Welcome to episode 352 of Live Happy Now.

There's a big holiday in February that's all about love, and it isn't Valentine's Day.

This week, we're talking about National Love Your Pet Day.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm sitting down with Brittany Darren Bacher,

a clinical mental health counseling intern and founder of Luna Bell's Moon Bowes,

a special needs animal rescue.

In celebration of National Love Your Pet Day on February 20th,

Brittany is joining me to talk not only about what our pets do for us,

but to look at how we can learn to celebrate

them every day and enrich our lives in the process. Brittany, welcome back to live happy now.

Yeah, thanks so much for having me. I'm really happy to be back. Well, we have National Love Your

Pet Day coming up, and of course we thought of you because you know pets and you know how they work.

And so I really wanted to talk to you about this because, you know, we're all crazy about our pets,

but they do so much for us that we don't even think about. So I wondered if you could talk,

first of all, about some of the gifts that our pets are giving us that we're not even realizing.

Yeah. I mean, I feel like this episode should really be called like the power of pets.

Ooh, I like that. Yeah. Because I feel like the gifts that they give us are endless. I mean,

really, we could sit here and talk about this for hours because I think, you know, even if we were able to

brainstorm through, you know, just an exhaustive list, I think there's still something that could

be added to it daily, right? And I think it's most important first to talk about the joy that they

give us. I think that is the most important gift that is so unique

to animals because it's that no strings attached kind of joy. And I think that there's like nothing

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