Pets do not significantly benefit the emotional health of owners with severe mental illness, study shows
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study published in the CABI journal Human-Animal Interactions suggests that companion animals—including dogs, cats, fish and birds—do not significantly benefit the emotional health of owners with severe mental illness. The results showed that owning an animal was not significantly associated with the well-being, depression, anxiety or loneliness scores for … Read more