Hi. My name is Eulices, and I'm from Costa Rica. My question is, how do you feel about pets?

Pets are great. They are this type of animal that has kind of evolved alongside us, so they are very used to our presence and they tend to be very calming. They relax us, and they're often used in therapy for people who have different kinds of problems.

There are only two negative sides to pets, I think. The first one is that people forget that most pets are animals, and they tend to treat them like they were persons, and they normally don't like that. There are studies that show, for example, that dogs don't like to be hugged, but people still do because they tend to treat them like toys.

The second one is that sometimes pets are handled or they are owned by people who don't treat them with the care they need, and they become strays, or they are impounded and have very sad lives. But when they are treated with the care they need, and they live alongside people who love them, they are a very good influence for people's lives.