Welcome to Happiness Unleashed with your host, Brittany Darren Bacher, presented by Live Happy.

On March 23rd, we'll celebrate National Puppy Day, so that makes it a great time to talk about how and why we celebrate puppies.

This week, Brittany invited me, Paula Phelps, to join the conversation.

But first, we decided to dive into some new research on petting your dogs that just might change the way you leave your house.

And then Brittany explains what your dog might be thinking while you're gone.

Let's have a listen.

Guys, my best friend is on the show today.

Paula Phelps, we're reuniting today to talk and nerd out on a couple of different topics.

How's it going, Paula?

It's fantastic.

I'm always so happy to sit down and talk to you and talk about

animals. It's our favorite thing. It's what brought us together. It is. And it keeps us together.

So what are we talking about today? So we have had a few discussions about some of the cool

research that's coming out with dogs and animals. And we had found this

story about research that showed how petting an animal before you leave the house is really

beneficial. And this is specifically talking about dogs. I wonder if cats have the same thing,

or if cats are just like, go, get out of here. I have plans. I don't know, but. Yeah, I feel like

that's always a topic that comes up because we tend to talk about dogs a lot, right? When you and I

are together anyway, but I mean, there's so many other animals in the home. And I have to think

that most of this kind of research applies to them because they're bonded with their human.

Right. Right. And maybe cats are just less prone to separation anxiety. I don't know. That's

something we've never looked at. Yeah. What did you find interesting about this research that came out?

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