![]() ![]() I just feel that’s so lovely - I think it’s so lovely that she’s minding the youngest in the house.” ![]() Just a couple of weeks ago she started sleeping at the end of my daughter’s bed, Isabelle, who’s four. She’s always slept at the bottom of my bed. I feel like she’s very tuned in to the humans around her and their emotions. In hindsight, Marissa said that bringing home Cherry, who she describes as very gentle and loving, brought her comfort. I felt like I had a lot of love to give and when Cherry came into my life those motherly feelings that I had, she sort of nurtured that in me.” It was my third miscarriage and I suppose it wasn’t in a great place. I just decided one day I was going to go get a dog. I’d never really thought about becoming a dog owner. “I got Cherry just after I’d had a miscarriage and it was a particularly late miscarriage, at 13 weeks,” she said. It was during a very difficult time in her life that she started to consider a return to dog ownership, marking the beginning of a beautiful friendship with her pet, Cherry. Tanning and cosmetics queen Marissa Carter has been a dog lover all her life, having grown up with German Shepherds as pets in her childhood. We spoke to some of Ireland’s best-known dog owners about their pets and the impact they have had on their lives. It’s not just your physical health - a study review by the British Psychological Society found dog ownership can improve therapeutic and psychological wellbeing and results in lower stress levels, greater self esteem and feelings of competence. ![]() A survey by the Australian Heart Foundation found that people who own dogs tend to have lower cholesterol levels. A 2017 Swedish study of over three million people aged between 40 and 80 revealed dog owners were associated with a 23% reduction in death from heart disease and a 20% lower risk of death from any cause over the 12-year length of the study. ![]()
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