Pets & Life Balance
Over the years I have come across lots of research and articles about pets and their connection with health and well-being. In some cases, pets are even taken into old peoples’ homes for therapeutic purposes.
Today I discovered an article which claims:
A UQ researcher has found that billions can be saved on health spending annually in Australia due to the benefits of pet ownership.
Pets improve health, body and mind
Sadly, many people have pets for the wrong reasons, or otherwise do not have quality relationships with them. Others are cruel to their pets.
Pets have personalities and souls, yet many people are either unaware of this or choose to ignore it. Having a pet should really be about a relationship with the animal. As with human relationships, generally the more you put into them, the more you get out. Everyone, including the pet, benefits.
We can learn much from pets. Sometimes very deep stuff.
So many people live in such an empty personal world today. A sterile world. They live in apartments or communal blocks of dwellings where pets are not allowed and in some cases are unsuitable (apartments are not good for many animals). Other people have a preoccupation with breeding strange creatures far removed from nature’s way (the Sphinx cat breed is an example – the breed cannot survive without man). Still others abandon their pets to the executioners at the local pound when they want to relocate into a building which does not allow pets – why not find one which does? Incidentally, building managements with anti pet policies tend to reduce the value of the real estate concerned because so many people like having pets.
We are as a society often very unkind to animals. If you research this you will find that this is correct. We really should face up to it, do something about it and stop sowing the negative seed.
Animals have much to teach us; if only we would listen.
One of these things is that because animals are usually powerless and defenceless, how we treat them, especially in private, is who we really are. Who are you? Do people who know you, know the real you? Or are you a plastic person with a ‘happy chappy’ face and evil heart?
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