Fostering Pets for Greater Well-Being With Brittany Derrenbacher

Live Happy Now

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Health & Fitness:mental Health, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

June is filled with holidays encouraging us to celebrate our pets. In addition to being Adopt a Cat Month and National Microchip Month, it is National Foster a Pet Month. To learn more about how fostering pets can improve your physical and mental well-being, host Paula Felps sits down with Brittany Derrenbacher, a clinical mental health counselor and founder of Luna Bells Moonbows Special Needs Rescue in Louisville, Kentucky. Brittany explains the many benefits of pet fostering for the entire family and offers tips on how to get started. In this episode, you’ll learn: How fostering pets can improve mental health challenges such as anxiety and depression. Creative alternatives to full-time pet fostering. How fostering pets can teach children important emotional skills.

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0:00.0	Thank you for joining us for episode 421 of Live Happy Now.
0:07.3	This month is filled with holidays that celebrate our pets, so that's what we're going to do.
0:12.6	I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and June happens to be National Adopt-A-Cat month,
0:17.3	National Microchip Month, and National Foster A Pet Month.
0:21.1	We also have National Dog Dad Day on June 17th, National Dog Party Day on June 21st,
0:27.0	and National Take Your Dog to Work Day on June 23rd.
0:30.6	That is a lot of partying with your pet.
0:33.5	But today, we want to focus on fostering and how it can help improve your well-being while changing the life of an animal forever.
0:41.3	So I'm bringing in Live Happy's resident pet expert, Brittany Darren Bacher, founder of Luna Bell's Moonbow's special needs fostering in Louisville, Kentucky, to talk about how we can make the world a better place, one foster pet at a time.
0:54.9	Let's have a listen.
0:56.4	Brittany, welcome back to Live Happy Now.
0:59.0	I'm so excited to be back.
1:01.4	This is such a natural topic for us to discuss because it's National Foster a Pet Month.
1:07.6	And you and I actually met because of you foster animals.
1:11.9	I needed an animal.
1:13.1	We connected.
1:13.8	It's been a great thing.
1:15.0	But, you know, during the pandemic, a lot of people were adopting and fostering pets.
1:20.0	It was, you know, shelters were empty.
1:22.4	They were waiting lists.
1:23.8	So where are we at now?
1:24.9	What's the current situation and the need for fostering?
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