I have tried the touch on a colt of mine who was a biter, worked very well. I tried it on my cats, they seemed very irritated that I was "touching" them differently. and usually walked away. I did use the touch on phoebe, she seemed to enjoy it, I did it for no other reason than to make her feel good. I had the BIGGEST SCARE the other day, we have moved and our new front door does not shut properly, you really have to pull hard, and after a million reminders to my 2 legged child, he still forgets, and my ferrets got out with about a 5 minute head start. Joey , I caught going up the stairs, My soon to be step daughter caught Oliver BEHIND our building with a snoot full of dirt, all this occurred at 4 in the afternoon, soon to be dark and the moisture already starting to freeze up, now we just needed to find Chandler and Socks, Chandler is deaf, but socks comes to a squeaky toy and I prayed they stayed together. For 4 hours I called squeaked and cried, directly behind us is a very dense forest and 1/10th of a mile in front and on the sides of us are a VERY VERY busy road. 4 hours..........long story short, they were asleep in my sons sock drawer, they got REALLY big kisses and socks got "scolded" for not coming to the toy, which by the way, I did use in the house, and also did several quick searches in there, while I was frantically paging Louis. Socks just decided not to come that time. I had spoken with the director of our organization here in Wash. and she was comforting as Was Charleen, thanks guys..I am just glad to have my guys back. Now I have have to figure out how to fix the front door. June Louis and the zoo Missing Phoebe [Posted in FML issue 2946]