Vicky Gonzalez just assumed that Sasha, her 6-year-old German shepherd, would want his bed to be in the basement of their new Englewood, Colo., home. After all, that's where the kids hang out when they're there, and Sasha associates good things with the basement.
But the dog seemed depressed and appeared to take no pleasure in his basement nest when the kids weren't there.
Enter feng shui consultant Shannon Barker, who specializes in energy work for animals. She recognized right away that Sasha was stuck in a place of poor chi and that the key to lifting the dog's spirits lay in better harmonizing his surroundings.
Feng shui is the ancient Chinese art of placement. Placing objects and colors in just the right way can enhance the chi, or energy flow, and improve the way you - or your pet - feel, Barker says.
"My feng shui teachers always thought that I was a little wacky because I was always asking, 'What about the dog that lives there?' " Barker says. "Now clients really like that I consider their animals when doing feng shui. Certainly no feng shui consultant would come into your home and ignore your child.
"Well, people's animals are like their children, and they need to be considered. It makes sense to harmonize your home for all the creatures who live there."
So Barker analyzed Sasha's situation. Unlike cats, dogs thrive on active chi. They want to be in areas where the energy flows freely.
"Sasha's not an all-over-the-house dog," Gonzalez says. "He never has been. He likes being in the basement if we're there, but if nobody's in the house, he needs to be in a vantage point where he's overseeing the house. We picked a new area for him and got him a bed in nice, warm earth tones. … It's right here in the family room, which oversees the back yard and the kitchen, and he can hear the front door if anyone is coming in. He absolutely loves it."
Cats are a whole different story. Cats bring a home a totally different form of energy from dogs, Barker says. Cats are into healing and balance.
"Cats are energy recyclers," she says. "They'll go into a place that has the worst chi in the house and use their energy to reorganize it. Cats collect in places where there are sharp angles, because energy collects there. They go there to soften it."
Cat owners may frequently find their cats loitering in seldom-used corners. "The cat will knock itself out trying to bring life to a stagnant area," Barker says.
To make a cat's life easier, try hanging a crystal or setting a mirror or a plant in that out-of-the-way cubbyhole to which the cat seems inexplicably drawn, she says. The cat will love you for it.
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