I was on a training course for horses near San Francisco
with Robyn. It was incredibly hot and we were in the middle of a drought. At the end of
the day I was walking back to the house when I spotted something struggling in the
swimming pool. A baby possum was clinging desperately to the pool cleaner as it swirled
around the edges of the pool.
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Fortunately the possum was in easy reach and I
fished it out. Another participant was on hand as well and we wrapped him up in the towel
to dry his bedraggled body. He was very weak, freezing cold, limp and in shock. We used
tiny TTouches around his ears and began doing Ear Work - stroking his tiny, finger nail
shaped ears from the base right to the tip. I knew the effects of Ear Work on horses but
was still stunned at the response from the possum. He came back to life in a matter of
seconds, warmed up and became interested in what we were doing. A cotton bud was fetched
and we began doing tiny TTouches around his mouth with the dampened tip of the bud. He
began moving his mouth and licking at the water. Within half an hour he was sitting quite
happily in a warm bed made from a cardboard box and was hand feeding and drinking water
with relish. Later that evening another drowning baby
was found in the pool and after appropriate TTouch work, he too was popped into the box
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periodically throughout the evening and early the next morning, and they were both alert
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Three more babies were found in the yard by other participants during the day but as they
were only in need of food and water they were put straight into the box without receiving
any TTouches.The difference between the TTouch
babies and the other babies was marked. When food was being put into their box the two
TTouch Possums ran over to take the food whilst the lid was still open. Their eyes were
bright and their coats were gleaming from all the self grooming they had been doing. The
three unhandled babies however hid, hissing and displaying defensive behaviour when the
lid was raised. Their stress levels were really high. Their eyes were hard and staring,
their mouths were open and their coats were dull. Although this work is not about forcing
the TTouch on every animal that comes our way, there was concern later that evening that
the three un-TTouched babies were not feeding. We took them out of the box one by one and
did a few minutes of Ear Work and lightest TTouches on their body to see if they would
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The result? Five fat, shiny possum babies, feeding well and ready to be moved on to a
temporary home before being released back into the wild. Prior to doing TTouches on the
other three youngsters it had been easy to tell which were the babies that had been in the
pool as the behaviours were so different. After all of them had been worked on it was
impossible to distinguish between the pool possums and the yard possums. It only took a
few minutes to change and possibly even save the lives of these little animals. This story
is not unique. There are countless testimonials from around the world from people who have
literally saved an animals life by using the TTouch techniques.Top of page |
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