Article: Petting therapy dogs enhances thinking skills of stressed college students

[Walker]

Well who doesn't want to pet dogs??

The gist of the article: Programs exclusively focused on petting therapy dogs improved stressed-out students' thinking and planning skills more effectively than programs that included traditional stress-management information, according to new research.

The full article can be found here: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/05/210512083409.htm

 

[nobodyknows71]

Makes sense to me…. I now want a dog

 

[Walker]

Makes sense to me…. I now want a dog

I am not THE most dog-loving person. They have to be ultra clean and not slobbery or jumpy. IDK. I don't dislike them ... I just want to look at them from 3 feet away.
BUT.
We were in Lake Windermere recently and there was a dog there that I loved loved loved and now I want one.

 

[KM76710]

I have no doubt about the calming effects of dogs, and cats but animals have always seemed to be fine people.