Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Sleep with your pet? How that may affect you (and your pet)
Is sleeping with your pet dog or cat good for you and your pet? For those highly popular, domesticated animals, sleeping with their human friends doesn’t seem to create any particular downside. Rather, it seems to create a tighter bond and higher trust with humans. However, that is not always the case for humans who need four to six 90-minute sleep cycles each night to repair the brain’s cellular level, consolidate memories and store new information to prepare for the next day. Anytime these sleep cycles are interrupted as is often the case when sleeping with a pet, you lose the chance to restore and refresh the brain. Remember, animals, especially cats, tend to move and disrupt sleep during the night, and each move could disrupt your continuous sleep. In the meantime, pet animals may give comfort and peace to their human friends especially to those who are depressed or feel anxious. So, if you can maintain your good sleeping cycles, your pet animal may be a good sleeping companion, provided that the pet wants that, too.
Enjoy reading the article and learning the pros and cons of an animal sleeping partner.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/05/health/sleeping-with-pets-wellness/index.html
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