[MyFairLacy]

When I was a kid, I had a friend with asthma that got a chihuahua for this reason. I was actually thinking about this recently and wondering how true it was. I just don't see how a chihuahua could actually help with asthma. The only thing I can think of is the power of suggestion. Someone gets a chihuahua truly believing that it will help with their asthma...and because they believe this, it actually does help...not because the chihuahua actually does anything but because the person's body responds to the brain telling it that the chihuahua is helping. This is why drug studies are done using both the actual drug and a placebo (fake) pill. Sometimes people thinking they are receiving treatment, actually makes them think they are feeling the effects of it. There was a "House" episode last season where they were on an airplane and one of the passengers got really sick. Well they thought it was some major disease and several passengers developed the same symptoms. Well, it turned out those other passengers only developed those symptoms because they believed they were exposed to this terrible disease. Just a fictional episode but it really happens. By believing in something, it can have a major effect on you.