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What Does Your Home Feel Like to Your Pet? · Happy You. Happy Dog.

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  Coco Moon: Welcome to Happy You Happy Dog. This show is for you,
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  the human behind the leash. I'm Coco, Animal Naturopath, and
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  this is Mana, the Mountain Boo. We are so delighted you are
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  here. If your dog is attached to your hip, your cat is
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  supervising your every move, and you are curious about the
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  wisdom, connection, and joy that blossom from sacred
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  companionship. You are in the right place. Our pets don't just
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  need us; they help shape who we become. So let's chat. Hello,
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  darling. Before we begin, I love you to imagine something. If our
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  homes could speak, what would they say our furries feel the
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  most? Peace, love, joy, busy, laughter, worry, safety. We
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  spend so much time thinking about what our homes look like,
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  rearranging furniture, decorating, but I wonder, what
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  do they feel like? When I know my adult kids are coming to
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  visit, before they arrive, I cook or bake their favorite from
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  their childhood. I make sure the house says welcome home, or
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  sometimes I add cinnamon and clove oil to candles to bring
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  that scent of Christmas, even in the summertime, because I love
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  that sense of wonder, I personally link the feeling of
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  my home with smell. A pot full of chicken soup.
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  In our family, all of us have a recipe that is a mix of mine and
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  Coates. Mine is a little simpler and faster, and Co was a chef,
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  so a little more complex. I remember Ko would shimmer the
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  soup for like two days, and he would make that soup whenever I
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  was feeling under the weather, the house was warmer, and I felt
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  so comforted. Before I even tasted it, my heart already felt
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  cared for. I do miss his soup, and here is another one: scent
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  of roses. Roses have so many powerful benefits, and I just
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  love roses so much. But that's a whole other conversation. But
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  every time I smell roses, my whole body exhales, my heart relaxes.
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  When my Ko was still around. Sometimes we have we had heated
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  discussion. Okay, fights. We were just you know both so
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  passionate people, and we didn't realize or we didn't notice we
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  didn't notice it while we were arguing, but afterwards the
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  energy of the room shifted. The air in the house has changed. I
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  would find Hoku and sorta hiding under the bed, Mana in the
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  corner trembling. Except only Hatter would get up on the table
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  and watch us argue or fight as if he was judging, worse he did.
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  They all felt it before we did. Have you ever wondered what your
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  fur baby was responding to before you realized.
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  The other day, Mana and I were out walking, and one of the
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  neighbors called Mana over. She got some balls for her, and in
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  her hand she already had the one. It was like an orange mini
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  tennis ball, and I politely said, "Mana would probably like
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  that squishy-looking blue-green one on the ground. The neighbor
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  said, "Why? And she presented both balls in front of Manna,
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  and she went straight for that squishy one. I told you so. No,
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  I didn't say that. How did I know? Honestly, most of the time
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  I can't explain it. Intuition is certainly part of how I
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  experience the world, but I don't think that's. That's the
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  whole story. When I really get into the creative flow, for me,
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  it's like the world disappears. I forget time. I forget to eat.
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  And then suddenly, I became aware that mana is being quietly
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  watching. I didn't even notice she left my side, which she
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  never does. I don't know how long she's been staring at me,
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  and sometimes there's a toy by her, or she's closer to the door
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  or her tree cabinet, but she's not bringing it to me. She's not
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  even wagging her tail. She's just quietly looking at me. But
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  as soon as I get up and stretch, she gets up on her little legs,
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  but still waits for. Is it a break time, Mana? Then she'll
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  smile, wag her tail, jump up on me, and do the circles. But if I
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  take my eyes back to work to my computer and say, Then she will
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  just call up and take a nap.
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  So you see, I think after years of accumulated moments, living,
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  laughing, crying, traveling, resting, and just being
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  together, Mana and I become beautifully attuned to each
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  other. One of the kindest lessons life keeps gifting me is
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  that not everything important is visible. Some illnesses aren't
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  visible. Some grief isn't visible. Some loneliness isn't
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  visible. Some healing isn't visible. Someone at the store
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  register can smile and still be carrying pain. Someone can laugh
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  during the movie, and still feel lonely. Have you ever said I'm
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  fine and not be fine at all? I have too many times, and maybe
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  our relationship with our darling companions remind us of
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  that every single day, because so much of what passes between
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  us is never spoken, and somehow our fur babies seem perfectly
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  comfortable living in that invisible world. They aren't
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  waiting for us to find the perfect words or explanation.
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  I wonder how many conversations we've already had without saying
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  a single word. You may have heard Fang Shui or Husui. It's
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  the beautiful Asian practice of arranging our homes in harmony
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  with nature and energies. I started wondering, what if we
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  could also arrange the emotional feeling of a home? That's how
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  Far Shui was born. Furshui is not arranging furniture, but
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  arranging presents. It's asking what is the emotional weather
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  inside our home today, because perhaps the greatest gift we can
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  give our fur babies isn't the perfect house. It's a home that
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  feels like love. If your home had today's weather, what would
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  it be? Sunny, stormy, foggy, peaceful, warm. Whatever. it is,
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  our little ones are living inside it with us. What would
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  your precious one be experiencing under that weather?
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  Our four babies aren't asking for perfect homes; they are
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  asking for homes where they can exhale, a place where laughter
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  is familiar, where gentle voices return after difficult
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  conversations, where someone notices when the sun comes
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  through the wind. And sit down for just a moment. Maybe they
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  are not remembering the expensive bed we bought them, or
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  whether dinner was exactly on time. Maybe they are remembering
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  how it felt to live beside us. Their memory fades, but that
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  stays with them forever, and perhaps that's quietly shaping
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  us too, because every time we choose one more deep breath, one
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  more kind word, one more moment of presence.
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  We aren't only changing ourselves; we are lovingly
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  changing the feeling our beloved companions calls home. Perhaps
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  the things that shape a home the most, or the very things we
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  cannot see, until someone who loves us quietly reflects them
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  back to us, and perhaps that's one of the greatest gifts our
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  little ones give us-not lessons, not answers, not even wisdom,
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  just their presence, their attunement, their way of seeing
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  us, long before we learn to see ourselves again, before we meet
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  again. Here is this week's little love message from my love
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  message from your pet oracle. This week's card is I see you.
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  Perhaps our fur babies have been seeing us whole All along, I see
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  you. You are enough. They are here loving us through
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  everything they see. I will love to hear what the two of you
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  discovered together this week. Until then, take gentle care of
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  yourself and your precious one, because your happiness matters.