Pets – a Healthier Lifestyle
Beyond companionship, pets add so much more to our lives than we realize. Medical researchers are finding that people who own a pet are healthier and happier. Touching, holding, stroking and caring for a companion animal – even just watching an animal in their natural habitat has many health benefits. It can lower your blood pressure, decrease your heart rate, alleviate stress and loneliness, and encourage regular exercise. There are many other too, none of which are trivial or without value.
For shy or awkward people, pets act as a conversation tool and help them adjust to social situations. Patients in rehab units who are comatose or autistic have responded to visiting animals even though humans were not been able to reach them. Companion animals lift the spirits of the ill, the elderly, and those in hospitals and nursing homes. They also serve as the eyes and ears for the handicapped.
A pet lover has well coined the phrase: “Pets are not our whole lives, but they make our lives whole.” As you bid farewell to your companion animal that has greatly enhanced your life and health, consider a personal Cat Urn as a proper way to say “Good-bye”.
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