{"id":816,"date":"2025-08-01T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/?p=816"},"modified":"2025-06-05T22:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T22:03:42","slug":"therapy_animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/therapy_animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Do cats make good therapy animals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_819\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-819\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-04-cats-good-therapy-animals-trend.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-819 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/therapy-animals-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Therapy Animals\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/therapy-animals-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/therapy-animals-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/therapy-animals.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unsplash\/CC0 Public Domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Do cats make good therapy animals?:<br \/>\nAround 10,000 years ago, cats likely domesticated themselves when they started hanging around human settlements for better rodent-hunting opportunities. Now, there are an estimated 600 million domestic cats living around the world. Their cute toe beans, striped and spotted coats, and soft bellies still delight cat lovers everywhere&#8230;.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-04-cats-good-therapy-animals-trend.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do cats make good therapy animals?: Around 10,000 years ago, cats likely domesticated themselves when they started hanging around human settlements for better rodent-hunting opportunities. Now, there are an estimated 600 million domestic cats living around the world. Their cute toe beans, striped and spotted coats, and soft bellies still delight cat lovers everywhere&#8230;.\u201d More&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets","tag-cat-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}