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By Jenn Merritt CPDT-KA, is a Tellington TTouch Companion Animal Practitioner and owner of Blue Dog Creature Coaching in Efland, NC Excessive barking is one of the most common behavioral complaints that I hear from clients about their dogs. Barking to excess takes many forms, from simple attention-seeking barking to alert barking, to compulsive barking […]
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Get in TTouch with Your Puppy
By Adam Rogers DVM & TTouch Practitioner 1 First published in the TTEAM Connections Newsletter Everybody loves puppies! With their playful ways and cute appearance you can’t help but want to wrap them in cotton wool with many of the maternal feelings we have for our own children. However in all too short a length
Get in TTouch with Your Puppy
How do you cope with stress? We all have different coping mechanisms. Some of us eat, some of us yell, some of us sleep, some of us shut down. No one is the same and no one has the same stress threshold and each one of us displays or copes with stress differently. Our animals
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By Edie-Jane Eaton (Tellington TTouch® Instructor) *This article was orginally published in the “TTEAM Connections” newsletter. While Edie-Jane focuses on horses in the text, this concept applies to all animals, including ourselves! It’s commonly accepted by Tellington TTouch® practitioners that when horses (or any animal) show resistance there’s always a reason – or several reasons.
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By Toni Shelbourne Fireworks, thunder storms, gun shots. For many animals, these seemingly benign events can be sources of fear, anxiety and terror. Many people struggle to comfort their dog or cat when he is in the throes of a firework induced panic, you may feel helpless and torn. Helpless because you feel there is
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While many of us are sheltering at place at home and physically distancing ourselves from other people, this is a wonderful time to introduce some new ways of connecting with our 4 legged family members. One of the wonderful things about TTouch is that a little can go a long way. Just spending a minute
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By Robyn Hood (first published in the TTEAM Connections Quarterly) In Part 1 I outlined exercises for day 1 and 2 in a week’s worth of 10 minute TTouch. In days 3 and 4 we add two new concepts that most animals enjoy a great deal, the “Octopus” and “Hair Slides” Day Three “Octopus” For
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By Robyn Hood (first published in the TTEAM Connections Quarterly) Think you’re too busy for TTouch? Think again! Here’s how to change your horse or dog’s attitude, behavior and performance in 10 minutes a day, or less. Most of us lead very busy lives. Horses and dogs may be a form of stress release for
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* This article by Tellington TTouch Instructor Kathy Cascade first appeared in our quarterly newsletter in 2008. Editors note: While some of the specific exercises and techniques may have changed slightly – the approach and attitude towards helping animals overcome their fear in a positive, low-stress and empathetic way has not. Alf’s experience demonstrates
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The Balance Leash is one of the original Tellington TTouch leading tools for dogs and is one of the basic leading exercises taught at all of our workshops and online courses for dogs. It is a simple and easy to use technique and has the versatility to be used on the fly with virtually any
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