Good suggestions on care and well-being of a wide variety of companion animals living together in a single setting. The way parents talk to their children significantly influences health in adult life. Quality education extends ones health and longevity. School failure isolates, destroys human dialogue and leads to premature death. Friendships, social support, community, communal worship, and companion animals are as important to health as exercise and diet.
Human dialogue can elicit far greater changes in blood pressure than maximal physical exercise.
Communicative dis-ease is now as great a health threat as communicable disease. How to Live and Work with Animals in Activity and Therapy Programs and Stay Healthy by David Walter-Toews and Andrea Ellis. Available through the Delta Society. Good resource on Zoonosis prevention. Animals in Nursing Homes .