Persuasive+Speech+Outline

= **Title/Topic** : "Why do we need pets?" =

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**General Purpose** : To persuade

**Specific purpose** : To persuade my audience that owning pets can give advantages.

**Central idea** : Having pets is beneficial as they can be human companion, can give positive response to mental and physical health, and some of them can give safety or protection.


 * I. INTRODUCTION**


 * A. Attention getter **

1. Show video or pictures of pets. 2. Do you owning any pet? If your answer is not, you should have pet at least a small little fish. There are various type of pet fish that least expensive than other type of pets. They are easy to handle and do not require any special attention except for the food. So, you have no reason to not having a pet even you have allergic to fur animals.

2. From my own experience. >
 * i. At my home, I have four hamsters, a fish, two birds and now at my hostel, I have a tortoises. I love animals so much and see them as a very cute creature. Even in my eyes, lion and tiger is a very cute things. Unfortunately, I cannot own them. So then, I prefer cat. But my lovely cat name Tompok, according to his fur with black and white color, was died about ten years ago. However, I am still happy with what I am own.
 * ii. I feel happy and relax when playing with my pets. When I have a problem, I talk to them. I really seem like they understand what I am talking about. Sometimes, I am just forget what my problem when looking at their action and behavior. Pets really make me keep smiling and laughing.
 * B. Background information of the topic **

1. What is pet? >
 * From Wikipedia: A pet is an animal kept for companionship and enjoyment or a household animal.
 * This is opposed to wild animals or to livestock, laboratory animals, working animals, or sport animals, which are kept for economic or productive reasons.
 * Animals that usually used as pets are birds, cats, dogs, equine, fish, reptiles, amphibians and small animals.
 * C. Preview of the speech (central idea) **


 * 1) Now, why do we need pets? From my research, pets can be beneficial to human or the owner.
 * So, today I want to convince you that we should have pets.
 * 1) This is because p ets can be human companion, can give positive response to mental and physical health, and some of them can provide protection to the owner.


 * (Transition to body of speech: **Let me begin by talking about the first reason why we should have pet.**)**


 * II. BODY **


 * A. Main-point 1: ** Pets can be human companion or friend.

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 * ** i. **** Supporting details: ** Pets can lessen human feels lonely.
 * Essentially, a pet gives a person a sense of fulfillment. They can lessen feelings of loneliness and isolation in all age groups.
 * Pets are always there for us and they can be a great listener.
 * We feel happy to have a pet that we can love and care of. This is especially true for the elderly of those who live a lonely existence.
 * ** ii. Supporting details: ** Pets can develop a sense of caring to others.
 * Pets can teach us to be caring and taking care to the others.
 * From having a pets, we can learn about love, life and death.
 * There are people who become cruel and throw away their own child. So that, we should learn from animals and see how animals love and protect their child.


 * ** iii. **** Supporting details: ** Having pet(s) will improve quality of life.
 * Having pets also can be a reason for the owner to live.
 * Pets improve the lives of the seniors because they bring love and companionship.
 * The elderly can also get a chance to feel needed, and in return, these animals offer them love and loyalty.
 * A studies also show that children with pets who had problems in school and home had higher levels of self-esteem and better emotional functions compared to those with no pet.
 * Pet therapy also shows immediate improvement in children with autism, and other mental disabilities.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Why-do-we-keep-pets-Is-it-necessary-Is-it-not-against-the-freedom-of-that-animal http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the_importance_of_pets_for_senior_adults [] http://www.bhg.com/health-family/pets/care/how-pets-help-people/ http://www.cloudninemarketing.com/healthhealersnews/?p=3548
 * References:**


 * (Transition to Main Point 2: **Besides pets can be our best companion, they also can give positive response to mental and physical health . **)**


 * B. Main-point 2: ** Pets can give positive respond to mental and physical health (therapy)

>> >> >> http://www.erniesworld.co.za/pets/pets-post/ http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Importance-of-Pets&id=3149983 []
 * ** i. Supporting details: ** Pets can help relieve stress and make human relax when playing with pets
 * Keeping pets has been shown to help relieve stress to those who like animals around.
 * Thus, pets can lower our blood pressure as they can make us happy and relax.
 * There is now a medically-approved class of "therapy animals", mostly dogs, who are brought to visit confined humans.
 * It is very relaxing to watch the quite movement of the fish in the water. Even looking at pictures of the sweet loving faces of pets can be calming.
 * ** ii. Supporting details: ** Pets encourage the owner to physical activity
 * Walking a pet can provide both the owner and the pet with exercise, fresh air, and social interaction
 * Riding a horse is beneficial to human health. This also can tied up the relationship between the pet and owner.
 * Cleaning and bathing the pets also encourage the owner to physical activity.
 * ** iii. Supporting details: ** Pets can make us think positive and be a healer.
 * They can help to get over sad events by representing for instance a living role model to a passed away person.
 * They also can be a new objective for affection.
 * Each individual pet has their own personality and their relationship with the owner is built on love and trust.
 * They help us forget about feeling ill and can help us forget we are in pain as well.
 * References:**


 * (Transition to Main Point 3: ** Finally, having pets also can give safety. **)**


 * C. Main-point 3: ** Some of pets can be a helper and provide protection.


 * **i.** ** Supporting details: ** Take care of home.
 * The pets can help take care of home while the owner is not around.
 * Normally, dog is used to take care of home while the owner in vacation.
 * This will prevent burglary incident.
 * Pets also can give safety particularly to person who are living alone.
 * The barking of a dog for example, can frighten someone. Hence, it helps to keep unwelcome visitors away.


 * ** ii. ****Supporting details**: Help blind person
 * Some pets usually dog can be used to guide blind person when walking and crossing the road.
 * Pets is very helpful especially to some blind people who do not want to depends on the others.
 * These dogs serve as the hands, ears, or eyes of their human partners and assist them by performing everyday tasks that would otherwise be difficult or impossible.
 * Dogs may also detect changes in behavior, body language, or odor that precede seizures in their human partners, alerting them so that they may seek a safe environment.

http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Importance-of-Pets&id=3149983 http://www.animalbehaviour.net/JudithKBlackshaw/JKBlackshawCh8.pdf http://www.bhg.com/health-family/pets/care/how-pets-help-people/
 * References:**


 * (Transition to conclusion: ** Now, let's go back over why we should have pets.**)**


 * III. CONCLUSION **

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 * A. Summary of main points **
 * Today I have explained to you why we should have pets. Like I said earlier, p et can be a human companion, can give to positive respond to mental and physical health, and some of them can give safety or protection.
 * As a conclusion, t ** here is no wrong to take care of these cute creatures. Taking care of pets it just a simple thing. You can change your life and you will be satisfied when you can play with them with fun and friendly. **


 * B. Call for action **
 * Let's have at least one pet at home to make our life more meaningful.
 * Even in our room, we can put a small fish in a glass jar as our companion when studying or finishing our assignment.
 * The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude. ~ Robert Brault