How to Give Your Dog a Massage

Video Transcript

"Let's talk about how to massage your dog. Now deep massage or therapeutic massage should be left to the professionals. There are professional or certified dog massage therapists so talk to your veterinary clinic, they can hook you up with somebody like that, what we are really talking about is just gentle massage which is great. It's a great modality as a compliment to veterinary medicine to help joints and stiff necks, and backs and things like that. So what we are really talking about is using gentle but firm pressure you can start across the bridge of the nose, work over the head and again I'm just doing real gentle strokes like that. Taking the ear and massaging it between your finger and thumb. Like this towards the tips on both sides. Once you do that you can start working down, the neck they have, most dogs have a lot of skin around their neck and a lot of dogs like kind of gentle massage again across the neck and back especially if they have arthritis or problems with their neck or back. If they are painful or sore in any way, you want to stop don't ever get you know put yourself in danger as far as getting bit. Their muscles under the neck here that you can gently massage and work your way down the back like this and then start working your way across the legs. Dogs most of the time really like this and it will relax them if they are too antsy about it, walk them first and get some of that energy out and then again just use caution and be slow and gentle."