22 Exercises to Improve Your Dog’s Rear End Awareness | Dog Sports

There are many ways you can help a dog to learn how and where to move her back end. At the end is also a few examples of where it is needed for performance sports. 0:00 Teaching Rear-End Awareness 1:11 How Body Structure Affects Movement 1:32 Working Both Directions 2:09 Comparing Two dogs with different body structures 2:37 Activities That Build Rear-End Awareness Want to learn how to teach these? Check out https://servicedogtraininginstitute.o... Or do a private Zoom session with Donna. https://servicedogtraininginstitute.o... Check out my index of videos by subject to see other similar 'how to' videos (Library Subscription required to view) https://servicedogtraininginstitute.o... List of exercises: cavaletti (sticks laying on ground unorganized or ladder like walk between the rungs of a ladder) several jumps raised to dog's elbow height placed about dog's shoulder width apart walking on the rungs of a ladder raised off the ground a few inches walking and running a board and doing 2 feet on, 2 feet off walking on two parallel garden ties with left feet on left tie and right feet on right tie walking between two ties walking on a row of tires walking on the edge of a tire being rolled back foot targeting backing in front of the person backing up a few stairs targeting hand with each back foot backing onto chair front feet pivoting on a book (also called perch work) targeting hand with hip standing or sitting on a stool turning around on a stool crawling (paw target to paw target) turn and backing between legs jumping up on study objects Handler Training Skills [Blog Post] (Library Subscription required to view some posts) https://servicedogtraininginstitute.o... #dogtraining #dogtrainers #positivedogtraining #tricksfordogs #handlingskills #clickertraining #markertraining #learningtheory#trainingclass #onlinedogtraining #dogtrainers #positivedogtraining #dogbodyawareness #rearendbodyawareness