Are you aiming to teach your Cao Da Serra De Aires to sit? The technique of sitting up is quite easily taught to smaller dogs, but much larger dogs are a different story. It is hard for them to sustain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Cao Da Serra De Aires to Sit: Planning
Sitting up is one of the first techniques that you should teach to a Cao Da Serra De Aires and is the groundwork for several other tricks. In order to train a Cao Da Serra De Aires to sit up, put together some treats as a reward, and put your Cao Da Serra De Aires on her butt in a corner, to ensure she won’t be able to fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no space to lose balance.
Teach Your Cao Da Serra De Aires to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Words
Prevent her from pitching towards you by sticking 1 hand on her chin and with your other hand dangle her snack above her face. Keep saying distinctly and deliberately, “sit.” Don’t force her to sit for too long at any one time, however repeat the lesson routinely and reward her frequently with loads of approval and snacks.
Teach Your Cao Da Serra De Aires to Sit: Help Her Balance
Throughout the beginner lesson your Cao Da Serra De Aires will demand a surprising amount of assistance from your hand to keep her from tumbling forward, but as she gains control of her muscles and figures out what you want, she’ll depend less and less on your hand to keep her in position. Then you can gradually give your Cao Da Serra De Aires less help and support till you will simply have to keep one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be in position to prevent her from falling forward; later on you can probably take away your hand and simply suspend the treat right above the level of her head.
Teach Your Cao Da Serra De Aires To Sit: Remove the Assistance Over Time
With regular practice she will sit up for a long time after you get her to sit. Afterward she should be set up against the wall, so as to give her a support for her back only. After she has gotten the knack of this and can hold her position effortlessly, rehearse with her using chair legs, cushions or other items that offer her less and less assistance. At some point she will be able to preserve her equilibrium and sit without needing something to rest on.
Teach Your Cao Da Serra De Aires to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all these lessons the words "sit up" will have been instilled upon her subconscious with the assistance of frequent repetition. Lastly is the final lesson to teach your Cao Da Serra De Aires to sit up as soon as she hears the command. There's a great chance, if she has been carefully instructed, you will only have to summon her out into the room, show a reward, hold it up a suitable distance from the floor, say "sit up" and she'll obey. Then you give her the reward while still in position.
The only necessity for perfection is to rehearse with her multiple times daily until she will sit when told and without being shown a reward; give her the snacks only once she has followed the command.
Teach Your Cao Da Serra De Aires Other Tricks
You have now the basis for teaching your Cao Da Serra De Aires many other skills. She now can be taught to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she will move in sync with yours. She also can be taught to salute by moving one paw to the side of her head, or to hold a wooden pipe in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
When training a Cao Da Serra De Aires to accept being clothed, don't try to get her to wear too many things simultaneously. Try her at first with just a hat. Once she becomes accustomed to that you can put on a coat and steadily introduce her to the other clothes.
Take pleasure in "teaching your Cao Da Serra De Aires the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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