ANSC 4560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Exponential Growth, Bulk Density, Iams
27 Mar 2018
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Companionship especially with elderly people that are at high risks of anxiety and loneliness. Decrease systolic bp and cholesterol and tg levels. Decrease mental stress, the feeling of helplessness and depression. Ptsd children talk to their pets about what happened before they tell humans. We are in a long-term commitment more so with dogs than cats. We share a similar microbiome with our pets because of the sharing of the same environment. They often rank their pets higher than people in their social network because they provide comfort and are viewed as confidantes. Service dogs provide help, improve self esteem and physiological well being and provide increased opportunities for social interaction and community integration. 95% of dogs today consume premade pet food, the rest consume homemade food. Doesn"t only contain food and nutrition but all the other related things such as outfits, litters, brushes etc. It is a huge industry, including dogs, cats, horses, fish, exotics.
