Saturday, April 7, 2012

Pets For Our Well-Being

By Monica Alfano


Pets For Our Well-Being

We all know that pets are great friends anyone can have. We feel affection for our pets that we have them around us. Pets can always make us feel better. When you arrive in your house after a day of work, or from school, or if you are an elderly or retired, many pet owners can feel and spot the affection from the eyes of their dogs or cats. Living in a house with your pets can certainly give you some health benefits. Studies show that pets can bring down high blood pressure of any individual as well as easing down any anxiety. Any pet owner's well-being, their comfort, and their general health are coupled to the other in being the owner of a pet, and you can also have a pet stay with you in the hospital or to the nursing home you are staying in.

When the time comes that you need to choose a pet, it is also important that the chosen pet can go well with your lifestyle, if not, the acquired pet may possibly add further stress in your life. Pets need constant love and attention. Taking a leisurely stroll in the local park, playing hide and seek, or playing Frisbee presents many reasons for numerous pet owners to interact with other people and enjoy the world outside of their homes more often.

You may as well do some basic exercises that you need while you are out and enjoying the sunshine as well as the fresh air that you can experience while you are out of your house. What if there are situations where you can't look out for a pet? If this will ever happen to you, you can consider pet therapy as another alternative.

Therapy pets, on the whole are animals that are helping sick individuals by visiting them. One pet is given to one patient. A nursing home employee as well as the pet handler work out the most suitable technique to come up with a therapy that will be most appropriate with a particular patient that they have. The use of cats and dogs are the most common pets for this therapy, however, they are also open in using other pets that can be trained for this type of therapy as well.

Being the owner of a pet can bring you medical benefits as well as to various patients in hospitals and in the nursing home. Lastly, pet owners will never live alone for the rest of their lives because they have pets with them.




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