Stress Reduction: Recognizing the signs of stress in an animal and helping to alleviate both the physical, emotional, and behavioral consequences of stress.
Building Confidence: Helps an animal cope with new environments, other animals and people in appropriate ways. This particularly applies to animals that come out of shelter and rescue situations . . . developing appropriate social skills!
Enhancing the Human/Animal Relationship: Involves helping people to better understand animal body language and communication signals, the need for animals to feel safe, and the true meaning of respectful interaction/training.
Positive Solutions: TTouch offers a positive approach to solving common behavioral and health-related issues, including inappropriate aggression, car sickness, separation anxiety, excessive barking, chewing, jumping up and leash-pulling in dogs, resistance to grooming, nervousness, shyness, thunder phobia etc.
Complements Other Training: The Tellington Method can be integrated into other training programs and enhance performance in agility, showing, and other performance activities.
Contributes to General Well-Being: Use to assist in recovery from injury and illness and offers support of veterinary care.
Use in Shelter and Rescue Environments: Help fearful and anxious animals develop trust to allow handling and improve adoption rates.