What Does Your Home Feel Like to Your Pet?

Welcome to Happy You Happy Dog. This show is for you,

the human behind the leash. I'm Coco, Animal Naturopath, and

this is Mana, the Mountain Boo. We are so delighted you are

here. If your dog is attached to your hip, your cat is

supervising your every move, and you are curious about the

wisdom, connection, and joy that blossom from sacred

companionship. You are in the right place. Our pets don't just

need us; they help shape who we become. So let's chat. Hello,

darling. Before we begin, I love you to imagine something. If our

homes could speak, what would they say our furries feel the

most? Peace, love, joy, busy, laughter, worry, safety. We

spend so much time thinking about what our homes look like,

rearranging furniture, decorating, but I wonder, what

do they feel like? When I know my adult kids are coming to

visit, before they arrive, I cook or bake their favorite from

their childhood. I make sure the house says welcome home, or

sometimes I add cinnamon and clove oil to candles to bring

that scent of Christmas, even in the summertime, because I love

that sense of wonder, I personally link the feeling of

my home with smell. A pot full of chicken soup.

In our family, all of us have a recipe that is a mix of mine and

Coates. Mine is a little simpler and faster, and Co was a chef,

so a little more complex. I remember Ko would shimmer the

soup for like two days, and he would make that soup whenever I

was feeling under the weather, the house was warmer, and I felt

so comforted. Before I even tasted it, my heart already felt

cared for. I do miss his soup, and here is another one: scent

of roses. Roses have so many powerful benefits, and I just

love roses so much. But that's a whole other conversation. But

every time I smell roses, my whole body exhales, my heart relaxes.

When my Ko was still around. Sometimes we have we had heated

discussion. Okay, fights. We were just you know both so

passionate people, and we didn't realize or we didn't notice we

didn't notice it while we were arguing, but afterwards the

energy of the room shifted. The air in the house has changed. I

would find Hoku and sorta hiding under the bed, Mana in the

corner trembling. Except only Hatter would get up on the table

and watch us argue or fight as if he was judging, worse he did.

They all felt it before we did. Have you ever wondered what your

fur baby was responding to before you realized.

The other day, Mana and I were out walking, and one of the

neighbors called Mana over. She got some balls for her, and in

her hand she already had the one. It was like an orange mini

tennis ball, and I politely said, "Mana would probably like

that squishy-looking blue-green one on the ground. The neighbor

said, "Why? And she presented both balls in front of Manna,

and she went straight for that squishy one. I told you so. No,

I didn't say that. How did I know? Honestly, most of the time

I can't explain it. Intuition is certainly part of how I

experience the world, but I don't think that's. That's the

whole story. When I really get into the creative flow, for me,

it's like the world disappears. I forget time. I forget to eat.

And then suddenly, I became aware that mana is being quietly

watching. I didn't even notice she left my side, which she

never does. I don't know how long she's been staring at me,

and sometimes there's a toy by her, or she's closer to the door

or her tree cabinet, but she's not bringing it to me. She's not

even wagging her tail. She's just quietly looking at me. But

as soon as I get up and stretch, she gets up on her little legs,

but still waits for. Is it a break time, Mana? Then she'll

smile, wag her tail, jump up on me, and do the circles. But if I

take my eyes back to work to my computer and say, Then she will

just call up and take a nap.

So you see, I think after years of accumulated moments, living,

laughing, crying, traveling, resting, and just being

together, Mana and I become beautifully attuned to each

other. One of the kindest lessons life keeps gifting me is

that not everything important is visible. Some illnesses aren't

visible. Some grief isn't visible. Some loneliness isn't

visible. Some healing isn't visible. Someone at the store

register can smile and still be carrying pain. Someone can laugh

during the movie, and still feel lonely. Have you ever said I'm

fine and not be fine at all? I have too many times, and maybe

our relationship with our darling companions remind us of

that every single day, because so much of what passes between

us is never spoken, and somehow our fur babies seem perfectly

comfortable living in that invisible world. They aren't

waiting for us to find the perfect words or explanation.

I wonder how many conversations we've already had without saying

a single word. You may have heard Fang Shui or Husui. It's

the beautiful Asian practice of arranging our homes in harmony

with nature and energies. I started wondering, what if we

could also arrange the emotional feeling of a home? That's how

Far Shui was born. Furshui is not arranging furniture, but

arranging presents. It's asking what is the emotional weather

inside our home today, because perhaps the greatest gift we can

give our fur babies isn't the perfect house. It's a home that

feels like love. If your home had today's weather, what would

it be? Sunny, stormy, foggy, peaceful, warm. Whatever. it is,

our little ones are living inside it with us. What would

your precious one be experiencing under that weather?

Our four babies aren't asking for perfect homes; they are

asking for homes where they can exhale, a place where laughter

is familiar, where gentle voices return after difficult

conversations, where someone notices when the sun comes

through the wind. And sit down for just a moment. Maybe they

are not remembering the expensive bed we bought them, or

whether dinner was exactly on time. Maybe they are remembering

how it felt to live beside us. Their memory fades, but that

stays with them forever, and perhaps that's quietly shaping

us too, because every time we choose one more deep breath, one

more kind word, one more moment of presence.

We aren't only changing ourselves; we are lovingly

changing the feeling our beloved companions calls home. Perhaps

the things that shape a home the most, or the very things we

cannot see, until someone who loves us quietly reflects them

back to us, and perhaps that's one of the greatest gifts our

little ones give us-not lessons, not answers, not even wisdom,

just their presence, their attunement, their way of seeing

us, long before we learn to see ourselves again, before we meet

again. Here is this week's little love message from my love

message from your pet oracle. This week's card is I see you.

Perhaps our fur babies have been seeing us whole All along, I see

you. You are enough. They are here loving us through

everything they see. I will love to hear what the two of you

discovered together this week. Until then, take gentle care of

yourself and your precious one, because your happiness matters.