Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: question about dogs & cohousing

[Hans Tilstra (tilstra]

> what is the dog for - security or playmate?

I started thinking when my influential supervisor (a counselling
psychologist) convinced me that there is a lot of merit to children growing
up with dogs rather than cats.

Whilst I consider myself more "a cat person", cats have been implicicated as
risk factor in allergy development in younger children.

Dogs, on the other hand,  seem less implicated in infections etc. More so,
they prompt me to go for walk and apply Carl Roger's unconditional positive
regard with a vengeance. I don't like the barking much, so my guess would be
that some breeds would be more suitable to cohousing than others...

;-) Hans
tilstra [at] smartchat.net.au
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~cohouse

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