alter due to a pet involved throughout the home. This is quite
related to the inability to communicate to a pet immediately and verbally,
requiring more attention than necessary.
The maintenance aspect of adopting a pet is crucial to understand, one
of the main factors of shying away from adopting a pet. Supplying the needs for
an animal could very much become time-consuming and financially difficult. It
would involve often trips to any store to provide any pet with a stimulating
activity to food as well. "Pets are entirely dependent upon their owners
and can be incredibly high maintenance," says a Pet Helpful article. The
idea of dependency surely exists and consumes excessive additional time and
energy altogether such as habitat cleansing also. It maintains the overall idea
that each and every specific necessity for a pet is needed for fulfillment,
resulting in other underlying hardships.
The overall idea of adopting and caring for a pet is immensely important
and results in the over consumption of time, attention, energy, and financial
views altogether. Helping support animals through funding and other pathways
are highly recommended and offered, though, may cause vast hardships for
adoption. Since concentration and proper care is necessary, providing help to
animal shelters and other organizations for the hospitality of pets is much
more understandable and intelligible than caring for one independently. This
method will balance both effects of not caring for a pet as well as providing
virtual comfort to these pets through money representations and the other
various techniques altogether.
Ayushree Beura
What is your stand?
: We should adopt a pet.
If you adopt a pet you help stop animal cruelty. According to hhhstopeka
“puppy and kitten mills, these facilities repeatedly impregnate female dogs
that spend their entire lives in cages without human companionship. These
unfortunate animals are often in intolerable environments, forced to produce
litter upon the litter, and are destroyed after they become unprofitable assets.”
But if you adopt an animal you help stop animal cruelty. If you adopt not only
do you help stop cruelty but you get benefited. For example, most pets are
trained, and if they get sick volunteers are ready to help. Therefore you
should adopt.
Another reason you should adopt is that you will save a life.
According to human society “Each year, it's estimated that more than one
million adoptable dogs and cats are euthanized in the United States, simply
because many pets come into shelters and too few people consider adoption when
looking for a pet. The number of euthanized animals could be reduced
dramatically if more people adopted pets” Pets get killed if you don't adopt
them and every time a pet dies its population decreases and this can lead to
extinction. Therefore adoption can save lives.
Lastly, adopting pets costs less money. According to hhhstopeka “Low
adoption fees (which cover a portion of our shelter’s costs) are much less than
the cost of purebred puppies or kittens sold for profit.” Adoption costing less
money is very beneficial to people who might not be able to afford pets.
Adoption animals are taken well care of comares to puppy mills and other places
where pets are sold for profit. Pet adoption is safer for animals and is more beneficial
than other people who do it for profit. Therefore you should adopt a pet.
Adopting a pet is a very good decision to make. In the reasons I have
stated adoption helps by saving lives, stopping animal cruelty and lastly low
adoption fees. Adoption has so many benefits in saving animals' lives but when
animals are not adopted they are killed every year. Some of the animals are
abused and hurt badly. Adoption sells dogs for cheaper prices because with the
money they earn they help the adoption shelters unlike breeders who sell for
profit. The best part in adoption is animals are well trained, well fed,
vaccinated, and have good health compared to breeders who sell for profit.
Therefore you should adopt a pet.
Sanaya Gilra
What is your stand?
: We should adopt a pet.
Opening Statement: During these pandemic times, do you ever feel lonely
or bored? Getting a pet is a perfect solution! There are many other reasons
why you should get a pet. Pets provide a way to have fun and get some physical
exercise. They actually help relieve stress, worries and anxieties. They also
help you stay healthy. When people are stuck at home, they don't get enough
exercise. Pets can help them stay fit and healthy! A study shows when the pet
owner looks into the eyes of their pet, their oxytocin levels increase. This means
that owning a pet also helps increase your happiness level!
Argument 1: Stress can cause too much damage to the body. Research shows
that 60-80% of health ailments are caused by stress. They can even cause heart
attacks! A good way to take off stress is to get a pet. Pets can not only
remove stress but also take your mind off sadness and worries. “Pet owners will
attest that simply being together with their pet greatly reduces stress,
depression and anxiety.” as stated by Pet door products. Being with a fish can
actually make you calmer. It's fine to have a little bit of stress as it can
make one mentally strong but when stress is not managed properly then it can
lead to depression and panic attacks. Pets also increase your happiness and
loving level, which is necessary for everyone and specially for kids who are
eleven through sixteen.
Staying healthy and fit is important! And owning a pet can help you do
that. According to the American Heart Association, walking and playing with a
dog does wonders for your body, such as, boosting immunity, improving blood
pressure, reduces the risk of heart disease, etc. “As a pet owner you will find
yourself often using your arms for holding, hands for pulling, legs for
bracing, and feet for chasing.” As said by “5 Ways a Dog Can Keep You Fit”
.Pets are a great way to become more healthy. Owning a pet helps you get in
shape because you are walking, running, and stretching your muscles!
One of the reasons some people shy away from getting pets is that pets
bite too much. This is not always true. Many times pets bite you because they
want to play with you, or they want your attention. But young puppies and
kittens bite because they are teething and need something to chew. “The reason
kittens bite us is simple: they’re natural predators and they want to practice
their attack on a moving object. In fact, kittens are biologically wired to
attack an object that moves, so it’s important to teach them how to play with
toys--not fingers or feet--from a young age.” Once you train your pet it is
much easier to manage and they know their boundaries. Then the pets don't bite
or become aggressive.
In conclusion, owning a pet is very beneficial for both you and your
pet. A few benefits are decreasing stress and helping you stay fit and healthy.
They even raise your happiness levels! Some people may think pets bite too much
because they are mean and aggressive, but that theory is false. Pets only bite
because they are teething, and they need a chew toy, but they grow out of it as
they grow older. Pets are a great companion and can keep you out of your
boredom state.
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