Men Love Dogs Too – Dogs at the Office

My work life has gone to the dogs… and I couldn’t be happier





Rambo with his laptop



I started a new job last October.

It has been everything I hoped it would be – creative, fulfilling, and busy with challenges around every corner.

Oh, and a resident dog. Yes, dog.

My new boss, who owns the business, loves her “children” (two cats and a dog) as she calls them and regularly brings them to work for some time away from the apartment they usually call home. When she asked me during the interview if working with animals would be an issue, naturally I said no. I wanted this wonderful job and I couldn’t see that having animals meandering around the desks would be any sort of a deal breaker.

And of course it hasn’t been. While it hasn’t been quite as I pictured it – I had somewhat romantically pictured cats and dogs draped across and around my desk like an office staffed by Dr Dolittle’s many four-legged followers – it has been the most fun I have ever had in an office.

Yes, fun. At work.

Apart from the fact that I am genuinely enjoying a job that reflects what I love doing far more than my old job, it is a joy all of its own having a small white terrier wandering around my feet and snuggling close by on his bed. Rambo, as this diminutive bundle of white fur is called in honour of you-know-who, spends much of his day either trotting happily from desk to desk for attention, which he gets in spades, or sleeping either next to my boss, or in her lap.

And you know the remarkable side effect for me? I tend to be calmer and far less stressed on those days when Rambo is in the office. Yes I still have the same amount of work to do and I am racing like a mad man to get it all done, but somehow the presence of sweet little Rambo at my feet begging for a stomach rub dials down the frantic to an almost zen-like calm.

Who knew? Well a phalanx of scientists it seems. Study after study has documented the calming and restorative effects of animals on people.

Nursing homes, especially ones with many Alzheimers patients, who bring in pets record higher levels of social engagement between their residents. Children with autism and Down’s syndrome interact more freely with people around them when our furry friends are around. And people who suffer regular seizures find their incidence drop remarkably with a companion dog by their side.

I won’t go into the scientific whys and wherefores in detail here, but there is ample evidence that animals make a massive difference to the happiness of people around them, especially the most need and vulnerable members of our community.

Now I wouldn’t classify myself as someone who’s vulnerable or in need but I have seen first hand the powerful effect one small dog can have on an office of very busy, focused people.

And behold it is very, very good.

Men Love Dogs Too! Guest Post:

Andrew is a cat person, who also happens to love dogs now thanks to the evangelizing ways of some adorable canines he knows. When he is not trying to keep his new found love for dogs quiet from the cats in his life, he loves listening to Coldplay, eating New York-baked cheesecake and blogging at sparklyprettybriiiight.com. He lives in Sydney, Australia.


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