The Healing Paw: (Not all angels have wings) by Billy Roberts is a wonderful read that answered a good many questions I didn’t realise I needed answered.
It’s widely accepted that pets speed up the recovery of their owners, help cure depression and lower stress levels and anxiety. Our pets are deeply in tune with our personal rhythms and know instinctively when we are in need for their healing presence.
But they also provide healing for one another also. I had often wondered why Timmy was so willing to lie alongside Garfield each day and in Billy’s book I found the reason; pets know when another one of their housemates is feeling unwell and they automatically, and instinctively, go alongside them. Their presence is often all that the ailing pet requires, but in the case of cats who seem to purr at the drop of a hat, the vibrations in purring is beneficial and helps speed the healing process.
Mr Roberts is well in tune with his dogs and says that the simple acts of just stroking and feeling the vibrations of purring can heal and protect us from pain and unhappiness. That’s why so many cats, dogs and even rabbits are used as P.A.T (Pets As Therapy) animals in hospital, children’s wards and nursing homes for the elderly.
This is a wonderful book, which I can recommend wholeheartedly. I read it in a couple of days – and I learnt a lot about animals, their behaviour and their total love and unselfishness to us humans!
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If you do read it, please let me know what you think.
Dogs Come when Called
"Dogs come when called. Cats take a message and get back to you."
"Of course, every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room."
Edward Verrall Luca (essayist)
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