Treatment and Pets....

MICH4EL said:

Pets

I've heard that people with pets are happier and live longer.  I've also heard from people  on this discussion Board that positive mental attitude is the most important factor in cancer treatment.  Germs are everywhere....I think the postiive benefits of a pet offset any minimal risk of an infection from them as opposed to from any of the millions of other sources of infection. 

The issue of breath stealing is another questions entirely.  Has anyone found any randomized, scientific, peer-reviewed articles on mortality and morbidity rates caused by cats stealing the breaths of their owners?  I think this is something we should investigate further and perhaps create a discussion board for survivors of cat-breath-stealing.  Until this is fully researched, I will continue to be a dog person rather than a cat person.

M

 

Mich4el,

You so cracked me up.. beware...

Kari

My dog has been my early warning system since I took ill. Whenever I'm in for a "bad time" he suddenly becomes super-glue. He won't leave me alone for a second and if I sit or lie down he sits on me, not beside me, on me. I know then that something's going to happen in the next 12-24 hours (generally a bad period of nausia or extreme weakness).

As long as your pet's in good health and you keep it clean (don't need to go overboard with the bathing though!) the only problems could be scratches or bites. Anyway the good you get from your pet outweighs the rest.