Product Description

A holistic trainer and physical therapist tells dog lovers how to keep their pets healthy for a long and happy life.

Dogs’ lives are high impact—playing, chasing, begging, walking. Just like people, they experience joint degeneration, muscle pain, stress, and general body breakdown. In Stretch Your Dog Healthy holistic health specialist Raquel Wynn offers dog owners the latest information on stretching, massage, acupressure, and other techniques to improve and maintain their dogs’ good health, enhance calm energy, and strengthen the pet–owner bond. The natural treatments in this book suggest preventive care and offer an alternative to expensive prescriptions for day-to-day ailments, including such chronic problems as hip dysplasia. The stretching routines that form the centerpiece of the book are clearly explained and accompanied by photos of dogs and owners demonstrating the poses.

Raquel Wynn’s stretching and massage techniques have been shown to drastically improve dogs’ daily well-being in addition to overall health and life expectancy. What better way to treat man’s best friend?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #142264 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780452289901
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Raquel Wynn, CSCS, CPT, LMT, is a holistic health specialist, personal trainer, and neuromuscular and massage therapist to humans and animals, including polo and foxhunting horses, and fly-ball and agility dogs. She is based in Nashville, where her clients include A-list actors, musicians, U.S. congressmen, professional athletes, and board members of the ASPCA. This is her first book.

Customer Reviews

FABULOUS BOOK!!!
LOVE this book!!!
It has helped so much with our dogs being more peaceful..they actually will lean into us while we are working on stretch moves, to let us know they enjoy the stretch!
The book has Excellent illustrations which are super easy to follow so as to make sure you are stretching your pet correctly.
Our cats love it too!!
GREAT BOOK FOR ALL SERIOUS DOG OWNERS!!

Stretch Your Dog Healthy
This book is a GREAT source of information. Easy to use the techniques & pictures shown in the book. We have 3 older labs that love the massage and stretches. It has made a big difference in their pain level and mobility. Thanks to Raquel Wynn for this Awesome information.

Interesting, but not what I expected
After reading the reviews of this book I expected it to have detailed, informative illustrations/photos & instructions to explain how to massage and stretch out your dog. There are plenty of illustrations, more than expected, but they don't really provide much insight or specifics on how to give my pet an effective stretching or massage session. I took the book with me to agility class and asked the instructor to look through the book and indicate which of the stretches in the book she would recommend, and only a few of the stretches she had suggested to us were included. Those stretches are great, but what was disturbing is that she warned against doing a few of the stretches in the book for fear of causing future problems. So I would caution you to have the vet or another professional look over the stretches included and recommend which are truly beneficial for your dog. For the stretches that are good, the book is helpful to help you remember what you need to do after having been shown the exercises.