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Dear Pet Lover,

Kids and shelter dogs have great fun at Camp K9 a summer program sponsored by the Dorothy O’Connor Pet Adoption Center (DOCPAC).

Each kid pairs with a dog for a week to teach them sit, come, stay, agility skills, and other good doggie manners that make the pups more adoptable. I volunteer each week to teach the campers about touch and canine massage. See Touch Your Dog with Love (below) to learn more about what your dog feels.

Get Balance Your Dog Canine Massage ebook normally $9.99. Keep reading to see how you can purchase it for 99ȼ and learn to massage your dog for relaxation, fitness, and healing.

Always pet with a purpose,
Dr. Sue

Keep an eye out for our upcoming Texas Workshops. Information on them will be in future newsletters! You don't want to miss out!

Original Publication Date: September 7, 2015
By C. Sue Furman, Ph.D.

Run your fingertips over a surface, and your sense of touch tells you if it is smooth, bumpy, velvety, or prickly, and if it is hot or cold. You can also distinguish a gentle touch from a smack and can definitely feel pain.

One might wonder how the brain discriminates one touch from another and if a dog's sense of touch works the same way. Actually, of the five senses that dogs and humans have, touch is the most similar.

Dogs have the same sensory receptors that we have in the skin to receive information from the outside world. There are three types of quite specialized sensory nerve endings.