“Tui na” isanother form of hands-on bodywork available for dogs, usually used inconjunction with acupressure. “Tui na” means “push and grasp.”  This is a form of Chinese manipulative therapy that resembles massage. It is very low risk and entails the practitione rkneading, rolling,…

The concept of laser therapy has been around for many years. It was first demonstrated during an unrelated animal study. Researchers noticed that mice exposed to the laser grew hair at a faster rate than the untreated mice. This led to the investigation of relatively low energy lasers on biological tissue. There have been thousands of studies documenting the effect laser light has on different…

Although my first ceremony was to aid in an animal’s passing, ceremonies and rituals can be performed for many other occasions as well. A ceremony can welcome a newly acquired animal into your life and help it let go of the life it left to come into yours. If you foster animals, a ceremony can be a beautiful way to say goodbye and bless them as they move into their new life. The hardest ceremony of all is, of course, saying goodbye as an animal passes on to the next…