We’ve known that pets can provide an important part of healthcare since the ninth century. The ‘human-animal’ bond has been used for hundreds of years to help people recover from many different types of illness.
In fact, new research published in BMC Psychiatry today found unequivocally that pets boost mental health.
A team of researchers from three British universities (Manchester, Liverpool and Southampton) has carried out a review of studies on pets. The analysis of 17 international papers looked at the quality of a pet’s impact on human beings, and how much they affect us – for better or worse.
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