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.
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Always pet with a purpose,
Dr. Sue
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Touch Your Dog with Love
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.
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Dr. Sue enjoys teaching stretches to Camp K9 kids and the shelter dogs they work with.
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With a Ph.D. in Biological sciences from the University of Texas in Austin and a masters in Zoology from Southern Illinois University, Dr. Sue is devoted to the care and massaging of pets. Read her articles here.
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