[AWA] argument 119

The following appeared in the Sherwood Times newspaper. "A recent study reported that pet owners have longer, healthier lives on average than do people who own no pets. Specifically, dog owners tend to have a lower incidence of heart disease. In light of these findings, Sherwood Hospital should form a partnership with Sherwood Animal Shelter to institute an 'adopt-a-dog' program. The program would encourage dog ownership for patients recovering from heart disease, which will help reduce medical costs by reducing the number of these patients needing ongoing treatment. In addition, the publicity about the program will encourage more people to adopt pets from the shelter, which will reduce the risk of heart disease in the general population."

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The argument is encouraging people to adopt pets to reduce the heart disease. He offered the benefits of owning pets from a study. However, the study is quite vague, and the conclustion is inconsistent to the study. In order to persuade others into adoping pets, he should offer a survey that rationally leads to the concept .

First of all, we know less about the study to guarantee the truthfulness. It is necessary to offer the group chosen to study. Whether the study is done in a same geographic area , and if the age range of the group having pets and not are the same. It is possible that the group of people owning no pets were weaker originally not because of owning no pets. At the same time, his initial advocation was that pets owner could lead longer, but the report offeres one instance only, who own dogs tend to have a lower incidence of heart disease. By convincing the advocation, the report should not only offer more events about the benefits of owning pets but also the rate of people getting heart diseaseof dog owners and those who do not own dogs.

Since we are not sure about whether the benefit of having pet is true, it is not wise to take the "adopt-a-dog" program. Not all the patiences in the hospitalget heart disease, and there is a chance that the patiences having heart-diseasemay infect from the dogs. Reducing ongoing treatment for these patients could lead to a dangerous situation for them.

After all, the publicity would not really encourage people to adopt pets fromthe shelters for they might doubt about the study.
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and question about the need for them to adopt all kinds of pets sincethe study mention only about the benefits of dog- owners.
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