The night I come home stressed, without any desire to communicate with humans, I take my cat on my lap and I tell him my worries, says Zouhour, 48, a tourism professional. Snuggled against me, he lets me talk without contradicting me, and his steady purring appeases me. When I have nothing more to say, I just caress him in silence. Gradually, I reach a sort of unbeatable bliss. "
Several recent studies show that people who live with a cat enjoy a better psychological health than those who live without (In All on the psychology of Joel Dehasse's cat - Odile Jacob). All the owners find, day after day, the power of their clawed companion, without being able to explain it. Paradoxically, it is an old "enemy" of cats, the journalist Véronique Aïache, who raises part of this mystery with a beautiful book entitled The Ronron Therapy. "Let's say that these animals left me indifferent, rectify it. But my daughter insisted so much that I let myself be convinced, and Plume came into my life. I was surprised to revel in his presence, and even to draw in his purring the inspiration of my writings. Feather, 2 years old today, has become the "soul of the house", as Cocteau said. In fact, I wrote this book because I could not find anything, apart from scattered information on the Internet, that would allow me to understand how a simple purr can be so valuable to the body and the mind. "