Knowing about blastomycosis and its symptoms can save your dog’s life and your own. The sooner you catch it and get treatment will prevent the infection from spreading.
Maybe I'm biased. We have two dogs and two cats who allow us to share their living space, and our (human) lives have been made immeasurably better by their presence.
You can read article after article that will describe in detail how having a pet affects us in a myriad of positive ways...