Double D Puppies - Just for Fun!

Just for Fun!

Interesting tidbits, articles, and anything else I like or think is cute or funny!!

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Here are photos of one of our Boxers we have kept back, CJ. Our daughter, Tori took put the flower on her head and took the pictures of her sitting on our golf card. Tori won a blue ribbon and Reserve Grand Champion at our County Fair this year! (The photos were all entered in one frame)

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Here is a quick video of PitBull Monster Truck racing Bigfoot at the Cheyenne County fair and Rodeo on Aug. 2nd 2008.

Benefits of Pets for the Elderly

While the primary benefits to animals are obvious - to place them in loving homes and keep them from being destroyed - the benefits to elderly persons are ten-fold (versus non-pet owners).

1 - Pets lower blood pressure and pulse rate
  2 - 21% fewer visits to the doctor
  3 - Less depression
  4 - Easier to make friends (enhanced social opportunities)
  5 - Seniors become more active
  6 - Pets offer affection and unconditional love
  7 - Pets ease loss of a loved one
  8 - Pets fight loneliness
  9 - Seniors take better care of themselves
10 - Sense of security

In 1980, a clinical research project at Brooklyn College, New York, studied heart-disease patients after their discharge from the hospital. Dr. Erika Friedmann, Ph.D., professor of health and nutrition sciences at the College, tracked each survivor, studying their medical histories, lifestyles, families, relationships - every documentable detail. Co-researcher Dr. Aaron Katcher, M.D., reported: "The presence of a pet was the strongest social predictor of survival...not just for lonely or depressed people, but everyone - independent of marital status and access to social support from human beings."
http://www.petsfortheelderly.org/articles.htm 11-6-07

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