A Dog’s Best Friend – The Happiness Reports Are humans a dog’s best friend? Dogs are pretty special. That much is obvious. But one thing that stands out about dogs is the way we like to live with humans. Not just be fed by them, not just be walked by them, but actually live and interact with them. This has […]
Friend Zone – The Happiness Reports We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. Evelyn Waugh, 10 June 1963 Do dogs make friends? We all know that dogs are social animals, but do we make firm friendships? Or do we simply make do? In fact, researchers are finding more […]
Play For Life! – The Happiness Reports We have heard a lot of humans talk lately about how they don’t let their dogs play with other dogs, or that it’s a good thing that their dogs don’t play with other dogs because that means they are putting all their attention on their owner, and a lot of other weird […]
A Pet In Need Is A Friend Indeed – The Happiness Reports Humans are really starting to understand just how wonderful pets are as therapists. And in the The Dog Walk Recipe For Happiness we looked at how the dog walk is an amazing source of wellbeing, and confidence, mobility and more for people with long-term health conditions. But what about people who do […]
The Dog Walk Recipe for Happiness – The Happiness Reports Everyone talks about how they enjoy a dog walk, but did you ever think about how a dog walk can be therapeutic for people with long-term health problems and can actually make them happier? Some researchers in New Zealand asked this very question.[1] How does the dog walk contribute to the health and […]
Must Love Dogs – The Happiness Reports Harvard University surveyed its class of 1980 to try and understand what makes a human happy. And their finding was that “happiness is good”. More specifically, there are three goods of happiness, which together help a person along to happiness: Good for others Good for me Good at it [Harvard University] And […]
