With TTouch its better to get someone to teach you how to do it,
i havent used TTouch, but a friend of mine has used the Anxiety wrap, and it did help her deaf collie, it helped carm and relax her, as she used to get stressed out verry easaly, from what ive read it can help with nervousness,
www.paw-rescue.org/PAW/PE...ogTip_touch.php
Body wraps to help shy and fearful dogs:
A light elastic body-wrap can be placed on the dog to increase body awareness, stimulate seldom-used neural pathways and facilitate new ways of responding.
Wearing a snug body wrap helps dogs become more aware of how their bodies move and can boost their confidence. TTouch practitioners frequently make use of these wraps, anchoring them around the chest, wrapped around the trunk, and encompassing the hindquarters.
You can use ace bandages or strips of cloth to form body wraps. Wearing a body wrap for an hour can calm a dog and even build his confidence when encountering new people or environments. Body wraps have also been successfully used to reduce fear of thunderstorms.
Ready-made body wraps are available, such as the Anxiety Wrap Anxiety Wrap created by Susan Sharpe, a certified TTouch practitioner. It employs maintained pressure to calm the animal, thus enabling you to redirect her focus to you.
More about them hear,
www.anxietywrap.com/
with the paws - i would take it slowly, start by when shes relaxed do some stroking down her legs, take your cue from her - if she starts to get unsettled, stop and give her a treat and then carry on another time, keep doing this till shes staying relaxed, then move on to her paws and repet, once shes happy with you touching her paws, get the clippers out, but just have them near you, and start stroking her paws - do everything like its no big deal, once shes happy - touch her claws with the clippers - again till shes happy, then try and clip one (only the tip), you will have to take it slowly, you could also teach her to give a paw, it will teach her theres nothing to worry about, when she gives it you, and only good things will happen.
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