Are you making an attempt to teach your Alpine Dachsbracke to sit? The talent of sitting up is quite easily taught to very small dogs, though much larger canines are another story. It is difficult for them to maintain their balance.
Teach Your Alpine Dachsbracke to Sit: Anticipation
Sitting up is one of the 1st techniques that should be taught to a Alpine Dachsbracke and is the groundwork for countless other techniques. To train a Alpine Dachsbracke to sit up, prep some treats as a reward, and set the Alpine Dachsbracke on her backside in the corner, so she can’t fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no room to stumble.
Teach Your Alpine Dachsbracke to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Sound of The Words
Prevent her from falling towards you by maintaining one hand underneath her chin and using the other hand hold the treat above the Alpine Dachsbracke’s face. Keep repeating deliberately and clearly, “sit.” Do not force her to sit for too long at any one time, however repeat the training often and reward her frequently with loads of cheers and treats.
Teach Your Alpine Dachsbracke to Sit: Help Her Balance
Throughout her very first lesson she will require quite a bit of support from you to prevent her from pitching forward, but as she gets better control of the balancing muscles and starts to learn what you want her to do, she will count less on your hand to hold her in position. Gradually, you can give her less help til you’ll only have to keep one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be ready to prevent her from falling forward; eventually you might withdraw this hand and just simply dangle the treat just over the height of her face.
Teach Your Alpine Dachsbracke To Sit: Remove the Assistance Eventually
After constant practice your Alpine Dachsbracke will sit up well after you make her. Then she should be set up against the wall, so as to give her assistance for her back. Immediately after she has figured out this and can maintain her position effortlessly, practice with her up against chair legs, pillows or other items that give her less and less help. Gradually she will grasp how to preserve her stability and sit up without needing something to rest on.
Teach Your Alpine Dachsbracke to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all this training the command "sit up" will have been instilled upon her psyche through persistent repetition. Lastly is the final lesson to teach your Alpine Dachsbracke to sit up whenever she hears the words. Chances are, if she has been properly taught, you will merely have to summon her out into the room, show her a treat, hold it up a reasonable distance from the floor, say "sit up or sit" and she will obey. Then give her the treat while still in place.
The only requirement for perfection is to train with her several times a day until she can sit when told and without being shown a reward; give her the treats only once she has complied with the order.
Teach Your Alpine Dachsbracke Other Tricks
You have now the foundation for teaching your Alpine Dachsbracke many other tricks. She now can be taught how to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she'll move in sync with yours. She can also be taught to salute by bringing one paw up to the side of her head, or to keep a wooden pipe in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other clothing.
While training a Alpine Dachsbracke to submit to being clothed, don't try to get her to wear too many clothes at once. Try at first with a hat. Once she becomes adjusted to that you could put on a jacket and gradually introduce her to more clothing.
Get a kick out of "teaching your Alpine Dachsbracke the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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