Treating Your Pet’s Emotional Imbalances with Flower Essences

For many pets, a behavioral problem turns into a terminal disease. Every year, millions of pets that are often otherwise healthy are euthanized to give their human owners relief from their behavior problems. These problems can include unruliness, excessive vocalization, aggression, inappropriate urination, possessiveness, and destructiveness, just to name a few.

Unfortunately, euthanasia for behavior problems is the main cause of death in young animals. The high costs associated with proper veterinary attention and animal training also results in too many animals being abandoned and neglected by their owners.

However, in many cases a pet’s behavior problem can be modified and even solved completely without the use of expensive behavior therapy and training. In fact, a problem can be solved quite simply using little money with the help of flower essences.

Many people believe that an animal’s true nature becomes distorted after spending an extended period of time with humans. As a result, certain behavior problems can emerge. Flower essences can be used to restore balance in our pet’s lives.

Pets often respond to flower essence treatments more quickly than people do, perhaps because they don’t come equipped with the emotional baggage we all know as “skepticism.” Nothing makes a believer out of a nonbeliever better than seeing firsthand a pet’s dramatic response to a flower essence program.

Many veterinarians and other healthcare professionals recommend flower essences to the owner of a trouble pet. Sometimes only treating the owner results in a positive behavioral change in the pet! Animals are very sensitive to their owner’s emotional state. Pets, by nature, will both absorb and reflect the emotional climate of their household, whether good or bad. Animal behaviorist Michael Fox refers to this phenomenon as “sympathetic resonance.”

Pets seem to read human body language better than people do. Most pet owners also do not understand the real world of animal behavior and therefore consider it normal for animals to act in human ways. Therefore, they inappropriately apply human qualities to them.

For example, when Buster destroys the house he’s doing it because “he’s mad at me” or when Fluffy pees on the boyfriend’s coat she’s doing it because she’s “jealous.” Animal behaviorists are only too aware of this problem. Most agree that at least 50% of their work involves treating owners. This includes discovering to what extent the animal’s problem has been influenced by the owner’s behavior and educating them so that the pet doesn’t get into the same state again.

People often fail to recognize stress in their pets because they have come to regard the conditions they impose on them to be normal. It is not normal for a dog to be kept in a crate for hours and hours at a time with no exercise. However, many pet owners use the crate as a training tool.

I’m not saying that crates shouldn’t be used for training purposes. They are very effective when used properly. Pet owners simply need to understand that this is only one example of how we have removed from animals their natural territory, pack, pack leader, working and hunting oppurtunities and substituted a quite unnatural domestic situation. And the only reason we do it is because it works in OUR favor—not theirs.

Behaviors such as biting, chewing, smelling, barking, and scratching occur quite normally in the animal’s natural environment. However, they are considered problems when they are used in our environment.

When using flower essences to treat your pet’s behavior problems try putting yourself in the animal’s place. Try to feel what he feels and sense what he senses. Study the indications for each flower essence either by yourself or with a practitioner. You can then determine which are appropriate to use based on your pet’s behavior patterns, personality traits, and emotions.

Recommended Reading:

Bach Flower Remedies for Animals by Helen Graham and Gregory Vlamis

Flower Essences for Animals: Remedies for Helping the Pets You Love by Lila Devi