Are you aiming to teach your Doberman Pinscher to sit? The technique of sitting up is quickly taught to pocket-sized dogs, however much larger dogs are another story. It is hard for them to sustain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Doberman Pinscher to Sit: Preparation
Sitting is one of the very first techniques that should be taught to your Doberman Pinscher and provides the foundation for several other tricks. In order to train a Doberman Pinscher to sit up, organize some treats as a perk, and set your Doberman Pinscher on her backside in a corner, so she is not able to fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Doberman Pinscher to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Sound of The Words
Keep her from pitching forward by keeping your hand beneath her chin and using the other hand dangle the treat above her face. Keep repeating intelligibly and distinctly, “sit.” Don’t force her to sit up for too long at any one time, but do repeat the instruction frequently and reward her frequently with loads of recognition and treats.
Teach Your Doberman Pinscher to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
In her 1st lesson your Doberman Pinscher will call for considerable help and support from you to prevent her from falling forward, but as she gains control of the stabilizing muscles and comprehends what you want her to do, she’ll count less on your hand to keep her in position. Gradually, you can give her less help till you will just have to maintain one hand in position two or three inches from her chin or neck, to be waiting to stop her falling forward; later you may remove your hand altogether and just hold the treat right over the height of your Doberman Pinscher’s face.
Teach Your Doberman Pinscher To Sit: Remove the Assistance Slowly And Gradually
After consistent practice your Doberman Pinscher will sit up for a long time after you command her. Afterward she should be set against your wall, so as to give her help for her back only. Soon after she has figured out this and can hold her place effortlessly, practice with her against chair legs, pillows or other items that offer her less and less support. Subsequently she will learn how to maintain her equilibrium and sit up without having anything to rest against.
Teach Your Doberman Pinscher to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all this training the command "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her mind through constant repetition. Now comes the final lesson to teach your Doberman Pinscher to sit up whenever she hears the command. There's a great chance, if she has been properly instructed, you will only 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" and she'll do so. Then you'll give her the snack while still in position.
The only condition for perfection is to practice with your Doberman Pinscher multiple times a day until she can sit up when told and without being shown a reward; give her the treats only once she has complied with the direction.
Teach Your Doberman Pinscher Other Tricks
You have now the foundation for teaching your Doberman Pinscher many other tricks. She can now learn how to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she will move in rhythm with yours. She also can be taught to salute by bringing one paw to the side of her head, or to keep a toy in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
In teaching a Doberman Pinscher to accept being dressed up, don't try to make her wear too many clothes simultaneously. Try her at first with just a hat. Only after she gets familiar with that you could put on a coat and slowly introduce her to the other clothing.
Appreciate "teaching your Doberman Pinscher the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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