Hey deserve listeners, it's just me today. I'm still on my mission to read every single email

that people have sent through the website before the end of the year. Let's get to it. Anonymous

patron, she says, could you talk a bit about attachment theory and how it relates to pets?

I don't fully understand it, but I would love to know what the benefits are and if it can help

from healthy attachments and other aspects of life end of email. Well, for the sake of time,

I'm going to answer this as quickly as possible, but I believe, and there's not a lot of research

on this, but there's some that our attachments to our pets are the same virtually as they are

to humans, potentially. Some people treat their pets not like other attachments. When I was growing

up, for example, we had outdoor cats that I was really attached to, but my parents just thought

of is like, where's that cat? Do we even have a cat? It was very much of an afterthought,

but other people are like me and my wife Stacy and our dogs and other animals that we've had over

the years have been absolutely other family members that we love and have relationships with and

get a lot of attachment, security with, you know, when you reach out to your cat and your cat

stungles with you, it's absolutely emotionally gratifying. That's why we have them. I mean,

it's obvious that these animals are a drain on our life. They take away our money and food and space

and time and, you know, they don't give us anything. You know, they don't most of our animals,

our pets don't hunt for us or work for us or carry things for us. It's like, it's all

downside. So what are we getting out of it? Well, obviously, we're getting a relationship out of

it. We're getting an attachment out of it. We're getting someone that we can take care of,

someone who's there for us, someone who cuddles with us, someone that we can have physical affection

with, someone that we can play with. And it, you know, in the same way that you have other humans

like that. And there's nothing pathological about it. It's totally fine. Can one be two dependent

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