Welcome back and wake up with each other everybody.
I'm headed about cheddar studios in lower Manhattan.
Thanks for joining us guys on this friday and I'm baker
shadow time now for your morning tea.
Just a few quick steps to fill up your cup for this friday and
all week we've been talking about our
New Year's resolutions and if you're struggling,
you may get some help from an unexpected source.
Your pets.
We have Alina Hopman from Best Friends Animal Society
here to tell us why and you have a very
Andrea, she's so yes, meet Andrea Andrea is four months old.
She is in a nine oh 21 oh litter, so has some 90210 Original Castmates
litter names. She has a Brenda and kelly who are at best friends. Look at that face.
They all came to us,
us from the Prattville Humane Society and she
is available at Best Friends Animal Societies,
Lifesaving Center in new york city and you said she's only a couple of months old.
How big are you guys expecting her to get? She'll be a medium sized dog.
Okay, well that's the best size?
Yes, a lot of people, Elena are trying to get fit exercise more for their,
for their New Year's resolutions.
How can a pet really sort of help you with that.
I feel like if you're gonna go out and walk the
best person to take out there with you as your dog.
100% they're a great motivator and if you have an active dog or a puppy like Andrea,
she is your personal trainer.
So think of her, she's gonna make sure you get up and you go for your walk,
you get your steps in and if you walk at a vigorous pace, you're getting your cardio in
and we all love playing or being active with our pets.
But how can they also help with our wellness routine?
You mentioned, they kind of force you to get up and go outside.
Right, so first of all, pets are amazing at
distressing you, making you calmer, just sitting and petting your cat or dog.
Thank you. She's soft by the way, so that she's the perfect one to pet. She is.
And you can,
You know, you can do
meditation with your cat,
you could try a downward dog with your dog and
it's just a great way to calm your nerves.
My dog doesn't allow me to meditate for very long because then
it just gets in my face while I'm trying to be zen.
But either way, it's still
one of my new year's goals, Elena wish to be more social,
do you think a pet might be able to help me out with that a little bit more?
Remember
100%.
So when you're on those walks getting in your steps,
your pet is a natural icebreaker.
That's true, Everybody's like look at that dog, there are magnet.
And it also opens up conversations and you're talking to like minded people,
people who have dogs who love dogs who want to know where
or cats who want to know where your pet came from.
So how can pets help us eat healthier. That's interesting.
So Andrea wanted to bring her carrot. Yeah. Is that her favorite toy?
I saw her playing with?
She has that one and she has a little red but that one's not good for this.
This is not a segment answer.
So your pets were coming off of the holidays
and everyone was eating and drinking a lot.
So start sharing snacks with your pet pets can eat very healthy foods.
Dogs can eat pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, watermelon, blueberries
and carrots.
Those are all great treats to share with your pet and then cats can also eat lean meat,
fish,
a little bit of cheese.
I put a little bit of a scoop of pumpkin in my dogs
just it also helps them with their stomach is also really good.
Alina Hopman and Andrea the puppy,
which we are so happy you guys were able to join us this morning and by the way guys,
you can go to best friends dot org to find out more about best friends,
animal society and if you want to adopt Andrea as well, Alina,
thank you so much for getting up early to Andrea, thank you