How to Give your Cat a Massage.

CAT MASSAGE is good therapy for both of you - you and your cat will find it soothing. Touching your cat also brings you both closer together. Touching brings down the blood pressure and increases circulation. Massaging is also a good way to find any skin or hair problems, or even a lump while it is still very small and fixable. And, by the time you are through with the free instructions below, you can make any cat a friend for life!


To give a cat a massage:

• Scratch behind his ear and you will have his undivided attention.
• Rub the entire ear - even a little stroking on the inside of the tip.
• Scratch the top of this head (between his ears).
• Go on to his other ear.
• Scratch the side of his face, below his whiskers.
• Scratch under his chin.
• Scratch the other side of his face.
• (Even a cat you just met is now melting under your touch!)
• Scratch his ears again, just a little.
• Scratch the top of his head.
• In a continuous and fluid motion, stroke from the top of his head
• down his entire back.
• Stroke down his back only - several times - with your hand wide open to span
• across his entire back.
• Stroke down his entire back and down the top of his tail - several times.
• Stroke his entire tail (with your hand all the way around it) several times.
• He is butter in your hands!
• If he lays down, offering himself to you completely, take one leg at a time and stroke it from shoulder to paw. Stroke each leg several times.
• Stroke anywhere else he will allow except his tummy, as this is usually seen as an invitation to play (undoing the calming effect of the massage).

You have made a friend for life!