Let Slip the Dogs of More Happiness

让更多幸福的狗溜走

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

2021-09-06

38 分钟
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Companion pets - especially dogs - are credited with making our lives richer and more fun, but does the science back up this belief? Dr Laurie Santos breaks down what it is dogs can do to make us happier - and what behaviours we can adopt to experience the wellbeing boost of dog ownership even without buying one. She'll also introduce you to Georgia the motorcycling dog and her owner, Laurette Nicoll. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • Pushkin.

  • The first day I saw Georgia, she was about a six-month-old puppy,

  • and she just had these amazing, big pointed ears and her brindle coat,

  • and I had never seen anything like her.

  • This is Motorsports reporter Loretta Nicol.

  • It was magnetic.

  • As soon as I saw her, I knew that she was meant for me.

  • And the exact thought I had in my head is, that's my puppy.

  • These days, the pair are pretty much inseparable.

  • In fact, Georgia was happily sniffing around Lorette's feet as we talked over Zoom.

  • George, do you want to come up here?

  • Do you want to come up here?

  • She's being shy all of a sudden.

  • But it wasn't obvious back when the pair first met that they would even have a chance to be together.

  • The first and perhaps most obvious obstacle to their union was the huge chain link fence that separated them.

  • Georgia was a street puppy.

  • A neighbor had found her and was keeping her temporarily penned up until he could find a way to get the stray off his hands.

  • I just kept explaining to him how special I thought that she was.

  • And he finally told me he's like, I'm taking her to the pound because she keeps running away.

  • Lorette hated the thought of Georgia going off to a shelter and some unknown future.