Dog Cavalettis for Rear End Awareness & Strength for Senior Dogs
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- Опубліковано 7 лис 2024
- All you need are a few pieces of wood, poles or even pool noodles and some smaller piece to add some height.
Walk your dog back and forth across them, marking and rewarding him after each pass. Focus on moving slowly and deliberately. Speed is not needed for this activity.
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👍👍 Yep every pup should do Cavs once in a while
Different heights, different spacing
They work wonders for such a simple exercise 🐾🐾
Thanks.
You can get traffic cones with holes and PVC pipe also. That's what we're using.
I love creative ideas so we don't have to buy anything!
Thank you for this. I was going to ask how you planned to address that issue but as a new sub figured I should go back and look at your older videos. I never got around to it and you read my mind anyway! 😊 So sweet how she "cheated" but then did her best the next two times. What a good girl.
Glad to help! Yes, she's very good about trying, even when tired. Like other muscle work, we want to push them just a little past their threshold as long as it is safe for them. That's how we build muscle instead of just maintaining it.
@@dogsexplained that's a good point. I was just thinking about how she pushed a little harder because you have a good relationship with her, but the muscle building sounds right on point with what she did as well. 💪
@@haventli And both could be happening! In a non-muscle building situation, I would have honored her communication that she was tired and quit but I wanted to push her just a little further. (PS In case others reading wonder; it's nothing to do with 'ending on a good note' as we don't need that with positive reinforcement training.) :)
Is it cavaletti or cavalotti?
LOL! You are correct. We have a Cavalotti Lodge locally. Default spelling for me!
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?
It depends what your goal is, how may step are in each rep, how high they are etc. If you want to maintain it, then I would find what her endurance is and stay there. If you want to improve it then push the window just a little, keeping in mind at some point you will reach a threshold that she won't want to do. If she's keen to keep going then let her. Lucy was one of those dogs that would keep going no matter what but she's finally realized she can say no. This is a good thing! Keeping an eye on the # reps, height, # poles etc also gives us some concrete data to monitor as well.
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.
It depends on you dog's age, breed and previous physical history what this could be. A skipped step might indicate a fluxating patella, arthritis, torn tendon, stretched muscle or even neural degeneration. Lucy has a bit of arthritis in one knee and slow neurological degeneration. We first noticed a skip on one rear leg every now and then. We suspect that was the arthritis showing itself at 14.5 yrs of age. A year later, we definitely see a change in her gait and her speed from what it used to be.
Is part of the goal that she not knock any boards over?