Table of Contents
for The Healing Touch for Cats
The long list of benefitsenhancing health, accelerating healing, increasing love and trustmust be experienced to be believed. Massage is something every pet owner should offer their pets, and this book has everything you need to get started.
Susan Wynn, DVM, author of Emerging Therapies: Using Herbs and Nutraceuticals
The world-renowned veterinarian Michael W. Fox shares his years of wisdom and insights regarding the world of hands-on healing and holistic medicine for our Kindred Spirits. Read it and help heal your animal friends!
Allen Schoen, MS, DVM, author of Kindred Spirits: How the Remarkable Bond between Humans and Animals Can Change the Way We Live
Dr. Michael Fox generously shares his twenty years of experience. Our pets pain dissipates as the world of energetic vibrational healing comes alive on the pages of this easy-to-use book.
Donna Kelleher, author of The Last Chance Dog and Other True Stories of Holistic Animal Healing
A unique feature of these books is Dr. Foxs holistic viewpoint, which addresses not only the physical but also the mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of pets well-being and our relationships with them.
Jean Hofve, DVM
Michael Fox provides feline owners with in-depth information to insure the physical and psychological well-being of their cats. Easy to follow guidelines for healing touch, massage therapy, natural healing and general health make The Healing Touch for Cats a book I would highly recommend.
Ann N. Martin, author of Food Pets Die For: The Shocking Facts About Pet Food
Canine Pediatrics
Integrative
Development of Brain
and Behavior in the
Dog
Canine Behavior
Concepts in Ethology,
Animal and Human
Behavior
Understanding Your Pet
Returning to Eden:
Animal Rights and
Human Responsibility
How to Be Your Pets
Best Friend
Love Is a Happy Cat
The Healing Touch for
Dogs
Farm Animals:
Husbandry, Behavior,
and Veterinary
Practice (A Critics
Viewpoint)
One Earth, One Mind
Behavior of Wolves,
Dogs, and Related
Canids
The Whistling Hunters
Between Animal and
Man: The Key to the
Kingdom
Laboratory Animal
Husbandry
The New Animal
Doctors Answer Book
The New Eden
St. Francis of Assisi,
Animals, and Nature
Inhumane Society: The
American Way of
Exploiting Animals
Superdog: Raising the
Perfect Canine
Companion
Supercat: Raising the
Perfect Feline
Companion
You Can Save the
Animals: 50 Things
You Can Do Right
Now
Understanding Your
Dog
Understanding Your Cat
The Soul of the Wolf:
Observations and
Meditations
Superpigs and
Wondercorn: The
Brave New World of
Biotechnology and
Where It All Might
Lead
Agricide:The Hidden
Crisis That Affects Us
All
The Boundless Circle
Eating with Conscience:
The Bioethics of Food
Concepts in Ethology:
Animal Behavior and
Bioethics
Beyond Evolution: The
Genetically Altered
Future of Plants,
Animals, the Earth
and Humanity
Bringing Life to Ethics:
Global Bioethics for a
Humane Society
Childrens Books
Vixie, the Story of a
Little Fox
The Wolf
Sundance Coyote
Ramu and Chennai
What Is Your Dog
Saying? (with Wende
Devlin Gates)
What Is Your Cat
Saying? (with Wende
Devlin Gates)
Wild Dogs Three
Whitepaws: A Coyote-dog
Lessons from Nature:
Foxs Fables
The Touchlings
The Way of the
Dolphin
Animals Have Rights,
Too
To all my four-legged friends, patients, teachers, and healers.
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Photo and illustration credits: All photos by Bill Crandall and illustrations by Miyoko Yamashita, except photos on pages 6 and 80 by Kevin McGuinness, illustrations on page 101 and photos on pages 108 and 128 by Machiko, illustrations on pages 103 and 105 courtesy of Tallgrass Publishers, and photo on page 120 by Karen Hatt.
Printed in the United States
Design by Kevin McGuinness
Since the first edition of this book was published more than twenty years ago, I have seen its ripple effect on the human-animal bond and on the quality of care and consideration people give to their animal companions.
We generally make physical contact with our animal companions quite unconsciously, and our enjoyment mirrors theirs while they are being petted, which they will often solicit themselves. But when we touch them knowingly and make contact with specific parts of their bodies and at the same time consciously direct our energy, the Healing Touch is awakened. While petting helps affirm the human-animal bond, the Healing Touch is far more profound. Many readers have written to me confirming this observation. Shy animals have become more trusting; hyperactive and neurotic ones more calm. Aged and chronically ill animals have been given a new lease on life, or at least been made to feel more secure and comforted; and others have benefitted from their owners recognizing early signs of disease, since massage therapy is both diagnostic and therapeutic.
But as I emphasize in the book, massage is not a panacea. It is an adjunctive form of therapy and is one aspect of holistic healing that often entails a change in diet and other treatments rather than relying exclusively upon antibiotics, steroids, and other potentially harmful drugs. Many veterinarians who now practice holistic healing have found this book useful in their treatment programs; its something they can give to their clients with very beneficial results. Several human massage therapists and massage therapy schools have also used The Healing Touch to help their clients and students apply the basic techniques to their animal companions.
Those who have discovered their own healing powers through touch, some after following the instructions in this book, should share their discovery with others. Certainly there is a lingering cultural taboo against touching otherseven animalsthat has to be overcome. Also the prejudice against the ancient healing arts will be encountered in those who are still enchanted by modern hi-tech mechanistic medicine and who are suspicious of any reference to the spiritual realm and to the higher power. Fear is the final barrier to be overcome before we can experience the essential unity of all sentient life. As a culture we have become as disconnected from the natural world as we have from our own natural senses and latent powers. Rediscovering the Healing Touch and applying it in the form of massage therapy to our friendshuman and nonhuman alikewill do much to reconnect us all, for in wholeness is health. The Healing Touch, like the power of prayer in the laying on of hands, is a low-cost (often free) and very safe complementary and alternative medicine that we can all discover, practice, and enjoy giving and receiving.