Are you making an attempt to teach your Dutch Smoushond to sit? The talent of sitting up is effortlessly taught to pocket-sized dogs, but larger pet dogs are a different story. It’s challenging for them to sustain their balance.
Teach Your Dutch Smoushond to Sit: Preparation
Sitting is one of the initial skills that should be taught to a Dutch Smoushond and lays the foundation for several other skills. To train a Dutch Smoushond to sit up, prepare some treats as a perk, and set your Dutch Smoushond on her rump in a corner, to ensure that she is not able to fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no room to stumble.
Teach Your Dutch Smoushond to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Words
Protect her from tilting towards you by securing one hand under her chin and using the other hand dangle the treat above your Dutch Smoushond’s nose. Keep saying intelligibly and clearly, “sit up.” Don’t make her sit for too long at any one time, but do repeat the training frequently and reward her often with a lot of cheers and treats.
Teach Your Dutch Smoushond to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
Throughout the very first lesson she will need quite a bit of help from you to prevent her from pitching forward, but as she gains control of the balancing muscles and sees what you want her to do, she will depend less upon your hand to keep her steady. Then you can gradually give your Dutch Smoushond less help til you’ll only have to keep one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be ready to stop her falling forward; later on you can withdraw the hand and just simply dangle the snack just over the level of her head.
Teach Your Dutch Smoushond To Sit: Remove the Help Gradually
With consistent training your Dutch Smoushond will sit up for a good while after you command her. Afterward she should be set against the wall, so as to offer her support for her back. Once she has soaked up this and can hold her posture effortlessly, practice with her using chair legs, pillows or other items that give her less and less help and support. Eventually she will figure out how to keep her stability and sit without needing something to rest on.
Teach Your Dutch Smoushond to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all these lessons the words "sit up" will have been impressed upon her psyche with the assistance of constant repetition. Last comes the final lesson to teach your Dutch Smoushond to sit up as quickly as she hears the phrase. There's a great chance, if she has been diligently taught, you will simply have to get her out into the room, display a treat, hold it up a reasonable distance from the ground, say "sit up" and she'll do so. Then you give her the reward while still in place.
The only condition for flawlessness is to train with her multiple times daily until she will sit up when told and without being shown a reward; give her the snacks only after she has adhered to the command.
Teach Your Dutch Smoushond Other Tricks
You have now the technique for teaching your Dutch Smoushond many other skills. She now can be taught to beg by moving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she will move in conjunction with yours. She can also learn to salute by moving one paw up 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 clothing.
In training a Dutch Smoushond to submit to being dressed up, do not try to get her to wear too many clothes at once. Try her at first with just a hat. Only after she gets familiar with that you can put on a jacket and little by little introduce her to more clothing.
Take pleasure in "teaching your Dutch Smoushond the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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