Effect of touching pets (dog/rabbit) on positive feeling of veterinary nursing college students

Abstract

From the age of the primitive hunter-gatherer through to the modern information age, people have lived with animals. One of the reasons we live with animals is their psychological effects touching animals has on us. In this study, we provided opportunities for veterinary nursing college students to touch animals in an experimental setting and analyzedtheresulting“positivefeeling”.Asaresult, we found that touching animals (a dog and rabbit) significantly induced a“positive feeling”in the students.