The techniques are being used all over the world by veterinarians, technicians, groomers, and trainers in zoos, animal shelters, and homes. TTouch is two sets of techniques body work and ground work. The body work is a collection of specific touches designed to work on emotional and health problems. The touches are not massage or accupressure, and they are not invasive. The body work includes various gentle manipulation of body parts.
Ground work involves guiding the animal through movement exercises in non-habitual ways.
Together, body work and ground work are designed to create a calm, attentive, focused state of consciousness and bring feelings, habitual responses, and bodily states of awareness. In this state, the animal can use its mental and physical resources to reorganize its programming and develop more appropriate patterns and responses. TTouch has helped dogs suffering from barking and chewing, fear and shyness, car sickness, jumping up and leash-pulling, fear aggression, submissive urination, separation anxiety, arthritis, discomfort associated with hip dysplasia, and more. TTouch is easy to do and takes very little time to achieve results. Sessions are one hour long, one week apart, for three weeks.