OUR PETS ARE HEALERS AND ROLE MODELS

Someday you might hear doctors say"Pet two animals and call me in the morning"

     Our pets share our lives and enrich us in many ways--and theres a lot of evidence they are good for our health.
    One medical study found that people that have a pet to come home to who have a heart attack,live longer after hospilisation.
    Other studies have shown that peoples blood pressure and stress levels drop whenever they pet a friendly animal.Even looking at an animal,such as a fish in a tank,results in a consistent drop in blood pressure.   
     Each pet and each human-pet interaction is UNIQUE ,but all pets are loyal and loving:patiently understanding and forgiving;appreciative and responsive; also playful and creative and most of all ,they love us for who we are.
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When I was about ten year old and was living in Johannesburg(South Africa) in 1948 with my parents after we had bought our first house.I found a stray cat on the yard and as it was mewing pitifully ,stole into the house to give it a saucer of milk.It drank it an dissapeared which I was thankful for as I was certain my parents would not approve of it.  I re-appeared everyday and therefore I started taking food and milk out to it with out been seen,or so I hoped.My mother confronted me  one day and I then weepily told her all.I lead her to the cat and she being an animal lover herself ,could never resist animals herself allowed me to keep it .It made itself at home,she found out it was a grey striped tabby tom-cat and said we  needed a name for it. We named it after the comic charater Tom Mix . He often brought mice and rats home to show he was doing his work. He had an independent streak in him and would dissappear for days at a time,in which at first we mourned his loss till we became used to his routine.A couple of years later we found out he had at least three "homes" on the neighbourhood ,at least thats all we knew about! He was very loving  and purred so beautifully had very good manners ,like never jumping up on a table and never eating food that he was not called for.Obviously a cat with an attitude and a "territory !" So when we sold and moved again we did not worry too much  what would become of him although we did miss him
 (Barry)

We Adore Our Paw Partners

   I was given my first puppy when  I was six years  of age,a Fox Terrier.My family moved many times in those years and I suppose we were not allowed to own pets at our next address.I noticed the day he disappeared my mother who did all the looking after was weepy all day.I was told he went to stay with his doggy friends,an explanation that seemed quite logical to me then, although I missed him terribly at first.
   My mother read a "letter" a week later from my dog that told us all about his new life and thanked us all by name for caring for him. That consoled me and in time forgot about him with so many other things  to interest me as I was starting school as well about then.