The fact remains the same: pets will be pets. No matter how strong the program is, it is draining the college's resources. Money that should have been better spent on giving scholarships to poor but deserving and intelligent students is instead spent on pets. The fact that a student keeps a pet is not entirely bad and useless. There are some advantages to this situation. Mike Robilotto from Eckerd College in St. Petersberg is of the opinion that students like having pets and that more and more students are trying to get them themselves. Therefore the number of students with pets has increased steadily over the past decade. Those students who do not have pets welcome the presence of pets in other students' rooms” (Peters) . this gives students a different flavor from their normal daily routine. After a tiring day at college, they get to spend some time playing with someone else's pet and relax