Certify: Which Techniques Apply

12. Precautions: breathing difficulties, back and or neck dis-ease, obesity, fear, animal too big

13. Precautions: over bony areas, injury or bruised areas, spine

14. Precautions: joint dis-ease, fear of position, animal too big

15. Take time for each body part and pay attention to daily physical changes as well as pet personality changes.

16. Hum a sound slowly and relax with your breathing.

17. You must BOTH be in a comfortable position for the time together to be enjoyable and healthy.

18. Place your full hand anywhere on the pet and DON’T MOVE.

19. Sandwich paws with both hands and add gentle pulsing/squeezing to desensitize touch hairs on paws and relax feet.

20. Light long feather like stroking always remaining in touch.

21. Tap the tissue with cupped hands. Dog Breathe and use a rhythm.

22. Place your pet over your lap with its extremities hanging over your legs on either side.

Certify: Which Techniques Apply

23. Guide pet onto your stomach/chest, with the pet also on its back. With a supportive hug, rock yourself with pet back and fourth.

24. Once human-animal touch begins, your hands must always remain in contact with the animal so that pet knows where you are.

25. Vibrate extremities in all anatomical directions, one at a time, supporting the joints.

26. Rock & vibrate pet’s full body for back tension release and full body relaxation. Follow pet’s body rhythm.

27. As you feel extremities and body begin to rock with a relaxed rhythm, help legs, tail, trunk, head elongate.

28. Use full hand contact to begin lifting the skin and underlying tissue.

29. Interlace your fingers around your pet’s stomach and lift.

30. Gently lift tissue and sense skin and muscle moving separately.

31. By gently lifting thick tissue areas without pinching, slowly roll and PE the skin.