it's the end of the day and you are
exhausted you had a brutal day of
classes punctuated by the world's most
grueling workout your muscles feel like
jello and your brain feels like mush Oh
on a day like this nothing can make you
feel better or can it actually there's
something that can that's fluffy and
playful and it has four legs or maybe
it's feathery with two legs that's right
you guessed it on today's webcast we're
talking about pets and how they can
actually improve your mood and your
health hey we are not telling you to
just go out and buy a pet instead we're
gonna teach you why spending time with
cute little fuzzy animals will actually
improve your mental and physical health
will also help you figure out how to
spend time with animals even if you
can't have a pet of your own so what can
spending time with a pet do for you
a study published by the Journal of the
Royal Society of Medicine in jolly old
England found the dog owners cat owners
and owners of fluffy little hamsters
generally found that minor ailments
improved when they spent time with their
pets furthermore a study by the American
Heart Association found that people's
blood pressure dropped significantly by
merely petting animals these could be
any animals not just their own beloved
pets how do we know well researchers
with the AMA gay 48 volunteers a series
of difficult math problems while
measuring their blood pressure and other
stress indicators half of them were
given a temporary pet to spend time with
so when the volunteers came back to do
more incredibly difficult math problems
six weeks later those who had spent time
with pets over the course of those six
weeks didn't show the kind of stress
reactions that the pet free folks had
they were more mellow more calm better
able to think rationally about the
problem than those who didn't have any
quality pet time clearly animals are
awesome but if you're not one of the 62%
of American households who have a pet
what should you do well we at well-cast
have got a couple suggestions for you
pause and print out our PDF at watch
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awesome this worksheet will teach you
our 4-legged method to get you spending
time with animals now leg one of our
worksheet brainstorm this is pretty
straightforward think of all the friends
in your circle and think of all the pets
that they have next make a list of your
top five favorite pets it sounds silly
but don't worry we have another leg for
this leg to reach out call up your
friends and ask how you could get
involved with their pet life
don't forget pets are a big
responsibility and everybody needs help
time to time so if you ask them if you
could walk a dog once a week or maybe be
the first person that they call when
they go on vacation it won't be that
weird leg 3 volunteer another great way
to get quality animal time in is to
volunteer at your local animal shelter
not only are you going to be connecting
with your community but you'll be
connecting with a wonderful little puppy
or kitten or something else that needs
some TLC and on top of all of that
you'll be lowering your blood pressure
and stress as well not sure how to start
check out this national registry of
animal shelters or look up a shelter on
google write down their contact
information on our worksheet and then
give them a call
lake for schedule once you've arranged a
time to volunteer at a shelter schedule
you're quality pet dates around that so
call it Buster's person person plus B's
person and schedule some quality pet
time try for an hour a week just to
start to recap today on wall cast we
taught you why spending some time with
your favorite non-human cuddly friend
was actually beneficial to your health
we also taught you a 4-legged method to
get you to spend some animal quality
time of your own even if you don't have
a pet at home after spending some time
with pets how do you feel
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