Owning a dog can make you healthier:

[Stinky The Clown]

Owning a dog can make you healthier: Walking your pet and companionship from them can 'decrease risk of heart disease'

American Heart Association reviewed studies from around the world
It concluded pet ownership is 'probably associated' with decreased risk
Strongest data came from studies which show dog owners walk more


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2322266/Owning-dog-make-healthier-Walking-pet-companionship-decrease-risk-heart-disease.html#ixzz2d4nt3shp

[Scuba]

1. Owning a dog will improve your physical and mental health!

[Wilms]

2. Plus all the bending exercises!

Ya know, to pet them, set down food and water, and of course picking up after them!

[Curmudgeoness]

3. And owning a cat?

Who's kidding who.....no one owns a cat!

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Hahahaha

[Curmudgeoness]

5. And that

is what having a cat in our lives makes us look like. None of that healthy crap for us. Just lounge around, being cool and getting fat. Maybe a little catnip here and there.

Well, unless you consider the times he doesn't come home when I call him and I have to search for him....the little rascal! (But usually, he is really good about coming when he is called. Good. I hate when I have to get off my butt and walk!)

[CountAllVotes]

7. Goes the other way around ....

The Cat owns pitiful old YOU.

[TorchTheWitch]

6. Oh, I believe it

I'm proof positive that I'm mentally and emotionally healthier having my doggies, and I always figured that translated to also being physically healthier not just because of exercising with the pets but mental and emotional problems cause stress that can cause all kinds of physical problems, since pets help so much to aleviate stress - well, there ya go.

Pets are just the best.

[IDemo]

8. I'm sad every day

When I have to leave the house with all those brown eyes begging me not to.