Students who overcome exam stress.

Children on the autism spectrum who find comfort.

Victims of abuse who feel more confident when they need to give testimony.

Lonely elderly people who get their zest for life back.

Convicts whose rehabilitation process becomes a little less difficult.

All that thanks to the benefits of spending time with horses, guinea pigs, cats… or even snakes.

Laurence Paoli went to meet people whose animal companions changed their lives, as well as to scientists who study those relationships.

Their combined points of view blaze a trail to a new relationship between people and animals.