Teaching children how to keep pets

For as long as I can remember Toriah, my second born, has always wanted to own a dog. Unfortunately he suffers from allergies and animal fur is one of the things he is allergic to. I remember once we visited some friends who kept a housedog, by the next morning my poor son’s eyes were swollen almost shut and could not stop tearing. We realised then that his dreams of owning a dog may never come to pass. Toriah was so disappointed, being the eternal optimist though, he still holds hope that one of these days his allergies will reduce or be eliminated and he will eventually own a dog...