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Four Legged Therapy: How fur, scales and feathers can make life worth living
Discover the joys of unconditional love and how the best lessons can come from a pet.
Pet Therapy is filled with stories of humans and animals being together. A wordless listener, something to care for, a way to get outside and yet much more. What healthy habits can we learn from our fluffy, scaly and, let's face it, stinky, friends?
Chapters
Meow Meow Begins with a C
Wag
Confessions of a Secret Meditator
Janice is a Horse
Rabbit, Rabbit...Gone
Pet Therapy is filled with stories of humans and animals being together. A wordless listener, something to care for, a way to get outside and yet much more. What healthy habits can we learn from our fluffy, scaly and, let's face it, stinky, friends?
Chapters
Meow Meow Begins with a C
Wag
Confessions of a Secret Meditator
Janice is a Horse
Rabbit, Rabbit...Gone
160 pages, Hardcover
Published October 2, 2018
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January 7, 2025
A baffling book of anecdotes sandwiched between generic motivational quotes. I could not make myself even finish skimming this I found it so underwhelming.
In the introduction the book asked "Can our four-legged friends really help with our mental health" and then the author proceeds to shared a bunch of stories about their pets, or friend's pets, and how they have helped mental health.
Occasionally the author shares the science and research that has confirmed, in multiple forms and fashion, that yet four-legged friends do actually help with mental health. These were the most interesting bits but I gave up skimming through the book to find them.
I did find the opening, where she talked about the wonder of teamwork in herding and the help animals give to disabled owners, to be quite strong, and then the rest of the book just didn't measure up.
That the second page had dismissive handwaving of actual therapy as if it is some kind of competition and people cannot have both therapy and four-legged therapy...well my impression kind of plummeted and at one point I did google to see if I had accidentally gained a book by some wellness cult because that's the vibes I was getting.
Design was nice, illustrations were cute, the motivational summary pages very...generic motivational quotes but who doesn't need to pin those up sometimes.
I might just not be the target audience.
In the introduction the book asked "Can our four-legged friends really help with our mental health" and then the author proceeds to shared a bunch of stories about their pets, or friend's pets, and how they have helped mental health.
Occasionally the author shares the science and research that has confirmed, in multiple forms and fashion, that yet four-legged friends do actually help with mental health. These were the most interesting bits but I gave up skimming through the book to find them.
I did find the opening, where she talked about the wonder of teamwork in herding and the help animals give to disabled owners, to be quite strong, and then the rest of the book just didn't measure up.
That the second page had dismissive handwaving of actual therapy as if it is some kind of competition and people cannot have both therapy and four-legged therapy...well my impression kind of plummeted and at one point I did google to see if I had accidentally gained a book by some wellness cult because that's the vibes I was getting.
Design was nice, illustrations were cute, the motivational summary pages very...generic motivational quotes but who doesn't need to pin those up sometimes.
I might just not be the target audience.
January 8, 2021
Not a bad book but I was hoping it would be more useful, its more a collection of anecdotes about people and the benefits of keeping animals.
May 24, 2024
What an absolutely gorgeous book about the calming presence of pets, and how they can benefit our mental health.
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