As If we didn't know. Studies say Pets are good for the heart!

I can see how a dog can help lower the rate of obesity. When lived in an apartment, I would walk my two dogs twice a day. Often, I did not want to walk because the weather was either too hot, or too cold. Well, another truth is that I was just too lazy to walk, but I needed to because my dogs needed to go to the bathroom and they needed exercise. Well, guess what happened? I ended up losing weight and I gained energy. I also met my future best friend while walking my dogs. He ended up helping me by walking my dogs with me every night, and we found that we had common interests. He is still my best friend today, and he still takes walks with me with my dogs when he visits me at the house I live in now.