Kathleen Crisley is Fear-Free certified dog massage therapist and canine fitness trainer. She has a particular passion for working with dogs and their families to ensure injury prevention and quality of life. She specialises in working with anxious and emotionally damaged dogs. Her mobile practice, The Balanced Dog, is based in Christchurch, New Zealand
Last month, the world lost a leader in animal welfare – Jane Goodall. Although she lived to a good age of 91 years, contributing to dialogue about important issues right to the end, it still seems like she was taken too soon. RIP, Jane.
Kathleen Crisley is Fear-Free certified dog massage therapist and canine fitness trainer. She has a particular passion for working with dogs and their families to ensure injury prevention and quality of life. She specialises in working with anxious and emotionally damaged dogs. Her mobile practice, The Balanced Dog, is based in Christchurch, New Zealand
“What cannot be denied or evaded is that this science has a moral dimension. How we study animals and what we assert about their minds and behavior greatly affects how they are treated, as well as our own version of ourselves.”
– Dale Jamieson, Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy at New York University, a scholar of environmental ethics and animal rights
“And finally, thanks to my dear Moochie, muse and companion, the best dog any writer ever had…Moochie, I hope that wherever you are, you can catch every cat you chase, that you can get to every chicken wing you find, and that nobody complains when you wake them up in the middle of the night and pretend you have to go out just so you can nudge them out of the warm spot in the bed. I was so lucky to be your person.”
– Author Jennifer Weiner in the Acknowledgements of her book, The Summer Place
“Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.”
– Elizabeth Taylor, actress (1932-2011)
“To date, there are no specific disease modifying anti-osteoarthritic treatments. Current management of patients with osteoarthritis aims to improve patient and societal outcomes by reducing symptoms and improving function. Clinical guidelines broadly recommend the provision of effective and individualised information, combined with non-pharmacological and pharmacological interventions, and when these are insufficient, surgery.”
Kloppenburg M., et al. “Osteoarthritis” Lancet 2025
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H Jackson Brown was an American author who is best known for Life’s Little Instruction Book.
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“There is nothing truer in this world than the love of a good dog.”
– Mira Grant, author
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