Tellington Touch

[lovemesideways]

I've recently heard about this method from a "behaviour specialist" who practices the "t-touch method" and I have to say that what I heard from this person made it sound extremely silly and far fetched. With a lot of talk that sounded to me like she was thinking of these dogs as little furry children.

Would love someone to give me some Real info on this method and what's it about.

I've researched around and I cant seem to find anything that really explains how its supposed to work.

I'm always keen to learn anything new so please someone point me in the right direction !

[wylie]

T touch is an awesome adjunct in natural therapies.

I have used it on fearful dogs as well as on puppies and have good results.

I have a friend who is a T touch practitioner and her advise has always been invaluable.

I am sure there are some other threads on DOL about it have a search.

[corvus]

I have read the first T-Touch book Linda put out and found it really interesting. I think that there's a lot of use for it. I've tried it a little on my two dogs and learnt that if you do it wrong it's kinda jarring and for my arthritic dog can be painful, but if you do it right it's pretty amazing and the dog just sinks into your hands. Kivi turns to putty if I find the right pressure and the right spots. We have had great success using it to help him with car sickness. I tried it on a couple of anxious dogs I met on holidays and they pretty much surrendered.

The books are good for telling you how to do it and when to use what kinds of touches, but in my experience so far there's a lot more to it. You really have to sync yourself with the animal to get the best results, and that's something that's hard to achieve consciously, I think. My mother is better at it than me and has been taming her new pet budgie with T-Touch and last I heard it was working very well.

It does come off pretty airy fairy a lot of the time, which makes it difficult to take it seriously. I suggest you just think of it as massage. If you've had a good massage you'll know that it's very difficult to resist relaxing. If you've had a bad massage you would know that it can be uncomfortable or even painful. When you are concentrating on giving your animal a good massage you often suddenly discover you are matching your breathing rate with the animal and your fingers are moving to the same rhythm and everything seems to work.

[Cala]

I have read the first T-Touch book Linda put out and found it really interesting. I think that there's a lot of use for it. I've tried it a little on my two dogs and learnt that if you do it wrong it's kinda jarring and for my arthritic dog can be painful, but if you do it right it's pretty amazing and the dog just sinks into your hands. Kivi turns to putty if I find the right pressure and the right spots. We have had great success using it to help him with car sickness. I tried it on a couple of anxious dogs I met on holidays and they pretty much surrendered.

The books are good for telling you how to do it and when to use what kinds of touches, but in my experience so far there's a lot more to it. You really have to sync yourself with the animal to get the best results, and that's something that's hard to achieve consciously, I think. My mother is better at it than me and has been taming her new pet budgie with T-Touch and last I heard it was working very well.

It does come off pretty airy fairy a lot of the time, which makes it difficult to take it seriously. I suggest you just think of it as massage. If you've had a good massage you'll know that it's very difficult to resist relaxing. If you've had a bad massage you would know that it can be uncomfortable or even painful. When you are concentrating on giving your animal a good massage you often suddenly discover you are matching your breathing rate with the animal and your fingers are moving to the same rhythm and everything seems to work.

I always use it when teaching stand for examination - guaranteed that the dog will stay put!

[RubyStar]

I always use it when teaching stand for examination - guaranteed that the dog will stay put!

Now this sounds interesting, any chance you can give us any more info on what you do to achieve this? I'll use any good method I can to achieve a solid SFE!!

[corvus]

Kivi tends to fall over when I work on him. Works well for when he's a little nervous, though. How do you go about it to avoid having the dog lie down?

[persephone]

Gosh- haven't heard of this for ages... someone used to use it on their horses

[The Spotted Devil]

Zig had a Bowen session last week (same day I did actually...we were both whacked ) The guy said he started with TT and then moved on to Bowen after experiencing the latter for himself. He now works on dogs and horses. Some of the effects of these treatments are quite amazing!