Best Pet Vitamins

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How to HELP your pet live longer
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Well you could just do the hope thing..

Or the same old same old..

But as said by many a wise person:

“If you always do what you always done, you
always get what you always go”

( That was a wise person with a poor grasp of
the English language)

Which translates as to your pet having a HIGH chance
of getting serious diseases IF you just do nothing.

Make come simple changes by using my Pet Health
System here:

Pamper Pet Care – Vet Secrets Revealed

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Can owning a pet help you live longer?
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People love their pets. More than 60 percent of U.S. households
include pets, and those pet owners pour $41 billion a year into
pet care [source: APPMA]. This may seem like a lot of money. But
when you consider the fact that owning a pet could very likely
add years to your life, a pet can quickly seem like a wise investment.

According to a study by the Minnesota Stroke Institute that
followed more than 4,000 cat owners over 10 years, owning a
cat can dramatically reduce a person’s chance of dying from
heart disease [source: Mundell]. Specifically, people who owned
cats were 30 percent less likely to suffer a heart attack.
Although those researchers cannot make the same conclusions
about dogs based on the data they gathered, they suspect a dog
study would provide similar results.

That study merely adds to the existing evidence that shows how
animals can benefit human health. For example, psychologists
have found reason to believe that owning a dog helps lower your
blood pressure and your cholesterol [source: BVA]. And other
research shows that pets help us feel better overall and help
us to deal with stress, which can be a source of illness
[sources: Laino, BBC News].

And let’s not forget the benefits for the elderly. For example,
one study observed neural activity in seniors while they walked
or interacted with a dog [source: Motooka]. It turned out that
walking with a dog gave seniors a boost in parasympathetic nervous
system activity, which is good because the parasympathetic nervous
system helps calm and rest the body.

Stories abound about the healing abilities of pets. For instance,
one boy who did not talk for six years finally chose to start
talking after a therapy dog visited his school [CBS News].
Organizations, such as the Delta Society, train dogs to help
disabled people perform tasks. The Delta Society feels so strongly
about the health benefits of animals to humans that it is
dedicated to spreading knowledge about the issue as well as
services.

The psychological benefits of pets can make a big difference in
someone’s life. This seems to be especially true for kids who are
struggling to deal with death or illness in the family. Certain
studies have concluded that children with dogs cope better with
these serious situations [source: Howie]. Researchers believe
this probably has to do with the obvious fact that pets provide
love and with the fact that the structured routine required for
taking care of a pet is a positive for the child. Kids aren’t
the only ones who benefit from pets during these difficult times;
the spouses of cancer patients said they believed pets helped
them cope as well.

The health benefits of dogs go beyond psychological factors. As
it turns out, dogs might be useful in the field of medicine to
detect and predict medical problems. In one study, trained dogs
were able to identify patients with bladder cancer by smelling
their urine [source: Willis]. Although the dogs were not accurate
all the time, they identified the right patients at a rate much
better than chance. This revealed surprising evidence for the use
of dogs as well as further knowledge about the effects and
detection of bladder cancer.

What’s perhaps more amazing, however, is that certain dogs can
predict when their owner is about to suffer an epileptic seizure.
Trainers can teach some dogs to help a person in various ways
during a seizure. In addition, some of these dogs end up
developing the mysterious ability to actually warn the owner
before he or she suffers a seizure [source: CBS News]. The group
that trains these dogs, Canine Assistants, claims that most dogs
develop the prediction abilities within merely a year of being
with their owner. Researchers are at a loss to explain how
exactly dogs can do this.

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P.S. I love stories like these about pets-
and it reinforces my belief in having pets, and
being involved in pet care.