15+ Tweets That Only Dog And Cat Owners Will Understand

Some people argue pets are the best thing that happened to humanity. They provide joy, great friendship, and unconditional love, and play important roles in our lives. So it's no surprise we get carried when they're around. We treat them like family members and spoil them more than we do our kids. Yup, the shocking truth is that pet owners don't own their furry friends. They are pretty much owned by these 4-legged creatures.
Owning a pet is a wonderful thing, but it's also a never-ending comedy of errors! Over the years, pet owners and admirers have shared funny c anecdotes, photos, and more on Twitter. In this post, we’ve rounded up a list of tweets that are sure to resonate with cat and dog owners. Scroll down to check for yourself!

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There are many health benefits of owning a pet. They can help to ease loneliness, and relieve stress, anxiety, and depression.

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"I have a list of 10 health benefits [that] studies have shown pet owners have," said psychologist Harold Herzog, a pet-loving professor at Western Carolina University who has long studied the human-animal connection.

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"Higher survival rates, fewer heart attacks, less loneliness, better blood pressure, better psychological well-being, lower rates of depression and stress levels, fewer doctor visits, increased self-esteem, better sleep, and more physical activity," are just some of the recorded benefits of pet ownership, Herzog said.

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But here's a shocker as studies found pet owners "are more likely to be lonely, depressed and have panic attacks, more likely to have asthma, obesity, high blood pressure, gastric ulcers, migraine headaches, and use more medicine, et cetera."

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"Studies have shown repeatedly that people's good mood increases and bad mood decreases around pets," Herzog said. "And so we know that there's immediate short term benefits, physiological and psychological, with interacting with pets. I have no doubt about that."

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