Mia was a very "awkward" puppy she didn't know she had back feet. Her front feet went, and her body/back end just kinda followed. I've used both the ladder and the "elephant games" (putting feet on a pot and spinning) with Mia and have seen DRASTIC improvement in her back end awareness. We started this at 6-7 months when she couldn't figure out she needed to put her back feet on the flyball box.
A few weeks back we were at my parents house and my dad had 2 large ladders laying on the ground. She went over and walked through the ladder stopped at the end and looked at me. When I didn't give her a treat, she did it again, and again, and again, and again. My dad cracked up laughing and thought she was just being goofy, I had to explain that she usually gets meatballs for walking through the ladder. Suprisingly I didn't have any treats on me... but we did play ball for all that hard work!
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