How to Massage Your Dog's Chest

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Patty Bianca: Hi! I am Patty Bianca of Natural Relief for Horse & Hound and this is my assistance Whisky. We are showing you how to massage your own dog.

In this segment we are going to show you how to massage your dogs chest area, the front of the chest, but before we get there, there is a little spot right on the neck, right in the middle, right about here at the base in the middle and this really helps relax the dog, else we do is simply apply a moderate amount of pressure with your thumb or fingers and make six circles towards the head in a nice slow rate. It helps relax the dog releases more endorphins.

Now, we can go down to the front of the chest area and Ill move Whisky around a little bit so you can see better and hopefully she wont fall off the deck. We start off with an open-handed percussion and Whisky particularly likes this part. Go across the chest light and back light, moderate and back moderate and heavy and back heavy.

Now, were going to take and were going to look for the groove right here in between the biceps and the pectoral muscles and were going to use that cat pawing technique and just cat paw up once light and down light, up moderate and down moderate and up heavy and on the heavy pass we look for any spasms that you might feel and treat with that direct pressure move. Light for ten, moderate for 15 and heavy for 20 that being done, well then go over and get this side the opposite side. So, cat paw up light, moderate and heavy, again looking for and treating those spasms with direct pressure. When we are done you just give a few heavy percussions across and back and that finishes up the chest.

This is Patty Bianca and Whisky and this has been how to massage your dogs front of the chest area.

In our next segment were going to work on the part behind the shoulder blade down into the posterior pectoral muscles and down the forearm.

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