Can I have a dog at school?

For students' behavior of keeping pets in dormitories, colleges and universities have issued relevant regulations prohibiting keeping pets. I learned from Hainan Normal University that there is a provision in the school's disciplinary regulations: those who keep pets in student dormitories and do not listen to dissuasion will be given a warning.

Yu, a teacher at Hainan University, believes that there are many problems in keeping pets for students. If the management is not good, it will affect the rest of other students and the hygiene of the dormitory, which will easily lead to tension between students. Keeping pets also takes up study time. After all, students' main task is to study. Some pets have parasites, which will affect their health.

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Qiu, director of the Department of Acute Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control of the Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that students have many risks of bacterial and viral infection in keeping pets, so students are not encouraged to keep pets in such a narrow space as dormitory.

Qiu introduced, for example, in the process of raising cats and dogs, once students are bitten or scratched, they are prone to rabies and "cat scratch disease". "Rodents such as hamsters raised by students are also easy to cause epidemic hemorrhagic fever." Qiu said that this is a very harmful viral disease, and there is a risk of infection from biting by rodents or direct contact.

Due to the small space and poor ventilation in the dormitory, animal hair is easy to cause some allergic diseases. Animals carry many viruses and fungi, and students are at great risk of contracting various skin diseases after contacting animals.

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People's Daily Online-Controversy about college students keeping pets on campus includes snakes and spiders.