In this episode host, Elizabeth Miller shares how her Shih Tzu Shadow improves her health and happiness. Learn how Shadow was the best decision Elizabeth didn’t want to make and how pets truly help make our lives better.
Listen to the show: Pets improve your health and happiness
Words of Encouragement
Each episode starts off with a few words of inspiration or motivation that is pulled from the Happy Healthy Caregiver Jar.
Links & Resources Mentioned
- A few pictures of Elizabeth’s “Shadow”…
- You’ll often see Shadow make appearances on Elizabeth’s Instagram stories and sometimes hear him in the background of the podcast!
- Shadow’s love languages are touch and words of affirmation.
- Huffington Post article: 9 Ways Pets Improve Our Lives
- Join a national network of dog walkers or sign up on Wag to become a dog walker.
- You can also borrow a dog for a day. There are apps for that! Check out Walkzee or Bark N’ Borrow.
- Visit your local Petland, Petco, or Pet Supermarket store
- Become or find a pet sitter (did you know you can live abroad for FREE as a house/petsitter?!)
- Finding pet friendly assisted living
- Pets for the Elderly
- Gretchen Rubin (Author of the below books) shares in this Happier podcast episode her decision to get a dog
- Just for fun…
Favorite moments from the show
“All I could think about before we got him was how much I was going to have to do for him but in reality he has provided me with way more than I have given him. More Joy, more health, more everything than I could have ever anticipated.” – Elizabeth Miller
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