A Massage for Your Dog: Edina Practice Works With People And Pets

Since March, Jenny Gott has been giving dogs—and the occasional cat—full-body rubdowns in her Animal Intuition office space inside Edina's ScoopyPoo DoggyDoo Pickup building.

Gott, a former vice president at a software company, describes animal massage as a "project of passion" and now charges about $75 per hour for sessions with people and pets. 

"There's all sorts of different values" to massage," she says. "Everything from your preventative maintenance and helping energize the systems—boosting the immune system, helping with the circulation and all the internal organs' functioning—to helping with injury recovery. I've worked with a lot of animals that have had leg surgery, so luxating patellas, torn ACLs."

Before moving to ScoopyPoo DoggyDoo Pickup, Gott operated her practice out of the Ruff House, a doggie day care business that has since closed its doors.

For more information about Animal Intuition, visit Gott's website.