Times MASSAGE should NOT be done on dogs!

Churchill Graham

It is important to know there are times therapeutic
  MASSAGE should NOT
  be used 

  on dogs!

  +  Never be used when there
      is evidence of a fever
  +  Never be used when dog is
      in shock
  +  Never be used in most
      forms of skin disease,
      except in the thickened 
      condition of the skin left behind by eczema.
  + Never be used in apoplexy cases:  rupture of a 
     blood vessel.
  + Never be administered to abscesses or tumors.