Welcome to the Absolute Dog Sex and a Squirrel podcast. I'm Lauren Langman. I'm one of the world's leading dog trainers and it's my mission to help owners become their dog's top priority. In each episode, you'll discover how to gain trust and

communicate with your dog like never before, creating unbreakable bonds that make you the most

exciting part of their world. Cabelletti, oh my God, it's actually one of my favorites. And it

really is a favourite for me because I've watched and I've seen and I've been first-hand part of

seeing a dog develop not only in their brain, not only in their body,

but also in their concept training, I suppose, of confidence and problem solving and resilience and mental toughness.

Like, I love Cavilletti. I couldn't love it anymore.

No. No, it's brilliant. It's amazing. And it's,

it's a really cool one to watch where a dog is at, I think. Some dogs pick it up really quickly

and other dogs really test your teaching ability, I would suggest. Absolutely. And your

resourcefulness and your flexibility and your... And you really have to break it down, don't you?

Dogs literally break it down.

And I'm thinking also, I've used it in lots of different circumstances, but I'm thinking back to when we filmed Cabelletti and we were filming with Tokyo, actually, our late dog.

And he was, he wasn't right. He was confident circuits, actually. He wasn't right on a sort of a Cavilletti grid. He wasn't, he was confident circuits actually, he wasn't right on a on a sort of a

cavaletti grid. He wasn't, he was off a beat on a on a confident circuit or a cavaletti beat.

And it can also help you with gate analysis. It can also help you with looking at sort of spinal

flexibility. It can also help you at looking at how you might strengthen and condition an

athlete, but also how you might look after an older dog or a geriatric dog or give them something to think about. I suppose similar to when you're in a residential home and there's lots of different puzzles to solve. Effectively, it's another puzzle. Yeah, definitely. Definitely. Yeah. Being able to pick up, well, Cavilletti is going to be one of the first kind of rehab-y type things. Somebody, like a vet, is going to give you or something if your dog has an injury. It's going to be one of the main things. So making sure that your dog is fit and able to do it and not learning it as there. They need to know it before there's a problem, don't they? They need to know it before they've got a problem. And I'm thinking Brave. So Brave, for those of me don't know, Brave is my board of collie. She had a spinal accident. The spinal accident was pretty horrific. It was just sprinting across a field. And she went sprinting across that field and bang was down. Rehabing her back to walking. I was talking to a lovely friend, Tanya, I don't know if you remember, with her lovely spaniel that had IVDD, and they still haven't got her walking, which is just

traumatic. It's really traumatic, and that's six months in. With Brave, she actually was back to

walking within about four weeks. And so as much as when anyone sees her, you might think she's

a little bit drunk looking, she's atactic. It would be the description of it. She actually is very, very good. Like she can go to the toilet standing and squatting rather than having to be effectively made to go to the toilet, which will be what some dogs are living when they're in any sort of spinal case. And sometimes they do get full use again and sometimes they don't. But what I'm thinking when I think back to Caballetti is Cavilletti, she knew it way before. So when she started to come back into it, although her leg wasn't working, you could see that her brain was going, I remember this. So her brain remembered it, but her leg didn't work because she has no feeling in her back left leg or very little feeling and no deep pain response

that we can see really. And so I think that I'm grateful she already knew it before she ever

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