“Bring him dog food in the morning, take him for a walk in the river at night, and make him chicken and vegetable mud for the weekend.” In Kobayashi, which operates on the Internet company, separates its own dog from its exclusive area on the balcony, "Friends say I'm better for dogs than myself, but it's my family."
Such ideas are becoming mainstream. According to the 2025 report on consumption trends in the pet industry, nearly 60 per cent of pets are included in long-term living arrangements, 58.5 per cent of them are in exclusive spaces, and 85.5 per cent of pets are “to gain emotional value, alleviate loneliness and anxiety”.
A study on pets and human well-being found that 83 per cent of pet owners believed that pets had a positive impact on mental health. In China, this phenomenon is particularly evident: 67 per cent of respondents believe that communicating with pets gives them a sense of calm and perturbation, while 70 per cent believe that mere company with pets can be a source of relief, and 90 per cent say that they have reduced the complexity of their emotions by temporarily dropping their busy work or other tasks.
Zhejiang of the Shanghai Three-Purpose Public Service Centre described his 10 healing dogs, who have served nearly 8,000 people, ranging from autistic children to elderly people in nursing homes, who have been “cured”.
The public goods of these healing dogs always hide their moving power in the microcosm. At first, there were people who watched from afar, and the children were afraid to reach out their fingers, while the elderly took a touch of the dog's back. Slowly, there's a lot of laughs -- autistic kids smile at dogs, and healers touch older people's hands with their noses on their own. "It's more like a hairy family who can read emotions. The head of the centre introduced.
But they are not born “intellectual”. “Sensitization training should endure being pulled, foot-stepped, emotional recognition classes, they learn to distinguish between crying and laughter, and hearing the former will be quiet and quiet, and listening to the latter will jump up and interact, like teaching the child to look. "Induction by the person in charge. From cat and dog, to Dolphin Café, special pet space has emerged in major cities. In Capyland, the first Cafe in Shanghai, two large dolphins were “silent” and “spud” for about eight months, eating grass. One of the guests was crouching around: "Look at them chewing grass, as if their troubles were chewing out."
The shopkeeper Zheng used to live “996” in a big factory, and the original purpose of the shop was simple: “The kind of `basking grass first' of Kapibala is a perfect place to be a modern person. Today's people need to allow themselves to be as dull as dolphins."
"The dolphins did nothing, but their very existence was like, "Don't rush, take it slow." The shopkeeper smiled and said, "This is the magic of the dolphins. They're not here to play with you, but to tell you that it's okay to waste time occasionally."
From one in a café, from the tenderness of the healing dogs to the daily company of the family, the pets are becoming one of the best in our lives. They will not speak comfort, but they will be able to be with you when you cry, they will not understand the fitness plan, but they will be able to complete your “last kilometre”, and they will not even have to do anything, as long as they lie there, they will be a cure for anxiety.