While not a cure-all, you might be surprised. Sometimes the best cure for depression is something that gets us out of ourselves and focused on other things . . . . such as the love and needs of a puppy or rescue dog. Consider adopting a canine companion from your local animal shelter, if you’ve started to feel as if no one really cares about you. There’s no mistaking when a dog loves you! Of course, that love must be…
They show up in many places: service dogs of all sizes and breeds. Even in places where no dogs are supposed to be allowed. Can they really ALL be service dogs? Sometimes the people they’re with really do look as if they are injured or impaired in some way–but other times the people look normal. And yes, sometimes it’s a scam. But businesses and the general public are legally required to treat them ALL as if they are real, and…
I’ve almost never been without a dog in my adult life (and those few months were pretty grim). Dogs are easily my favorite kind of non-humans. This is perhaps not all that surprising: humans have lived in something of a symbiotic relationship with dogs since prehistory, and our two species have been cohabiting and co-evolving, literally for millennia (since the Neolithic). There’s actually a pretty good case to be made that, without our dogs co-evolving with us to guard us…