05/27/08

What Tellington TTouch Means to Me.

 Kona is my 9 year old Sheppard Malamute X.    .  

Kona and I attended our first TTouch Training  in the Spring of 2005, and that week in Rupert, Quebec, astounded me.  I went into that first training with the hope that it could help somewhat, but I never expected to get the improvements that occurred.  For the many months leading up to spring session, Kona had shown growing weakness and pain in here back legs.  She was having a hard time getting up to standing position from lying down and having great difficulty with climbing even a few steps.  I noticed that her bowl movements were becoming infrequent and increasingly strained.  Hot spots started to develop, but each summer had become more and more chronic and serious.  Even though my medical understanding of these issues was not very comprehensive, I did see the effects of her declining health as a whole package. 

By the end of the week long session, some of the observations I made were the following:

b Kona had started to stand up from lying down without wincing

b She maneuvered 5 stairs without faltering going up or down

b The last day of the session she had three bowel movements.