🐾 Rear-End Awareness Breakdown

Amanda Taulborg

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Here’s a quick look at rear-end awareness — one of the many things we can build using SPOT!

Not only is it cute… it’s incredibly functional.

Rear-end awareness teaches your dog how to:

• Control their back end

• Move with intention

• Pivot and position precisely

• Stay aligned in heel work

• Improve body awareness overall

And when it comes to service dog training? It’s HUGE. Tight spaces, proper positioning, public access skills — all of that starts with understanding where their back feet are.

If you want to dive deeper, check out the Spot course in the "classroom" section. There are so many cool things you can train beyond just rear-end awareness.

Now I’m curious —

Have you trained rear-end awareness with your dog?

Do you find it helpful?

Drop your experience below 👇🐾

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