Are you attempting to teach your Chinese Crested Dog to sit? The talent of sitting up is effortlessly taught to pocket-sized dogs, however larger canines are another story. It’s difficult for them to sustain their balance.
Teach Your Chinese Crested Dog to Sit: Prep work
Sitting is one of the fundamental tricks that you should teach to a Chinese Crested Dog and forms the ground work for many other techniques. In order to train a Chinese Crested Dog to sit up, put together some treats as a perk, and set your Chinese Crested Dog on her backside in a corner, to ensure she can not fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no space to lose balance.
Teach Your Chinese Crested Dog to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Command
Keep her from falling towards you by maintaining your hand beneath her chin and with your other hand hold her reward above her face. Keep repeating intelligibly and distinctly, “sit up.” Don’t make her sit too long at any one time, but repeat the training often and reward her often with lots of recognition and treats.
Teach Your Chinese Crested Dog to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
Throughout the very first lesson she will demand a lot of assistance from you to stop her from pitching forward, but as she gets control of her balancing muscles and finds out what you want, she will depend less and less on your hand to hold her in position. Gradually, you can give your Chinese Crested Dog less assistance up until you’ll basically have to maintain one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be prepared to prevent her falling forward; later you can probably withdraw the hand altogether and just simply suspend the snack right over the level of her face.
Teach Your Chinese Crested Dog To Sit: Remove the Aids Slowly And Gradually
After steady training she will sit up for a long time after you set her up. Next she should be set up against a wall, so as to offer her a support for her back. Soon after she has learned this and can maintain her place effortlessly, rehearse with her against chair legs, cushions or other objects that provide her less and less aid. In the end she will be able to sustain her stability and sit without something to lean on.
Teach Your Chinese Crested Dog to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all this training the phrase "sit up" will have been impressed upon her psyche through frequent repetition. Last here's the final lesson to teach your Chinese Crested Dog to sit up whenever she hears the command. There's a great chance, if she has been properly trained, you will merely have to get her out in the room, reveal a reward, hold it up a reasonable distance from the floor, say "sit up" and she will do so. Then you'll give her the treat while still in position.
The only necessity for excellence is to practice with your Chinese Crested Dog several times a day until she sits when told and without being shown a reward; give her the snacks only after she has complied with the direction.
Teach Your Chinese Crested Dog Other Tricks
You have now the fundamentals for teaching your Chinese Crested Dog many other tricks. She now can learn how to beg by moving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she will move in sync with yours. She also can learn to salute by bringing one paw up to the side of her head, or to hold something in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothing.
While training a Chinese Crested Dog to submit to being dressed up, don't try to get her to wear too many garments at the same time. Try her at first with a hat. After she becomes familiar with that you can put on a coat and progressively introduce her to the other garments.
Take joy in "teaching your Chinese Crested Dog the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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