Guardian Angels

   Animal Companion Guardian Angels <3 

    All animal companions pass away eventually no matter if its a horse, dog, cat, bird, rabbit, etc. We all deal with loss differently. Death is a part of life... but so is rebirth and healing from the loss. In the past few years I have lost most of my childhood animals mostly from old age but it makes me feel sad that my animal teachers who taught me so much as a child... teenager.. and young adult are not in this plane of existence anymore. 

    All of my childhood animal companions I loved and still love deeply. No matter if an animal passes away of old age or not its still a difficult loss. The hardest loss for me though out of all of them happened February 5, 2014. My Quarter Horse, Joe passed away at the age of eleven unexpectly. It was difficult for me because I felt he didn't live a full life. I still forget that it's been four years since he passed. As the years have passed since that icy cold February day I moved to Indiana to finish my Animal Behavior degree and work on my career life about eight months after he passed away. I believe now that everything truly does happen for a reason but that doesn't mean I don't feel numb about knowing he passed away so young. At that  time in my life I recently ended a long mentally and emotionally difficult relationship. For them five months that I had Joe in my life after that  break-up I talked to Joe and put all my feelings out to him without no judgement and horsey humor. Them five months Joe the horse was my therapist, best friend, and supporter through a time in my life that was an emotionally rough time. Thank you JoJo, I'm eternally grateful. 

   Why do us animal lovers always continue to adopt and save animals?... because they give us unconditional love, friendship like no other, and a sense of life with nature. 

Whoever is reading this I hope you believe in some higher source, no matter if it's God or gods because I know for a fact my animal companions who passed away are right here with me everyday through my pictures I have around my house to having a sense their near me in certain situations. What I hope you get from this blog is to grieve, heal, and believe that your animal companions are always right with you even if you can't see them. Keep the faith they're watching over. Remember you watched over them for their earth walk. 

                    In Loving Memory of..... Muffy the Minuature  

                                   Passed Away

                                                                                             January 4, 2018

                                                                                                   

 Rest In Peace

Life Does Get Busy...

Hi!

Traveling with my dog Savannah has always been pretty simple because she LOVES car rides but this past weekend I came back to Indiana from a visit home to Pennsylvania. Savannah just hasn't been herself. Not eating a lot, and mainly being destructive.... not okay! Let me confess something though it's not completely all Savannah Bananas fault. It's partially my fault. Why you ask? Because life gets busy..... Between me traveling, getting ready to move, working, getting my life in order I don't get Savannah her essential exercise she needs! As I started getting annoyed today with Savannah because was being destructive I stopped, paused, and evaluated that I'm slacking in my role  as dog mom and caregiver. When we as pet parents decide to adopt an animal ( please adopt don't shop!!!) we agree to feed, water, give them shelter, and give them proper exercise but that's easy to say in the beginning because your excited to get your new animal companion home with you. We don't realize life does get busy!!!

Okay now what? Life does get busy but that doesn't been the world is ending for your animal or yourself. My dilemma for the day/week so I had to start thinking what can I do to give Savannah exercise and not be bored? That's why I'm blogging about this today because it's a real life in the moment problem! Here are a few ideas I came up with for Savannah:

1. Doggie daycare (expensive so decided not to do that right now but still a good option)
2. Dog park (the best option for me!)
3. Find the dog a hobby!!! (Which means Agility classes, games classes, etc.)
4. Food/fun puzzles (you can make your own!)
5. Take for a walk (at least once a day for a 30-45 mins)
6. Play time inside or outside anywhere with fun toys like a rope, frisbee, etc

There's lots more ideas than these six but the above ideas are my favorite. Savannah will be 6 years old next month. I swear as she gets older her behavior is getting worse but then I realized I have been slacking on the exercise department for her. Most of the time the dogs aren't at fault, it's us humans.

Moral of this blog... first, both human and animals aren't perfect, second, when you get angry at your animal take a deep breath redirect the angry to fixing the problem not making the problem worse, and third, nothing is impossible so stay positive! Animals feel our energy and act on our energy. Good luck to all of you animal parents out there because life does get busy but we can do this together if we help each other out with ideas, communication, patience, and compassion for each other two and four legged!


With Love
Kristina 💚

                                                                           Savannah

Hello Bloggers!

My name is Kristina Czwakiel. First time blogger :) For my first blog I'm going to introduce myself and talking about what my goal is for me starting to blog. As I said my name is Kristina, 24 years old living in Bloomington, Indiana. I'm originally from Northeast, Pennsylvania from a small town in the beautiful mountains in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania! I have recently granted with my B.S. In Animal Behavior. My passion is animals! I'm animal obsessed and that's my main goal for this blog to talk about animals in general. Right now I have a 6 year old Beagle mix dog named Savannah, my boyfriends dog who I watch a lot and she's like my own is Maggie a 3 year old lab mix, and two kittens who are 10 months old that both my boyfriend and I saved in the woods named Biggie and Mercury! The main reason I decided to start blogging is because I want to share my thoughts on different topics about all sorts of animals and holistic treatments for animals and humans! I also will be talking about traveling and a few other random topics that interest me! My mission is to not bore you, spread my knowledge to save and netweok to help animals and humans. Talk to you soon!!