{"id":347,"date":"2024-08-12T12:18:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T19:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shilohsvet.com\/blog\/?p=347"},"modified":"2024-08-12T12:18:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T19:18:34","slug":"feline-feng-shui-designing-a-harmonious-living-space-for-your-cats-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shilohsvet.com\/blog\/feline-feng-shui-designing-a-harmonious-living-space-for-your-cats-well-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Feline Feng Shui: Designing a Harmonious Living Space for Your Cat’s Well-Being"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Felines are notoriously finicky, and they often like their home environments to be just so<\/em>. If you\u2019re interested in harmonizing your home for cats according to the principles of feng shui, keep reading!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

What is Feng Shui?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Feng shui<\/a> is an ancient Taoist Chinese practice that \u201ccenters around energy flow and the ways items in your environment affect how you feel about your surroundings,\u201d so it\u2019s easy to see why this art of household arranging could appeal to cats. According to Architectural Digest<\/em><\/a>, when you create a home using the principles of feng shui, you arrange furniture and decor \u201cto promote health, harmony, and balance\u2026to allow for proper energy flow that aligns with natural forces.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes those \u201cnatural forces\u201d are your cat\u2019s well-being<\/a> in the home and their expressions about how the home makes them feel. Cats who feel unsettled in the home may eliminate outside the litter box, refuse meals, scratch the furniture, and more. Arranging your house according to a feline-friendly version of Feng Shui is worth it to keep your kitty happy at home!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Create Cat-Centric Living Spaces?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Feline-focused interior design can help your pet live their best life in an otherwise people-pleasing home. While humans tend to live via the horizontal spaces in our homes, cats will consider the vertical as well. We will sit at a desk, then simply cross a hallway to stand at a kitchen counter. But cats will move down from a cat tree to the floor, and then up to a windowsill if they choose. They also sleep and play in places we might not even fit, like behind a couch, under a bed, or on a bookshelf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kitties will also do a fair amount of moving around at night<\/a>, and rather than switch on a lamp like we might, they\u2019ll rely on their great low light vision<\/a> and on the air vibration and tangible environmental information they get from their sensitive whiskers<\/a>. Cats can\u2019t actually see in complete darkness, though, so it helps if they can be familiar with any furnishings or decorations that can create an obstacle. In the light or the dark, they\u2019ll appreciate a good flow throughout the home as they move from perch to food bowl to toy bin to litter box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And speaking of these different locales, cats will appreciate separate \u201cstations\u201d so that they can bird watch, eat<\/a>, play, and eliminate in dedicated spaces. Cats prefer peace and privacy, especially at meal or bathroom times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cat Feng Shui Principles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While achieving an authentic Feng Shui setup relies on working with an expert in your home, there are some general ideals that overlap between Taoist beliefs and functional feline living:<\/p>\n\n\n\n