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LOVE to Yourself! Choose or Combine:
GIVE a GIFT of
THERAUPETIC MASSAGE • MICRO POINT STIMULATION ENERGY WORK • TOXINS & PARASITES TESTING
Specializing in Children’s Massage (Including CSF) and Geriatric Massage (Including Arthritis)
Helen McReynolds LMT (MA#59614)
407-739-4776
HD330@embarqmail.com
(Located off Maitland Ave in Altamonte Springs)
DOG SPORTS
People & Pets Play Well Together by Sandra Murphy
My Credentials include: Music Therapy • Sound Healing • Qi Gong Quantum Touch • Reiki • Soul Enlightenment • Theta Healing Essential Oils • Herbs • Syncrometer Testing and Evolve
Money may buy you a fi ne dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.
~Richard S. “Kinky” Friedman W
ith most exercise programs, while his person works out, a dog stays home alone,
counting squirrels outside the window and wishing Animal Planet wasn’t a rerun. How about bringing some of that exercise home so the pet gets fi t, too? John E. Mayer, Ph.D., a Chicago clinical psychologist and author of Family Fit, maintains that, “Fitness works best as a group event, including the family dog. They love to participate in many things, so be creative. Try swimming, touch football, jumping rope, rollerblading, tag or hide-and-seek.” Diane Tegethoff Meadows and Susan Riches, Ph.D., each accepted a challenge to exercise with their dogs 30 minutes a day for 30 days. “I walk my three Scotties every morning anyway, so adding minutes was easy,” says Meadows, a retired senior paralegal in Bulverde, Texas. “One of them is in charge of choosing the route, and we seldom go the same way two days in a row.” Riches, a retired Fort Lewis College professor and archaeologist, in Durango, Colorado, doesn’t let inclement weather
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interfere. “Inside, we play fetch up and down the stairs,” she says. “I hide treats for tracking games of ‘fi nd it.’” The dogs also like to jump through hoops. “The Scottie and Westie go at it for 30 minutes; the Maltese stops after 15.” Jeff Lutton, a Dogtopia dog daycare/ boarding franchisee in Alexandria, Virginia, conducts a popular running club. “On Sunday mornings we have about 15 people that run with their dogs. My golden retriever used to run six miles, but since she’s 9 now, we’ve cut back to three.” “Treibball [TRY-ball] is herding without sheep, soccer without feet,” explains Dianna L. Stearns, president of the American Treibball Association, based in Northglenn, Colorado. “All you need is Pilates balls, a target stick for pointing, a signal clicker and treats. It’s a fun, problem-solving game for all involved.” The idea is for the dog to direct rubber balls into a goal with its nose, shoulder and/or paws—eventually, as many as eight balls in 10 minutes. Treibball can be played in group classes or competitions or at home using a kiddie soccer goal.
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