New Rattitude NW Team Tries TTouch

Four of New Rattitude's Northwest foster parents attended a Lori Stevens taught Tellington Touch seminar yesterday at the Northwest School of Animal Massage. We had a great time and learned so much! I am still letting it all sink in and will definitely be practicing both the touches as well as the body wrapping techniques for now. It was an intro class and I can tell that I have barely touched the tip of the iceberg as far as all the information there is about how this style of training/bodywork can help the foster dogs in our care. I think the thing that struck home most with me was some of the leash walking tips about how to better communicate with our dogs while walking with leashes. Langley will probably want to give Lori a big ol' slurpy kiss of thanks for that nugget of knowledge.

New Rattitude foster parents attending the seminar were Candace all the way from Amity, Oregon, Julee from Seattle, Blair from Everett and me from Federal Way. More importantly, NR alum D'Light not only attended but he starred in some of the bodywork segmants of the seminar. Also attending were current New Rattitude foster dogs Gramercy and Cody. Cody had some amazing breakthroughs during the groundwork segment that had all of us in tears. This boy has come so far! Read more about his journey at Merry Paws Training and Fostering.  Gramercy has his own amazing story, as does D'Light and you can read about them over at A Day in the Life of a New Rattitude Foster Dog.

Enjoy these photos and video from the seminar.

D'Light has regular TTouch sessions with Lori so he is an old pro and helped with demonstrations

 

He found all of us staring, photographing people a bit unnerving though. Can't blame him!

 

Here's Blair and Candace practicing touches with Lori

 

Gramercy was pretty relaxed after he got to be a test subject for some ear touches

 

Then it was outside for some groundwork. Here's D'Light and Julee

 

 

Gramercy was pretty interested in what his foster mom was doing out there with his foster brother

 

Cody made some wonderful breakthroughs during the groundwork portion and his face/body language relaxed for the first time in his 5 months of foster care! We were all pretty excited for him.



 

 

 

 

So lots of great learning and fun was had by all and we left excited to learn more!