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Dog Massage

MaryJean Ballner. St. Martin's Griffin, $13.95 (144pp) ISBN 978-0-312-26727-8

For those who love dogs, licensed massage therapist Maryjean Ballner (Cat Massage) offers ""upgraded petting that generates amazing results"" in her new step-by-step, dog-approved, do-it-yourself Dog Massage: A Whiskers-to-Tail Guide to Your Dog's Ultimate Massage Experience. Intended specifically as a means of enhancing the relationship between dogs and their human friends (never try to give a massage to a strange dog, Ballner warns), this fully illustrated guide advises readers on various techniques (petting the pecs, thigh thumbing and the paw-claw caress) with cheerful encouragement, important cautions and tips on how to tell if a dog does not like a particular form of massage.