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*Pets facilitate social support (conversations with strangers when walking down the street) | *Pets facilitate social support (conversations with strangers when walking down the street) | ||
*No relationship between connecting to humans and connecting to pets -same reference | *No relationship between connecting to humans and connecting to pets -same reference | ||
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*14% of pet owners would choose a pet over their partner - [https://www.google.com/amp/s/healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2011/03/22/amp/pet-compatibility-in-relationships-between-people.aspx] | |||
Revision as of 23:07, 12 December 2018
- Human friends make people live longer. Pets do not make a person live longer. Not eating pets does make you live longer. More research is needed on pets and longevity. [1]
- Facts and myths about pets - [2]
Are Pets a Positive Substitute for Human Relationships?
- There is some evidence that people who score high on pet attachment indices have fewer social networks (Stallones, Marx, Garrity, & Johnson, 1990) and more prevalent negative life events, such as bereavement (Nynke, 1990, as cited in Brown & Katcher, 1997). Another study found that cats appear to be an additional source of emotional support, especially for those participants who are strongly attached to their animals (Stammbach & Turner, 1999). According to Melson (2003) many pet-owning children derive emotional support from their pet because of the lack of human social support. - [3]
- Pets facilitate social support (conversations with strangers when walking down the street)
- No relationship between connecting to humans and connecting to pets -same reference
Statistics
- 14% of pet owners would choose a pet over their partner - [4]