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

Great work - it would however be nice to see how each behaviour was put together.

Great way to improve coordination and flexibility in dogs! 22 Rear End Awareness Exercises for Dogs in Agility, Freestyle, Rally Obedience etc.

You're such a crazy awesome trainer! Very nice!

I watch this video all the time for inspiration! I have a rescue that used to be kicked and beaten so he was terrified of hands and legs. With exercises (or games as I call them) that works on body awareness has improved his trust and self esteem greatly! Thank you so much for posting this!

I found this so helpful! Even though my dog runs everywhere rather than calmly walking like your dogs were. lol

Love this video. Would say more, but I gotta try that hip targeting. Thanks for sharing.

In case you missed it! Great for dogs in agility, rally, freestyle and obedience and just for fun!

Incredibly useful. Thanks!

Great video Donna, thank you for putting this together.

Great training ideas. Breaking down the training progression would be very helpful

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Another great video thanks for sharing.

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Great video. We teach a few rear end awareness exercises in our Intro to Agility class - and I encourage my students to be creative with and try to use things around the home. What a great video to show them to give them a better idea of the things that can be done.

Loving these Donna, some I hadn't seen before. Walking back I taught my Collie and it has been great for keeping his back legs strong and the brain pathways too as the drugs tend to make him ataxic at times.

Awesome video! Thank you for sharing.

Wow, I will have to try this. Oh and good job with the training!

Nice exercises for strengthening the rear end awareness. I plan to use many of these exercises with my next Schutzhund dog.

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.

Thats Awsome thanks

Interesting observation. I don't actually lure in any of them. They are all cued behaviors. The cue looks like a lure but you'll notice I feed from the other hand (unless the transition cut them out).

This is an interesting precision, thanks. anyway, what I meant is the luring hand though you have no reward in it, instead of letting the dog guess and try, shaping the movements. I always try shaping at first and then lure a very little if necessary. But there are many many ways to do it, ;-) the most important is that everybody find his or her own :-)

I went ahead and finally listened to Paul, so I looked for Daryl Arktrom’s website on google. The stuff he recommends is pretty good, especially for beginners.

This is a very nice video - very useful for these needing some inspiration (I sometimes need some ;-) ) the only thing is I would lure less, i am sure it would be even more interesting for the dogs :-)

I'd love to do some of these my dog is stocky and has big paws he is 3 quarters golden retriever and 1 quarter poodle

I am subscribed how do I see more of how you did this with your dog, please

Interesting training. Do you have book or video showing how to train these skills?

This is just what I was needing to help us with agility! How would you train the hip touch?

Will this help them in the long run, in terms of like, will they evolve better will the puppies be better if the mother does these exercises? I'd like to think there are some definite studies on such a thing and some conclusive evidence. At least one would think

Another thing dogs need rear awareness for other dogs on long lines (as they do not always come back) can get quickly tangled lol

how to make back legs stronger of mah Rottweiler ??

What types of breed is the dog at 2:05mm