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Summary: When massaging a dog, it's important to use gentle strokes. Deep tissue massage will hurt your dog! Learn more about how to safely give a dog massage in this free pet care video lesson.

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Mary Norton Mary Norton is a Pet Masseuse and Veterinarian Assistant. She massages mostly dogs but has also worked on cats for close to 13 years. Mary became certified ... read more

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Dog Massage Stroking Techniques

Hi, I'm Mary with expertvillage.com and today we're going to start talking about the basic strokes and how you start pet massage. Very very first thing I have got to emphasize is how gentle your stroke needs to be when you're working with an animal. If you've had a massage by human beings before, you know that there's the light stokes and there's the deep tissue stokes. On no circumstance should you ever do a deep tissue stroke on a dog, you will hurt them. You take a nickel, you put it on the back of your hand and you feel how much that is, that is the amount of pressure you use on an animal. Please, keep that in mind. You cup your hand, you're going to start at the head. You're just going to very slowly go down, long and slow and easy. Now normally it's best if the animal is standing. However, since Keeta has got severe arthritis and she's thirteen years old, she doesn't like to stand very much. So I'm going to do this lying down. You're going to pass from nose to tail, three times, the main thing here is it's long and slow and steady, it is not a petting stroke. Remember, massage is not just petting your pet.

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