Do you love________________

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______________your pets more than your relatives?

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Surprisingly, Jake and Frisco aren’t the richest pets in the world. In 2007, New York hotel heiress Leona Helmsley bequeathed the majority of her estate, $12 million, to her white Maltese dog named Trouble. Later, a judge reduced the dog’s inheritance to $2 million, some of which was used to cover his $10,000 food and grooming expenses each year until he died in 2011. That same year, when Maria Assunta, the wealthy widow of an Italian businessman, died at age 94, she left her cat Tommaso a $13 million fortune that included cash and properties in Rome, Milan, and Calabria, a southern region of Italy.

While it may sound odd to leave such large sums of money to animals rather than relatives, our love of critters has evolutionary roots. When scientists at the California Institute of Technology and the University of California Los Angeles measured brain activity of people shown photos of animals — whether cute or dangerous — their amygdala, the portion of the brain associated with emotional reaction, lit up. Another study, conducted by Northeastern University, found that people feel more empathy toward an animal in distress than they do a human in the same situation.

Although how empathetic humans are toward cats with big bank accounts has yet to be studied.

http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/ma...-212601277.html

God cares!/Jesus saves!

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

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Do you love your pets more than your relatives?

yes, at least, more than some of my relatives...

and Scout loves me more than *most* of my relatives...

[ClubV12]

Amen and bow wow!

I do love my dogs and I do thank God for them.