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Pets

union_maid

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7. No reference to the health benefits of pets?

Reply to meow2u3 (Original post)

Tue Dec 11, 2012, 05:54 AM

Dec 2012

Considering what they can do for us - and that's not even going into the amazing variety of trained assistance animals - it seems to me that the "obsession" is completely justified.
http://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/health_benefits.htm

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America's "obsession" with pets [View all] meow2u3 Dec 2012 OP

Exactly ... pets are family. meti57b Dec 2012 #1

Just because we love our pets Curmudgeoness Dec 2012 #2

it's definitely KC Dec 2012 #3

ADOPTED A SHELTER CAT LAST SPRING cantbeserious Dec 2012 #4

Thankyou for adopting a shelter cat! ginnyinWI Dec 2012 #5

I'm not even going to read that drivel get the red out Dec 2012 #6

No reference to the health benefits of pets? union_maid Dec 2012 #7