" hotshot Pittas ", " pets "

Years ago I had a psychiatrist friend who owned two Siamese cats. In
our damp English climate the cats would nestle on top of the gas
cooker between the ever burning pilot lights that kept them just a
few degrees warmer than the surroundings.

So lazy were these semi-domesticated cats that they would not stir
from their place to do their 'business' and I heard on occasion of
the hot plate having to be 'scraped' before the evening meal was
cooked.

It confirmed my suspicion about psychiatrists & I never did eat at
that house ;-)

Sammy.




--- In qigongkundalini@yahoogroups.com, "Inna <innaz@y...>"
<innaz@y...> wrote:
> Pets are extensions of their owners' personalities, small
> versions of their masters. Most people prefer pets with whom they
can
> innately relate, who reflect their own character traits, but it is
> better to keep a pet who is therapeutic for your own imbalances.
> Vatta people do well with dogs, for example, because a canine's
> lovable, sloppy, openheartedness warms, reassures, relaxes and
> stabilizes the Vattas cold, fearful, fickle nature. Kapha
individuals
> do better with small animals like birds because an avian's light,
> bright cheerfulness helps offset some of a Kapha's natural
> ponderousness, sluggishness and fixity.
>
> Some Kapha people find large dogs beneficial because both dog
> and owner need vigorous exercise, and responsibility for the canine
> encourages the Kapha person to exercise along with the, dog. Some
> Vatta types do well with small furry high-strung animals like
guinea
> pigs and hamsters, which elicit maternal instinct from their owners.
>
> Pitta personalities are sometimes too overbearing to obtain
much
> incen-tive for self-development from the simpler personalities of
> birds and beasts. Pittas should not take the easy way out and
select
> an animal who is too easy to get along with, nor one who is so
> aggressive that the two beings feed off one another's instincts to
> violence. A large long-lived bird like a parrot may be complex
enough
> to demand attention from a Pitta, but cats, who have strongly held
> opinions about most subjects including their masters, present
> continuous challenges to the probing Pitta mind and make perhaps
the
> best Pitta pets. The Pitta has to keep up with the feline, and this
> is a refreshingly new experience for many hotshot Pittas.
>
> From Prakruti by Robert Svoboda
>
> For an intro to Ayurveda go to http://www.ayurveda.com/online%
> 20resource/intro_ayurveda.html