Study Shows Pet Ownership Has Psychological Benefits

**Gladys** · 07-13-2011, 08:05 PM

**Sailaway** · 07-13-2011, 09:22 PM

Study shows water is wet.

**Sailaway** · 07-13-2011, 09:25 PM

Study shows jumping off a bridge can cause deceleration trauma.

(I always thought it was cement poisoning...who knew?)

**Gladys** · 07-15-2011, 04:36 PM

Study shows *******s are everywhere.

**Garret** · 07-15-2011, 04:44 PM

Originally Posted by Gladys

Study Shows Pet Ownership Has Psychological Benefits

Then how come those old ladies with two hundred and nine-seven cats in a two-bedroom rowhouse that the SPCA keep catching seem like absolute raving nutsacks?

**Bob_Head** · 07-15-2011, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by Garret

Then how come those old ladies with two hundred and nine-seven cats in a two-bedroom rowhouse that the SPCA keep catching seem like absolute raving nutsacks?

You should see what they're like without the cats!

**Gladys** · 07-15-2011, 06:55 PM

Originally Posted by Garret

Then how come those old ladies with two hundred and nine-seven cats in a two-bedroom rowhouse that the SPCA keep catching seem like absolute raving nutsacks?

I think this is rhetorical but i'll bite. They obviously are hoarders which is a psychological condition that is not part of the study. The study focused on people who did not have that condition. I've often wondered what happens to those people afterwards... i hope they get the help they need.

**Pitboss** · 07-15-2011, 09:41 PM

Originally Posted by Bob_Head

You should see what they're like without the cats!

Don't go there...

**Seanibus** · 07-15-2011, 09:55 PM

Originally Posted by Gladys

Study Shows Pet Ownership Has Psychological Benefits

Pet ownership can also result in fleas. Or so I have discovered, but I haven't gotten a grant to study it yet.

**Dayman** · 07-15-2011, 11:44 PM

My kitten (well, sort of kitten since he's the youngest and almost a year now) has the psychological benefit of teaching me not to trust anyone, because when he rolls and purrs, that is when he will strike the swiftest.

**Gladys** · 07-16-2011, 11:48 AM

Originally Posted by Dayman

My kitten (well, sort of kitten since he's the youngest and almost a year now) has the psychological benefit of teaching me not to trust anyone, because when he rolls and purrs, that is when he will strike the swiftest.

i think there is a study in that - and the flea study. both should be worth a half a mil... go apply.

**Seanibus** · 07-16-2011, 12:55 PM

Originally Posted by Gladys

i think there is a study in that - and the flea study. both should be worth a half a mil... go apply.

That and "Scientists reported today that dogs like to have their tummies rubbed."

I'm smelling a lucrative second career in pet research.

**Merciel** · 07-18-2011, 02:24 PM

Originally Posted by Gladys

I've often wondered what happens to those people afterwards... i hope they get the help they need.

Hoarders? Unless they get help and some oversight (well, actually a LOT of oversight) they relapse. They move somewhere else and start collecting animals again. According to Best Friends, there's a 100% recividism rate without treatment. It's a really pernicious form of mental illness.