Posted on 11/09/2014 6:28:56 PM PST by Justice
Of course you cant resist your golden retrievers puppy-dog eyes or your tabbys silly antics, but youre getting much more from your pet than unconditional love and great pics for your Facebook wall.
Nearly two-thirds of American households include a pet and our animal companions are proving themselves adept at enhancing human health in increasingly diverse ways. From calming patients before medical procedures to motivating owners to exercise, pets may be the best medicine we dont even realize were taking.
Here, the notable ways your animal companions can improve your health.
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My dog is also a Standard Poodle. I don’t groom her as such and she stays with me at work and at home. She is a friend to everyone. She gets me through some tough times too.
Most people don’t believe me when I say my snakes seem to have something akin to affection for me.
I have no other explanation for Bob’s comforting behavior, unless God simply used him to hug me, in His stead.
I saw two huge standard poodles being walked in Brentwood, CA outside my office.
They were being walked by a Japanese girl wearing the “little girl” style of “costume” ... If it was a costume. The poodles were almost as tall as she was. One was baby blue, the other pink.
The were very large dogs and exquisitely groomed. The scene was other worldly.
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Great story!
Every time I read Joe Hills’s “Horns” I can’t help thinking of you throughout.
(Cruelies against them from some characters; but also a lot of thinking and affection from them.)
Rufus and Emma are people in curly suits
Sampson Vigna worries about me until I get home.
116 pd doberman....when i do get home, the look in his eyes is like, Mommie, I worried about you all day. Thank God you made it home safe....
I know crazy but happy. LOL
Hmmmmmmmmmm...somewhat skeptical here. My kitty Shadow is the original Mr. Underfoot, weaving in and out between my feet wherever I go, plotting my demise. It’s a miracle I’m still alive. I’m sure his thought process is: hooman ‘accidentally’ trips, falls, cracks his head open, dies...and there’s weeks of some mighty fine dining on the corpse.
Muslims need to read this but of course will not believe a word of it.
Oh, Sal’, that’s lovely. In our human intellect, we think we know the nature of other animals; but, in reality, we can’t know. Most of the time, we don’t even understand each other.
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