How Can Cats Benefit You?

There are many things that cats can do to benefit you . Cats aren’t just soft, cute, fluffy, and cuddly. While they are still all of those things they can also do many more things. They help your heart, brain, emotions, and so have many other health benefits.

Cats can help your heart,an article from Health Fitness Revolution says that you have a 30–40% less chance of heart failure. But your heart isn’t the only thing cats can help, they can also help your stress levels go down, and they can also keep you calm through tough situations. There are so many different articles and websites on how cats are helpful.Care2, for example, has an article on fourteen different ways cats aren’t just fluffy, cute, and cuddly. The Article was written by Piper Hoffman who does a lot of research on medical fields and animal stories. The article states that a cats purr vibrates at a frequency of 20–140 Hz, (The hertz is a unit derived from time which measures frequency) which is the frequency that is medically therapeutic for many illnesses. If you pet a cat that is purring it can help lower stress and calm you down. With them calming you down they can also help dyspnea which is difficult or labored breathing. They can also decrease swelling and infections. This seems like a lot for a cat to do but there is a lot more that a cat can do.

I’m not saying to go out and get a cat while getting rid of your other animals if you want to be healthier. Maybe you’re allergic to cats, maybe you’re a dog person, or you prefer the reptilian species, that is all depending on your own preference. All I am saying is what owning a cat can do for you, and honestly I’m not the biggest fan of cats I prefer reptiles over cats. Just owning a pet can help people with Alzheimer’s. Patients with Alzheimer’s have fewer anxious outbursts if they live with a companion animal. Taking care of a pet provides elderly people with exercise and companionship. such a positive effect that the company of an animal gives to elderly life insurance applicants for having a pet. There is a website that is based in Australia named Love That Pet and they wrote an exceptional article, not just on cats, but also on just owning animals.The article states people sometimes accuse their friends of turning their pet into a substitute child. By replacing a child or younger sibling as “something to nurture”, a pet often does serve that need. In today’s smaller families, that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Everybody needs somebody to love, furry or otherwise. Growing up with pets have a major impact on kids lives, not only if they do take care of the animal it can also teach them responsibility but it can also help kids through tough times as an interviewee said “Cats have helped me through so many tough times, my parents would drink and I would go and hug my cats helping me through that part of my childhood. I love my little piddums”.

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Just having one animal around for company can benefit you and the ones you love. I have owned a lot of cats and Dogs and I personally did not realize how much they improved my life when I was growing up and they still are. My family have owned at least one animal even before I was born. We owned a total of three dogs, six cats, a bird, and a snake or two here and there. That was only my immediate family, my grandparents animals also played a large part of my life. One of my most cherished and not so cherished memories was when I was at my grandparents house. I was in the back yard with their dog Buster, a boxer, and my parents brought over one of our dogs, Stitches. Stitches was a Beagle, and a beautiful one at that, she was in the back playing with Buster and I. I was about five at this time. This is my best memory of her and also the worst, well she got loose and was hit by a car and died that day and just like any 5 year old not knowing what death was I thought she was sleeping and that is probably my saddest and oldest memories of my animals. I do suggest having an animal companion, Animals can help you in so many ways even if it isn’t a cat you can have any animal Dog, Cat, Bird, Fish, and the list goes on and on. But any animal is beneficial to you and the ones around you.