Want to Live a Better Life? Pets to the Rescue!
If I told you that there’s one thing that provides you with all the following benefits, would you rush right out and get it?
- More active lifestyle
- Lower blood pressure
- Lower cholesterol
- Significant decrease in heart disease/heart attack
- Lower likelihood of depression
- Lower anxiety levels
- Lower BMI
- Increased social interaction
- Stronger immune system
- Fewer allergies
- Stronger bones
There are more benefits – I didn’t want to wear you out with the exhaustive list. As you look at that list of 11 benefits, how many of them would you like to achieve? You can get them all – get a pet. Oh, you already have one? Yay, you! Then you’re already reaping the mental and physical benefits of sharing your life with a living being who depends on you. If you’re not already a pet owner, this is an impressive list of benefits, and you should still be sure that your life can support a pet before you add one. They are completely dependent on you, which means you’ll give up space, time, and mone...
Do You Need Further Proof of the Power of Pets?
Do you have a pet? Do you know how influential you are, you pet-owner, you?
As people spent more time with their pets during the pandemic lockdown, and as those without pets realized the value of non-human companionship, all categories of pet purchases – food, veterinary care, training, boarding, you name it – have had booming bottom-line increases. The pet industry, which encompasses all things that pets need, is exploding financially. What is now a nearly $250 billion industry is projected to be pushing $370 billion in just six years.
You, with your care and concern for your pet or maybe multiple pets, are driving that. Meanwhile, your unsuspecting pet is doing what pets have always done – providing companionship to the extent you allow, being as good as you’ve helped them learn how to be (at least they’re good most of the time) and becoming a bigger line-item in your monthly budget as prices of everything goes up. While some people are making the difficult decision to surrender th...
