as far black as the 1790s, the owners of a senior citizen home in York,england,encouraged patients to spend time farm animals, bleieving that this would help their mental state more than the sometimes harsh therapies used on the mentally ill at the time. In recent years,scientists have finally begun to find proof that contact wits animals can increase a sick person's chance of survival and has been shown tower hear tate, calm upset children, and people to start a conversation