This is so smart!!! Thank you!!!

My dog recently has been missing the step with her hind leg occasionally. I think I'm going to give my vet a call and ask him of he thinks I should try this first or bring her in for a quick check first. My intuition says this is the answer.

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Can use this after spay?

You can get traffic cones with holes and PVC pipe also. That's what we're using.

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Why in the world would I want to do something that will encourage my dog to shred things this is ridiculous!

My dog will love this

Cheap and easy idea! Awesome!

My dogs are gonna LOVE this! Thanks!

Great idea but, unfortunately, my puppy ingests paper and cardboard.

Not good for dogs to Ingest the only and cute lord dyes from newspapers.

I love your diy stuff!

Fun!!! I'll make one tomorrow for my Chaucer, he <3 our home made toys--a 3 ft long, thick braid from an old fleece throw is a favourite, lol, when we aren't playing tug sometimes he takes it to his mat and spends ages carefully undoing the knotted ends and unbraiding it. I don't even buy expensive toys any more, they often end up unused in his toy box

Thanks.

Cute safe tug toy. Thanks for this clever tug toy build.

This looks like a lot of fun!

Is part of the goal that she not knock any boards over?

Will I teach this in the same way with a puppy?

Thank you so much, I don't know what else to say

This was soooo good! And I got to tell you, as most have commented, the tail sticking out of the suitcase and wagging happily with success had me laughing out loud for a good minute!

Interest, going look into it. How long do you make the session and what about calories intake

Great training tips for this task 👍🏼 Thanks.

I just found your channel, and want to thank you SO much for the great videos. Make sme want to try a clicker again. I am WAY less trainable than my dogs and horses!!

Unfortunately that dog is already very well trained. How do you get them trained like that? Dogs don't scratch things like that board automatically. They have to somehow be trained to do that scratching.

👍👍 Yep every pup should do Cavs once in a while Different heights, different spacing They work wonders for such a simple exercise 🐾🐾

Thank you for sharing such a helpful clip on rear end awareness.

Too cool for school 🎉 Thank you. I learned a lot

You are awesome wow

That question at the end is giving me an aneurism. Can someone explain

Great idea to use the mirror!

This is awesome! Thanks!

Thank you for this nice idea!

Thanks! the grip tape is a really good idea to build trust. They also reponse the the "up" command and you can pull on the leash, the results much quicker unless you have a stubborn breed.

You are s awesome! Great video!

Great video, Donna (as always)! Ticked Off is a similar tool and the tick remains in the "spoon" portion of the tool rather than falling on the floor or the ground. Ticks are the only arachnid I kill if I catch one.

I haven't had one on my dogs yet, but I got one two days ago. 😂

What about indoors? 😮

What kind of treats do you use?

These exercises MAY teach the dog rear end awareness, but it depends on the dog and whether they're a thinker or not. The only sure way to know whether your dog has rear end awareness is to isolate their rear from their front and ask for movement of the rear end independently from the front. When doing cavalettis or ladder work, the dog doesn't necessarily have to think about their rear. The rear goes because it's attached, there's no choice. Even with perch work (dog putting front paws on an object and then circling around to the right or left with the back feet) while your criteria is that the dog to walk around with it's back feet, the dog could just be turning it's shoulders enough so that the back end moves by default. An orthopedic vet recommended to me that I isolate my dogs rear end so that I know he's actually aware of it rather than it just coming along for the ride with the front. I got a box that was big enough for my dog to get all 4 feet in it, but small enough that to get all 4 feet in he had to mindfully place them in--he couldn't just get all 4 in by default. It actually took a month of work for my dog to be able to independently move his rear feet into the box! And we'd been successfully doing perch work, ladder work, and cavalettis and all the other traditional rear end awareness exercises for over a year at that point! The other exercise the specialist recommended was what he called "doggie dancing". Have your dog stand up on his back feet while you support his front feet and have him step forward and backward. The first time I tried this with my dog he almost had a panic attack! It took a while for him to be able to move his back feet independently of his front. The only exercises in here that would definitely teach a dog read end awareness are the ones where the dog places it's back feet behind him in a mindful manner, independent of the front.

Your videos are a godsend to me. You are such an incredibly talented trainer, so for me to be able to see what you and Lucy were like at her first trial is really helpful. We have our first fun match tomorrow and watching this calmed my nerves (2am eeek)

How do you teach this?

My dogs love melon, especially honeydew.

Yup, berries ok. Grapes and raisins no...just in case anyone doesn't know yet.

We don't have much snow where I live now but how interesting is this the way to look at how your dog uses his legs. Beautiful nature! Greatings!

Great video, very clear steps! Thanks!

Put a lacrosse ball inside

Hi,I wanna invite u to have your dog wearing our dog products and make a video. Are u interested?

Is it cavaletti or cavalotti?

Thank you Donna. I have recently restarted this exercise with my 11 year old. I’ve only been doing a session once a day with about 6 to 8 reps. She does not get tired with this amount of reps. Would you consider doing this exercise long term after a few weeks doing it daily?