Buy Some Love and Happiness

To feel good, do good.

Pets are wonderful companions and friends. They are genuinely affectionate and grateful. They don’t care how you look, your job, the car you drive, or how much money you have in the bank. You can confide in them; they will never tell your secrets or gossip.

If you do consider getting a pet, there are millions available in animal shelters across the country. Not only do you get a pet, but you can also save the animal’s life. Over 6 million dogs and cats live in shelters today—overpopulation cause over 1.2 million to lose their lives in a shelter every year.

Shelter animals have a bad name. An animal isn’t in a shelter because it's bad, untrustworthy, or a troublemaker. The owner may have died, or worse, abandoned it.

Sometimes after an animal has spent its life with a family, it is abandoned to a shelter because of ill health, incontinence, or some other age/health-related reason. At a time when the animal needs the most human care and love, it's abandoned.

Health benefits

Pet ownership bestows various health benefits, reduced anxiety, depression, lower blood pressure, and loneliness. The following studies feature dogs simply because dog ownership has been studied most often. Similar benefits are afforded to other pet…