"Pet Therapy" is so great and real. Stephen Kellert who co-authored w/EO Wilson (Pulitizer Winner) writes about our need for kinship w/other forms of life like animals and trees.
I still miss my golden hamster Ratfink when I was 12 and one cat who adopted me when I was in my 20s. What a great guy; he's jump on me from a ledge in the middle of the night onto my chest scaring the hell out of me as he pranced around looking for food. I'd awake with him sleeping at the foot of his bed and once or twice, I woke up and his head was next to mine on the pillow. Rambling!
Yea! for pets.
