Healing Fur Souls: Natural Health Care for Dogs

09/15/2025

09/12/2025

If the headlines feel heavy, hold your dogs close. They smell your grief, your anger and your sadness….

The Jacobson’s Organ

Dogs don’t just smell with their noses—they have a tiny super-sensor called Jacobson’s organ (the vomeronasal organ) tucked in the roof of the mouth. When they curl their lips or lightly “taste” the air, they’re drawing in quiet chemical messages—pheromones—that plug straight into the brain areas for emotion and social connection. It helps them read the world: who’s been here, if a place feels safe, and yes, how we’re doing. They can catch the scent of our stress and our calm, and they take their cues from us.

So this week, when everything feels like too much, give your dog something gentle to breathe in. Step outside together. Let them linger on every blade of grass and you linger on every breath. Feel the ground under feet and paws. Nature co-regulates the two of you—softening stress hormones, lifting oxytocin, reminding both nervous systems that safety is possible.

Here’s a gentle reset for both of you:
- Trade some screen time for a slow “sniffari.” Let your dog lead, linger, and read the world with their nose.

- Get into nature if you can. Ground with a few deep exhales, soften your shoulders, feel your feet on the earth.

- Co-regulate together: your calmer breathing helps lower both of your stress hormones and boosts bonding hormones like oxytocin. Over time this strengthens trust, safety, and resilience—your dog grows more confident, and your connection grows deeper.

Your steadiness becomes their steadiness. Their curiosity becomes your reminder that joy still lives in tiny places: the first cool breeze, the rustle of leaves, the warm press of a shoulder against your leg.

Be gentle with yourselves today. Unplug, wander, sniff, and come home lighter—together.

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09/05/2025

A nice surprise with our raw food delivery! Thanks to Big Country Raw for the free pumpkin spice goat ice cream treat!

08/08/2025

Always ask - some time-tested vaccines are safer than others.
Remember that early mRNA vaccine research was stopped due to the high death and injury rates of animals that were used in those research studies.

08/01/2025

Yes, dogs have souls. Did you also know that our animals have soul contracts with us?

Your heart knows.

Visit HealingFurSouls.com for our spiritually & nature-based inspirations for you and your Fur Soul.

07/09/2025

Boop da snoot!