Flower Essences Help Pets

Flower Remedies Especially Helpful for Trauma and Behavior Problems

Aug 19, 2008

Dogs, cats, birds, horses, and all types of farm, domestic and wild animals greatly benefit from vibrational/flower essences such as the Bach Flower Remedies and others.

The use of flower essences has spread with surprising strength among animal owners of all types. These include typical pet owners, plus owners and breeders of working animals, such as show cats, racehorses, and herding dogs.

While Fluffy and Fido’s problems surely deserve to be helped with flower essences, the enormous investment of time and money involved with working animals means that they receive many different types of treatments because their problems must be solved.

Veterinarians, groomers, pet sitters, and others who handle animals professionally also use essences to help smooth their interactions and minimize any trauma that might occur in the course of their work. Wildlife rehabilitators also find essences invaluable in their work.

Essences are helpful for such situations as shock, trauma, aggression, phobias, destructive behavior, relationship problems, and more. And because animals don’t have to struggle over whether essences are “weird” by the standards of the most orthodox medicine, they can just get on with getting better when they receive what they need.

Four Approaches to Choosing The Best Essences for an Animal

There are several approaches that are useful when trying to figure out just what essence or essences would help a particular animal the most; four will be briefly described here. First, the most general would be to give the animal a “generalist essence”. A generalist essence is one that has the broadest possible range of action and uses. Its description will speak about stress, trauma, upset, or a need for recovery. Examples are Bach’s Rescue Remedy, Healing Herbs’ Five Flower, or Masters’ Pear.

The second approach involves looking at the specific symptoms the animal is displaying. Is he being controlling and aggressive? Fearful of loud noises? Cowering at everyone and everything? Jealous of attention given to others? Each of these situations would be best addressed by a different essence; consult manufacturers’ literature to help guide you with making these more specific choices.

Third, you can switch your thinking to accentuating the positive: what qualities and abilities does he or she use to cope with the world? Is the animal naturally intelligent? Very affectionate? Highly athletic? Choose an essence that accentuates whatever their strength is, and you will be helping them strengthen their most depended upon quality.

The fourth approach is used when the animal’s personality is already well known. Regardless of what troublesome symptoms the animal is exhibiting at the moment, give her a remedy that most matches her underlying personality. Is she often spacey? Has to be in the middle of everything? Never rests until everyone has been taken care of? Choose a remedy to uplift and support her inner-most core to help her toward being her best.

How to Administer Essences to Animals

Adding the essence mixture to food or water is a simple approach. Dabbing some on his ears, lips, nose, or fur also works well, though cats will shy away from the smell if the essence is preserved in alcohol.

Animals have a great instinct for what is good for them and will often help you help them when what they are receiving is just right. Some pets are so happy to get their essences they will come running to accept a dropper-full right into their eager, open mouths!

But other animals — particularly ones who have been traumatized or abused — may not be easy to dose. It’s preferable to find a way by which the animal would not be further upset when given essences; some method that seems natural, non-intrusive and casual to them.

Explore the resources below to learn more about this tool for your pet’s health, happiness and wellbeing.

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