Best Ways To Keep Your Pet Mentally Healthy

Exercise them.  A tired dog is a good dog.  Serotonin, a natural mood stabilizer, is generated in the brain during exercise.

Keep things interesting.  Hold boredom or stress at bay by setting up pets' environments, both indoors and outdoors, in ways that keep them fulfilled, occupied and challenged.

Speak their language.  We rely on spoken words, but pets can decipher body signals like they are reading a book.  Talk to them, keep command words short and sweet and be aware of the body language cues you are communicating.

Dr. Nicholas H. Dodman
Veterinary Behaviorist,
Director of the Animal Behavior Clinic at Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine


Source:  Fetch ~ the pet magazine with a healthy pedigree