griffinej5
Posted : 2/4/2007 9:24:30 PM
We built up hind leg awareness by having the dogs stand on something with their front legs, then only move the back legs around it in circles in each direction. Anything will work for this, you can turn over a dish, or put a book the floor, it really doesn't matter. You may have to walk into your dog a bit to get him/her to move around, but at least for Max, once he realized what it was I wanted him to do (I did use a clicker) he started taking a few steps around in each direction on his own. I also took the half exercise ball thing my dad had (it's half an exercise ball on a platform thing so it has a flat bottom) and had him sit and stand on that. I started this because he was driving me nuts one night while I was trying to watch tv, but this really did well for working on his back legs (though I think those balls are too expensive to buy one just for the dog).