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How Pets Can Improve Your Health

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Even watching fish in an aquarium can help reduce muscle tension and lower pulse rate. Many also learn responsibility, compassion, and empathy from having pets. Caring for a pet can bring pleasure and help boost your morale and optimism. The mere presence of pets at home can help provide a sense of security in children.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Many animals also display wide-ranging emotions, including joy, happiness, empathy, compassion, grief, and even resentment and embarrassment. Dog and Fish: Improbable Friends. Fish are often difficult to identify with or feel for. Animal Rescues: Feeling Compassion for Those in Need. Is this moral?

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. Hunters and fish and wildlife departments having a stake in Sandhills is a great thing. We can fight them back in Kentucky, too. Kentucky Dept.

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