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Pets & Your Health

If you don’t own a pet, maybe you should get one. A pet offers a whole bunch of health benefits to you:

  • Buffer stress
  • Lower heart rate
  • Lower blood pressure
  • Give social support
  • Help you stay in shape
  • Prevent certain sicknesses

And to your children:

  • Cognitive stimulation
  • Improved behavior in children
  • Heightened understanding of others
  • Increased immunity
  • Lower anxiety levels

You can read why pet ownership gives you these benefits by reading this Ohio State University Veterinary Medical Center’s short article Health Benefits of Pet Ownership.

By the way, Feb. 20 is National Love Your Pet Day. So, love your pet…or get one.

Women Vets

They’re often-unsung heroines. Let’s remember them today.

Where Are the Donations to Our Vets?

A person who holds a “huge” rally to raise money to benefit our veterans and manages to raise $6 million should be praised–unless he doesn’t get that money to the 24 organizations he promised it to.   Yes, some donors gave money directly to the charities rather than through the Donald J. Trump Foundation, and about half of the amount has found its way to the charities.  Where’s the rest?  Will the other charities ever get their checks?  Some have, once the Foundation was reminded.  How much reminding and media pressure will it take to get the promised funds to the charities?

Our veterans, who are struggling with health, mental, and financial difficulties as a result of their service to our nation, deserve better treatment.

(Read story in the Washington Post article “What ever happened to all that money Trump raised for the veterans?