Facility Information
If you are thinking about bringing pet visitation to your facility, please email us at info@petsandfriends.org or call us at 604-688-1766. We’d be happy to answer any questions you may have.
While you’re here, consider these "Furry Facts":
- A Canadian study of nearly 1,000 adults aged 65 and over found that pet owners were more physically fit and less likely to suffer a decline in health over the course of a year. (Chris Woolston, Advance Rx.com)
- Autistic children with pets at home score significantly higher on empathy and prosocial orientation scales than autistic children without pets. (Vidovic, 1999)
- People who own pets typically visit the doctor less and use less medication.
- Pet owners, on average, have lower cholesterol and lower blood pressure.
- Pets decrease feelings of loneliness and isolation. (Australian Veterinary Society)
- People with AIDS have less depression and lower stress levels when they own pets. (Siegel, 199, Carmack, 1991)
- Studies show that pet owners spend an average of five fewer recovery days in hospital than non-pet-owners.
- Only seven percent of human communication is verbal. Fifty-eight percent is non verbal, which might explain why our animals seem to understand us so well!