How Having A Pet Affects You

so we know for example that having a pet

like a dog or a cat increases your your

survival rate so having a pet reduces

all cause mortality so this is like a

metric that we use in the medical system

that's basically like you know does this

increase or decrease your chances of

dying and it works through all different

mechanisms people who have pets are more

physically active you got to take a dog

for a walk every day maybe twice a day

you get more access to Nature because

you're out to the park you're out to the

Garden you're taking your dog for a hike

somewhere all of those like physical

things can be very helpful but we also

know that like emotional relationships

with pets can actually be very very

helpful for our mental health this is

why we have things like emotional

support animals we know that when we

cuddle our pets we will also get some

degree of uh touch we get some degree of

oxytocin so you don't necessarily need

humans to fulfill your touchbased needs

so that's absolutely possible by all

means become a dog person or a cat lady

or cat person like whatever but it it

seems like it really does work and we

have plenty of data to support that