Earthing and pets: improving their health and well-being
Grounding offers benefits not only for people but also for pets. By bringing them into contact with grounding products, we can improve their health and well-being. This can lead to less stress, better sleep quality, and support of the immune system. Discover the benefits of grounding for your pet!
On a warm day, notice where your dog chooses to lie. Not on the tiles and not in the basket, but in the hollow he dug for himself under the shrub, belly against the bare soil. Cats do the same: they pick the flowerbed, not the patio. Animals seek out that ground by themselves.
Electrically there is no difference
Grounding works for an animal exactly as it does for you. The earth is a source of negatively charged free electrons, and as soon as there is skin contact the voltage between body and ground equalises. A body is a body; the number of legs makes no difference.
The contact is distributed differently in dogs and cats, though. Their paw pads are thick and keratinised, so they conduct only moderately. Most of the contact runs through the belly and flank, exactly as when they stretch out on the grass. An animal standing on a mat therefore makes less contact than one asleep and stretched out on it.
What we do and do not know
The research on grounding was carried out in humans: cortisol, inflammatory markers, the charge on red blood cells, vagal tone. What came out of it is in scientific evidence for grounding.
For pets we do not have those studies, and we are not going to promise effects on their health here. What we do see, and what customers mostly report, is that animals seek the mat out and stay on it. For most people that is the reason to put one down: their animal chooses it themselves.
Putting one down
The yoga mat is the handiest for this. It is long enough for a medium-sized dog to stretch out on, and you simply put it where your animal already lies: beside the sofa, by the window, or in the bottom of the basket. The desk mat is smaller and suits a cat or a small dog better.
Do not force anything. Put the mat somewhere your animal already likes and leave the rest alone. A cat who decides it is not her spot will not change her mind because you would prefer it.
The cable is the thing to watch
This is the one point that genuinely needs attention. Puppies, young cats and rabbits chew anything that looks like a cable, and that applies here just as it does to your phone charger.
Run the cable tight along the skirting board or under a rug, and leave no loose loop lying around. If your animal is in its chewing phase, a cable trunking or a length of cable sleeve from the hardware shop is worth it. And never leave an animal unsupervised with a loose cable if you know it goes for them.
Beyond that there is little to worry about: no current flows through the cable, because the plug uses only the earth pin and contains a 100,000 ohm resistor. How that works is in grounding: safe and effective.
Outdoors is and remains best
A garden where your animal can pick its own spot in the soil does all of this for free and better. The mat is the solution for indoors, for flats without a garden, and for the months when nobody lies down outside voluntarily.
And you
In practice most people buy a mat like this for themselves and only afterwards discover the dog has commandeered it. If you sleep on a sheet yourself and your dog or cat is on the bed with you, that is settled anyway.
Which product and which size suit your situation is what the guide at the bottom of the shop page asks you in a few short steps.
If you are worried about your animal's health, go to the vet. Grounding is not a treatment and we do not present it as one.
