Pet Anxiety: What “Punch” the Monkey Teaches Us About Supporting Our Own Pets

We’ve been talking about little Punch — the anxious monkey in Japan who found comfort in his favorite stuffed companion. He stole the hearts of the Internet when he was abandoned by his mother and was not fully accepted by the other monkeys... and he would run to this stuffed orangutan for comfort. This opened up the conversation about pet anxiety in general. Patrick Theobald, Community Program Manager at Best Friends Animal Society in Utah, joins the show to discuss.