Sooner Than Later Animal Massage & Bodywork

12/09/2025

My , Athena, seems to be feeling the effects of the shifting weather ❄️🤔 today - she's extra sore and inflamed. can be a great way to decrease discomfort/pain from sore muscles/joints.
❄️ Take advantage 15% OFF ❄️ FOUR DAYS LEFT!!

☃️ Offer ends December 12th, 2025.
*Coupon can be used at a later date as it’s applied the day of the appointment.

☃️ Eligibile for Canine, Feline, and Equine patients!

☃️ INITIAL (Canine/Feline) $110, NOW $94
* (INITIAL Equine) $120, NOW $102

❄️✨ BENEFITS OF MASSAGE✨❄️

• Reduces pain and/or discomfort from stiffness/inflammation

• Improves muscle tone, spinal/body alignment, flexibility & range of motion

• Reduces anxiety and stress; eases emotional traumas

• Promotes blood and lymph circulation
Heightens immune system function

• Aids in healing from surgery or injury

• Builds trust, self-confidence and sociability

•Promotes longevity and slows degenerative processes

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12/06/2025

🌶️ Cayenne Pepper 🌶️

Cayenne is mare. Originally, I was seeing her for ulnar(elbow) pain/surrounding muscles being hypersensitive/ “fly-twitchy”. I’d use my dual-action device as well as a mini . She was showing improvement based upon owner’s feedback.

🌶️ On 11/28/25 she injured herself while being stalled. It’s suspected that her sheet straps may have somehow tightened around her leg causing superficial injuries, which led to increased lateral and medial inflammation/swelling in her hind right limb.
🌶️ Day one of injury, her limb was coldhosed and cleaned.
was applied two days later VERY CAREFULLY, avoiding open wounds, using tape on 11/30/25. The goal of applying the lymphatic tape is to decrease inflammation, especially around her hock joint.
🌶️ About every other day I would check on the tape, cut any pieces that had partially fallen off or come “loose”. I did reapply the tape to the medial hock once on 12/3/25, of course after waiting 24-48 hours to give her skin/hair a break from the tape’s adhesives.
🌶️ I truly believe the lymphatic tape truly made a difference in Cayenne’s leg! 😄 every time I checked on her I felt the inflammation was decreasing, she was more willing to put weight on it. Her posture improved and she is less braced in her stance.
As of 12/5/25 she still has tape on her, as far as I’m aware. The barn manager had purchased a redlight product and has been using it on her.

Just a reminder ‼️ is still offering 15% OFF Friends and Family until 12/12/25‼️
*Coupon is applied the day of appointment so it can be used at a later date
🌶️✨ BENEFITS OF KTAPE ✨🌶️

• Reduce Pain/muscle soreness , Inflammation/Swelling

• Improve circulation to blood and lymphatic flow

• Improves posture

• Improves athletic performance

• Prevented and/or relieved muscle spasms/cramping

11/27/2025

Sooner and I are wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍁 We are so grateful for all of your support! As a thank you,
Sooner Than Later Animal Massage & Bodywork is offering a ‼️15% OFF Friends and Family Discount ‼️

🦃 Offer is Valid from November 27th-December 12th, 2025
*coupon can be used at a later date as long as you initially book between 11/27/25-12/12/2025 as the discount is applied the day of the appointment 😁

🦃 Eligible for Equine, Canine, and Feline patients.

🦃 What may be included in each appointment?
*Hands-on , , and intergrative , and my dual action device
can be an add-on
*Price of ktape depends upon how much is used.

🦃✨ BENEFITS OF MASSAGE ✨🦃

• Reduces pain and/or discomfort from stiffness/inflammation

• Improves muscle tone, spinal/body alignment, flexibility & range of motion

• Reduces anxiety and stress; eases emotional traumas

• Promotes blood and lymph circulation
Heightens immune system function

• Aids in healing from surgery or injury

• Builds trust, self-confidence and sociability

•Promotes longevity and slows degenerative processes

Contact Sooner Than Later Animal Massage & Bodywork if you have any questions or would like to discuss booking an appointment for your

11/13/2025

How interesting? You learn something new everyday 🙂

The “Stifle Lameness” That Wasn’t: A Story About Referred Pain

I once had a client who told me about a horse that developed an odd, on-again off-again hind-end lameness that no one could quite pin down. Some days the horse looked off behind, as if his stifle was sore; other days he moved completely normally. Nothing about it followed the usual patterns. Things that should have made a stifle issue worse didn’t seem to, and things that “should have” helped it, didn’t.

We were all very confused.

One day, the vet happened to be on the property with a brand-new scope and offered to scope several horses for gastric ulcers — partly to familiarize themselves with the equipment. When they scoped this particular horse, they found significant stomach ulcers.

The horse was placed on a veterinarian-directed ulcer-care plan, and within a few weeks, something unexpected happened:
the ulcers healed, and the mysterious “stifle lameness” vanished along with them.

It turned out the stifle itself had never been the problem. The horse had been expressing ulcer-related visceral pain as stifle discomfort — a classic example of referred pain.

Why Ulcers Can Look Like Hind-End or Stifle Issues

This situation is a great illustration of how the equine body handles pain. Signals from the internal organs and the limbs travel through overlapping pathways in the spinal cord.

Here’s what science tells us:

1. Visceral nerves and musculoskeletal nerves converge.

The stomach and the hindquarters share overlapping spinal segments, especially through the thoracolumbar region. When the stomach is irritated, the brain can misinterpret those signals as coming from the back, pelvis, or stifle.

2. Fascia connects everything.

The deep fascial membranes link the viscera to the musculoskeletal system. When the gut is irritated, the horse may brace through the abdomen and back, altering pelvic motion and limb loading.

3. Protective guarding changes movement patterns.

A horse in visceral discomfort often holds tension through the core, diaphragm, and back. This can create subtle gait irregularities that look orthopedic but aren’t.

When the gastric discomfort resolved under the veterinarian’s care, the nervous system stopped sending those distress signals — and the hind-end “lameness” disappeared.

✳️ Why This Matters

Not every hind-end irregularity originates in a limb. Sometimes the body is expressing visceral discomfort through movement changes.

This story is a reminder of how important it is to work closely with a wonderful veterinarian, and to consider the whole horse — inside and out.

https://koperequine.com/fascia-the-skeleton-of-the-nerves/

11/11/2025

Big Guy, a horse I performed and some integrative having an awesome release!
If you look closely, Scooby, the horse behind him also started processing at the same time for a brief moment . I was so pleased to see that ☺️💕✨

🍂 NOVEMBER AVAILABLILITY 🍂

I have A LOT of OPEN AVAILABILITY on the FOLLOW DATES…
🍂 Thursday, November 13th, and 20th.

🍂 Saturday, November 15th

🍂 Sunday, November 16th.
And Sunday, the 23rd(I’m traveling to St. Augusta this day. I’ll happily book anyone in the following cities along the way…Nowthen, Elk River, and Monticello ✨ As long as it’s before 12 PM)

🍂 Tuesday, November 18th and 25th

✨ BENEFITS OF MASSAGE✨

• Reduces pain and/or discomfort from stiffness/inflammation

• Improves muscle tone, spinal/body alignment, flexibility & range of motion

• Reduces anxiety and stress; eases emotional traumas

• Promotes blood and lymph circulation
Heightens immune system function

• Aids in healing from surgery or injury

• Builds trust, self-confidence and sociability

•Promotes longevity and slows degenerative processes

Contact Sooner Than Later Animal Massage & Bodywork to book your appointment today, or if you simply have any questions! Please don’t hesitate to reach out.

10/31/2025

I can’t believe it’s been a WHOLE DECADE with Sooner !! 💕

My grandmother purchased Sooner for me in my early teens. I took one look at his sale ad, and I had a gut feeling, “this horse belongs with me.”
When he went to purchase him, he was very depressed, head hung low, Sooner seemed like “his spirit had been broken”, non-reacting to everything happening. He didn’t care for anything.
When I approached, he immediately came to life! Sooners eye lit up with a small spark, attentively watching my every movement, engaging with me.
I walked away, and he went back to “dull”. An employee noticed, and started to have random people walk up, he stayed composed, no reaction. Not even an ear flick, or slight turn of the head. I approached again, and he magically had “life” again.
I like to think Sooner picked me more than I picked him. 💕
I had to work very hard, and slow to earn his trust fully, and the more I discovered, I felt he had a very tough/hard life before. I believe he didn’t know what it meant to have a human truly be compassionate, loving, and willing to alter their approach for his comfort.
10 years laters, we are both in our early 20s, we have So many wonderful memories created together, and I hope for more. I cherish every second with him as I always worry it’ll be the last.
I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for him, Soonie Woonie.
He’s done so much for me, but the biggest is saving my life when I felt at my lowest.
Now, it’s my turn to give back to him. When I found out massage/bodywork was even possible for animals, I knew I found my “calling” in life. I looked into a program and became certified. I founded a , Sooner Than Later animal massage & Bodywork in his honor.
Thank you, Sooner, my dear friend. Let’s aim for another 10 years, and make it 2 decades together! 😉💕

10/25/2025

I love this!

10/11/2025

Dear Clients,
I’m informing you I will be increasing my Initial Patient prices ONLY.
New Prices for Initial Equine($120) and Canine/Feline($110)

This will be effective, STARTING November 8th, 2025.

~ Sooner Than Later

10/10/2025

Some helpful hints when it comes to applying the ends your tape 😉

10/10/2025

Dear Clients, I’m undergoing surgery tomorrow, and will need a couple days to recover. I will respond to messages as soon as possible. Thank you for being understanding
~ Sooner Than Later

10/06/2025

I had the opportunity to do on Boris, an today! He was so incredibly sweet, and overall seemed to enjoy his very first ☺️✨

I was also gifted some awesome, all natural, homemade pet treats from Olivia's Treats!
My two , LOVED them, especially the flavor. They were literally drooling 🤤 😋
Check out her page, and get yourself some for your or ! She also has kicker’s for your

10/06/2025

Sesshomaru the Ninja Warrior(Sesshy) is a senior cat that I’ve been performing bodywork on for a whole year now! 😀 It’s been quite the journey through the ups and downs.
When I first started seeing Sesshy, he was unsure of strangers, I had to go extremely slow with him, and earn his trust overtime. I believe it took about 5-6 sessions before I could really get my hands on him.

Today, I felt like I hit a huge with him 😸💕 He greeted me within a couple of minutes, ready ready for his session. He was purring so loudly, and overall seemed content.
We accomplished so much today with

Thank you so much for your continued support ✨💕😁