Are you aiming to teach your Australian Silky Terrier to sit? The technique of sitting up is effortlessly taught to small dogs, however much bigger canines are another story. It is hard for them to maintain their balance.
Teach Your Australian Silky Terrier to Sit: Foundation
Sitting up is one of the fundamental skills that should be taught to a Australian Silky Terrier and lays the groundwork for a large number of other skills. In order to train a Australian Silky Terrier to sit up, put together some treats as a reward, and set your Australian Silky Terrier on her backside in a corner, to ensure she is unable to fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Australian Silky Terrier to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Words
Keep her from tilting towards you by sticking 1 hand beneath her chin and with the second hand hold her snack above the Australian Silky Terrier’s nose. Keep saying deliberately and clearly, “sit up.” Do not force her to sit up for too long at one time, however repeat the training frequently and reward her frequently with plenty of praise and treats.
Teach Your Australian Silky Terrier to Sit: Help Her Stay Balanced
During her first lesson your Australian Silky Terrier will call for quite a bit of support from your hand to stop her from pitching forward, but as she gets more control of her balancing muscles and realises what you want her to do, she’ll depend less upon your hand to keep her steady. Then you can gradually give your Australian Silky Terrier less assistance up until you’ll basically have to leave one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be set to prevent her falling forward; later on you might remove the hand altogether and simply hold the reward right above the height of your Australian Silky Terrier’s head.
Teach Your Australian Silky Terrier To Sit: Remove the Assistance Progressively
With steady training she will sit up for a long time after you tell her to. Then she should be set up against your wall, so as to offer her a support for her back. When she has soaked up this and can maintain her position easily, practice with her against chair legs, cushions or other items that provide her less and less aid. Eventually she will grasp how to maintain her balance and sit up without something to lean against.
Teach Your Australian Silky Terrier to Sit: Putting It All Together
During all this training the phrase "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her psyche by constant repetition. Last is the final lesson to teach your Australian Silky Terrier to sit up immediately after she hears the words. Most likely, if she has been carefully instructed, you will merely have to summon her out in the room, reveal to her a reward, hold it up a suitable distance from the floor, say "sit up or sit" and she will do so. Then you give her the snack while still in position.
The only condition for flawlessness is to train with your Australian Silky Terrier multiple times daily until she sits when told and without being shown a snack; give her the treats only once she has adhered to the command.
Teach Your Australian Silky Terrier Other Tricks
You have now the groundwork for teaching your Australian Silky Terrier many other skills. She can now be taught how to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she'll move in rhythm with yours. She also can learn to salute by bringing one paw up to the side of her head, or to hold an object in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
In teaching a Australian Silky Terrier to submit to being clothed, don't try to get her to wear too many items at once. Try her at first with a cap. Once she gets familiar with that you can put on a coat and little by little introduce her to more clothing.
Get a kick out of "teaching your Australian Silky Terrier the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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