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Pets promote good health
kkcapricorn
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1-20-2007 8:49 PM
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kkcapricorn
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Just to cover all the bases, I have 10 cats, 3 dogs, & a snake.
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1-20-2007
11:32 PM
Thorne
I'm gonna live forever....I have 3 dogs, 2 cats, 8 birds, and 2 ferrets....(and a partridge in a pear tree...)
1-22-2007
6:31 PM
mrsjns
Not as crazy as it sounds...the American Heart Association did a formal study and found that patients visited by a volunteer with a therapy dog fared 25% better than other patients in terms of recovery.
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