Getting in TTouch with Your Cat: A Gentle Approach to Influencing Behavior and Health
by Linda Tellington-Jones
From renowned animal expert Linda Tellington-Jones, a delightful new book exclusively for cat owners, featuring 170 color photos. Widely known for its powers of healing, training, and communicating, the TTouch Method has proven enormously beneficial for all kinds of animals, from horses and dogs to elephants and cockatoos.
Now this celebrated author has written a book specifically for cat owners, breeders, and veterinarians, offering advice on how to solve a wide range of behavioral and physical problems. Tellington-Jones shows how the TTouch Method can help cats adapt to new environments, calm timid or nervous cats, and correct aggressive behavior like biting, scratching, and fighting. The book also illustrates the physiological benefits of TTouch and how it helps to ease pain and stress caused by arthritis, carsickness, digestive problems, and other disorders.
$13.95 Paperback. 115 pages. Publisher: Trafalgar Square, 2003
I have read your book twice and have also been an avid student of your video, TTouch of Magic for Cats. I am amazed at how well this technique works, seeing rapid results on the seven cats with whom I share my life. The TTouch has helped resolve their aggression, fear and pain levels. Two of the most dramatic results have been with my tortoiseshell, Hazy Baby, and a brown-patched tabby named Breezy. Hazy Baby is still "resolving her issues" as I call it, with some residual aggressive behavior but her fear of claw trimming and being picked up is almost nonexistent.
Breezy, now 4 1/2, fell off our kitchen counter as a kitten and sprained her back right leg. Although she recovered nicely from the injury, her leg seemed to remember the trauma and she would flee from my touch. Through gentle TTouches she is now totally relaxed and purring, turning over so that I can do her other side.
~ Jolene
I’ve just started your book and have already seen amazing results with an “unadoptable” cat that I took from a sheltering network I volunteer for.
I’ve been using Bach Flower Remedies and saw slow but steady progress until the the day after I tried your technique for about 10 minutes. (I didn’t even do a very good job because I had to jam my arm under the couch to do it!)
The day after I started trying your technique “Tommy” has started coming out from under the couch and wanting pets and will now let me touch him when he eats! He still isn’t thrilled about being picked up – but progress is so fast. It is only a matter of time!!! Thanks!!!!!
~ Sue
Maybe this will seem a very modest victory, but my feral cat came FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SEVEN YEARS WHEN I CALLED HER! She is so spooked that it has taken a whole month of patient Tellington TTouches to permit me to open a door and have her go out. Normally, this will take as many as five tries. She was too frightened to trust me. Same thing when she wanted to come in. Yes, all three of my cats have cat doors. June Bug’s whole body has softened. Her personality is emerging. In fact, she is so different that I am calling her a new name: Miranda. Because she is now a new cat. My doubting daughter insists that all this transformation is because I pay attention to her. No so. I paid attention to her for seven years and never got anywhere . . .
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