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The Tellington Touch — or TTouch — For Dogs |
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The Tellington Touch is actually a variety of touches that help with dog behavior or health problems. It's not massage really, though sometimes people think of it that way. You can have sessions for your dogs with TTouch practitioners or you can learn a lot yourself. Tests that have been done with brain wave machines have shown that the Tellington Touch activates the Beta waves in the animal's brain; as I recall, these tests were run with horses. The Beta waves are the ones that stimulate thinking. In a nutshell, the dog or other animal may create new pathways in its nervous system so that learning can occur in new ways. The results can be very dramatic, as I'll describe further on. The Tellington Touch was first developed with horses, by Linda Tellington-Jones. The work gradually spread to many other animals, and now she spends her time traveling widely doing and teaching the TTouch, writing books, and creating programs.
That dog video (now DVD) is the bestseller of all the twenty-some video programs that we have produced over the years. Why? Because the methods are effective and they work. People sometimes call or email us with their stories. I wish I had kept better track of all the things that people have told us. Here's a dramatic email I received from a woman who had just bought this program from us:
The Tellington Touch has helped dogs with arthritis, dogs who were overly aggressive... you name it, some dog has probably been helped by it! I won't go on any more here, because you can click to read more on another of my websites, hartworks.com, that describes a page about The Tellington Touch for Happier, Healthier Dogs, Featuring Linda Tellington-Jones with a lot more detail on how it helps dogs. If you wish, you can order it from there.
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That's
where my husband and I come into the story. We used to raise llamas
and we created a line of llama books and videos. I met Linda Tellington-Jones
at a llama conference and was deeply moved by watching her demonstrations
there. Once home, I tried out the methods on our llamas and loved
them. We made a video on using the TTouch with llamas with Linda,
and later we produced The Tellington Touch for Happier, Healthier
Dogs, Featuring Linda Tellington-Jones, and a companion
cat program. (That's our dear old Rhodesian Ridgeback, Cider,
on the cover with Linda.)
