Mind Your Mood

Have you ever noticed how our energy or mood affects the people around us?   Has your boss, co-worker, partner, or friend ever been in a bad mood and you had to sit there and “live it” with them?  How did you feel when you were stuck there, absorbing their muck of a mood?  Did …

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Be Kind To Animals E V E R Y Week

May 5-11 is Be Kind To Animals Week! As Conscious Companions we do this every day, but this week we have the opportunity to be proactive about it and encourage others.  Here are a few of my suggestions on what YOU can do: Adopt a pet from a shelter or rescue Every year over 3.7 million …

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The Clever Cavy

Guinea pigs are rodents from South America, originally domesticated by the Incas of Peru roughly 7,000 years ago.  Their relatives are Cavy Porcellus, found in Brazil and Cavy Boliviensis, located in the high Andes, and Cavy Cutleri which lives in Peru.  Scientists now believe these cavy companion were possibly domesticated from an extinct wild species …

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