At The Doggie Den we’re committed to improving the quality of life for you and your dog. To that end, we ensure that your pup gets plenty of exercise, affection, socialization, grooming, proper nutrition and training. Our goal is for you and your family to have the pleasure of living with a good-looking, healthy, relaxed, well-mannered canine companion.
We are pleased to announce an additional life-enhancing service for your dog: canine therapeutic massage. In recent years, dog owners have developed a heightened awareness of the role of exercise, excellent nutrition and preventive health care.
We offer massage as part of this growing awareness. Massage is an important aspect of a dog owner’s ability to increase their pet’s health, longevity and well-being.
It involves systematically applied touch and motion for the purpose of healing, improved circulation, relaxation, and pain management. Massage can also improve your dog’s self confidence, simply because he or she feels better.
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Here are some examples of massage’s great benefits:
- Provides relaxation and stress reduction: massage helps release endorphins.
- Builds trust in human touch for dogs that have been abused.
- Increases circulation, movement of body fluids, and elimination of toxins. These things in turn increase oxygenation and nutrition to muscle and soft tissue.
- Supports recovery from injuries and illnesses involving muscle and soft tissue.
- Eases the pain of arthritis, hip dysplasia and joint disease.
- Releases lactic acid from sore muscles, which decreases swelling and inflammation.
- Alleviates stiffness and eases spasms.
- And, of course, massage makes your dog feel
good!
Our massage therapist, Jeanne Georgon, is certified in small animal massage by The Bancroft School of Massage. In addition, she completed a supervised canine massage internship at The Doggie Den. The play care dogs who were lucky enough to receive her services during the internship still clamor to get to her when she enters the building. For the nervous dogs, Jeanne’s massages clearly accelerated the process of socialization that happens during play care. And one elderly arthritic pup began moving like a youngster!
For more information, give us a call at 508-393-6970.
To make an appointment, click here.
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