ANIMAL THERAPY

For instance, we have real situations that help people. 1. When a person is undergoing surgery, being with their pet helps them recover. 2. People with high blood pressure can help a lot to keep it stable when they have practices that mediate animals (horseback riding, fishing, watching tanks fish)3. People with mental complications, such as dementia, help them relax. 4. People prefer to go out to do activities with their pets or visit places that have animals, preferably.  

Mental health: Animals like dogs, cats, and rabbits have served to help people to improve their life, for example, many people with cognitive disorders, and schizophrenics who live in nursing homes, when sharing with animals at certain times during some week, maybe 45 mins, these people improve their conditions, reduce these issues and help to socialize with them, different when these people don’t have animal therapy.

Physical health: Some physical benefits are: improve dystonic and diastolic blood and reduce the high level of stress, for instance, elder people sometimes share time with dogs and cats and they improve your health and emotions because they help release endorphins that manipulate perceptions of pain and stress.

There are some reasons that animal-assisted can be dangerous:Many older people who are pet owners fall and sustain fractures as a result of their animals; 86,629 falls a year are attributed to dogs and cats, however, we have to include birds, goats, and donkeys too.Animal therapy is very expensive, time-consuming, and complex to care for. The average lifetime cost of an average-sized dog can be $10,00 and a cat $8,000, these animals need adequate food, housing hygiene, and veterinary care. This practice can be dangerous depending on the person because the person couldn’t have enough ability to care for the animal, occasionally pets could be stressed and attack people or destroy the environment.

Daniel Stiven Tapias Bejarano: I am a student, I love writing and designing this kind of mind mental, and I am 22 years old. I love reading books and watching horror series. Santiago Ciro Alzate: I am Lawyer, I love animals and doing exercise every day, I am 26 years old and I love traveling, and trying different new food as well. Currently, I work in a contact center.

Animal therapy can be defined as a healthy practice that is used to alleviate, improve and reduce levels of physical and mental illness, such as emotional states that people have, through their pets or animals in general.  

1.  Release stress house 2.  Feeling accompanied.3.  Improve your mental health.4.  Routines in which there are animals in between will make you feel comfortable and relaxed.5.  You help you to be a more loving person and express more love. 6.  Reduce behavior problems. 7.  Increased social and physical activity.

- When people play with animal emits important hormones and neurotransmitters in the brain that promote proper body function and rebuild strength.- Some pages said people with dogs have been found to have lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels when compared to people who do not.

- Animal therapy increases the body’s levels of oxytocin which boosts happiness, improves empathy, and promotes a happier life.- In children is a great way to release excess energy for

With these articles, we learned that animal therapy is a great strategy to improve life and issues like mental health, emotional health, and physical health, sharing with pets reduces all problems; this practice seemed very important to us because it can be achieved to reduce the levels of diseases and reduce the emotional states that people contract to a significant percentage. After all, studies on the effects of animals on both mental and physical health have reported modest benefits, however this therapy many time it’s very expensive, and you need money and the capacity to care correctly the pet, otherwise, it could be dangerous for yourself, people who share with you and the environment, and finally exist some kind of animals that served like therapy such as dog, cat, bird, horse, fish, and etc.