Pets And Your Quality Of Life
Friday, July 9th, 2010
The supportive role of animals in human lives has been a real factor since cavemen put on clothes. Animals have been used for centuries for hunting, herding, tracking and guarding the homestead or the owner sleeping under the stars.
A couple of centuries ago, doctors and caretakers began to notice the improvement in mental patients after interacting with dogs. Several hundred years later, a concept of Pet Facilitated Psychotherapy was coined by a child psychiatrist noticing that his patients only responded to him and made any positive strides after they played with his dog.
In today’s world, there are guide dogs for the blind, hearing dogs for the deaf and dogs for the disabled. There are training facilities all over creating special dogs to help disabled people, including seniors, with their restrictions.
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