World Mental Health Day
Today’s blog post is a special one. Today (09/10/2020) is World Mental Health Day, and mental health is so important for all of us here at Paws. You may have read that the opening of Paws Cat Cafe was driven by mental health and that it completely turned Elaine and Lauren’s lives upside down for the better. If you haven’t read that yet, you can read about that here: https://pawscatcafe.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-story-of-paws-cat-cafe.html?m=1 Cats can play a large part in many peoples lives when it comes to mental health. In fact, any pet can give someone a sense of purpose and love, because they love you as much as you love them, and you want to take good care of them! But specifically cats have real medical benefits: Their purr frequency is exactly 26 Hertz, which is the same frequency used by scientists to promote tissue regeneration! Stroking them can be very calming and therapeutic, and has also proven to lessen the tics caused by Tourette’s while you’re stroking a cat too. The
