Welcome!
Nickers and Wags Massage
for Horses and Dogs
Serving Columbus, Ohio & vicinity
Barn visits, Home visits and Office Visits
Flexible hours by Appointment
Massage is a great way to enhance your horse or dog's quality of life and well-being. It can be an important part of your pet's
health care in addition to nutrition, exercise, and medical check ups. Nickers & Wags offers therapeutic and sports massage for different kinds of horses and dogs.
Benefits of Massage
- Relieve tension
- Reduce stress and anxiety
- Increase flexibility
- Improve muscle tone and range of motion
- Improve circulation to rid toxins and promote healing
- Release endorphins, speed recovery from illness, injury
or surgery
- Alleviate and reduce pain or muscle spasms
- Decrease stiffness
- Promote feeling of well-being
- Improve immune functions
- Provide a form of exercise for elderly and inactive
Who benefits From Massage?
Therapeutic Massage
- Older and arthritic
- Injured
- Shy, abused, and rescued
- Recovery from injury or surgery
- Anxious and nervous
- Hyperactive
Sports Massage
The Working Horse
Riding: show, pleasure, hunter/jumper, dressage, eventing,
gaited, endurance trail, reining, and other disciplines
The Working Dog
- Service
- Police
- Search and rescue
- Agility
Our horses and our dogs work hard trying to please us. We are responsible for their well-being. Sports massage can be used to maintain and contribute to their overall health by letting their bodies function as efficiently as possible. Healthy bodies promote long, healthy lives.
