Why Lively Dog?
Lively Dog provides massage and Reiki healing, services that enhance the quality of life for all your small animals. These therapies can have profound effects on the physical and mental well-being of people and animals. The results of touch therapies can be immediate as well as manifest over time.
How to please an animal lover
Animal lovers are passionate about their pets. Give them a gift that says you respect the high value they place on their "furbaby." A gift certificate for a session at Lively Dog will tickle your friends, make their animal feel great, and may make their households more peaceful, as well. Contact us for a gift certificate in any denomination.
I love a lively dog...
I like my dogs lively. Ready to go, ready to run, ready to play at a moment's notice. Able to relax and just be when the situation warrants.
My beloved dog, Muffy, who shared almost half my life, was a lively dog even at sixteen. She�d sleep all night with me, sleep most of the morning with my mother, and then be ready to run and spring and sproing and delight us. She loved to go for walks despite her aging limbs and would follow me happily until she�d reach a certain point and sit down, refusing to budge. We had gone, she decided, exactly half of the distance she could comfortably walk, and it was time to turn around. If we did, we would trot home; if I coaxed her to go further, I would find myself carrying her home the extra distance.
This was a dog that was in tune with herself.
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My training
Lisa Ruthig BS Biology, University of Delaware 1991
Certified Small Animal Massage Therapist,
graduate of Bancroft School of Massage Therapy Small Animal Massage Program,
a 200 hour training program with in-depth instruction in canine and feline anatomy,
animal behavior, animal first-aid, gait analysis, and advanced massage techniques.
Instructor of Equine Anatomy at Bancroft School of Massage Therapy
Certified Reiki Practioner Level II, attuned by Aileen D'Angelo, Registered Reiki Master/ Teacher
Member, Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals
