I think pets have a healing effect. There’s the companionship part I wrote about in the post, but it goes very far. You can take a lot of strength from pets who will always be there, and as your story goes to show, they can make us laugh in adversity.

Did you know my vet said that even animals are subject to the placebo effect? Perhaps it’s more of a placebo by proxy effect, because a treatment makes the owner brighter spirited about the pet’s survival chances. He insisted that it exists, in spite of my strong initial scepticism.

-Fruey

On another pet note - my FFIL (future father-in-law) who had a stroke on friday - well, we were able to bring his doggy to see him last night in the hospital! Although unable to communicate with us verbally or much at all any way - his face lit up and he LAUGHED when he saw her. That’s the first time since Friday - yay for pets!!

Welcome to Let’s Have It. Glad you dropped in. I assure you, my cats are not digitally enhanced.

Indeed we are owned by our pets, and not the other way round

-Fruey

Great to see you here again.

I’ve met a few people allergic to cats, some just sneeze others are much worse. I feel for people with allergies, they miss out on stuff sometimes, especially hay fever sufferers in summer or animal lovers that are allergic to some types of animal and cannot work with them, for example.

-Fruey