The Marvelous Miss  Molly Marie   

             

Chris Hogan Lifeline4Paws Bella's surgery

Mom's looking out the back door and goes "Uh oh!!". Naturally, I get up to go see what's stressing her out now. I see a pile of something black that looks like a dead crow. "Kewl!", I say. "Let me OUT!!". She just stares at whatever and doesn't move. "LET ME OUT..OUT...OUT!!", I say.

"OK...but you stay away from that dead bird!", she warns me. "Yeah, sure! Whatever!", and I immediately race lickety-split across the back yard to "the bird". I'm like totally cracking up now that I'm standing by the object of her distress and she's hollering "NO NO NO!!". I'm just enjoying the moment. I reach out and touch "the bird" with my paw and it flops over. "Arrrggghhhhh!", she says and goes inside to get her shoes. Personally, I thought it looked less like a dead crow after I flipped it but some people need convincing.

She grabs the cell phone camera and notices that the battery is dead, so she plugs it in to charge it. She looks outside and I'm not by "the body" anymore. This is way too much fun to clue her in right now, so I saunter over to the fence and twiddle around over there and then I amble into the house, soggy feet and all.

About a half-hour later she checks her cell phone and it's got a 50% charge, so she goes out to inspect the "body". I might add that it's raining and the back yard is like a swamp in some places, but still she goes out. She seems to want to document this event for posterity.

I'm standing in the kitchen watching all this and trying really hard not to laugh out loud. Mom takes her picture and wades back into the house, glaring at me the whole time. "Funny, Mary-Margaret!", she says. "REAL FUNNY!". Well, I think so but then some people don't share my sense of humor.

I find my entertainment wherever I can.

Mary-Margaret

Mary-Margaret O'Brien 

Lt. Chaplain - Yorkie Brigade Chapel 

"Yorkie prayers are Angel's wishes!"

The Ears Have It!

  

     Ellie and I were relishing a rare opportunity for in-person conversation when Ellie's little dog Maizy came and sat almost in front of me, back turned,  left hip resting against the outside of my right foot. 

  

    I leaned over to say hello, offered her my hand to examine, then stroked her with the back of my hand.  She liked the contact, leaned into it.  I turned my hand over, continuing to stroke with palm and fingers, while returning my attention to Ellie.  A few minutes later, Ellie abruptly stopped talking and began listing intently.  What she heard was Maizy, making humming exhales and soft sighs of pleasure.  I looked down to discover my hand doing Ear TTouches, while I was intuitively supporting her body with my foot and ankle.  

 

     Decades of passionate experience learning and using  Tellington TT  have infused this gentle, powerful work into my cells.  When I have the priviledge of touching an animal, a connedtion is turned on between the Being and me,  an impluse that bypasses my conscious brain and comes directly from my hands.  Within seconds, my hands  begin to TTouch them.   Thus Maizy got Ear Touch without me planning it, and she loved it.  Ellie said she'd never heard Maizy make such sounds before, and Maizy has been with Ellie for many years.  Now Ellie TTouches Maizy's ears often.

  

    My gratitude to Maizy for reminding me to share Ear TTouch with you, either again, or for the first time!  Ear TTouch, done gently,  stimulates acupressure points for every organ, promotes relaxation, stimulates recovery from shock and trauma, stabilizes circulation, helps digestion and upset tummy, helps reduce fear, feels good, and so much more.  Ear TT works its magic on any animal with ears, including a human animal. 

  

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE

  

"Stabilize the dog's head with one hand.  The thumb and fingers of your other hand hold the opposite ear in such a way that your thumb is on top.  Change hands when you want to stroke the other ear.  Gently stroke the ear with your thumb from the center of the head tp tje base pf tje ear. and all the way to the tip.  Work different areas with each slide so that you cover every square inch of the ear.  With a floppy-eared dog, lift the ears gently so they are horizontal to the ground.  Work upright ears in an upward direction. 

  

If your dog has soft, flopy ears, support the ear with your fingers.  Do not pull the ear, but just stroke the fur gently,  Imagine the ear to be a rose petal, so use only the lightest pressure.  If you are trying to help your dog relax, use slow, gentle slides. 

  

HOW TO

  

1. Even long ears should be stroked horizontally all the way to the tip. 

  

2. You can also make small circles with your thumb in order to cover the entire surface of the ear.  Hold the ear out sideways and start at its base.  This circular Ear TTouch helps the dog with arthritis. 

  

3. Work the whole surface with small, light TTouches until you arrive at the lower edge of the ear.  "

  

                                                   From: GETTING IN TTOUCH WITH YOUR DOG

                                                                Linda Tellington-Jones

                                                                Copyright 1999, used with permission.

  

 

Ears to you!  Stay in TTouch,

  

Penny Case

Guild Certified Tellington TTouch Practitioner

star9fish@aol.com

 

 

The Hughes were able to travel to Manteca and pick up Missy today. She is going to learn to ride in the basket of Bill's scooter