Do you know that there are a lot of benefits of pet ownership? How come owning a pet can be good for our health?
Sinatra said in his book, Heart Sense for Women, that there are various benefits on having pets for our health. One of them shown by studies state that patients who suffer heart attacks but own pets are likely to have five times the survival rate of patients who are not pet owners, according to Sinatra.
The simple act of petting an animal is known to cause a person's blood pressure to drop, and lead him to relax. The relaxation doesn't just affect people health only; it affects the pet, too. This indicates a true, mutual human-animal bond.
Pets can be emotional lifesavers as well, because they help people adapt, adjust and deal with many changes and losses in life. Pets' unconditional love gives their owners a sense of worth and responsibility when caring for them; pets can help people learn about the continuity of life — birth, death, loss and grief — and offer a sense of intimacy.
Hence, no wonder if we see many pet owners consider their furry friends part of their families and insure them as well as their own selves.
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