Adoption
Health Benefits of
Dog Ownership
•Studies have shown that owning a dog helps lower blood pressure, reduce
cholestorol, and decrease trigliceride levels, which all contribute to better
cardiovascular health and fewer heart attacks. What’s more, dog owners
who do have heart attacks have better survival rates after the attack.
•Dogs help keep you fit and active. Doctors recommend 2.5 hours of
moderate exercise per week. That is less than 30 minutes per day.
Dobermans need 30 minutes twice a day and will keep you moving twice as
fast.
•Spending just a few minutes with a pet can lower anxiety and blood
pressure, and increase levels of serotonin and dopamine, which play big
roles in calm and wellbeing. Dogs can help reduce stress both at home and
in the office.
•Dogs can add meaning and purpose to life after retirement and help
prevent loneliness, isolation and cognitive decline. It is widely believed that
dog owners are less prone to depression largely because of the other health
benefits they provide but Therapy dogs are effetive in easing depression for
a variety of people.
•Research has also shown that owning dogs/cats has lowered children’s
chances of developing pet alergiies up to 33%.
•Dogs can help detect, treat and manage a variety of illnesses. Trained dogs
can sniff out skin, kidney, bladder and prostrate cancers. Service dogs can
benefit people with traumatic brain injury, autism, arthritis, various mobility
issues and emotional issues. Alzheimer’s patients are soothed by dogs,
whose companionship seems to mitigate emotional flare-ups and
aggression.
If you are looking to adopt a Doberman
Please follow us on Facebook, the world of rescue can be fast paced
and there is where we have up to date information on dogs in need.
Filling out an application and getting pre approved before you find a
dog you are interested in gives you a better chance of getting that
dog.
Members applications will take priority over non members.
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