Dog and Soul

Happy Monday everyone! There's only a little more than two weeks left of August. Dog & Soul is giving Mostly Mutts $25 for every private canine massage given within 30 miles of their location through August 31st. If you are a Mostly Mutts volunteer, take advantage of 50% off of private canine massage if you live within 10 miles of their location until August 31st; $25 will go to the rescue for your pup's massage as well. Finally, if you have a tripawd or three legged dog, enjoy $25 off your pups massage if you live within 30 miles of their Mostly Mutts through August 31st.

If you volunteer with Mostly Mutts, enjoy 50% off of private canine massages all month long! You must live within 10 miles of their location, and $25 is still donated to the rescue!

Ashley Peter is also a volunteer at Mostly Mutts. She is a Nationally Certified Canine Massage Practitioner and the owner of Dog & Soul. Because she is certified by the NBCAAM and has earned over 950 hours of massage training since 2017, she may be the most up-to-date and highly trained certified canine massage practitioner in the Southeastern United States.

Call 404-652-9842 to schedule your pup's massage, and follow along to keep up with Dog & Soul's specials!

Dog & Soul is giving 20% off of private canine massage if you call today and schedule for anytime during August! You must live within 30 miles of Mostly Mutts, and we are still giving Mostly Mutts $25 for every massage!

Are you a volunteer at Mostly Mutts? If so, and you live within 10 miles of Mostly Mutts, you can get your dog a private canine massage for 50% off! This deal is going on all month!

Ashley Peter is the owner of Dog & Soul, a Nationally Certified Canine Massage Practitioner, and a volunteer at Mostly Mutts. Because she is certified by the NBCAAM and has earned over 950 hours of massage training since 2017, she may be the most up-to-date and highly trained certified canine massage practitioner in the Southeastern United States. If you want your dog to have a professional canine massage, she is probably who you want your dog to get a massage from!

This discount cannot be combined with any other discount.

Do you have or know a three-legged dog or tripawd? Yes? Well guess what? Dog & Soul is now offering 25% off to three-legged/tripawd dogs when they get a private canine massage! To keep things simple for August 2021, this deal is available to dogs who live within 30 miles of Mostly Mutts in Kennesaw. The three-legged dog/tripawd discount cannot be combined with any other discount, but $25 will still go to Mostly Mutts for every private canine massage for all of August 2021! Please share the news with all of your three-legged canine friends!

Do you give your dog massages? If you do, Dog & Soul loves that you care about your dog, but we also don't want you to accidently harm your fur baby. Ashley, the owner of Dog & Soul and a nationally certified canine massage practitioner, recently wrote a short informational piece called "How Canine Massage Can Hurt; 10 Common Health Factors That Can Make Canine Massage Unsafe". It's now available at DogAndSoul.Dog and will be sent to your email address as a PDF.

Did you know almost all 50 states require human massage therapists to be licensed. This greatly helps decrease the number of people getting accidentally physically hurt by massage. Massage can cause pain and injury if given to people who have some common medical conditions or who are even taking some over the counter pain medications. Massage can even make some acute medical conditions worse.

If you want to massage your dog, we think you are amazing, but please make sure its safe to massage your dog. You can also speak with your vet about your dog's current health and if he or she thinks massage is safe at this point, but you can also get this highly informative work to keep on hand just in case. Additionally, not all veterinarians are aware of the risk factors of massage.

Don't forget Dog & Soul is giving $25 to Mostly Mutts for every private canine massage given within 30 miles of their location in Kennesaw for all of August 2021! Call 404-652-9842 to schedule your best friend's massage!

Exciting news! Today's the first weekday of the month, and that means Dog & Soul is now donating $25 to Mostly Mutts for every private canine massage given within 30 miles of their location in Kennesaw! This will be happening all month long!

Want to learn more about Dog & Soul? Check out the website, there's a link in the bio. You can also call 404-652-9842.

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What's the difference between a home cook, a line cook, and a registered dietitian who cooks? What's the difference between an owner who massages their dog, someone who massages dogs professionally, and a nationally certified canine massage practitioner? The short answer: education, exams, and using education and training to try to create a positive result.

A home cook and an owner who massages their own dog do not have to have any training or experience. A line cook and someone who massages dogs professionally may or may not have an educational background. A registered dietician who cooks and nationally certified canine massage practitioner have both been educated in their profession, have passed exams, and focus on the health related outcomes of their work. A registered dietician and a nationally certified canine massage practitioner will both most likely change their course of action depending on if the client is pregnant, has uncontrolled diabetes, has cancer, skin problems, recent surgeries, torn muscles, tendons, or ligaments, open wounds, and are taking specific medications.

If you massage your own dog at home, that's great! But there are things you should consider before you massage your dog so that you are not negatively effecting your dog's health. Certain medications, types of illness and behaviors are all examples of reasons that a dog shouldn't have a massage. Ashley recently wrote a short publication of reasons you shouldn't give your dog a massage or get approval from your vet before you massage. This publication could save your dog from injury or even surgery. It is only $20 and will be emailed to you upon payment. It will be available to purchase on the website soon, but for now you can call 404-652-9842 and pay with PayPal.

Do you know a dog that would enjoy a Private Canine Massage from a Nationally Certified Canine Massage Practitioner? If so, tag the dog or its owner in the comments below! They may win something! If you want to also share why they need a massage, go for it!

For all of August, Dog & Soul will be donating $25 to Mostly Mutts for every private canine massage given within 30 miles of their location in Kennesaw until 8/31/21. 30 miles within the Mostly Mutts location includes almost everywhere inside the perimeter of Atlanta and many Atlanta suburbs North and East of the perimeter.

If you have any questions or would like to schedule your pup's massage, call 404-652-9842 or email [email protected]

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Massage has been proven to help humans with relief from sore and stiff muscles, back and spine pain, arthritis in joints, pain from old injuries, and aches and pains from aging in general. If you would like to see if massage could help your dog, Ashley with Dog & Soul is who you may want to call. Ashley is the Nationally Certified Canine Massage Practitioner and Owner of Dog & Soul. Because she is certified by the NBCAAM and has earned over 950 hours of massage training since 2017, she may be the most up-to-date and highly trained certified canine massage practitioner in the Southeastern United States.

Currently Dog & Soul is donating $25 to the Georgia House Rabbit Society for every private canine massage given within 30 miles of their location in Kennesaw until 07/31/21. So book soon if you want to help fundraise for GHRS!

Starting August 2nd, Dog & Soul will be donating $25 to Mostly Mutts for every private canine massage given within 30 miles of their location in Kennesaw until 08/31/21. Surprise! Call 404-652-9842 to book your dog's massage!

This is the final week Dog & Soul is donating $25 to the Georgia House Rabbit Society for each private canine massage booked within 30 miles of their location in Kennesaw. This fundraiser ends on 7/31/21, so make sure to book as soon as possible!

Some of the most well known benefits of human massage therapy are pain relief, decreased joint stiffness, increased circulation, relaxation, and improved immune function. Let's see how many benefits your dog may experience during and after its professional massage! Remember that massage can help at any stage of life and benefits humans if they are athletes, sedentary, or anywhere in-between.

Don’t let your furry weekend warrior fool you, their muscles are sore from the activities of the weekend possibly because of the “Couch potatoing” during the business weeks. Unfortunately, inconsistent muscle usage can cause your muscle to be more prone to injury. Massage can soothe sore muscles and more importantly find areas that may be injured or overused. This can be very helpful to your dogs health and quality of life if your vet determines your dog needs rest or to avoid things like jumping to recover.

Do you worry that your dog may nip or bite during the massage? I’ve been trained and have learned from experience the warning signs dogs display with their body language. Sometimes dogs nip because they don’t want an area touched because of a past painful experience and other times they may be fearful of just human touch by someone new. With specific areas, once the dog becomes relaxed, the dog will often let me work areas that it will not let others touch. Massage can be a great way to help dogs learn to trust others touching them in areas, like their paws, that generally make them worried or aggressive. With that being said, please know that I will not work an area of the dog that it does not want me to work shown by body language or verbal response. I give the dog time to relax and begin to trust me, and if the dog seems okay with me working a stressful area then I will do so very carefully. Do you have any other reason why you think your dog wouldn’t want a massage? 🐾

Do you think your dog is too fearful to get or enjoy getting a massage? If you said yes, then again, I politely disagree. Having worked with many fearful dogs, especially fearful shelter dogs, nothing brings me more happiness than helping them come out of their shells. I give them the space and time and encouragement they need to come to me. Once they trust me enough to touch them, I can start massaging. And once the massage begins the parasympathetic nervous system can be activated to help the body relax and enjoy the massage. It is possible that the more often the parasympathetic nervous system is stimulated, the less fearful the dog can become with new people. Massage can also be a learning experience that people are good and not so scary. People who are fearful can also have anxiety, which massage can lessen; it would make sense if the same is true with dogs. Let me know if you have any questions! Don’t forget $25 dollars is being donated to the Georgia House Rabbit Society every time someone has a private canine massage in July 2021. The canine massage must take place within 30 miles of the Georgia House Rabbit Society.

Do you think your dog is too high energy, wiggly, or distracted to get a massage or get enough benefit from the massage? If you do, I politely disagree. Yes, it may take me longer to get your dog to a calmer more relaxed state, but just getting them to calm down with me being a new “exciting” person is a learning experience for them and can benefit their nervous system as well. Massage calms people down by stimulating the nervous system, specifically the parasympathetic nervous system which is responsible for helping dogs to rest, digest, and be calmer. I originally learned this in human massage school, but the NBCAAM also states that massage stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system. For example, I have a 1.5 year old mixed breed puppy (including German Shepard and Husky) and I can still get him to lay down and relax with massage when he has been begging to play fetch in the rain and mud. And by begging I’m mean running back and forth through the house, carrying his ball from me to his dad while crying, and aggravating my ten year old couch potato for 30 minutes straight. Not only can massage stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system, but it also can help soothe those sore muscles from being a high energy dog. The muscles that can be sore or overused can vary on the activity or activities that your dog participates in the most, as well as how your dog uses it’s body differently due to pain or injury. Don’t forget that anyone who schedules a canine massage within 30 miles of the Georgia House Rabbit Society by July 31st 2021 will be helping to raise funds for GHRS. $25 will go to GHRS!

Happy Friday! Let us massage your dog by July 31st 2021, and Dog and Soul will Donate $25 to the Georgia House Rabbit Society! You must live within 30 miles of the Georgia House Rabbit Society in Kennesaw. Have a great weekend everybody!

Dogs can be so good at hiding pain. When massaging a dog, I am feeling for muscle tone, temperature, any abnormal lumps or bumps, scar tissue, spasms, twitches, as well as watching their body language. All of these things give information about how the dog feels physically. The smallest of lumps or bumps can be anything from a bug bite to cancer, but it is something that all massage therapists bring to their human client’s attention, and I always bring it to my client’s owner’s attention. When I give a dog a massage, the dog receives the same amount of care, attention, and professionalism as my human clients did. If you are new to Dog & Soul, for every canine massage given within 30 miles of the Georgia House Rabbit Society in Kennesaw between now and July 31st 2021, Dog & Soul will donate $25 to GHRS. They are the largest rabbit specific shelter in Georgia and there are only a few like it in the country. Ashley is certified by the NBCAAM and has earned over 950 hours of massage training since 2017. She may be the most up-to-date and highly trained certified canine massage practitioner in the Southeastern United States. The information in the photo is from an article titled Animal Massage, Touching All Creatures, Great and Small. It’s written by Shirley Vanderbilt. You can find the article at massage therapy.com/articles/animal-massage

If your dog wants a massage, schedule for this month to have Dog & Soul give $25 dollars to the Georgia House Rabbit Society. This fundraiser started out limited to people who live within 10 miles of GHRS, but it’s now within 30 miles of GHRS. This fundraiser ends on July 31st 2021, so schedule now!

Do you want to be able to give your dog a massage on a regular basis yourself, but you don’t really know how? This is also a great gift idea for your dog loving friend or family member. Drop your questions in the comments to easily learn more.

Did you know that the Georgia House Rabbit Society is largest rabbit specific shelter in Georgia? And since their formation in 1996, they have rescued over 3500 domesticated rabbits in need? When you schedule a private canine massage before August 1st 2021, Dog & Soul is giving 25% of sales to GHRS. The massage must take place within 30 miles of GHRS, it was previously 10 miles, but Ashley decided to further the distance.

I’m so happy to be donating to the Georgia House Rabbit Society! If you want to donate to them directly you can do so on their page!

While we wait out our quarantine, we're getting creative with some fundraisers to help keep us going. A new one was recently offered to us by one of our volunteers who had been coming to our shelter a couple of times a week to give our adoptable rabbits relaxing massages.

Ashley Peter, who owns Dog & Soul Mobile Canine Massage, has offered to donate 25% of her private CANINE massage sales for people who live within 10 miles of GHRS.

Ashley is certified by the National Board of Certification for Animal Acupressure and Massage for canine massage and serves all of Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. She is one of only a few up-to-date and highly trained certified canine massage practitioners in the Southeastern United States! Her services include private canine massage, private canine massage lessons, and group massage lessons.

If you're interested in taking part in her offer, please contact her at [email protected]. Thank you Ashley!!

(Let her know if you have any rabbits in your home so that she can take appropriate RHDV2 precautions.)

Check out Dog and Soul here! http://dogandsoul.dog/

They are Georgia’s largest domestic rabbit rescue 501(c)(3) volunteer based nonprofit. They are currently temporarily closed for all services due to positive RHDV-2 confirmation in one of their quarantine areas of the Dekalb Hoarding Case Quarantine rooms. Dog and Soul is donating $25 to GHRS each time Ashley gives a private canine massage within 10miles of GHRS until July 31st 2021. If you would also like to help GHRS, check out their website to learn how to directly donate to them!

Dog & Soul will be donating 25% of private canine massage sales to the Georgia House Rabbit Society through July 31st 2021. You must live within 10 miles of the Georgia House Rabbit Society.

An appointment for canine massage includes: setting up the canine massage table, reviewing the medical intake form, asking any additional questions, completing a physical assessment of your dog, the massage, a quick post assessment, packing up the massage table, and vacuuming up any hair if necessary. The appointment will last up to an hour. Written records are kept of the sessions, which are created after the appointment. If you would like copies, they can easily be emailed to you. 🌈

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In case you didn’t know, Ashley recently passed the NBCAAM exam for canine massage!

Service areas have been expanded to all of Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina! This includes massages and massage lessons for shelters and rescues 😉. 🌈

This is so exciting! It wasn’t a goal, it just happened! 🌈

There is a new website, new services, new service areas, and Ashley is now the most up-to-date and highly trained certified canine massage practitioner in the Southeastern United States! Expect a daily post for the new week or so on all the new surprises!